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Deepfake Detection Wins BTYSTE

Seventeen year old Greg Tarr from Bandon Grammer School in Cork won the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) for creating a more efficient deep fake detector. Check out his video explaining the efficiencies he achieved here.

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Podcast of the Week: The Echo Chamber Podcast - The Economics of Hope

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In an excellent recent episode of The Echo Chamber Podcast, Tony and Martin interview Professor Emeritus of Economics, P.J Drudy. The interview is a fantastic whirlwind tour of what direction Ireland can go in to create a meaningful & equitable society.

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DALL-E Text To Image Generator

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OpenAI showcased DALL-E, a 12 billion parameter rsion of GPT-3 that can generate both real life and unreal images from a line of text!

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Conflict Resolution Models

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CTO Craft break down different conflict scenarios and the models available for resolution, such as interst-based rational approach, transactional analysis and others, in this useful blog post.

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2020s Technology

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Eli Dourado published an interesting technology prediction blog post looking at what the 2020s could bring to us in terms of technology advancements.

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100 Tips for a Better Life

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Lesswrong published a great list of 100 tips for a better life, which covers topics such as cooking, productivity, rationality, realtionships and joy.

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World Vaccinations

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Our World In Data published a new dashboard showing the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered per 100 people in the total population.

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Podcasts in 2020

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I leaned in heavily to podcast consumption during lockdown, mainly during home gym sessions as a way of multi-tasking/procrastinating between sets!

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Books & Comics in 2020

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My favourite non-fiction book I read this year is Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday. Having already become receptive to Stoicism through the Tim Ferriss podcast and The Daily Stoic (also by Ryan Holiday), Ego Is The Enemy arrived at the right time for me and was a great navigational reset on how to look at the world, as chaotic as it as at the moment.

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Music in 2020

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I really came to appreciate music as being the nectar for the soul during lockdown. It also helped that lots of Irish artists picked up the pandemic and ran away with it in terms of fantastic releases and streamed performances. There were so many great streams and the Journal of Music still do a great job at colating everything in their weekly concert planner (which you can subscribe to here).

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