Greg Egan / is on Nostr

I am a science fiction writer and computer programmer.
Latest novel: SCALE.
Latest collection: INSTANTIATION.
Web site: gregegan.net

Last Notes

2024-08-20 11:08:35

“Scavengers Reign” is something else — it’s as if Miyazaki decided to remake Tarkovsky’s “Solaris”. I have absolutely no idea what’s going on, but as a gloriously hallucinatory xenobiological dream, I’m happy to just sit and stare at all the strange creatures chittering around.

2024-08-07 07:17:12

Things we’ll now check at compile time:
“The new IPC Template Type defined 21 input parameter fields, but the integration code that invoked the Content Interpreter with Channel File 291’s Template Instances supplied only 20 input values to match against.”
https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf

2024-05-03 03:12:49

Are you OK, Science magazine?
“The therapy, an injectable monoclonal antibody callnative to antimalarials used in areas where malaria is endemic; those drugs have to be taed L9LS, offers a possible alterken for several days each month to be protective.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-infrared-telescope-debuts-gm-rice-stumbles-maternal-mortality-drops

2024-02-14 10:48:43

Gemini nailing organic chemistry — and also failing it at the same time — by fire-hosing the user with different answers, at least one of which might turn out to be right, even if they all contradict each other.
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/111/929/439/826/159/017/original/4a5d13e0e037e2f7.png

2023-09-02 10:50:18

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@npub1knz…c73p
It is both photovoltaic and thermal.
https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2020/03/20/arena-boosts-funding-for-raygens-solar-hydro-power-plant/
“The Melbourne-based startup generates renewable energy and large scale energy storage by focusing sunlight with a field of aligned mirrors or heliostats onto a tower-mounted receiver containing an array of PV Ultra modules made of gallium arsenide PV cells. The heat extracted from the PV Ultra modules is then stored as hot water in a reservoir acting as a store. The ability to co-generate electricity and heat, the latter a captured by-product, makes the whole facility highly efficient.”

2023-09-02 10:37:26

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@npub17lk…l3x2 The people who built it will be surprised to learn that you know better than them, and that their photovoltaic modules are figments of their imagination.

2023-09-02 00:09:27

Concentrated solar photovoltaic, but the water that cools the PV modules is retained as a heat store, and some of the electricity drives a chiller to cool a second mass of water. The temperature difference drives a turbine, for ~17hrs of stored power.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/raygen-resources-opens-new-solar-and-thermal-power-plant-carwarp/102798366