Blue Skies Over Trees

Blue Sky Weather. This photo is available to licence on EyeEm.

#107

Friday, May 18, 2018

In This Edition:
NAWR ANOIS, Irish supercomputer, Thoughtworks technology radar, Der Die Das, wireless flying robot, Manhattan datavis, division by zero, Irish newsreel, Developer Tea & running robots!

Spring is finally here and has brought some lovely skies with it!

This photo is available to licence on EyeEm.

NAWR ANOIS #3 - Vicky Langan, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh

Image: Vicky Langan

This week we welcomed Vicky Langan & Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh to Swansea for our third NAWR ANOIS concert. Ailbhe played a number of lovely amplified Viola pieces and Vicky performed a very moving minimalist piece which culminated with an excerpt of The Palms, a field recording made by Vicky in the grotto in Granard in 2014 on the 30th anniversary of the death of Ann Lovett. The Palms is available to download with all proceeds being donated to the Together For Yes campaign.

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Music
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Name The New Irish Supercomputer

Image: ICHEC

A public vote has launched to name the new Irish supercomputer that will join Fionn in the National High Performance Computing Service in Waterford in August. The system will have 13,440 CPUs and 64TB of RAM.
The public are being asked to vote from a list of Irish scientists and the winner's name will be given to the new supercomputer.
You can vote here until May 24.

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RTE
Tech
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Thoughtworks Technology Radar

Image: Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks, the UK software consultancy company, have released the latest version of their Technology Radar. The radar lists items to Adopt, Access, Trial and Hold in your technology practice in the categories of techniques, tools, platforms and languages & frameworks. The lists are updated based on their experiences with their wide client base.

 

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Thoughtworks
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Der Die Das

Image: Der Die Das, Defuncart

My friend James Leahy has created another language app, this time for German called Der die Das. The app helps you learn which German articles for nouns to use in the form of a quiz.
The app will be released soon and is available for beta testing now.

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Defuncart
Tech
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Wireless Flying Robot

Image: Mark Stone, University of Washington

Engineers at the University of Washington have successfully demonstrated an insect sized robot that can fly wirelessly. The robot is powered by a laser pointed at it that it converts to electricity using an onboard circuit.

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Interesting Engineering
Innovation Video
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Manhattan Commuters

Check out this amazing data visualisation of population movement in manhattan, it looks like the city is breathing!

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Twitter, Randy Olson
Data Vis
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Division By Zero

Ever wondered why division by zero is such a no no? This video does a great job at introducing the restriction.

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Youtube, Ted-ex
Science Video
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Historical Irish Newsreel

Image: IFI

The Irish Film Institute has made a number of historical news reels available online, including footage of the shelling of The Four Courts and Michael Collins' fighting speech on College Green in 1942.

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IFI
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Podcast Of The Week: Developer Tea

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I recently discovered the Developer Tea podcast, which is great. The podcast delivers bit-sized pieces of life advice, aimed at developers, but are applicable and can be of help to everyone. This particular episode discusses 3 problems every developer faces, such as dealing with burnout.

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Developer Tea
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Cool Thing Of The Week: Running Atlas!

Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot can now run after you. Thanks for that guys!

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Youtube, Boston Dynamics
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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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