The Green Web Foundation publish a directory of web hosting companies in every country that provide proof of their green claims. Choose a provider on this green list the next time you are buying a hosting package.
Bill Gates published a blog post about his thoughts on the future of transport, in particularly vehicle transport. Electric vehicles are great for short haul, provided the efficiency of battery weight to range is improved. He sees the future of long-haul transport in biofuels, that can take CO2 from the atmosphere and combine with water to create hydrogen without any waste. These biofuels power vehicles and extract CO2 from the air, a win win!
Easy Theory on YouTube posted a 4 hour video which answers every Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Theory of Computation exam question since 1991!
Product Dave over on Product Coalition published a great step by step guide on how to make modern product specifications. The guide covers making wireframes, to feature identification with the team, through to wiki docs and high fidelity prototypes.
Onat Yigit Mercan posted a great explainer on Bloom filters, a data structure used as a sort of fuzzy hash map for membership of collections. The filters can be used to query if items are in a large database without using large amounts of memory. For example, a database of 1 million entries can use a bloom filter of just 1.14MB.
Researchers at the National Unviersity of Singapore have developed a system called SpiKey that can predict 10 possible options of a key design just by recording the sound of a key in a lock. Of the 586,584 possible key combinations for a 6-pin lock, SpiKey can be used on approx. 56% of them to generate candidate key options that will open the lock.
Variety interviewed composer Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther, This Is America) about how he composed the iconic score for the Mandolorian, which at the same time reaffirming how cool an instrument the base recorder is!
Treksit.com is an extrememly addictive game based on graph theory. Given a set of increasingly complex graphs, the aim is to reposition the nodes so that no edges are overlapping. Happy Friday!
Paul Graham published an excellent essay, as usual, on the four quadrants of conformism. The classification system provides an intruiging framework for putting current events and behaviours, such as mask wearing and police brutality to name but two, into context.
Neural Radiance Fields For Unconstrained Photo Collections (NeRF) is a neural network project from researchers at Google that can take in a set of pictures of a place from the internet and automatically generate a representation of the scene that can be explored in 3D. The lighting and environmental effects of the scene can also be manipulated at a realistic level.
