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 very accessible book on philosophy, i have previsoly struggled with a lot of "traditional" philosphy, e.g. netzsche and camus which who i've attempted to read several times and keep bouncing off....
The following is a paraphrased exerpt from Mark Rowland's book "The Happiness of Dogs". I haven't finished it yet, but even from chapter one I would reccomend it. Okay, so according to Camus, in order to understand life's meaning we...
As promised, I printed it in transparent PETG.... And it looked terrible. Somehow the internal support is more visible than the holes I was trying to show, which instead got clogged up. Oh well. I will stick with my Blue PLA one.
Here is a quick write up for method I threw together for getting my writing out of Obsidian and into my website. The problem statement: While Eleventy is capable of turning markdown into html, there are a handful of slight differences...
Something I have been dealing with during my PhD, is that it is really hard to describe the 3D geometry of a photonic crystal just using words. Having pictures helps, but doesn't always cut it. I was mulling over this problem after I was...
Just sharing another neat website out there. On Observing Time. The concept is simple, it is just a collection of live camera feeds from around the world. The creator Jon wrote an essay on the concept here
While "fashion" has never been a hobby of mine, for most of my life I have prided myself on having something of a "bold" personal style, preferring big, colorful, and interesting-shaped outfits over the boring and overdone fashion trends...
I've spent the past week throwing together a new setup in my lab. I can't talk about the end goal of this research just yet for IP reasons. (Cant spoil the surprise ;) ). For now I can show off some of my gear and what I am doing for...
Has anyone ever studied the crystal lattice structure of a box of popcorn? Relevant research questions include: Do the crystal defects introduced by Peanut M&Ms increase or reduce crystal strength? How do Peanut M&M defects compare with...
I found this topic from Jodie Ettenburg's Curious About Everything Newsletter, and considering the cool physics involved I had to re-share it here. Researchers at Northwestern University have just broke the record for the smallest...
I wanted to share a blogpost by dbreunig which mirrors a desire I have in the develkopment of LLM tech. The Post. In short, we need to introduce more slash commands.
NOTE: The following historic argument is more or less taken whole cloth from Yannis Varoufakis' "Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism". Go read the book if you want a better explanation. The conclusions drawn from the historical...
I added an extra feature to the reddit RSS feed generator to allow users to choose what timeframe to extract top posts for. i.e. Top posts today/this week/this month/all time. Shout out to Rohit at Rohit Online for emailing me with the...
Yes I am aware of the wild shift in tone. I am angry that I have to use reddit, I still don't like it. Anyway, I built a widget which builds a URL to the RSS feed for whatever subreddits you might want to subscribe to on your RSS reader....
Rating: ⭐ Type: Fiction Blindsight falls into the club with the Matrix and the Three Body Problem, of being a piece of Sci-Fi who is primarily a piece of philosophy. It is a ***crunchy*** bit of sci-fi which explores transhumanism more...