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… Read More »Green Screen Revamp
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… Read More »Alan Turing – Pride Month
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.
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… Read More »Sci-Advent – Getting the right grip: Designing soft and sensitive robotic fingers
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.… Read More »Now Reading: Dune
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… Read More »Data Skeptic Podcast
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… Read More »Computer Programming Knowledge
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!!”
Catching up with some reading. Very timely, PhysicsWorld is covering some new developments in high-spec mass spectroscopy and drug discovery. While The Economist’s front cover is about synthetic biology. Yay! Soupy twist!
