Mois : août 2015

English:

I’m trying something here – since I mostly share links in English anyway, most probably people able to read them would read this post in English as well. But I do have some stuff in French too – so I’ll add them too, but with a French summary. And I sometimes have some stuff that’s mostly visual where the language of the text around doesn’t matter much, so I’ll put that in both 🙂 Let’s try this!

• Why I went from working in a top restaurant to making school meals – a pretty cool story on how to make kids eat fish in school restaurants, mostly 🙂
• The Truck Factor – some estimations about the number of developers that would have to be hit by a truck before a Github project is incapacitated, project by project. Somewhat scary, but maybe the heuristic they use isn’t that relevant (let’s hope 🙂 ).
• What It’s Like to Be Profoundly Face-Blind – pretty much what the title says, it’s an interview of a person who has prosopagnosia, that is they can’t recognize faces.
• The Expanse Is the Show We’ve Been Wanting Since Battlestar Galactica – with a title like that, I can only approve – new science-fiction project due to start in December, sounds promising. And it comes from a book, which is on my To Read Pile by now.
• Mathematically Precise Crosshatching – some neat (and complex) cross-hatching patterns. There’s a larger gallery on the artist’s, Hamid Naderi Yeganeh, website.
• Kaggle is a machine learning competition website. I haven’t had time to look much into it, but it looks fairly interesting, and a way to get one’s hand on real-life data sets on a number of topics.
• Skip the rosé: These refreshing summer wines are ancient, complex, and “orange” – apparently, orange wine is a thing. And now I’m curious.
• Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile – a new pentagon tiling of the plane, apparently the 16th one known, and the first one discovered in 30 years.
• How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars – a long, multi-part article about SpaceX and Mars colonization. Let me dream I’ll see humans on Mars 🙂
• TV finales that surprise/disappoint – someone combined the data of IMDb rating of the last episode of a TV series and their average rating to compare how well (or bad) the last episode did compared to the series.
• Beautiful Visualization – Chapter 3 – Wordle – I’ve been playing with word clouds recently to make a t-shirt (to be continued…), and I stumbled upon this chapter that explains how Wordle, one of the generators you can find on the web, works.
• 21 Times A Husky’s Expression Said It All – Buzzfeed clickbait with dogs, but the pictures with their comments are still fun.
• Radical Sandcastles – pretty much what the title says, these sandcastles are weird.
• HTTP Status Cats API – for all your http status cat needs.

Français:

J’essaie un nouveau truc ici : vu que je partage principalement des liens en anglais, la plupart des gens seraient aussi capables de lire ce billet en anglais. Mais comme j’ai pas mal de trucs en français aussi, je vais les ajouter aussi avec un résumé en français. Et pour les trucs qui sont principalement visuels et où la langue du texte autour n’a pas grande importance, j’y mettrai dans les deux 🙂 Hop, on essaie !

• One Minute – un feuilleton littéraire de Thierry Crouzet sur une idée sympa : reprendre tous les jours la même minute où le monde entier apprend l’existence des extra-terrestres. Et Alias en parle mieux que moi, alors je vais le laisser faire.
• Le danger des OGM n’est pas là où vous le croyez – passons sur le titre appât-à-clics, l’article raconte l’histoire de quelques semences OGM et de l’opposition qu’elles ont reçu. Très intéressant.
• Mathematically Precise Crosshatching – en anglais, mais surtout pour les images : de chouettes (et complexes) motifs de hachures. Il y a une plus grande galerie sur le site de l’artiste, Hamid Naderi Yeganeh.
• 21 Times A Husky’s Expression Said It All – des photos marrantes de huskies.
• Radical Sandcastles – des photos de chateaux de sable conceptuels.
• HTTP Status Cats API – les messages de retour HTTP illustrés en lolcats.