Mark Bowden is an expert in human behavior and body language expert. Here are my notes from his TEDx Toronto talk about body language nuances.

Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight.

Tell yourself the truth! That you’ve wasted enough time, and that you have other dreams that will take courage to realize, so you don’t die a fucking pussy. Call yourself out! Nobody likes to hear the hard truth. Individually and as a culture, we avoid what we need to hear most. - David Goggins

In December 2018, David Goggins started appearing as a guest on various Youtube channels. First, I noticed him on the Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, and that was the first time I saw David’s face: focused, military, somewhat bizarre. Later, I found him on Rich Roll’s and Joe Rogan’s shows, and that was a tipping point to search for more information about him. DAVID GOGGINS IS ONE OF A KIND.

Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin’ichirō Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” book shows that he was not only a genius but also a fun person to hang out with.

Doing data science today is far more difficult that it will be in the next 5-10 years. Sharing, collaborating on workflows in painful, pushing models into production is challenging. Let’s explore what Azure provides to ease Data Scientists’ pains.

Astronomers, in 1996, attempted something extraordinary. They pointed the Hubble Space Telescope into a part of the sky that seemed utterly empty, a patch devoid of any planets, stars and galaxies. This area was close to the Big Dipper, a very familiar constellation. The patch of sky was no bigger than a grain of sand held out at arms length.

In this blog post, I am documenting two talks about privacy and design patterns that grabbed my attention.

Raghu Gollamudi in his talk “Privacy Ethics – A Big Data Problem” broadly covers best practices concerning Data Management aspects, applying Data Protection rules and “Privacy by design” methodologies to maintain good privacy hygiene.

Second speaker, Lars Albertsson in his talk “Privacy by design” discusses privacy, personal integrity and design patterns.

I always thought that the most difficult part of a space mission was the technical one. “Chasing New Horizons” by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon revealed the political and managerial aspects behind one of the most epic (so far) space exploration missions of the XXI century - first-ever flyby of Pluto and its moons.

“The mission team suddenly found itself in a three-day race to salvage everything they had spent years planning and months uploading.”