Was reading about Bill after seeing this post and found this quote:
“Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system…”
- Bill Atkinson
Krill is a keystone species. Lose krill and the food chain collapses — at least krill is thought to hold such a role in the Southern Hemisphere. There, it is harvesting for omega 3 supplements that’s causing the decline. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/mar/23/fishing....
I think mostly the krill is used as fish and animal feed as a source of protein. Supplements are probably a small part of the consumption.
It seems like a bad idea to overfish the base food chain species. But then pretty much everything we do with the ocean is a bad idea.
The only thing that has been positive where the oceans are concerned is creating marine reserves where commercial fishing is prohibited, and enforcing that.
these are things I might consider if I was in your situation:
1) build something that you think will force you to learn whatever data structures and algorithms you want to learn. Two benefits; learning and having something to show for it
2) ask someone to do mock interviews with you to practice
3) take the coursera ML course - fascinating, useful, marketable skill and hard to do unless you have a couple of months free to dedicate
4) network. Coffee with people IRL regularly
Stylus is a CSS processor similar to SASS/Less, but without the punctuation. Last year one or two teams tried it, but this year it seems to have lost ground. :(
I wrote a post back when they launched to help explain how they differ from markets like Shapeways and about some of the user experience problems in 3D printing that they are trying to solve. Check it out: http://www.hackthings.com/layer-by-layer-launches-an-easier-...
I've lived in Tokyo and I am the author of this article. I have to say that the scale is completely incomparable here. Not only this, there are over 100 cities in China with a population of over 1m. There are 9 in the USA.
The price/performance of 3D printers is improving very quickly. We're visiting Hong Kong + Shenzhen now and met with Makible who are focused on making low-cost 3D printers. Makibox will be sold as a kit for $200 later this year. http://www.hackthings.com/meet-the-most-affordable-3d-printe...
Obviously I can't verify, but we did see a stockroom full of parts and working printers nearly ready to ship. It's $200, PLA-only with an acrylic stage. They will have a more expensive option with a metal base and support for ABS.
Considering that a Raspberry Pi's processor is the same/similar to an original iPhone (v1)'s processor, repurposing an old iPhone has a lot of advantages over shelling out $35 for a Pi.
Romo (http://romotive.com/meet-romo) is a cool example of repurposing old smartphones (unfortunately only works with iPhone 4 and above, but conceptually interesting)
