Items of Interest

Google Data Search

Google have launched a search engine for data sets similar to Google Scholar, allowing data scientists, researchers and others. The search engine presents summaries of each dataset along with links to the source location of the dataset.

AI & ML

Data Vis

Tech

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Phill Niblock, Tim Shaw & Rhodri Davies

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This week NAWR welcomed Phill Niblock and Tim Shaw to Swansea, performing with our own Rhodri Davies. Check out some of my photos from the concert here.

Music

Photo

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Super Metroid Laser Canon

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HyperIon has created a real life working laser arm canon form super metroid, compelete with instructions on instructables!

Tech

Video

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Tech N9ne Feat. Krizz Kaliko on Tiny Desk

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NPR's Tiny Desk on YouTube is amazing for discovering great music and recently the music diversity and quality has been top notch, from Yo-Yo Ma to Dermot Kennedy. This week though, Tiny Desk published their video of Tech N9ne featuring Krizz Kaliko. The video starts off great and escalates to amazing by the last track, definitely worth watching the full video!

Music

Video

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Croke Park Hawks

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The Irish Times has an interesting feature on the hawks used before, during and after events at Croke Park to deter seagulls from entering the ground and in particular to stop them from raiding the litter left by us filthy humans. They also use kites, acoustic systems and lasers to dis-incentivise the gulls. I can't wait to see phase 2, where they put the lasers on the hawks!

Life

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AI Slow Mo

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Researchers at NVIDIA have used a trained deep learning model to take regular 30 frames per second (fps) video and generate from it smooth slow motion 240 fps or 480 fps video!

AI & ML

Innovation

Video

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UnDraw Illustrations

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UnDraw Illustrations is a repository of MIT Licenced illustrations for every topic you can think of or would possibly need!

Design

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Facebook Field Guide To Machine Learning

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The Facebook Ads team have launched a field guide to machine learning video series. The six videos include work practices and tips at applying machine learning to real world problems.

AI & ML

Video

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Maersk & NotPetya

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This is a rivieting story by Wired on the NotPetya virus and how it wiped out the computer networks of companies worldwide in 2017 including Maersk. A fifth of the world's shipping capacity was shutdown for over 10 days. Shipping ports around the world had to revert to manual paper systems while Maersk IT workers flew in a sole unaffected DNS controller backup from a server in Ghana that happened to be knocked offline by a powercut before the infection.

Tech

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SuperMemo & The Spacing Effect

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This is an interesting piece by Wired on Piotr Wozniak, a Polish scientist, experimenter and founder of SuperMemo. The spacing effect is a phenomenon discovered by Hermann Ebbinghaus circa 1885 which results in dramatically improved learning by correctly spacing practice sessions.

Innovation

Science

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