Palaeontologist: Dinosaur Footprints – Biomechanics – Simulation
Three papers in the last few months, which feels like a decent enough excuse to do a quick roundup. Micro-CT scanning tracks (Tash Prescott et al.) First up is Tash Prescott with a paper just out in Fossil Studies: How do you visualise what's happening beneath the surface when a foot presses into sediment, without destroying... Continue Reading →
I've been running Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research — for a few weeks now, and I'm genuinely impressed with it. If you haven't seen what it's been doing for me, I wrote about that recently. What I haven't mentioned is that I've got it running on four machines simultaneously,... Continue Reading →
Oh dear. Found this option in wordpress experimental features. Gave it a try. Is this useful to anyone? It weirds me out a bit. Anyway, transcript below: Pip: Prof. Peter Falkingham has been doing what academics do best: turning a simple question into a multi-week infrastructure project, then writing about it thoughtfully enough that you're... Continue Reading →
I've written about the Asus ProArt P16 before. Back in 2024, I reviewed the original AMD CoPilot+ version with the RTX 4070 -- a beautiful and powerful laptop that I genuinely loved. Then in 2025, I upgraded to the revised model with the RTX 5090 Mobile, tripling my VRAM from 8GB to 24GB and doubling... Continue Reading →
I've been writing posts here about getting set up with local AI, agents, harnesses, and what I've done with them. It's fun, and it stretches my computer legs in a way they haven't been stretched recently. But I can't shake this nagging feeling that it's all a colossal waste of time, because everything's moving so... Continue Reading →
I've been running Linux as my primary desktop for a while now — specifically Bluefin (the immutable Fedora-based distro with dinosaurs) on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with an RTX 5090 Mobile and AMD HX 370 processor. The migration from Windows is basically done, but there are still a few edge cases that remind me... Continue Reading →
I've been spending the last few weeks setting up Hermes Agent as a personal research assistant, and it's gone from "chatbot I talk to on Telegram" to "actually useful thing that does stuff" pretty quickly. Thought it was worth documenting what we've achieved so far, because some of it's genuinely useful and I suspect other... Continue Reading →
I've been using Copilot in VS Code for a while now, and it's genuinely useful for the kind of small scripts I write regularly – visualising DEM output in Blender, sorting through CT scan data, that sort of thing. With an education account I get access to the top-end models, which is brilliant. But there... Continue Reading →
I really rather loved my Asus ProArt P16 with Nvidia 4070. A beautiful and powerful laptop. But I was bumping up against RAM limitations with some CT data; 32GB was proving limiting, as was the 8GB VRAM on the otherwise fine nvidia 4070 GPU. So I solved that by upgrading the the newer version of... Continue Reading →
I've long been heavily embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem, and a big part of that has been having my personal (and work) data held by OneDrive. Last month I finally took the plunge and moved 700GB of personal data over to Infomaniak's kDrive, and so far everything has been great. OneDrive's placholders in particular have... Continue Reading →
Prof. Peter L. Falkingham 