Caffeine and Lasers

Do you know how we communicated with the Artemis II mission?

Basically no one outside of Academia actually understands how Academia works.

Lauren Leek's Fantastic Essay explores why in the age of personalized algorithms for everyone, everything feels so samey.

Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction A new friend of mine recently reccommended this one to me after I was gushing about how much I loved "The Disposessed" and emplored me to go into it blind.

I do not think that it does.

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Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction If you are an avid reader of Doctorow's blog "Pluralistic" you will have probably heard most of the arguments here before.

In some work headed by Macquarie Uni, a new species of spider was discovered in Northern Queensland (With a really cool hunting strategy).

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Turns out you can bend things using lasers.

My favourite thing about owning a 3D printer is the very specific tools which I would never pay for.

Another cool scientist profile dropped on Nature earlier, and I wanted to share it here.

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I spotted a remarkably simple demonstration of optical diffraction the other night, from looking across at the far away lights on the otherside of the train tracks from a balcony.

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I was reccomended a couple of white papers by a collegue (Thanks Ben Pope!)

Image Credit: The Daily Texan LINK: The Conversation

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I've been thinking about how we find meaning in life after reading "The Happiness Of Dogs" by Mark Rowlands.

Things with age verification and privacy invasion is getting pretty hairy here in Australia.

Introduction Earlier this month, I found myself on a side quest to build a Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (SH-WFS) to act as a scoring WFS for my experimental WFS.

An Antibubble appearing in soapy water An Antibubble appearing in soapy water (Credit Science News).

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🍫 Jump to Recipe The Intro I recently got my hands on a melanger and have been trying my hand at chocolate making.

Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction The book promises a lot, the concept is an investigation to how biology has shaped human society and history.

Despite being bullish on Quantum sensing applications, I have been known to be bearish on quantum computers for a few years now.

This blogpost may not last very long depending on how technology goes With the disturbing applications of Grok's image generation, I am becoming less and less comfortable with my pictures being online.

This is a story through millions of years in its past to explain why humans are shaped the way we are, and millennia into the speculative future for why mechs should probably not replicate human geometry.

Source: Buisness Insider Channelling the legacy of Franklin D Roosevelt, the first 100 years of Trumps presidency was seen as an important benchmark to the success at his presidency.

I was doodling late at night, under some very warm light.

I am not an artist by any means.

Once again repurposing the corporate webs ideas as my own.

KMCD Visualizing The Internet The theme for this months IndieWeb Carnival is where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030 and is hosted by V.H Belvadi.

Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction I knew Facebook did shady shit beforehand but the degree to which and the amount they knew that they were doing still managed to shock me. the metaphor the title implies, a reference to the Great Gatsby is extremely apt.

Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction I probably need to stop reading books with theses which I already agree with from the beginning.

Link to the full article from University of Leicester Leicester scientists are sending tiny worms to the International Space Station in 2026 to study the biological effects of space.

The Brain Of Charles Babbage Charles Babbage, (1791–1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

The following post is from 4 Gravitons here, (not me).

Like software, digital entertainment is infinitely reproducible (for free); however, unlike software, it is easily substitutable (replaceable).

I found myself needing to design some reinforcement learning for some of my work and came across this fantastic video.

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 read.

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.

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.

Today was a good day for me on the internet.

I attended IAC 2025 last week in my home city of beautiful Sydney!