Tag: policy
National Press Club address: Chris Bowen on batteries, EVs and the missing middle
Chris Bowen's National Press Club speech leaned on one Melbourne suburb's battery and EV uptake to make a bigger point, backed by numbers on EV sales, home batteries and a new solar policy for business.
Codeberg banned code it can't identify
Codeberg's members voted to ban projects mostly written by AI. They did not explain how anyone is supposed to prove that a project violates the rule.
The CRA is not about open source
The CRA created an open-source steward role, then left maintenance unfunded.
National Press Club address: Sovereign Power, a public energy builder for Australia's industrial future
Michael Wright and Alison Pennington on the case for a new Commonwealth entity to build, own, and operate renewable generation assets to supply Australian industry at cost
CLEAN AIR: Long COVID Is a Catastrophic Public Policy Failure
A follow-up looking at the real, systemic intervention for the Long COVID mass-disabiling event: Clean air. MERV 13 filters, the Corsi-Rosenthal Box, and the Zadroga Act we still have to write to climb the bureaucratic wall of disability denial, and what those of us with capacity owe to those who are too sick to fight for themselves.
A Proposal for Voluntary AI Disclosure in OCaml Code
Proposing a voluntary, machine-readable AI content disclosure scheme for OCaml spanning opam packages, dune, and per-module attributes, aligned with the W3C AI Content Disclosure vocabulary.
.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated
Publishing the OxCaml Labs year-one review, POSSE and AI content disclosure for the web, adopting the geo-embeddings Zarr convention for TESSERA, action PROPL at PLDI, the death of the grant application, and NASA's new swathe lidar mission.
National Press Club address: Birol on the worst energy shock in history
The IEA's Fatih Birol on the worst energy shock in history (and where Australia sits)
.plan-26-11: Bins, bollards, bots and biodiversity boffins
Evidence synthesis at the DEFRA science conference, TESSERA transcoding and building a new SPA, OpenStreetMap/DuckDB bindings in OxCaml, and early thoughts on vibecoding etiquette.
Connecting the dots for biodiversity action from the NAS/Royal Society Forum
Summary of the Nine Recommendations and Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework papers from the NAS/Royal Society US-UK Forum in summer 2025, and how they connect to my work on collective knowledge systems, TESSERA, and evidence synthesis.
Two Kinds of Attestation
The oldest problem in computer science, but with toasters.
.plan-26-08: At AI summit, Shriram's PL opinions, Zarr hacking
TESSERA paper accepted at CVPR 2026, went to the AI Impact Summit, OCaml Zarr hacking, Shriram's talk on human factors of formal methods, and discussions on teaching OxCaml to agents.
At the AI Impact Summit in Delhi: people, planet, progress
Trip report from the Indian AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, covering the massive expo, a conversation with Yann LeCun, a hackathon/talk at IIT-Delhi, networking at the British High Commission, and reflections on the summit declaration's shift from safety to progress and equitable access.
Episode 14: RUSSELL DIABO: TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION
Peter P. d’Errico and Steven Newcomb and their guest, Russell Diabo, a Mohawk policy analyst and advocate.
Five ways to use the LIFE metric for conservation decision-making
Our new paper in Biological Conservation demonstrates how the LIFE extinction risk metric can be applied across five diverse case studies, from real-time tropical deforestation monitoring to evaluating conservation project effectiveness.
Happy new year and my fave readings of the year
My favourite books, podcasts and recommendations from 2025, covering moral ambition, maps, wolves, AI dystopias, geopolitics, Chennai history, and the best tech podcasts.
The 2025 Wrap-up
The EV Life 2025 Wrap-up
Four Ps for Building Massive Collective Knowledge Systems
Design principles for collective knowledge systems—permanence, provenance, permission, and placement—that enable robust networks for evidence-based decision making.
Tracking APS AI Transparency Statements
A new project that scrapes and version-controls AI Transparency Statements from Australian Government agencies, tracking how they change over time.
On the path to the UK/India AI Summit with OpenUK and the ATI
Reflections on UK-India AI collaboration from meetings at the Alan Turing Institute and OpenUK, discussing ethical AI deployment, open source infrastructure, and the challenges of building community in the age of AI-assisted coding.
Do not rule out nature from climate action; an open letter
Open letter to UN Article 6.4 supervisory body advocating for nature-based climate solutions alongside durable carbon sequestration technologies.
Electric Vehicle Sales 2025 Turning Point
Electric vehicle (EV) sales in Australia are surging in 2025, with new policies, growing consumer interest, and record-breaking adoption driving the shift towards sustainable transport.
New Planned NSW EV Fast Chargers
Encouraging wider adoption by making long-distance travel and everyday charging more convenient and reliable
What I learnt at the National Academy of Sciences US-UK Forum on Biodiversity
Report from NAS/Royal Society forum on standardized biodiversity measurement technologies covering foundation models, eDNA and evidence synthesis.
How the Fringe Benefits Tax Exemption is Driving Electric Vehicle Adoption in Australia
Discover how Australia’s Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption on electric vehicles works, who qualifies, and why novated leases are key to unlocking these benefits.
Learnings from the Cambridge Environmental Sustainability Committee
Insights from Cambridge University's Environmental Sustainability Strategy Committee on carbon reduction, biodiversity, and operational sustainability progress.
Humans are the ones that will save nature, helped by AI
Discussion of responsible AI adoption in conservation, emphasizing human agency and equity over technological solutions.
Technology needs to unite conservation, not divide it
Response to critique of AI in conservation emphasizing participatory design, open source tools and equitable capacity building in Global South.
Talks from LOCO24 are now available online
LOCO24 conference talks now available on self-hosted video platforms with peer-to-peer redundancy.
Australia's energy debate, distilled: Bowen vs O'Brien at the National Press Club
Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Shadow Minister Ted O'Brien debated energy policy at the National Press Club.
NSW Fast Chargers
NSW Government is currently looking for land owners and lease holders that might be interested in hosting EV charging stations
ANZSRC FoR Codes 2020 edition
The 2020 ANZSRC Field of Research codes in a searchable HTML table, because the ABS only publishes them in a spreadsheet.
Livecoding article on the ABC
I was interviewed for an ABC News article about the Australian livecoding scene.
Selected Syracuse University Policy Statements
Selected Syracuse University policy statements to help facilitate TA Orientation small group Discussion.