Monthly Shaarli
March, 2020
Level-headed 42 minute video by Tom Scott on the subject of copyright and how it works today.
How interconnections between national grids facilitate more renewable energy generation capacity.
Good explanation of exponential growth and how it relates to health-care capacity in light of the current SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak.
Of course, virus transmission is in fact logistic, not exponential, but this video by Sharafestien nonetheless does a good job of driving home the main point: why it is prudent for everyone to take precautions.
Ministries have signed MoU with Saudi energy company ACWA Power.
Currently there are 76 seawater desalination plants in Egypt, that supply 831,690 cubic metres per day. The plan is to build 67 more plants, in the governorates of Matrouh, Red Sea, North and South Sinai, Ismailiyah and Suez.
https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/smart-water-magazine/egypt-looking-25-bn-finance-17-desalination-plants
All those existing plants are probably not solar-powered, right?
Plans for new, solar-powered ones: https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/egypt-plans-desalination-plants-worth-2-5bn-over-next-five-years/
Via kottke.org which has a nice write-up of the video.
Bitvis riktigt roligt :-)
Med tillhörande "skola" och studiecirkel hos Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan.
FIFA has released the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Official Film.
1h and 20m down memory lane ;-)
https://wallabag.chepec.se/share/5e76e150d26128.44547100
A list based off of the above article, with some more I have learnt of from different sources:
- Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research.
- Dat project: A protocol for researcher-centric data sharing.
- JOSS: The Journal of Open Source Software (paper review as Github issues!).
- Open Citations: Open bibliographic and citation data.
- Plaudit: A browser extension that enables verified (via ORCID) endorsements of publications. A way to let other researchers know what you think is good science.
- PubPub: Collaborative writing and publishing.
- ReScience: A journal for replicated computational research.
- FlashPub: Fast micropublications.
- ReimagineReview: A whole database of peer review innovations!
- Dokieli: Decentralized articles and annotations, using linked data.
- Scite.ai: Machine learning for determining research quality.
- Scholarcy: Automatic summarisation of papers.
- BMJ Labs' mega list: Projects in scientific publishing, all of them!
- unpaywall integrations (unpaywall is one of several projects run by OurResearch).