Tiaan Stals

Don’t study your high school sweetheart

The case for encouraged experimentation before discipline choice in Australian universities

The outbreak we (unfortunately) needed to have to force a paradigm shift away from COVID Zero

Do COVID Zero nations need to cross a chasm to catch up with reality? Was the NSW outbreak earlier than we would have liked, but inevitable in the long run?

A misdirected attempt at Big Tech regulation

Don’t mistake an exhibition of political power for an attempt at regulating economic power

We must change our economic objectives

If we extrapolate 1000 years into the future, what will our current economic structures and systems lead to? On a planet with finite resources, growth alone cannot be the sole objective of the economic system. We must evolve what we direct our society towards to ensure that in the long term, we are the winners

Avoiding geopolitical risk in the Australian agriculture sector

Can the Australian agricultural sector stay out of the firing line as Sino-Australian tensions rise?

Australia's future energy mix in 2100 - a clear case for nuclear energy

Fossil fuels emissions are one of the great contributors to climate change. How can Australia best adapt its old fashioned fossil fuel based grid into the future? The answer is a combination of solar, wind and nuclear

How we model COVID-19

In this post we look at how we can model COVID-19 using simple SIR models. We try to understand how different policy responses lead to different outcomes for public health. We also consider what COVID-19 might look like in the long term (in Australia) and sharpen our skills in ordinary differential equations, python, numpy and matplotlib

The natural next step for computing

We can see the future potential of changing how we architect computers so they involve the internet layer. It wont be easy, but it can provide significant upside for businesses and individuals. As we move to a future where more and more devices connect to the internet, the more accessible your computer becomes, the more effective you can be.