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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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...
It's frustrating that nearly every niche interest and hobby's main online community exists on Reddit, because Reddit is fucking terrible for fostering genuine communities. If you go into any subreddit - I will pick on /r/3DPrinting for...
Podcast is the best medium for horror fiction If you ever watch horror movies, you know that the anticipation is scarier than the reveal. The scraping noise against the window beats the monster reveal on the terror factor every time....
I want to talk about advertising for a second. Why does it exist? If you are in a intro to business class you might say: "Advertising exists to educate the consumer about the options on the market so they can make an educated decision" a...
Whoops, thought I fixed my RSS feeds last week, Turns out I just broke it again in a new way. This time, they should be working. I think.
Another reason why libraries are great Everyone knows the main reasons why libraries are great. You get to read books for free. It is the only place left in our world where you can exist - I mean loiter - without the expectation of...
I tried to compress Yanis Varoufakis "Technofeudalism - What Killed Capitalism" into 4 poorly drawn comic panels License: Treat it like some bathroom graffiti
Quiet few months. Turns out my RSS feed was broken. Sorry for the spam of todays three posts. Two Important Updates: I fixed the RSS functionality of my site. If you missed anything from this year, feel free to go back and read my older...
One of my favourite sites on thie IndieWeb RainbowSpec focuses entirely on learning everything you could possibly want about the optics of rainbows. From the visible spectrum to double rainbows, and glories. Worth a good read!