Andrew Williams
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I'm an astronomer in Perth, Australia, on the operations team for the MWA radio telescope in the Murchison. My loves are family, chocolate, cats, dogs, chocolate, reading, D&D and other role-playing games, chocolate, Python, and chocolate.
Developer position open to join me on the MWA telescope team at Curtin University. You'd be responsible for the MWA data portal allowing users around the world to search for, pre-process (on a supercomputer) and download from the 60PB MWA archive. staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Developer position open to join me on the MWA telescope team at Curtin University. You'd be responsible for the MWA data portal allowing users around the world to search for, pre-process (on a supercomputer) and download from the 60PB MWA archive. staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...
Anyone have an idea where Sungroper, the first solar car from Western Australian to race in the Darwin-Adelaide World Solar Challenge, can find a new home in Perth? It's probably going to be scrapped unless we can find somewhere it can go on display. sungroper.asn.au
Sungroper
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September 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Anyone have an idea where Sungroper, the first solar car from Western Australian to race in the Darwin-Adelaide World Solar Challenge, can find a new home in Perth? It's probably going to be scrapped unless we can find somewhere it can go on display. sungroper.asn.au
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This is fascinating research.
I remember back when I used to play The Sims a lot, I'd sometimes have a weird sensation looking at actual people in the street, and seeing them as Sims. I guess that is similar to this, but this is going to be more pervasive.
www.psypost.org/assimilation...
I remember back when I used to play The Sims a lot, I'd sometimes have a weird sensation looking at actual people in the street, and seeing them as Sims. I guess that is similar to this, but this is going to be more pervasive.
www.psypost.org/assimilation...
Assimilation-induced dehumanization: Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of AI
As AI becomes more empathetic, a surprising psychological shift occurs. New research finds that interacting with emotionally intelligent machines can make us see real people as more machine-like, subt...
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August 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is fascinating research.
I remember back when I used to play The Sims a lot, I'd sometimes have a weird sensation looking at actual people in the street, and seeing them as Sims. I guess that is similar to this, but this is going to be more pervasive.
www.psypost.org/assimilation...
I remember back when I used to play The Sims a lot, I'd sometimes have a weird sensation looking at actual people in the street, and seeing them as Sims. I guess that is similar to this, but this is going to be more pervasive.
www.psypost.org/assimilation...
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If Roy & HG were calling that move: Trump just did a standing double backflip with pike
April 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM
If Roy & HG were calling that move: Trump just did a standing double backflip with pike
I was writing a plan for big changes to the MWA telescope control software. After a page of bullet points about database columns, etc, the AI plugin I'm using - trained on millions of lines of real-world code - helpfully autosuggested:
"For now, lets just ignore the problem and hope for the best."
"For now, lets just ignore the problem and hope for the best."
February 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I was writing a plan for big changes to the MWA telescope control software. After a page of bullet points about database columns, etc, the AI plugin I'm using - trained on millions of lines of real-world code - helpfully autosuggested:
"For now, lets just ignore the problem and hope for the best."
"For now, lets just ignore the problem and hope for the best."
Postmodern Jukebox tonight at the Astor - they were great.
February 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Postmodern Jukebox tonight at the Astor - they were great.
And here's Oreo learning to programme in Python, just a few months ago. youtu.be/xEOFgta--2k?...
Oreo helping me find a bug.
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January 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
And here's Oreo learning to programme in Python, just a few months ago. youtu.be/xEOFgta--2k?...
Here's a TV segment that Today Tonight (dodgy WA 'news' programme) did about SETI in 1995, while I still had my PhD-student beard. It's so cringe-worthy it's hilarious now, 30 years later. youtu.be/nspfNt7iEuU?...
SETI story on Today Tonight, 1995
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January 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here's a TV segment that Today Tonight (dodgy WA 'news' programme) did about SETI in 1995, while I still had my PhD-student beard. It's so cringe-worthy it's hilarious now, 30 years later. youtu.be/nspfNt7iEuU?...