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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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...
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...