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Time is everything we have and don't.
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Technology
High Performance Computing for Potato Chips
The consistent saddle shape of Pringles is mathematically known as a hyperbolic paraboloid. Their designers reportedly used supercomputers to ensure that the chips' aerodynamics would keep them in place during packaging and that they would not break when being stacked on top of each other.
In 1956, Procter & Gamble assigned a task to chemist Fredric J. Baur: to develop a new kind of potato chips to address consumer complaints about broken, greasy, and stale chips, as well as air in the bags. Baur spent 2 years developing saddle-shaped chips from fried dough, and selected the tubular can as the chips' container. Gene Wolfe, a mechanical engineer and author known for science fiction and fantasy novels, helped develop the machine that cooks them.
AMG 6.3-liter V8 Engine
This video gives you insights to the development process of the AMG 6.3-liter V8 engine, the first entirely developed engine by Mercedes-AMG. If you follow me for a bit longer, you know that I am an absolute AMG fan, especially of the C63 Coupé – an engineering dream! I hope to be able to film inside their engine manufactory one day.
Standard Model of Physics
What is the best set of equations we have to describe the behaviour of the Universe and everything in it, what does it look like?
It is the Standard Model Lagrangian - or formula - in all its glory, written up by Italian mathematician and physicist Matilde Marcolli:
"The Lagrangian is a fancy way of writing an equation to determine the state of a changing system and explain the maximum possible energy the system can maintain ... Despite appearances, the Lagrangian is one of the easiest and most compact ways of presenting the theory."
More here: https://www.math.fsu.edu/~marcolli/PopTalkSlidesFinal.pdf
Upcoming Podcasts
This is probably another special week where I release two podcasts in one week!
Monday Episode
Goku is currently an AI researcher / advisor in the health space. He was more recently the Head of ML at Ciitizen and worked on Natural Language Processing applications for several years at Apple before that. He has also been involved in democratizing education through blogs, technical publications, courses and more recently the Made With ML platform.
Friday Episode
My second guest for this week is Adam Kelly. Adam Kelly is a software engineer at General Motors in Austin, Texas working on computer vision and 3D development. Prior to that he worked on the HoloLens team at Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Adam has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. All of his 3D development and deep learning skills come from practical projects and self-directed learning he does in his free time. He is also the creator and co-owner of immersivelimit.com. The Immersive Limit website and YouTube channel are where he shares tutorials, courses, current projects, and thoughts on the AI industry.
Adam & Kayla were so kind to give my subscribers a discount on one of their courses, namely 3D Rendered Datasets with Blender for Beginners. Use the coupon code EM21 to save 20% – taking the course myself at the moment and it really has an incredibly good quality!
Went Live This Week
This week, I uploaded a podcast with Manuel Bruschi who talked about the topics of Time Management & Productivity.
In this podcast, Manuel and I talked about:
How a time tracking cube can completely change your day-to-day life
The bottlenecks when starting a hardware company
As well as tips, tricks & book recommendations from Manuel on time management and productivity
Visualize Ideas
My personal favourite visualization for this week is the quote:
Don't light yourself on fire to give warmth to others.
If you would like to see more of these visualized ideas, make sure to follow me on Instagram to see more of my designs! You can order my canvases my sending me a DM on my socials.
Tool of the Week
Telegram Desktop App
Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time — your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers. Telegram has over 500 million monthly active users and is one of the 10 most downloaded apps in the world.
I would highly recommend that you download the desktop application for Mac or Windows as the typing speed on your PC is most likely way faster than on your phone, so using a phone is probably not the most productive way to communicate with your peers.
Favourite Animation
Meme of the Week
π = e = sqrt(g) = 3
Closing Remarks
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Jousef