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this month's popular posts

  • partial lunar eclipse
    A photo, with a digital SLR and an ordinary lens, of the partial lunar eclipse this morning, looking nice and red: By the time a longer lens...
  • Engineering Persuadable Matter
    My latest publication , commenting on a paper about agential chemistry , from my own computational perspective.  This topic falls in the int...
  • It's always worth checking
    I was writing some Python code today, and I had some logic best served by a case statement.  I remembered that Python doesn't have a ca...
  • quantum walking
    It’s possible to build a quantum random walk simulator in Python/NumPy with code that is very close to the mathematical definitions.  H...
  • sunset with a bonus
    Gorgeous sunset, with a bonus Venus -- can you spot it?  (You will probably need to click on the image to make it full size.) 18:30GMT, look...
  • what a difference a day makes
    Yesterday, we had had nine sunny days since the beginning of the month, and the solar PV plot looked amazing. Today broke the streak.  It w...
  • inside holes in the ground
    Today was the Waitomo caves.  I booked the “triple cave combo”, and drove along to the first one, the Ruakuri Cave, to join the 9am tour par...

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