Pilobulus
This outside my usual interests but just saw that the dance company Pilobulus was in the news. In my tech career, I worked with one of the co-founders of this…
Amazing: 2,000 robots in a grocery store system pack for customer pickup orders
https://youtu.be/ssZ_8cqfBlE
Business replaces software developers with internal “citizen” low-code/no-code software development
They expect 70% of applications to be developed by their internal users rather than software specialists: We started with our center of excellent last year, where we got some experts…
Lidar versus visual processing for automated driving
Lidar, or laser-based radar, is a key enabling technology for most auto makers’ self-driving cars. Lidar is good at identifying objects far down the road and determining speed. Unlike traditional…
The Field of Computer Science, summarized
This a great 11 minute video summarizing the breadth of the fields of computer science and computer engineering. There is a lot to cover in this wonderfully done graphical map,…
Historical context for this pandemic
The above author is a Lecturer in history at the Royal Holloway University of London. The ’68 pandemic had less effect in the U.S., with worse outcomes in parts of…
Experts fear we will run out of greek letters before we run out of variants
Now up to the Lambda variant. Models from IHME and ICL suggest we will run out of Greek letters before we run out of variants. Consequently, experts think we may…
Do you suffer from Long Covid? You may and not even realize it
(Paraphrased as seen on social media) If you suffer from depression, lack of motivation, irritability, bursts of anger, fear and anxiety, loss of faith in institutions, even in science itself,…
Economist shows correlation between economists and idiots
R^2 = 0.25. This is not a correlation. In case he deletes the chart
Instagram no longer intended for photo sharing
Facebook’s head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds. “We’re no longer a photo-sharing app or a square photo-sharing app,” Head…