Category Archives: General tomfoolery

AI Slop vs the Human Connection

After a hard day of work or study, some people enjoy a mindless scroll through social media. It’s an opportunity to turn one’s mind off for a few minutes of harmless dopamine, right? Oh dear. Given my job and search history, the social media algorithms think I must really want to see some AI slop about physics education! Read about it in my latest blog post!

Old Educational VHS Cassettes

My Physics department at school has a collection of old VHS cassettes, some dating back to the 1980s. I don’t want them to be lost forever, so I’ve started the process of digitising them. I found an old VCR in a cupboard in the geography/geology department, got a SCART to HDMI adapter and a videoContinueContinue reading “Old Educational VHS Cassettes”

“Physics is JUST applied mathematics”

“Physics is just applied mathematics”: a statement often given by non-physicists in an attempt to assuage their own feelings of inadequacy. In this blog post, I explore the assertion that mathematics was invented by physicists.

32-bit windows programs running on a Chromebook!

Here I am running a 32-bit version of Crocodile Clips using Wine and Box86 in Crostini on the Chromebook. It took hours of fiddling, but it works! In the end, I installed Box86 and Wine via Pi-Apps, which took care of all the dependencies for me. Huzzah! No more running Windows 3.11 in Dosbox and being limited to 16-bit programs!