Engineering Ethics

Nice article about engineering ethics from Kaiser Fung.

[tl;dr] When Fung reviewed the curricula of data science and analytics degree programs last year, he found only one school that requires an ethics class. That needs to change, or more data scandals will emerge.

KIC 8462852 Redux

There are more interesting news (?) on KIC_8462852 or Tabby's Star this week.

Murthy Nukala posted this, pointing to Phil Plait's article describing latest data (from 1890's :) with a link to the Bradley E. Schaefer's manuscript.

So, what's new? The star in question may have been fading in brightness over a time period of 100 years. What exactly this means? Read more by clicking above links. Nothing conclusive so far, but I am telling you, they are coming :)

 (Graph from Schaefer, 2016)

Also, Wow! Signal Podcast released a new episode titled 'The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star' on Jan 14th with Dr. Schaefer. You can listen to him reviewing and commenting on the data.

Again, Dr. Boyajian et al's manuscript that started it all is here.

One-Key form Milwaukee Tools

Milwaukee tools introduced a new system called One-Key that enables users to control, track and manage tools wirelessly.

X-files worthy intro video is below. Visit Milwaukee site for details.

We put a chip in it!

If you are interested in or working on IoT projects, you may also be interested in this tumblr site 'We put a chip in it!' Some of the videos are really funny; potential NSFW content.

We put a chip in it!

In some cases, you will find yourself wondering if the video is a legitimate product pitch or a spoof. There are a few that are very hard to tell :)

(Lifted from tumblr)

A new gadget for gluten sensitive people

This gadget from 6SensorLabs was one of the interesting consumer technologies that was presented during CES and the winer of TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield.

It quickly analyses the food you have ordered/presented and tells you if it contains gluten.