This week I binged watched the 8 episodes of DEVS. Wow. It is difficult to review DEVS without any spoilers, apart from saying how elegantly filmed and exquisitely scored the mystery thriller is, oh and quantum computing!
Berlin based Irish musician Delush released his debut album this week, The Journey To Zero. Delush also has a number of special bundles available on Bandcamp, including a private live stream. Listen, close your eyes and let the silky music sooth your soul in these turbulent times!
Andrey Nikishaev posted a great how to article on Medium describing the steps involved in deploying a simple app in a Docker container on AWS free tier.
The Guardian published an interesting interactive visualisation article describing R0, the basic reproduction number, which is the metric used to measure the contagiousness of a pathogen. Reducing the R0 of Covid-19 is funadamental in preventing exponential infections of the virus and will determine how lockdown restrictions can be lifted.
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 :-)
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.
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.