Image: Twitter, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
Another great example of memory efficiency in Super Mario Brothers!
Image: UCLan, NASA
Researchers at the University of Central Lanchashire (UCLan) released the highest-ever resolution images of the sun, taken using NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C). The images show magentic strands of million-degree 500km wide plasma on the sun! Check out their Flickr gallery here.
Image: YouTube, Folding@Home
Folding@Home is a distributed community computing platform that allows everyone to donate any spare computer processing power to protein folding simulation experiments. Folding@Home are now performing protein folding experiments on COVID-19 and in recent weeks, the number of users has jumped from 30,000 to 700,000. As a result, the good intentioned community has accidently created a 2.4 exaFLOP supercomputer, which is faster than the top 500 supercomputers in the world. You can donate your spare processing power to fight COVID by running the folding@Home software in the background, which can be downloaded here. I've also created a team called ShoulderToShoulder, id: 262519, if anyone wants to join.
Image: euvsvirus.org
The European Commission are hosting a hackathon on April 24 to 26 to develop solutions to 37 COVID-19 challenges across Health & Life, Business Continuity, Social & Political Cohesion, Remote Working & Education, Digital Finance and other categories. Individuals, teams, mentors and organisations can participate to offer development, design & management skills to name but a few. (H/T to Mikael Fernström for sharing). Registration closes on April 19.
Image: Google
Google have released the Tensorflow Quantum API, allowing hybrid quantum-classical machine learning calculations to be performed on simulated quantum computers and actual Google quantum computers.
Image: Slab
The Slab blog describes some great etiquette tips for using Slack within a company. This is very helpful in the current situation with the increase in people working from home and perhaps relying more on communication via slack.
Image; Daryl Feehely (Rhossili Beach, South Wales)
The Farnham Street blog has a great post on second order thinking. The post centres around the Chesterton's Fence thought experiment, which can be summarised to: "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place". A valuable lesson for anyone in a position of management :-)
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