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Scientist: Electronic Imaging, Data Visualization, Visual Decision Making, Photography Find me at: http://linktr.ee/binocularity_
#FridayYellow
#Spring #Flowers from the King's birthday bank holiday weekend at the #toowoombacarnivalflowers
#canonphotography #YellowFriday
Visualization in control rooms for decision making
It was common to build control rooms with huge screens (eg Queensland Rail & UK NESO energy operator)
Great for demonstrations but given the desktop screens are closer and higher resolution when is the main screen really used?
#WednesdayGreen #Hothouse #Flowers the jade vine at the Mount Cout-tha Botanic Garden, endemic normally in the Phillipines.
#canonphotography
#TuesdayBlue
#Spring #Flowers from the King's birthday bank holiday weekend at the #toowoombacarnivalflowers
#canonphotography
Google's AI visa advice for China is simply wrong.
China can grant a 10 day transit visa. The legal implications of believing Google's AI and arriving in China assuming 30 days are not positive.
AI making everday life harder, @garymarcus
www.gov.uk/foreign-trav...
Electricity generation, UK, week to 31st October 2025
Super Wind contribution on 25/26/28 & 31
Gas almost at a low point for the year on 26.
Clear that renewables do make a large contribution.
@WolframResearch notebook here: buff.ly/3KglPYz
Data @neso_energy
#SixOnSaturday @Brisbane #Spring #Flowers from around the city and the Botanic Gardens.
Heading into mid-Spring and the roses are almost over already.
#canonphotography
It was a #StormySunday in the sub-tropics, with free ice for my coffee...
@brisbane #queensland #spring #storms
#MagentaMonday violets in the Bonsai garden at Mount Cout-tha Botanic Gardens.
@brisbane #queensland #spring #flowers
This @royalsociety.org report has not received nearly the attention it deserves.
Key finding: "most current approaches to economic assessments of impacts of #climate change do not reflect the severity of consequences that are suggested by the latest physical climate science & evidence on impacts" ๐ฌ
#SundayYellow, an Eastern Yellow Robin, which is remarkably like, and yet not even the same genus as, the English Red Robin.
Spotted last week on our wild Koala hunt in the Brisbane Koala Bushland.
#Queensland #Spring #Canonphotography
More than #SixOnSaturday of the very many (mostly gum) trees examined on our hopeful but fruitless wild Koala search.
We could barely see the trees for the forest, but look carefully, and you can see what might be three telltale claw marks on one of them.
#Queensland #Koala
Electricity generation, UK, week to 24th October 2025
Wind lacking, but picking up towards end of the week.
Solar was struggling to contribute most of the week.
@WolframResearch notebook here: buff.ly/3KglPYz
Data @neso_energy
@kangaroosalive World Kangaroo Day on Oct 24th.
This mob we saw at dusk in December 2022 down near Beedelup Lake in WA.
No evidence anywhere for climate change....
Meanwhile, yesterday at 46.1ยฐC in Birdsville, QLD, was the hottest day on record in October anywhere in Queensland, since records began 133 years ago in 1892.
It is fine to argue about conditions for future ILR applications, but pretending it is OK to retrospectively go back on the implicit contract with existing residents is not fair play and not British.
Unless, we want to be known for breaking our agreements & not standing by our word as a country.
Deadline on Nov 15th for late-breaking research news for Electronic Imaging 2026 (to be held March 1-5, right next to SFO).
www.imaging.org/IST/IST/Conf...
@ElectroImaging @SDnAconf @ImagingOrg
Electricity generation, UK, week to 17th October 2025
Wind lacking this week, almost at a low for the year contributing only 5-10% all week.
@WolframResearch notebook here: buff.ly/3KglPYz
Data @neso_energy
We went on a (Koala) bear hunt....
Several long, hot, and sighting-less, walks later (Noosa Heads, Brisbane Koala Bushlands), we ended at the Daisy Hill Koala Centre, where we saw a few of this iconic endangered species.
#Queensland, #Spring, #Koala
Saturday Sunset at Sunset Cove, Noosa Heads.
#MondayYellow #Beach #Sunset #Queensland #PassportShredder
Electricity generation, UK, week to 10th October 2025
Wind hitting record for the year on 4th and 5th at over 65% and 60% of generation capability, resulting in huge savings in fossil fuel use.
@WolframResearch notebook here: buff.ly/3KglPYz
Data @neso_energy
University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
How on earth did they believe Turn it in works. Anyone who understands the algorithm knows it cannot be relied on for evidence.
#SixOnSaturday trees from the riparian rain forest and eucalypt forest at Mapleton Falls national park in QLD and the Obi Obi valley lookout.
11.10.2025 05:04 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Toys not the same as they used to be...
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Electricity generation, UK, week to 3rd October 2025
Wind extremes, v. little Tu/We but nearly 60% of generation as storm Amy hit on Friday.
Solar dropping in the cloud cover, Gas filling the gaps.
@WolframResearch notebook here: buff.ly/3KglPYz
Data @neso_energy
Celebrating the King's birthday holiday in Toowoomba on the final weekend of the Flower Carnival.
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The worlds most fossil fuel rich countries (Saudi/UAE/Qatar) are planning a shift from Oil/Coal/Gas towards renewables (Solar) by 2035.
This provides energy security, economic resilience & supports growing electricty demand due to rising temperatures.
www.iea.org/reports/the-...
Electricity generation, UK, week to 26th September 2025
Biomass generated a high proportion on Tues and Fri, it's never clear how green this is.
Nuclear dropping to very low proportion most of the week.
@WolframResearch notebook here: buff.ly/3KglPYz
Data @neso_energy
Spring is starting, and while almost everything stayed green all winter many flowers are now blooming in the Botanic Garden.
#SixOnSaturday #Spring #Flowers
#Brisbane
