by rmlfvr | Feb 12, 2015 | Uncategorised
The scientific method applied to “Where is Waldo”: how to optimise your search for Waldo according to data scientistsHave you ever wondered what the kernel density estimate of Waldo’s locations in the first albums looked like? Now you can know. As it turns out,...
by rmlfvr | Jan 30, 2015 | Uncategorised
Must-watch: what happens when you mix a TED talk, a young boy, and Dostoyevski’s darkest novel? Take the 9 minutes this video requires. Lock yourself in the quiet of your headphones, and give it your full attention. Forget your preconceptions upon hitting...
by rmlfvr | Jan 27, 2015 | Uncategorised
The Heijmans ONE: a stylish, wooden, rental prefab house for young professionals With housing being a crucial challenge in most urban areas, that is, most of the world where humans live with the current 70% urbanisation rate, new concepts for fast building...
by rmlfvr | Jan 21, 2015 | Uncategorised
Calling all local food producers in the UK: time to win £ 1,000 by showcasing your skills! Enter the Hotel Indigo challenge designed to find the Best of British local producers, and you could win the grand prize. The current entries have set the bar high: Isle of...
by rmlfvr | Jan 19, 2015 | Uncategorised
Be My Eyes: the app that makes tech truly useful, for everyone. Be My Eyes is a truly impressive example of inclusive design, on par with the Bradley timepiece by EONE. It does what it says: sighted as well as blind users subscribe to the service, the former solving...
by rmlfvr | Jan 12, 2015 | Uncategorised
Beauty au naturel: Kate Moss, 40, poses untouched for Vogue Italia. Granted, not everybody can look this good without being touched-up. Nonetheless, Peter Lindbergh captures a rare candour, emotion, and sheer humanity in this series. He puts under the spotlight the...
by rmlfvr | Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorised
Hard stats that will soften your world view: Hans Rosling is a classic must-watch TED Talk Using Gapminder to show incredibly complex datasets in an amazingly simple and visually striking animation, the Swedish professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute...
by rmlfvr | Jan 7, 2015 | Uncategorised
#CharlieHebdo Responding to violence with more cartoons: we are all Charlie today. Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those murdered for doing their work. Orwell put it best: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. He drew...
by rmlfvr | Jan 7, 2015 | Uncategorised
On the importance of adapting your material to your audience’s logic: deductive VS inductive cultures in presentations and training When working with applications-first people (US, UK): Presentations: Make your arguments effectively by getting right to the...
by rmlfvr | Dec 22, 2014 | Uncategorised
45 ways to avoid using the most atrocious word in the English language, thanks to Quora Three of the best advice a young writer can heed are: – read everything again at least once, but no more than three times, – get rid of every iteration of “very”,...
