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Is people. Particularly people you love. This subject, in my view, leads to the greatest contributions in photography for most of us. And as a photographer, it is the only subject I feel an obligation to engage with. Now, there’s an asterisk in my title, as I don’t want to discount anyone’s authentic interests. Perhaps landscape photography is your passion? Wonderful. Enjoy your…
I came across this Hacker News post today: Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras While I can’t wait for the day that I can self-host my own LLM server, that’s not what caught my eye. In the comments, there was a lot of discussion around what a great writer Kimi K2 is. This immediately caught my attention, because I have been paying way more than I’d like to have access to…
Like many in the monarch community, I have been fascinated by the data coming in from the Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT) BlūMorpho tags . In particular, this image that has been making the rounds on social media has captured (maybe too much of) my attention: Monarch tracks from 2025 season. Credit CTT Each one of those lines is the path of an individual monarch butterfly during the southern…
I’m a biologist and educator specializing in monarch butterfly conservation and bringing technology to ecological questions. I earned both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with my graduate research challenging conventional wisdom around how monarch butterflies respond to strong wind events. My work focuses on applying cutting-edge technology to…