Last week, I interviewed former President of Ireland Mary McAleese over on SmartThinkingBooks.com! Check out her interview here.
The Google app now lets you hum a piece of a song into it to find out the name of the song. Die earworm, die!
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Last week, I interviewed former President of Ireland Mary McAleese over on SmartThinkingBooks.com! Check out her interview here.
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The Google app now lets you hum a piece of a song into it to find out the name of the song. Die earworm, die!
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Kristel Van der Elst has agreat post on the MIT Technology Review about using strategic foresight to plan for uncertain times. A handy skill in the pandemic we now find ourselves. She lays out a sequence of stels aimed at identifying as many explicit scenarios and opportunites as possible and taking the emotion out of planning for them.
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The travelling salesman problem is a famous network optimisation problem that hasn't been improved upon in forty-four years, until now! Researchers Nathan Klein, Anna Karlin and Shayan Ovies Gharan at the University of Washington have created a new algorithm that improves on the general traveling salesman problem, by 0.2 billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent! The new approach uses random selection of optimised trees and geometry of polynomials to improve on Christofides algorithm.
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RTÉ launched Illuminations this week, a fantastic collection of commissioned Irish art exploring the complex shades of lockdown. A range of literature, poetry, film, photography and visual art pieces from a host of Irish artists are described and on display on the beautiful Illuminations website.
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This week I watched David Attenborough's excellent documentary film A Life On Our Planet on Netflix. David himself describes the film as his witness statement of the destruction of the bio-sphere that he has witnessed in his lifetime. It is harrowing viewing but ends in an optimistic call to action about what needs to be done to stop ourselves from destroying the planet. It is mandatory viewing for everyone, especially for those with children or in positions of power or influence. It can't be said any clearer, either we change or we burn.
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Dan Hollick posted a great explainer on how QR codes are constructed and how information is encoded within them.
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