Monkey Mind

Grace and David talk about fudging data, data illiteracy, misaligned incentives, and all the ways in which data is used and misused in science. Note: this will be our last episode. Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law) My personal favorite Dilbert strips on Software Quality (https://medium.com/@nairgirish100/my-personal-favorite-dilbert-strips-on-software-quality-be90b46e2f04) Elisabeth Bik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Bik) Homo economicus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus) Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you? : Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-francesca-gino-harvard-dishonesty-fabricated-data) Data Colada (https://datacolada.org/) [110] Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard" - Data Colada (https://datacolada.org/110) Max Bazerman's 2021 response to fraud evidence (http://datacolada.org/storage_strong/fraud.resonse.max_.8.13.21.pdf) Complicit (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691236544/complicit) eLife (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELife) eLife Reviewed Preprints (https://elife-rp.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex?form_type=display_rev_instructions#process) Bad Pharma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma) Significant (https://xkcd.com/882/) The Fall of a Superstar Psychologist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3tSG8h_O3A)

Brutal heat wave makes Texas among the hottest places on Earth (https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/brutal-heat-wave-makes-texas-hottest-places-earth-rcna91584) South Pacific Gyre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_Gyre) El Niño (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño) Pole of inaccessibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility#Oceanic_pole_of_inaccessibility) Convex hull (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_hull) 8. “Olas y Arenas” — The Beaches Belong to the People | La Brega | WNYC Studios (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/la-brega/articles/olas-y-arenas-beaches-belong-people) Nintendo: The Console Wars | Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nintendo-the-console-wars) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Blindfolded by Bubzia - Summer Games Done Quick 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9wJO9D7668) Nintendo 64 controller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_controller) PointCrow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCrow) I beat a Lynel with a single stick in Breath of the Wild (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzeiGEmU45I)

Pokémon Crystal Version - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_Crystal_Version) Move Deleter - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Move_Deleter) National Pokédex - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/National_Pokédex) Vinyl overtakes CD sales for the first time since 1987 (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/10/23633605/vinyl-records-surpasses-cd-music-sales-us-riaa) Cabinet of curiosities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities) John Soane's Museum (https://www.soane.org/) Museo Nacional del Prado (https://www.museodelprado.es/) The National Gallery, London (https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/) Tropenmuseum: A museum about world cultures (https://www.tropenmuseum.nl/en) Pergamon Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Museum) Nefertiti Bust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti_Bust)

Grace and David do surprise trades in Pokémon Violet, and somehow end up talking about cultural institutions in Singapore. Surprise Trade (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Surprise_Trade) Pokémon breeding (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_breeding) Bottle Cap (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bottle_Cap) Mint (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mint) Pokémon competitive play - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_competitive_play) Lazada - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazada) The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Charlie_Chan_Hock_Chye) Sandcastle (film) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandcastle_(film)) Renaissance City Reports (2000, 2004, 2008) (https://www.nac.gov.sg/resources/arts-masterplans/renaissance-city-reports-(2000-2004-2008)) Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esplanade_%E2%80%93_Theatres_on_the_Bay) Elbphilharmonie - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbphilharmonie)

We discuss ChatGPT, professional subreddits, natural history in Singapore, and more ChatGPT. ChatGPT is MBB or bust (https://www.reddit.com/r/consulting/comments/104ryr5/chatgpt_is_mbb_or_bust/) r/KitchenConfidential (https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/) John Searle - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle) r/AskHistorians - Comment by u/jbdyer on "What was Soviet pet culture like? Were dogs and cats considered capitalist fripperaries, or were they comrades? Did the planned economy make any attempt at meeting this market?" (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/zxs4d1/comment/j22xvfo/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) Let's have a natural history museum for Singapore (https://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-have-natural-history-museum-for.html) Titan of Singapore science education retires after 50 years (https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/titan-of-singapore-science-education-retires-after-50-years) Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum seeking funds for sperm whale exhibit (https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/lee-kong-chian-natural-history-museum-seeking-funds-for-sperm-whale-exhibit) Marcus Hutchins :verified: (@malwaretech@infosec.exchange) (https://infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/109650622540622626)

