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  • The good and the bad NFTs, hype trains, and more : The weekly recap (2021#24)

    The good and the bad NFTs, hype trains, and more : The weekly recap (2021#24)

    Conference week, which means not a lot of time to read cool stuff outside of work. However, sunshine arrived to Paris, curfew is disappearing, and summer holidays are getting closer and closer, so I will call it a win. Let’s start with the links: So long and thanks for all the fish You know we…

  • The weekly recap (2021#22)

    The weekly recap (2021#22)

    Summer arrived to Paris (it only rained for two days this week). Busy schedules, but things are going nice (crossing fingers!). Let’s start with the few links I want to share this time: Yeah, it is super nice to receive packages the day after you buy them. This is not causing people to die working…

  • The weekly recap (2021#21)

    The weekly recap (2021#21)

    Another week, another batch of nice reads. Let’s start. Being smart doesn’t make you a good person In case you did not know, you can be both a PhD and a piece of shit. Exhibits A and B, both from this week. 21st century and we still have to deal with this… at least it…

  • The weekly recap (2021#19)

    The weekly recap (2021#19)

    Busy week, but somehow I managed to find some cool stuff to share. Let’s start: Apple vs Epic, the trial that keeps on giving I am getting low on popcorn reserves. Lots of documents and insights on how both companies operate. I particularly enjoyed seeing how much money Epic paid for its exclusives (I am…

  • The weekly recap (2021#18)

    The weekly recap (2021#18)

    Hectic week… sometimes unexpected tasks jeopardize you schedule. Coming back to normal now I hope. Anyway, really interesting stuff has been happening for the past few days. Let’s delve into it: Apple vs the world: episode #1 Recently Apple changed the way its users are noticed about how some apps track their information. This perturbation…

  • Liquid walls: the science behind The Wall from Game of Thrones

    Liquid walls: the science behind The Wall from Game of Thrones

    Last week I noticed that HBO is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the airing of Game of Thrones. As a big fan of the books, I paused a bit to think and realized that I never wrote anything on the science that we can see in either the books or the tv show, so…

  • Godzilla vs Kong: some of the science behind

    Godzilla vs Kong: some of the science behind

    Recently I saw Godzilla vs Kong. I was expecting a lot of action between those two, and the movie delivered (in fact, there was not much else to see there). While is was a nice action movie to turn your brain off, there were some things that I really liked in the way they portrayed…

  • Single pixel hyperspectral bioluminescence tomography based on compressive sensing

    Really cool implementation of Single-pixel Imaging + Compressive Sensing from the people at University of Birmingham. Using hyperspectral data measured with a single-pixel spectrometer + tomographic reconstruction, they show that it is possible to perform Bioluminiscence Imaging. Nice to see that the topics I used to work keep showing super cool results. Single pixel hyperspectral…