Items of Interest

Spaced Repetition

Following on from SuperMemo & The Spacing Effect in edition #123, Nicky Case has an excellent interactive tutorial on spaced repetition and how to use The Leitner Box method and other apps to fill your long term memory with all the learning!

Innovation

Life

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Hen Ogledd - Tiny Witch Hunter

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Just in time for Halloween, Hen Ogledd released another class tune called Tiny Witch Hunter!

Music

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CIA Disguises

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The Wired Masterminds YouTube series kicks off with a video interview with Jonna Mendez, the former chief of disguises with the CIA. The video gives an interesting insight into some of the older techniques used by the CIA to disguise its operatives.

Life

Video

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Python Crash Course

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Graham Wheeler has a great crash course tutorial on learning Python on his site, with lots of example code and recommendations on further reading.

Tech

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Notable Internet History

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Slate.com published a great article detailing some unique events in internet history, such as how Arpanet users created the first social network in 1979 to share their favourite science fiction, created emoticons to differentiate work topics from jokes, and wrote the first "Spoiler Alert" about Star Trek II!

Innovation

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Phone Form Field UX

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UX Movement have a handy post that describes bad practices on phone form fields, along with some recommendations on how to reach the holy grail of UX; don't make users think.

Design

Web Dev

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Time Travelling Words

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Merriam-Webster have an interesting site they call Time Traveller which allows you to see by year which words first appeared in print. There was I thinking that Blindboy coined the term "hot-take", but it has actually been around since 2012!

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Information Is Beautiful Awards

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The Information Is Beautiful Awards have released thie year's shortlists in categories such as Humanitarian, Breaking News, Leisure, Games & Sport and Visualization & Information Design, among others. Go inhale the data visualisation goodness on their site.

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Android Tensorflow Lite Example

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Amit Shekhar has a short but helpful medium post on MindOrks with an example of how to use Tensorflow Lite on Android for object detection, including a link to the sample application.

AI & ML

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Reading Tips

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Farnham Street has a short but nice post with tips about how to read better, including note taking methods and links to other resources about reading.

Life

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