Caffeine and Lasers

My Wireless Plant Monitor!

Keep Your Ego In Check (Above The Robots) In order to use LLMs effectively, you need a bigger ego than the AI.

Rating: ⭐ Type: Non-Fiction This book is GREAT.

1 ChiScraper: Personalised ArXiv Assistant Keeping up with the latest research papers can feel like drinking from a firehouse - Especially if you are following the current LLM trend.

Introducing ChiCurate: Your Personalized ArXiv Feed In the fast-paced world of scientific research, staying up-to-date with the latest publications is crucial.

Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction A surprisingly humanist piece of Sci-Fi.

Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction I really liked this one.

Four Coffee Observations in Two Studies There is something beautiful about scientists being given the freedom to apply their skills to passion projects.

1 Announcing My LoFi Terminal Radio This was a short weekend project I threw together to replace the perpetually open YouTube Tab for lofi beats to relax/study to.

1 What Is RSS and why might your readers want it?

Observing the observer: Perception in Philosophy Psychology and Physics What Do Descarte, Buddhists and Astrophysicists have in common?

Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction This one was really good.

From my time at Finisar I got to work extensively with Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS), Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs).

2024-07-28 Note: This is a transcript for a talk I delivered to Joel Carpenter's UQ Optics class in 2022.

1 Anatomy of the Espresso There are dozens of methods of brewing coffee, from the humble filter, plunger, aeropress and cold brew.

Rating: ⭐ Type: Non-Fiction Typically I am a very materialist (philosophically, not literally) person, and as a results this was one of the more impactful political books I have ever read.

UPDATE I built a widget to generate the feed url for you.

Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction Of all the books I've read about beer (3) this remains my favourite.

Rating: ⭐ Type: Fiction I never thought I would take "Astro-socialogy" as a serious concept before reading this.

Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction I read Dune, and Dune Messiah where it got a bit too weird.