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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Hey friends!
Welcome to the third episode of the ./engineered_mind.sh newsletter! Feel free to subscribe to the newsletter for exclusive content coming every Sunday!
Upcoming Podcast
I interviewed the managing director Pierre Baqué from Neural Concept, a company accelerating engineering processes for industrial companies using innovative, deep-learning algorithm.
Upcoming video
As promised last week, I will soon upload my video on how to improve your resume. I will also make sure you can download the LaTeX file as well as an alternative format like .docx - stay tuned!
You will be able to download all files here for free!
Engineering
Stirling Engine
All Stirling engines require that a temperature differential be maintained between the “hot” and “cold” parts of the engine. In the 1980s, Professors Ivo Kolin and James Senft developed a series of engines exploring the minimum temperature differential that could be made to work. How does a 2-piston type Stirling engine work?
Constant volume heating process
With this process, the power piston on the side of a compression is upper, of expansion moves under. Working gas in the engine becomes a high temperature and flows to expansion space, as passing through a heater. A gas pressure in the engine increases.
Isothermal expansion process
In this process, both power pistons move to the lower side, and the working gas expands. The engine works to the outside.
Constant volume cooling process
In this process, the power piston on the side of a compression is lower, and of expansion moves upward. Working gas in the engine becomes a low temperature and flows to the compression space, as passing through a cooler. The gas pressure in the engine drops.
Isothermal compression process
In this process, both power pistons move upward, and the working gas is compressed. The engine is worked from the outside and discharges heat to the outside.
Here are some pictures from my own Stirling engine I built 7 years ago (time flies…)!
Electronics Cooling
If you want to learn about electronics cooling and/or missed my webinar "An Introduction to Electronics Cooling", feel free to watch it here.
Podcast
This week, I uploaded a great podcast with Jon Krohn!
Jon Krohn is Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company untapt. He authored the 2019 book Deep Learning Illustrated, an instant #1 bestseller that was translated into six languages. Jon is renowned for his compelling lectures, which he offers in-person at Columbia University, New York University, and the NYC Data Science Academy, as well as online via O'Reilly, YouTube, and his podcast, the Artificial Neural Network New Network. Jon holds a PhD in neuroscience from Oxford and has been publishing on machine learning in leading academic journals since 2010.
Visualize Ideas
My personal favourite visualization for this week is the quote:
"I'm gonna give you 1 USD for health. I'm gonna add a 0 for everything which is important to you. The house. A car. What else? Your Gucci shoes. After 9 items, you have a billion or something. But imagine if you remove health. You remove the 1, everything else becomes 0." - Saygin Yalcin
If you would like to see more of these visualized ideas, make sure to follow me on Instagram to see more of my designs!
New Year's resolution
Not a big fan of this thing, but to make this trackable and as transparent as possible for everybody, let me just put my resolutions in this newsletter and I would love to hear about your resolutions for 2021!
30,000 subscribers for my channel
Make it to at least 50 podcasts in total
Launch at least one own course
Investment of the Week
Research has shown that sleeping in complete darkness allows our body to produce as much of the hormone melatonin as possible. As the production of melatonin drops, the risk of breast and/or colorectal cancer and other health risks is greater! So I decided to give it a spin and tested it for a week and I have to say, I really sleep better and deeply!
The one I linked is a bit more expensive than mine, you basically just have to make sure you black as much light as you can, technically you can build a sleeping mask yourself ;-) In case you still want to get one from Amazon, feel free to click the button below.
Artificial Intelligence
DeOldify
Colorize and restore old images using a self-attention GAN of unparalleled accuracy.
TOONIFY
Turn a photo of any face into a cartoon instantly with AI.
Favourite animation
In this week, I want to share this awesome animation!
Meme of the Week
We can all relate, can’t we?
Closing Remarks
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See you next week and in the meantime, make sure to keep engineering your mind!
Jousef