Doctor, researcher, data wrangler, coder, and open source dev; knowledge tool enthusiast.
Current day job: oxidizing healthcare
Open source project: https://neublio.com, a software toolkit and workspace that supercharges your knowledge work your way.
Child of 3 continents 🌍 based in 🇦🇺🦘
Welp. If this holds water, a lot of textbooks are going to have to be rewritten.
Researchers at the Jiangchuan Biota in Yunnan, China, excavated approximately 700 fossils between 2022 and 2025, revealing complex animal life existed between 554 million and 539 million years ago, at least 4 million years before the Cambrian.
We have witnessed two major events this year:
1. The demise of American military might. Let's be honest, even if you see the US-Iran war as a stalemate, that is still a military defeat for the US. In this modern era, two middle powers have defeated 2 major powers. Military might is worse than useless even in a conventional war in the modern era
2. The failure of the American experiment i.e. the death of American exceptionalism. America's political system is inherently vulnerable.
Utah can go fuck itself with its anti VPN law.
Yo, this is so cool. A recreation of the original DOOM rendered entirely with CSS. This isn't or WebGL — every wall, floor, sprite, and effect is a styled DOM element positioned in 3D space via CSS transforms and preserve-3d.
Game logic written in js.
And it works perfectly on Firefox Android. 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
So apparently there's a new startup called Reflect Orbital, and it's founder, a SpaceX intern apparently, feels like there's a need for on-demand sunlight around the world, and he intends to satisfy that need with, I kid you not, a constellation of orbital mirrors. This is SO unnecessary and if anyone approves this at the FCC, it'll be an incredible indictment of humanity. #space #astronomy
Reflect Orbital https://www.reflectorbital.com/
Folks who keep screaming online about people outsourcing their thinking to AI: have you seen how Fox News' audience "think". A significant portion of the planet outsourced their thinking long before AI existed. At least today's models (yes, even Grok😂) are more likely to question some of their beliefs than today's media.
The only good thing that has come out of this #Iranwar is that people now can truly understand why they should've made the switch to EVs yesterday. #energy #climatechange
We got to hear from Michelle Obama herself tonight. When they go low, we go high 💪🏽 in these dark times, the Obamas really stand out as the kind of people we desperately need in society. #obamas #melbourne
One reason why our LLMs seem to confuse definitions for concepts is because their training corpus, the sum total of humanity's knowledge includes a lot of muddled and misused definitions. Curation could have been done better, but the noosphere is noisy and we hence got plausible sounding models.
But hey, at least they can talk like us 🦜
It is amazing to see racists freak out over Zendaya's casting as Athena in the upcoming Odyssey adaptation. What nutjobs.
Wait till they hear Lupita Nyong'o's role 🤭
The royal commission into antisemitism is unearthing a good deal of gunk in Aussie's relationship with its Jewish community. This is why I have been insistent from the very beginning of the "troubles" of October 7, 2023: the rhetoric around Israel will inevitably spawn antisemitism because critics are not serious about dealing with bad actors who share their platform. Deal with your demons decisively.
I like this tool: Dac is a dashboard-as-code tool. Build interactive dashboards using YAML and JSX. Built-in semantic layer. Get your agents to build standardized, reviewable dashboards.
The UAE's exit from OPEC is not surprising given the region's weak response to Iran's missile barrage. #hormuzstrait #crisis
Remember, remember, the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason should ever be forgot.
One thing that the Indigenous people of Australia have taught me that I find extremely valuable is the lesson and the realization that Europe and the West really sold us a dud when they convinced the rest of us in the world that there is only one kind of progress: technological domination and extraction. Now here we are wrestling with what could be our modern version of the Bronze age collapse thanks to our myopic way of thinking about progress. #progress #climate #enviroment #culture
VCs are such dumb schmucks it is sometimes painful to watch. Only an absolute fool would think a company selling something that violates the laws of thermodynamics is worth 12 million dollars in venture money. A top tier example of having more money than sense. #venturecapital #physics
Palantir's CEO Alex Karp is imho a prototypical example of a person who is intelligent yet an idiot (IYI). His background in philosophy is fascism, yet he fails to call Trump a fascist. My suspiciion is that not only does Karp privately recognize that Trump is an idiotic fascist, but he lacks any meaningful morality to refuse orders from a fascist. In which case he's either a psychopathic or a cowardly IYI. The worst kinds of IYI. #palantir