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Richard Conan-Davies
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Photographer, writer, philosopher, music enthusiast and science explainer. Editor developer for https://clearlyexplained.com based in Canberra, Australia
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Don't recall seeing such an elongated high air pressure system like this before. Such blue skies at least.
Elongated high air pressure system on a weather map by windy
June 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Pretty big thunder and lightning storm east of Canberra. THat's a massive number of lightning strikes.
Windy.com weather radar map with lightning strikes
February 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Kinda glad that Grapher on MacOS still exists
screenshot of Grapher(MacOS) of a 3D parametric equation of a harmonograph
January 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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This is too warm for me
Windy temp map with ACESS-C VT
December 16, 2024 at 6:55 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #627,055! I guess that's something less than the millionth.
image of the number 627,055 celebrating 10M users
September 17, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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Pillars of creation from JWST
August 16, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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Australian birbs! King Parrot and Red-rumped parrot #birds
King Parrot Red-rumped parrot Red-rumped parrot front facing
June 14, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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It’s weird but the weather radar around Canberra is showing light showers but the sky is clear. Might be an inversion layer
February 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Looks like it will be pretty gusty up in Queensland on Friday
www.windy.com/-Hurricane-t...
ICON weather model for North Queensland showing gusts uptown 161km/h
January 23, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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ChatGPT4 confirms this lol
In topology, one of the key ideas is that objects are considered equivalent if they can be transformed into each other through stretching, bending, and similar continuous deformations, as long as there is no tearing or gluing. Therefore, when Cinnamon stretches, bends, or turns over, she is undergoing transformations that are topologically equivalent. This means from a topological standpoint, all these different states of Cinnamon (whether stretched out, curled up, or lying on her back) are essentially the same.
January 12, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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2023 hottest year on record
www.bbc.com/news/science...
Global temps for 2023 from ERAS C3S ECMWF
January 10, 2024 at 6:16 AM
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Dall-E 3 is pretty good at painting water colour scenes. Here is one of an alpine scene.
Create a landscape-oriented watercolor painting of an alpine mountain landscape in autumn, using a limited and muted color palette to convey a sense of haste. The painting features broad, expressive strokes, simplifying the mountains, trees, and stream. The mountains are painted in muted blues and grays, while the trees are depicted with quick dabs of muted greens and browns. Muted reds and oranges suggest the autumn leaves, and the stream is rendered in simple strokes of muted blue. The sky is a soft wash of muted pinks and blues, with long, simple shadows from the setting sun adding movement and depth.
November 2, 2023 at 7:01 PM
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Been playing with Dall-E 3 on ChatGPT and looking at how it can do paintings in various old master styles. Here is one inspired by Rembrandt with a modern twist of a wind turbine
Oil painting of a modern wind turbine, but rendered in the earthy tones and textures that Rembrandt was known for. The scene captures the same contrast of light and dark, with clouds gathering ominously behind the turbine, suggesting a storm is approaching.
October 14, 2023 at 8:10 AM
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Stay safe out there in the west coast US. There's some impressive raining coming in over the next few days.
Weather map from windy.com showing rain accumulation from hurricane Hilary
August 19, 2023 at 9:33 AM