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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Like software, digital entertainment is infinitely reproducible (for free); however, unlike software, it is easily substitutable (replaceable). This has grave impacts for artists, making the demand curve much slipperier. Here is my...
I found myself needing to design some reinforcement learning for some of my work and came across this fantastic video. Definiately worth sharing for anyone interested.
Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction This ends up feeling like one of those documentaries about flat Earth consspiracy theorests, except the nutjobs in question are Peter Theil, Sam Altman and Venture Captialists. I found it frustrating at some...
Rating: 🟩* Type: Non-Fiction *If you willingly read the finance stories in the news or know a bit about personal finance, you can probably skip this book. But I would highly recommend buying for any teenagers or twenty-somethings in your...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction It is embarrassing for me to admit that I work in the "Space Industry" but I barely know anything about space history, so I picked up this one.It was one of the most compelling non-fiction books I have ever...
Today was a good day for me on the internet. I was struggling with a design for a hobby project I am in the planning stages of, so i hit up the Laser Pointer Forum asking for advice on how to build a particular piece of kit. The helpful...
I attended IAC 2025 last week in my home city of beautiful Sydney! I figured I would publish some of my notes from the week. Apologies for not posting any photos of the event. It never occurs to me to photograph the random things I see,...
I recently appeared on my friend's podcast "The Nerd and the Scientist". Find the podcast here or watch it on youtube below: Find more from Science Actually here and Kovi's research on Google Schoolar
If you are a certain kind of nerd, you undoubtedly follow the Ig Nobel prizes each year. In case you don't follow them, the Ig Nobel prize is awarded each year for Science which makes you laugh, then makes you think. Previous winners...
Rating: ⭐ Type: Non-Fiction This was a great read as a physicist. The book was written with quite a high level of assumed knowledge, so if thermodynamics sounds like a scary word, I might suggest reading something more accessible. For me...
Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction I was maybe a little bit more educated than the target audience for the book, because I found a lot of the points made a little bit obvious, and I was waiting for new information. The book is well written...
1 How to take notes I've seen way too many people ask how do you use Obsidian, how do you take notes, it all seems so daunting. To be completely honest, it seems really obvious to me. So I figured I would just write down what I do. The...
Here's a pretty photo I made using Python and some neat mathematics and statistics. So he was the original photo of my friend's dog for reference. So you absolutely could get the photo above using some filter in Photoshop or your...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction The review they stick in the front describes it as "Part western, part Greek tragedy" and I think that is a really good description. The story is very Australian, but not in a cheap way, and all the characters are...
Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction Fair warning, this is straight up propaganda (it even had to pass MI5 clearance to publish) and is written like Tom Clancy. Nonetheless, it was really enjoyable to read. The narrative of it is mostly in the...