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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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...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction I never read John Green's YA fiction, since I was not a "YA" when I first came across it, BUT, I absolutely adored Crash Course History, and the way John thinks on Vlog Brothers. With this in mind, "Everything...
Just wanted to share a quick solution I realised about my relationship to "short form content". In general I do not consume (or at least try my best not to consume) short form / vertical videos. Too addictive, don't want to wastew the...
This is a blogpost about my favourite aliens. Okay, in my opinion, there is nothing interesting about aliens who's entire conceit is humans with funny coloured skin and a cool hat *Credit: Doctor Who* I want to good stuff, with crazy...
I just stumbled accross an interesting paper on organisations with an abstract I just had to share. (Sections removed for emphasis, clarity and comedy) This paper examines how employees become simultaneously empowered and alienated by...
The other day I read this great blog-post about why you shouldn't anthropomorphise LLMs. I agree with all the specifics of the post, but also slightly disagree with AddXorRol's epistemic framework. Then I read this response by...
Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction A bit of a slog to get through to be completely honest, but also incredibly important. The book tells the story of Australia through the lens of union action. Turns out almost all the institutions I like were...
Biology was never not cool to be honest, but I stumbled upon another mind melting phenomenon. The Venus' flower basket Credit: Wikimedia Is a deep sea sponge that grows between 500m - 1km underwater (although it can be found as shallow...
Shoutout to Heals for sharing their own workflow in a Mastodon post for inspiring me. Problem Statement Here are two axioms, which were until recently, incompatible. I want all my notes to be digitized in plain text I enjoy writing in...
1 Blindsight, Transhumanism, and Surveillance Capitalism I can not stop thinking about Peter Watts novel Blindsight (2006). It keeps me up at night thinking about its implications and what it says about humanity. Let me tell you about...