In December, last year at Polly Farmer we had a visit from Jono (check out his awesome site) to show us how to do Claymation. Here are some of the results. I did the nerdy maths one and the kids did the more creative ones.
Bankrupting the Wrong Economy
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The Iran economic war is boomeranging through oil prices, currencies and
debt, placing greater pressure on the leveraged West than on Tehran.
The post %%p...
The Mantle
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As we descend from the base of Earth’s crust through the mantle, the rock
does not remain unchanged. Pressure and temperature rise inexorably, and
the mine...
Anthropic’s LLM watermarking
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So yeah, Anthropic has announced that it’s now watermarking the outputs of
Claude, using a scheme based on Google’s SynthID, which is in turn based on
the ...
Brainbaking on Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter
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Favorited Deconstructing A 17th Century Letter by Wouter Groeneveld
(Brainbaking) This type of thing is always highly fascinating to me. Using
artefacts, h...
Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid
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The neon flying squid can fly in formation.
The shoal of about 100 squid rose unexpectedly from a patch of the Pacific
Ocean around 370 miles from Tokyo ...
Michael Rabin Memorial Conference
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As part of Mind-IL.- Israel’s Science and Academia Week (which also is
around the Israeli election) there would be a special conference in honor
of Michael...
The Economics of Swifties
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Yesterday, on my Substack Newsletter, I ran my first gimmick promotion for
the Brisbane to Gold Coast Ride against Cancer [1]. I invited anyone who
donated...
No-New-Physics Consciousness
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There is a vast literature near the topic of this post, much of which has
developed specialized vocabularies and concepts.
A week of fika: ACM ICER 2026
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A peaceful Wednesday night by the water.
By the end of this academic year, I needed a vacation. It was a year of
major disruptions to my federal research f...
Cherry-picking economic models
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from Lars Syll How would you react if a renowned physicist, say, Richard
Feynman, were telling you that sometimes force is proportional to
acceleration and...
Why we can’t have nice things
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Looking at the server request logs for Machine Learning for Kids is a
depressing reminder of what it means to run something on the Internet
nowadays. I was...
ECDO Theory Interactive Globe
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An interactive globe showing the basic key features involved in the
Inertial Interchange True Polar Wander (IITPW) proposed by ECDO Theory.
A Pentridge memoir: a political prisoner’s story
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Please indulge me in this promotion of my new book ‘A Pentridge memoir: a
political prisoner’s story’. A few readers might be interested and, as the
book i...
Climate Etc. is now an archive
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Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only
archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to
find...
In Defense of the Marginal Baby
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This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together
here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to
increment thei...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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