Caffeine And Lasers Musings Powered By Caffeine and Lasers https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:00:00 +1000 1440 Caffeine And Lasers has Moved Caffeine And Lasers has a new Address. Go to CaffeineAndLasers.com for new updates https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/MovingDomain.html Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:00:00 +1000 How I do my Reseach (As a PhD Student) Yet another PhD student explains their personal knowledge management system. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/How_I_do_my_Research(As_a_PhD_Student).html Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:00:00 +1000 Wireless Plant Monitor Just a quick write-up about my current side project (distraction). https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/20250124PlantMonitorPrototypeUpdate.html Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:00:00 +1000 Keep Your Ego In Check (Above The Robots) How do you use AI for writinng? Keep it in its place. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/KeepYourEgoInCheck(AboveTheAI).html Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:00:00 +1000 Using RSS to De-Enshittify Reddit Woah, an RSS feed about RSS. How to Escape Reddits' Enshittified Torment Nexus™️ of Reddit with RSS! https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/UsingRSSRSSforReddit.html Thu, 27 Nov 2024 09:57:01 +1000 Introducing ChiScraper ChiScraper is an open-source tool that helps researchers take control of their ArXiv experience by combining a powerful keyword matching algorithm with LLM-powered ranking. Instead of wading through endless papers, Chi-scraper shows you what's relevant to your research interests and ranks them by importance. It's like having a personal research assistant that pre-screens papers before your morning coffee. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/ChiScraperIntroduction.html Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:57:01 +1000 The Case For Power Generation Cooperatives An unqualified opinion on how we should be building power grids. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/TheCaseForPowerCoOps.html Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:16:09 +1000 Where are all the aliens? A recent paper thinks the answer is that the aliens are just ignoring us. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/Aliens.html Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:52:09 +1000 Four Observations from Two Papers: Applying Science to Coffee Grinding There is something special about when scientists get to study coffee. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/WhatScienceSaysAboutCoffeeGrinding.html Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:51:22 +1000 Introducing My LoFi Radio! My latest (and first) contribution to FOSS! A LoFi Radio player. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/lofiRadio.html Sun, 11 Aug 2024 19:55:12 +1000 How to build your very own RSS Feed A short tutorial on building your own RSS feed. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/rss.html Fri, 09 Aug 2024 04:21:01 +1000 Observing The Observer: Perception in Philosphy, Psychology and Physics. What does Descartes, Buddah and Heisenburg have in common? They all observe the observer. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/Perceptibility.html Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:58:00 +1000 A Introduction to LCOS Spatial Light Modulators A short blog post I wrote a while back about LCOS SLMs. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/IntroToLCOS.html Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:58:00 +1000 The Anatomy Of Espresso How does Espresso work? I try and break down what those coffee nerds are talking about. https://Caffeineandlasers.neocities.org/blogs/20240725T075059.html Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:58:00 +1000