Items of Interest

Improving Your Critical Thinking

Gergely Orosz posted a great piece about critical thinking and how to improve your practice, which starts with embracing the concept of not knowing something, and systematically learning. This is very similar concept to Carol Dweck's book Growth Mindset.

Life

Motivation

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Software Team Structure Mistakes To Avoid

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Stay SaaSy published a great piece on the mistakes to avoid when structuring software teams, with advice such as defining clear ownership and team member redundancy.

Business

Tech

Web Dev

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Distilled Water Space Propulsion

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Commercial space company Momentus successfully used a distilled water based propulsion system called Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) to raise the altitude of a satellite in orbit.

Space

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Quantum Computing Q-day

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The FT released an excellent animated explainer site on Q-day, the point in the future where it is theorised that quantum computing will break RSA encryption.

Quantum Computing

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LEGO Human Skin Printer

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Scientists at Cardiff University have developed a human skin 3D printer made completely of LEGO. The build cost of the printer is £500, making it financially accessible to a wide range of researchers.

Innovation

Science

Video

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CMAT - Whatever's Inconvenient

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The living legend that is CMAT released her excellent first track Whatever's Inconvenient from her upcoming second album, with a fantastically hilarious video.

Music

Video

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Project Pre-Mortem

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Anthony Murphy published a handy guide to conducting a pre-mortem on a project that helps identify risks of the project that can be avoided, transferred, accepted, or reduced.

Business

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Simple Web Scraping

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Samantha Sunne published a neat set of slides that shows the different simple ways to scrape web content without the need for programming, such as using Google Sheets.

Data Vis

Web Dev

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Super Paper Bags

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Researchers at Penn State University have made a super paper bag that is stronger, resistant to getting wet, can be reused multiple times, and ultimately recycled as biofuel.

Environment

Innovation

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GOOD Neural Network Diagrams

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Aaron Master publishes a detailed piece on how digrams that depict neural networks can be improved to be Generally Objective Observable Depiction (GOOD).

AI & ML

Data Vis

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