- Pet the cat, own the bathrobe: Linus Torvalds on working from home, https://www.zdnet.com/article/pet-the-cat-own-the-bathrobe-linus-torvalds-on-working-from-home/
- How to Work From Home Now That Your Boss Doesn’t Want You Coming In, https://thewirecutter.com/blog/work-from-home-if-boss-doesnt-want-you-coming-in/
- Filming the Thrill of Physics Discovery, https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/26?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert
- When Betelgeuse goes supernova, what will it look like from Earth?, https://astronomy.com/news/2020/02/when-betelgeuse-goes-supernova-what-will-it-look-like-from-earth
- Ergodicity: a primer, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/03/15/ergodicity-a-primer/
- Has Physics Lost Its Way?, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/books/review/dream-universe-david-lindley.html
Reading List (Mar 2, 2020)
- O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, NY 2020, Highlights, https://www.oreilly.com/radar/highlights-from-software-architecture-ny-2020/
- How to work the system at work, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/19/magazine/worker-tips.html
- The Milky Way’s Impending Galactic Collision Is Already Birthing New Stars, https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2020/01/07/milky-way-new-stars/
- Until the End of Time, https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/02/21/brian-greene-until-the-end-of-time/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)
Reading List (Feb 16, 2020)
- Gretl — econometrics made easy, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/gretl-econometrics-made-easy-2/
- DESlib: A Dynamic ensemble selection library in Python, http://jmlr.org/papers/v21/18-144.html
- Meet “Spikey,” a Possible Pair of Merging Supermassive Black Holes, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-spikey-a-possible-pair-of-merging-supermassive-black-holes/
- NASA missions may go to Venus or our solar system’s strangest moons, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2233655-nasa-missions-may-go-to-venus-or-our-solar-systems-strangest-moons/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
- The Poetics of Outer Toughness and Inner Tenderness: Gorgeous 19th-Century Engravings of Cacti, https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/02/12/lemaire-cacti/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+brainpickings/rss+(Brain+Pickings)
Reading List (Feb 9, 2020)
- AWS TechChat: Dealing with Failure Special, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-67-dealing-with-failure-special/id1117776582?i=1000464852731
- Voyager 2 Engineers Working to Restore Normal Operations, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7587
- How Does the New Coronavirus Compare with the Flu?, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-the-new-coronavirus-compare-with-the-flu/
Reading List (Feb 2, 2020)
- What’s Wrong with Physics, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/whats-wrong-with-physics/
- Second terrestrial planet found around closest star to the Sun, http://www.astronomy.com/news/2020/01/second-terrestrial-planet-found-around-closest-star-to-the-sun
- These sweaty robots cool themselves faster than humans, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/these-sweaty-robots-cool-themselves-faster-humans
- New coronavirus may be much more contagious than initially thought, https://www.newscientist.com/article/2231453-new-coronavirus-may-be-much-more-contagious-than-initially-thought/
- ALife 2020, http://2020.alife.org/
- Virginia Woolf on Why We Read and What Great Works of Art Have in Common, https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/01/23/virginia-woolf-genius-and-ink-reading/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brainpickings%2Frss+%28Brain+Pickings%29
Reading List (Jan 25, 2020)
- Encrypted DNS: DoH vs DoT, https://www.isc.org/presentations/
- SciPy 2020, https://www.scipy2020.scipy.org/
- Uncertainty in economics, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/01/25/uncertainty-in-economics/
- How To Fake Friends and Influence People, https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/facebook-how-to-fake-friends-and-influence-people-a-4605cea1-6b49-4c26-b5b7-278caef29752
- Weights vs. Cardio: Keep Them Separate or Combine?, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weights-vs-cardio-keep-them-separate-or-combine/
Reading List (Jan 19, 2020)
- Observation of a Quantum Phase from Classical Rotation of a Single Spin, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.020401
- Dynamic and static interpretations of regression coefficients, https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/dynamic-and-static-interpretations-of-regression-coefficients-wonkish/
- What is it to be Bayesian? The (pretty simple) math modelling behind a Big Data buzzword , https://aeon.co/videos/what-is-it-to-be-bayesian-the-pretty-simple-math-modelling-behind-a-big-data-buzzword
Reading List (Jan 12, 2020)
- Model Selection in Bayesian Neural Networks via Horseshoe Priors, http://jmlr.org/papers/v20/19-236.html
- Internet Pioneers Fight For Control of .Org Registry By Forming a Nonprofit Alternative, https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/01/12/2325214/internet-pioneers-fight-for-control-of-org-registry-by-forming-a-nonprofit-alternative
- Depressive realism, https://aeon.co/essays/the-voice-of-sadness-is-censored-as-sick-what-if-its-sane
Reading List (Jan 5, 2020)
- Talk Python to Me: Bayesian foundations, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-python-to-me-python-conversations-for-passionate/id979020229?i=1000457668344
- Betelguese’s bizarre dimming has astronomers scratching their heads, http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/12/betelgueses-bizarre-dimming-has-astronomers-scratching-their-heads
- Here Are the Most Beautiful Science GIFs We Discovered in 2019, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/here-are-the-most-beautiful-science-gifs-we-discovered-in-2019/
Reading List (Dec 29, 2019)
- Machine learning and the physical sciences, https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.91.045002
- Emergence of singularities from decoherence: Quantum catastrophes, https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.063628
- Researchers just found water ice inches below Mars’ surface, http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/12/water-just-inches-below-martian-surface
- The Causal Theory of Views, https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theory-of-views
- 2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame: These were the biggest data breaches of the year, https://www.cnet.com/news/2019-data-breach-hall-of-shame-these-were-the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-year/