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Soul Relic Prologue
A brief snippet teasing much more to come!
A vast collection of thoughts, outreach, projects and travel.
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A brief snippet teasing much more to come!
Detailing the world for my upcoming fantasy novel.
Visiting the Isle of Skye for some amazing views.
For the DSGo 2020 Virtual Conference I put together a workshop on datascience pipelines. Check it out.
A good chat with Kirill about COVID-19, pipelines, and data ethics.
A chat with Natasha Mitchell on ABC's Science Friction about pivoting to COVID-19 research.
A python framework for comparing BAO model implementations.
A good chat with Kirill about hypothesis testing, p-hacking, statistics and significance.
Because once just isn't enough.
An industry tour through Berlin.
Representing Australia at the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting 2019
The second European jaunt, featuring Switzerland and Germany
Talking about machine learning in astronomy and how its made our lives so much better!
A small python project I forked to learn neural styling and create a birthday gift for my sister.
Thought I'd see if alcohol can help out with my driest research topic!
Revenge of the PhD student. Or something.
A Hierarchical Bayesian model for supernova cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey.
How all conferences should be run!
A scientist and three comedians. Oh dear.
The Dark Side of the Universe presented in only an hour.
It's a great field to be in, so let's get that message out there.
A super short guide to quickly setting up a viable python environment.
Another play with rigid bodies, this time adding in some slow motion!
A basic KEVA simulation showing the different effects of two block materials.
To learn about Blender's compositing I decided to go all dramatic in an very astronomical way.
From rigid body sims to smoke sims, Blender is growing on me!
Playing around with attributes to see what weird stuff I can do!
Wanted to get some experience with Blender, this seemed like a good way!
Spreading some open-source love to undergraduate students
Bringing a finer appreciation of open-source development to the astronomical masses!
Because at some point you need to include lava.
Round Two... Fight!
For a desert campaign, you always need another map!
In all its serpentine glory
A fun night of physics talks, songs and verse with Dr Phil Dooley
Two teams of scientists battle to make the biggest fools of themselves.
Less science, more art.
Thank you DES.
Turns out drinking and science is a winning combination for a lot of people. Shocking!
Because going to the shops is too easy.
The solar system is hard to visualise with an image, so we took it out into the field.
Three minutes to wow a crowd. No slides, no presentation, no pressure!
A light transport simulator written in vanilla javascript!
Because it's more time intensive and expensive than buying the crystals themselves!
UK and Australia combined, our powers are data reduction.
Tokyo, Kyoto, Hakuba, Sapporo and Otaru
An introductory speech for Dr Randall's event, on experimental astrophysics!
A week of being CAASTRO Astronomer in Residence at Uluru.
Visualising the thousands of galaxies in modern surveys.
My python library to digest MCMC chains and create plots.
LA, San Francisco, Berkeley and Yosemite.
A weekend hackathon down at Atlassian, to make an academic search engine.
AGUSS Studentship to Chile over the summer.
Detecting stars and Globular Clusters in Maffei 1 using machine learning.
Detecting large scale structure in the Wigglez survey.
In the computational physics class I took we investigated the Kubo Oscillator. Some of the plots are nice.
Hiking the Overland Track.
AngularJS project to do online redshifting of galactic spectra.
England, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and more.
Java, C and lots of solder combine to form a DJ board.
Designing a satellite control system to shoot lasers at targets.
Now with a use: birthday present denial.
The best gift is a hand made one. Hence some hand made mood lighting!
First attempt at photoshop to create an image without stock images.
First attempt at photoshop stock manipulation.
Using 3DS and Maxwell to create and render a compute case.