Hackster.io has a useful how to guide by Jen Looper describing the steps involved in building a bird identifier using a custom machine learning model running on a Google Coral Dev board with a Raspberry Pi Camera module.
The Pudding are running a live experiment to generate the opening bars of songs by brute force on piano, in an exploration of the infinite monkey theorem. The experiment has been running for 17 days and has currently cracked 18 songs including Still Dre and Für Elise. It is currently trying to crack Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.
We Make Good are selling face masks made by women from refugee backgrounds affiliated with The Textile Studio in Dublin, and are donating an extra masks to someone living in Direct Provision for every mask bought. Maith siad. Buy your mask here.
My amazing wife Jenn Kirby just released a new avant-pop EP called POPPED to fund materials for the 3D printing of PPE parts she is doing as part of the 3DCrowd.uk network of volunteer 3D printers. The EP is available to purchase as a digital download here.
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.
