Tag: Geek
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Keeping Podcasts Playing on Apple TV
There are certain moments in life when technology promises serenity and delivers chaos. You sit down, ready for an evening of podcast-fuelled pottering about, and your Apple TV decides—rather unilaterally—that you’ve had quite enough stimulation for one episode. The screen goes black, the sound stops, and the whole thing curls up for a nap like…
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Green Screen Revamp
Green Screens Get a Revamp with a Magenta Green Screen In a recent paper , Dmitry Smirnov and co-authors from Netflix report the creation of a method they call Magenta Green Screen. In this case the action is filmed not against the traditional green screen…, but instead against a background of bright green LEDs while being lit from…
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Alan Turing – Pride Month
June 30th! It has gone quickly and with today being the last day of pride month it seems fitting to mention a very influential scientist that has shaped modern life, contributed to the war effort and is now honoured by appearing in the £50 note in the UK: Alan Turing. Back in the 1950s started…
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To Be Creative…
To be creative, you have to think differently, we have a tendency to be labelled strange, crazy, and even insane. The Disordered Mind by Erik R. Kandel.
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Sci-Advent – Getting the right grip: Designing soft and sensitive robotic fingers
To develop a more human-like robotic gripper, it is necessary to provide sensing capabilities to the fingers. However, conventional sensors compromise the mechanical properties of soft robots. Now, scientists have designed a 3D printable soft robotic finger containing a built-in sensor with adjustable stiffness. Their work represents a big step toward safer and more dexterous…
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Now Reading: Dune
It is one (or actually several) of those books you have always heard something about, but actually never read it… Now Reading: Dune by Frank Herbert. I think it is high time I change that. It will take some time, and I hope it is worth it. Kull wahad!
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Data Skeptic Podcast
I had an opportunity to be one of the panellists in the Data Skeptic podcast recently. It was great to have been invited and as a listener to the podcast it was a really treat to be able to take part. Also, recording it was fun… You can listen to the episode here. More information…
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Computer Programming Knowledge
I came across the image above in the Slack channel of the University of Hertfordshire Centre for Astrophysics Research. It summarises some of the fundamental knowledge in computer science that was assumed necessary at some point in time: Binar, CPU execution and algorithms. They refer to 7 algorithms, but actually rather than actual algorithms they…
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Life of Brian
Great to have been able to watch Monty Python’s Life of Brian’s we-welease and during Easter. I has aged well! And remember: “He’s not the Messiah! He’s a very naughty boy!!”