Amazon have announced AWS DeepComposer, a keyboard which connects to the AWS DeepComposer service and allows the user to generate an original musical composition using trained generative adversarial networks (GANs).
Interaction designer Chris Oilver has compiled a monster list of UX Books using Airtable. The list includes categories, ratings and links to buy each book.
There are many disparaging misconceptions about the apparent difficulty and usefullness of the Irish language. Many of these are covered in detail in Gaeilge: A Radical Revolution - Caoimhín De Barra.
UX designers Stephanie Walter and Laurence Vagner created 52 cognitive bias cards for use in UX workshops. Categories covered in the cards include decision making, user testing and team work.
Haki Benita has a great post describing 12 common mistakes and missed opportunities when using SQL, such as being careful when diving integers and avoiding transformations on indexed fields.
Hiring Lab published a post about the top trending tech skills from 2014 to 2019 based on job advertisements on indeed.com. Python is on the rise but Java remains kind of the hill.
Thi sweek I launched a new website called SmartThinkBooks.com. The aim of the site is to shine a spotlight on books that can fuel your mind! Many smart thinking books have changed the way I look at the world for the better, so I started this site to help spread the word. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter to get the latest posts direct to your inbox.
Chris Sharp has a fascinating post on City Metric about the amount of road deaths on British roads between 1997 and 2018. The graph of deaths clearly shows decline for a number of years and then stagnation. Chris investigates the reasons behind this and discovers investment, or lack thereof, in speed control measures and speed cameras has a direct result in the number of deaths on the roads.
