March 13th, 2015 — Our first post!
One of the main aims of Student Talks is to help share information. So, while we’re busy behind the scenes, we've decided to share with you some of the things we've been reading in our downtime, interesting videos or articles we've come across, and resources we think you could use. As this series of posts continues, we’d love to see you contribute suggestions too, so please do send us your links via social media or our website, studenttalks.ie.
While this list of software resources is written with startups in mind, lots of them could be useful to anyone working as part of a team, or trying to organise a larger project.
For those not lucky enough to get tickets to Amy Poehler’s talk in Dublin this evening, here’s a video of a speech she gave in 2011 at Harvard. While she’s done lots more since then, it’s as funny and insightful as you’d expect.
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Where do you stand on the issue of spoilers? Do you rage when the twists from House of Cards are casually tweeted out without warning, or is it your own fault if you don’t watch episodes the moment they become available? This piece explores how Netflix and Amazon have effectively destroyed unwritten code of the Spoiler Alert.
This one’s a little older but worth sharing, in case you missed it. Maggie Simpson, Enda Krapabbel, and Kim Jong Fun collaborated on an academic paper entitled “Fuzzy, Homogeneous Configurations” (a sentence I never thought I’d type).
And finally, whether you’re convinced of an inevitable robot apocalypse, or eagerly awaiting the day that you can live in a Wall-E style recliner as robots manage your life, there’s no doubt that IBM’s Watson is a huge technological step forward. One of the many things he can do is ascertain your personality from your writing — paste in your tweets or emails and see how much you can find out!
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