Africa is building a giant wall of trees to help tackle climate change, desertification and to create jobs. The Great Green Wall will span 11 countries and 8,000km.
This week The Swansea Laptop Orchestra played a lunchtime concert at the Swansea City Centre Conference in the LC Swansea. Check out the photos from the gig here.
This week at NAWR we hosted a fantastic evening of movement and music from Good News From The Future, Cath & Phil Tyler, Sarah Angliss, Sarah Gabriel and Stephen Hiscock. Check out the photos of the concert here.
Season 2 of Derry Girls just finished with a fantastic finale this week. The show continues with the humour of season 1 while adding some extra hit-you-in-the-emotions poingant scenes....no you're crying!
"It's a fuckin state of mind"!
On a more serious note, The New York Times has a chilling interactive data-vis showing how the recent Boeing 737-Max crashes were caused by faulty software and an over-reliance on a single angle of attack sensor.
In anticipation of the final season of Game of Thrones, The Washington Post has updated its fabulous data-vis of all the deaths in Game of Thrones, included the most proficient killers! Winter is nearly here.
Stack Overflow have published the results of their 2019 developer survey. Javascript remains king of the languages, and VBA is the most dreaded language!
Scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first ever picture of a black hole this week! Using a data from an array of telescopes around the globe, the team combined the massive amounts of data to create the image of M87. Dr. Katie Bouman created the machine learning interferometry algorithm used to combine the data and produce the image of the event horizon.
Pete Warden from the Tensorflow Lite team has published a post on his blog about using Tensorflow Lite on a microcontroller board to do voice recognition. The machine learning model in this case uses 20KB of flash storage with Tensorflow light using 25KB and needing 30K of RAM to run.
