Paul Sutton – personal blog
Write Free Software – Education resource
This was mentioned on the fediverse earlier. What looks like a new resource “A comprehensive educational resource for the Free Software movement”
This can be found here it is always good to see, fresh, new resources like this to add a new take on the issue of software freedom.
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What is Free Software ? Explained in 3 minutes
Really good video to explain what free software and the ideas behind the movement.
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#FreeSoftware,#FSFE,#Video,#Explanation,#DigitalFreedoms,#Use,Study, #Share,#Improve
LibreOffice 7.6
I saw this on the LO fediverse account on 17th May, LibreOffice 7.6 is coming and is available now for Alpha testing
See here for announcement or here for download
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This video I made to illustrate how to install LO 7.4 on Debian may be useful so giving it a mention anyway.
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Code Club 20/5/2023 Write up
Today we carried on with with the Python activities that we started last week. Attendees are mostly undertaking the same path just different activities within that.
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If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
This is one of the projects that we built today – Target Practice *
We also looked at a Raspberry Pi Pico and had a quick look at how Chat GPT can be used to generate code. It did seem however that it produces example code from using the older gpio libraries, rather than the newer GPIO Zero library.
But it did produce the code required, regardless of library being used.
Something to look at next time, so the plan is to experiment more with this. This raspberry Pi also uses Micro Python
There is no Code Club on Saturday 3rd June, so the next event will be the STEM Group on 10th June.
Climate Change
Report in nature, that Top climate scientists are sceptical that nations will rein in global warming. I think these warnings are really plausible, as we have seen much higher than average temperatures this winter, well above this 1.5 degree rise we are meant to be avoiding.
The fact so many scientists don't think we are going to even meet these targets is also worrying.
This was posted to the Fediverse I commented to make the point about higher than normal temperatures.
We are really in trouble and need to wake up.
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Scismic : Making a PostDoc Stand out for industry
This is the next Scismic Webinar
You gain additional technical skills and increased research independence during a postdoc. These can help you in non-academic employment, if you know how to pitch your experience. This workshop will help you identify the best qualifications you bring from your postdoc position to a new role, and how to effectively communicate these throughout the job search process.
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Wednesday, May 24 · 7 – 8pm BST
Tickets via eventbrite here
Code Club 20/5/2023 reminder
The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 20th May 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Python activities, unless you are following the Scratch or other projects.
The next project in Python is Rocket launch which I had a go at during Saturdays STEM Group meeting. To find the projects, please follow code club link and click projects.
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If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.
As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.
Due to it being the Airshow, the next Code Club won't take place until 17th June, but the STEM Group will run as normal on the 10th June.
NASA Solar storm warning
This is pretty scary stuff, solar storms are known to be a high risk to technology on Earth. Looks like if anything happens we won't get much of a warning, We'd Have a 30-Minute Warning Before a Killer Solar Storm Hits Earth
Something to consider.
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Binary and Decimal Weirdness
Today is the anniversary of the Apollo 10 launch, this mission orbited the moon with a crew. This was mentioned on Fedi today. I gave the following observation.
Binary Numbers
| Decimal | Binary |
|---|---|
| 0 | 0000 |
| 1 | 0001 |
| 2 | 0010 |
| 3 | 0011 |
| 4 |
0100 |
I clearly have too much time on my hands to notice these things.
The reader must come first.
One of the main issues with science publications is that for most people they are inaccessible, at least in terms of their complexity. They are written for other scientists. This excludes people from the research, esp if the research is funded by taxes, so the very people who pay taxes, can't easily access the science.
This could be about to change. An Article in Science magazine looks at this issue and is suggesting that science papers must take the reader in to consideration.
Interesting stuff. Lets hope over time we can get more science to the people.
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