Items of Interest

Genetically Optimised Floorplans

This is a great demonstration post by Joel Simon on using genetic algorithms to optimise a school floorplan. He demonstrates an optimised layout for traffic flow, fire escape routes and access to windows among other things.

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Datavis Caveats

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This is an excellent resource on the many pitfalls to avoid when using the many many different types of data visualisation methods and graphs. The site gives some nice examples of dos and don'ts for each graph type.

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Code Screenshots

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Here are 6 handy tools for taking fancy screenshots or your code for you blog or whatever :-)

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Hermitage Green Tribute to The Cranberries

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Check out this amazing video by Shane Serrano of Hermitage Green's tribute to Dolores O'Riordan and The Cranberries during their concert at King John's Castle. This one will get you in the emotions!

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Nandos Music Exchange

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Nandos Music Exchange is a project that brings artists from all over the world to the UK to collaborate and create music. Now in its fourth year, the project has realeased the playlist of this year's music.

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Optical Neural Network

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Reseachers at UCLA have developed an all optical neural network system, which uses specially etched plates to diffract incoming light to perform calculations. A number of plates are layered together to create teh Diffractive Deep Neural Network (D2NN) which can perform calculations at the speed of light.

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Edge TPU

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Google have released two new Edge TPU hardware implementations available for its Tensorflow Processing Unit. The machine learning chips can be embedded on dev board or bundled into a USB stick device. Both devices are due to be available in the Autumn.

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Pleistocene Worms Revived

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40,000 year old worms found frozen in samples taken from the permafrost in Siberia have been revived. The worms were warmed gradually in a Petri dish full of enrichment culture and E. coli food for a few weeks. They are the first multi-cellular organisms to survive such a long cryobiosis.

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Connemara National Park

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An image of Connemara National Park taken from the International Space Station has been released through NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth website.

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Saturn & Mars

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured some fantastic images of Saturn and Mars while the planets were in opposition to Earth, meaning they were directly across from Earth in their celestial orbits.

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