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Information Theory Introduction

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Information theory and entropy are theory topics that can quickly become very abstrast and difficult to get a handle on. Federico Carrone does a great job in this medium post at delivering an introduction to Information Theory that is based around real world scenarios to provide grounding context.

History

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Kanmail

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Struggling with managing all of your email in lockdown? Then Kanmail might be for you. Software developers Oxygem have released Kanmail, an email client app that lets you organise your email within a Kanban board.

Business

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Infinite Monkey Piano

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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.

Music

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EUVsVirus Hackathon

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The European Commission are hosting a hackathon on April 24 to 26 to develop solutions to 37 COVID-19 challenges across Health & Life, Business Continuity, Social & Political Cohesion, Remote Working & Education, Digital Finance and other categories. Individuals, teams, mentors and organisations can participate to offer development, design & management skills to name but a few. (H/T to Mikael Fernström for sharing).

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Folding@Home Supercomputer

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Folding@Home is a distributed community computing platform that allows everyone to donate any spare computer processing power to protein folding simulation experiments. Folding@Home are now performing protein folding experiments on COVID-19 and in recent weeks, the number of users has jumped from 30,000 to 700,000.

Science

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Sun Plasma

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Researchers at the University of Central Lanchashire (UCLan) released the highest-ever resolution images of the sun, taken using NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C). The images show magentic strands of million-degree 500km wide plasma on the sun! Check out their Flickr gallery here.

Photo

Space

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Ternary State Data Molecule

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Professor Damien Thompson and a team at the Bernel Institute at the University of Limerick have co-discovered a molecule that can maintain three seperate and stable asymmetric states within a broad temperature range of -100 to +100 °C. The discovery means that the molecule can be exploited to enhance current data storage technologies that operate on just two asymmetric states (0 and 1).

Science

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Hands Free Door Opener

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3D printing company materialise have created and openly released a hands free door handle that can be retrofitted to existing handles and allow people to open doors with the forearms.

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Website Carbon Calculator

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The Website Carbon Calculator calculates the carbon used by a website by estimating the data transfer over the wire, the energy intensity of web data, the energy source used by the data centre, the carbon intensity of electricity, and the website's traffic.

Environment