Caffeine and Lasers
Caffeine and Lasers
Cam
I run a poruidly niche-less blog, where I talk about Science, Culture, Economics, Beer, Coffee, Technology and whatever else I feel like.
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I've been thinking about how we find meaning in life after reading "The Happiness Of Dogs" by Mark Rowlands. I also finally played Disco Elysium, and I think I have thoughts on applying Rowlands' thoughts to the game. A note on spoilers:...
Things with age verification and privacy invasion is getting pretty hairy here in Australia. I am not totally sure if my implementations of blog comments or a guestbook are in violation of Australia's rules. Who could of guessed these...
Introduction Earlier this month, I found myself on a side quest to build a Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (SH-WFS) to act as a scoring WFS for my experimental WFS. While conceptually simple to construct, I never saw any concrete...
An Antibubble appearing in soapy water An Antibubble appearing in soapy water (Credit Science News). This is a sphere of liquid, inside a skin of air, inside a liquid again. Back in 2003 Scientists discovered these can be formed within...
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馃崼 Jump to Recipe The Intro I recently got my hands on a melanger and have been trying my hand at chocolate making. Only after starting this hobby, I found out that there are very few sources on the internet for home-scale chocolate...
Rating: 馃煣 Type: Non-Fiction The book promises a lot, the concept is an investigation to how biology has shaped human society and history. For a while it manages to hold up to that promise, the first few chapters are genuinely really...
Despite being bullish on Quantum sensing applications, I have been known to be bearish on quantum computers for a few years now. This may be a bit of disillusionment from my undergrad research. Anyway, here is a fantastic bit of anti...
This blogpost may not last very long depending on how technology goes With the disturbing applications of Grok's image generation, I am becoming less and less comfortable with my pictures being online. Don't get me wrong - I understand...
This is a story through millions of years in its past to explain why humans are shaped the way we are, and millennia into the speculative future for why mechs should probably not replicate human geometry. So why are humans shaped like...