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. admittedly, when i picked it up i was expecting a self-help book, turns out it was...

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 must: "imagine Sisyphus Happy". Most reasonable people will respond, "but how" after...

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 between my web environment and my obsidian environment that made things tedious. I...

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 excitedly trying to explain my recent results to friends, family and...

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 of my time and culture. T-shirts, jeans, and expensive sneakers just never...

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 now. Showing people experiments in progress is always interesting, becaus quite...

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 other confectionry based defects (e.g. regular M&Ms, Reeces Pieces) Is the...

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 pacemaker. From left, a traditional pacemake, a leadless pacemaker and the new...

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 argument are mostly mine. So obviously advertising has existed as long as markets...