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Hey friends & nerds! Welcome to the Sunday Science Newsletter – in this newsletter we explore & discuss strategies, systems & tools that help us become better, smarter and more effective scientists, gadgeteers and thinkers.
❤️ Weekly Favourite Things
🎬 My Favourite Video
Courses – Explore your creativity with classes in illustration, photography, design, productivity and more!
🎙️ Generative Design & Engineering - Moritz Maier | Podcast #75
🧠 Neural Network From Scratch
In this edition of Napkin Math, the author establishes a mental model for how a neural network works by building one from scratch.
🧠 Connected Papers – Explore Connected Papers in a Visual Graph
Get a visual overview of a new academic field
Enter a typical paper and we'll build you a graph of similar papers in the field. Explore and build more graphs for interesting papers that you find - soon you'll have a real, visual understanding of the trends, popular works and dynamics of the field you're interested in.
Make sure you haven't missed an important paper
In some fields like Machine Learning, so many new papers are published it's hard to keep track. With Connected Papers you can just search and visually discover important recent papers. No need to keep lists.
Create the bibliography for your thesis
Start with the references that you will definitely want in your bibliography and use Connected Papers to fill in the gaps and find the rest!
Discover the most relevant prior and derivative works
Use our Prior Works view to find important ancestor works in your field of interest. Use our Derivative Works view to find literature reviews of the field, as well as recently published State of the Art that followed your input paper.
💻 Engineering Tool of the Week – ELISE
ELISE is a Low-Code Platform for complete engineering process automation that dramatically shortens your entire PDP by integrating all relevant data and expert knowledge into one single programming language for engineers.
📚 Book of the Week
A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science
In A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!, physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a fulfilling long-term research career. He offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; preparing for an employment interview; and defining a research program. The guidance offered in A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! will help you make your oral presentations more effective, your journal articles more compelling, and your grant proposals more successful.
A classic guide for recent and soon-to-be graduates, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! remains required reading for anyone on the threshold of a career in science. This new edition includes two new chapters and is revised and updated throughout to reflect how the revolution in electronic communication has transformed the field.
🙃 Meme of the Week
Sometimes Thermodynamics is Not the Answer.
🎬 Animation of the Week
✍️ Closing Remarks
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See you next week and in the meantime, make sure to keep engineering your mind! 🧠
Jousef