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This is an interesting conjecture. It could be a cunning Microsoft competitive strategy. They convince cost-sensitive IT infrastructure groups in other businesses to use Teams by o…

Yes, I use an Onyx Note Air 2 for this purpose. It works nicely, much easier on the eyes than a laptop/Ipad. The Note Air 2 is fairly big - 10.3" - works well for books.

Illumina

They are talking about one 'reference genome'. The variation from human-to-human is relatively small (a few million bases out of 3 billion). The reference genome has historically b…

Siddhartha Mukherjee's books 'The Gene', 'Emperor of all Maladies', 'The Song of the Cell' all mix biology and history with lots of detail and are easy to read.

The UK has had an industrial intervention policy for ages. Its undeclared but it basically involves supporting finance, real estate, business services and insurance in London above…

The BBC has some good history ones: In our Time, You're dead to me

The Ted Chiang books are great. Short stories. 'Arrival' the movie is based on one of them.

Liquid biopsy for early cancer detection.

It's not a documentary but the BBC drama 'Micro Men' is very good and AFAIK mostly historically accurate. It's about the battle between Clive Sinclair (of Sinclair Spectrum fame) a…

Turbo codes and low density parity check codes are two classes of iteratively-decoded capacity approaching codes, amongst others. Ironically, LDPC was actually developed in the 60s…

Fiction: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. Very moving. Piranesi by Susanna Clark. Like her earlier books, it had a strong story + original style + was very inventive. Non-fiction: The G…

Raw FLOPs is completely misleading, which is why Nvidia focus on it as a metric. The GPU can't keep those ops active - particularly during inference when most of the data is fresh …