Secret to IOT

Labview is the programming language of choice for scientific data monitoring and control. Listen as I drive to the shops and disclose the muddling world of bits, bytes, words and how to make everything speak the same language. I reflect on just how stupid I am and how many little mistakes I make so often, and how over days I just keep stumbling in the right direction. Its a wonder how this is happening.

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Thermocouple + Web to the rescue

This is just so much what we want to have in the hands of our children as we introduce them to the world of super sensors. I talk through the steps of making a $3 temperature sensor go to 0.05 C for you kids first taste of science.

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The plateau at 6 degrees is real and mysterious in a cup of chilled water walming up to room temperature

Alphabetic Periodic Table

What was just going to be a bit of fun, turned the spot light on just how flaky my knowledge of the Periodic Table is. Rather embarrassing really.

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Glaciers on the Equators

To be honest I was skeptical about the idea of the earth's axis pointing towards the sun, but this Australasian Science article is really nothing short of brilliant

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Australasian Science 2019 Aug_1

This mag is really head and shoulders over New Scientist in that it works back to respected publications in peer reviewed journals. I feel the article on multi-mode fibre allowing us to see distant planet is a low point. The Koala drinking station, mega size sea animals are all interesting.

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On Cruelty

This is a podcast when walking back from the next village, and the shotgun microphone is the key here. Now there is a general slow progress here on a technical front, slowly building a scaffold and bringing in improvements. So to here I have built a scaffold of Rehab candor, Best practice induction, and what's the deal with cruelty?

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The Problem of Induction_2

As we work through solutions to the problem that induction as a logical process is not at its heart rational we get under the surface of thinking that we so often take for granted

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The Problem of Induction_Bayes

If ever you want to deal with your own future or that of others you really need to understand certainty and probability both of which are tragically easy to misinterpret and misguide people.

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New Scientists - North Pole

Again I found these articles about Dinosaur books, protest and the North Pole a little light on the science. I think the big news is that we can't build a model of how the earth's magnetic field is generated. The ideas here were so scrambled.

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New Scienist - Locked in State

The most incredible thing here is waking up a person from a vegetative state with a sleeping pill

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