Grace and David talk about what happens when an operating system is so old, macOS doesn't know how to migrate from it. And some other stuff. macOS version history - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history) Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem) File Allocation Table - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32) Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm/) The rapid testing show : Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1073227859)

David and Grace discuss the challenges of teaching introductory courses and developing students' writing skills. CS50x 2022 (https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2022/) Department of English Language and Literature (https://english.unm.edu/undergrad/core/core-writing.html) Writing the Essay (https://cas.nyu.edu/ewp/ewp-courses/writing-the-essay.html) Essays (https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays) Poorly Structured (https://www.geoffreychallen.com/essays/2021-07-30-poorly-structured)

David survived a lockdown while travelling and tells the tale. Random diversion to 3D-printed mice. Maastricht Formation - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Formation) Maastrichtian - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastrichtian) Ploopy. Open-source hardware. (https://ploopy.co/) Another method for finishing a Ploopy shell! ASA filament with acetone chemical smoothing. (https://www.reddit.com/r/ploopy/comments/soxqrg/another_method_for_finishing_a_ploopy_shell_asa/) Flevoland - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland) Friesland - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesland) Is the L Train Running? (https://isthelrunning.com/) Is the G Train Running? (https://isthetrainrunning.nyc/g/) Les Halles (Paris Métro) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Halles_(Paris_M%C3%A9tro))

David plans to travel. Naturalis Biodiversity Center (https://www.naturalis.nl/en) List of oldest universities in continuous operation - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation) The Feather Heist - This American Life (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/654/the-feather-heist) The Man Who Stole Bird Feathers (Published 2018) (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/books/review/kirk-wallace-johnson-feather-thief.html) Baden-Powell House - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_House) Oostvaardersplassen - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oostvaardersplassen) London (https://staygenerator.com/hostels/london?lang=en-GB) Clink Hostels (https://www.clinkhostels.com/)

Stable nuclide - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_nuclide) Stable isotope ratio - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_isotope_ratio) The Use of Stable Isotopes in the Study of Animal Migration (https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-use-of-stable-isotopes-in-the-96648168/) Leaky abstraction - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction) MOSTFET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET) Combinational logic - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinational_logic) Sequential logic - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_logic) Instruction set architecture - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture)

2021 Western North America heat wave - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave) Cenchrus - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenchrus) Red tortoise cake - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tortoise_cake) Pisang goreng - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisang_goreng) Brave (web browser) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)) Cotopaxi - Gear For Good | Free shipping on orders $99+ (https://www.cotopaxi.com/) CSS Grid Layout - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_Layout)

David and Grace debate the relative merits of cameras of all shapes, sizes and ages, but only after discussing ways to cross borders with dead bodies. Note: In the middle of this episode, we had to go to Zoom audio because we lost one of the mic recordings. Sorry about that! Cryogenic storage dewar - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_storage_dewar) Digiscoping - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digiscoping) 'High Flying Bird': What Soderbergh Begged Apple to Change About the iPhone (https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/high-flying-bird-steven-soderbergh-apple-iphone-netflix-1202043102/) Discontinued - COOLPIX P500 - Nikon Singapore Pte Ltd (http://www.nikon.com.sg/en_SG/product/discontinued/digital-compact-cameras/performance/coolpix-p500) X1D II 50C (https://www.hasselblad.com/x-system/x1d/)

We talk about Covid vaccines, efficacy vs effectiveness, and how on earth to get vaccination rates up. COVID-19 vaccine - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine) Phases of clinical research - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_clinical_research#Efficacy_vs_effectiveness) New Mexico Department of HealthCOVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard (https://cvvaccine.nmhealth.org/public-dashboard.html)

David took the opportunity of a soft lockdown to add 98,000-ish buildings' worth of height data to his bird-building collision data set, one building at a time. Lidar - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar) Archaeologists discover the largest-and oldest-Maya monument ever (https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/archaeologists-discover-the-largest-and-oldest-maya-monument-ever/) Photogrammetry - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry) OneMap 3.0 (https://www.onemap3d.gov.sg/main/3dwebclient/) The Interlace - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interlace)

David and Grace discuss the problem of finding money to pay for science, and unsurprisingly end up talking about economics. r/LinkedInLunatics (https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/) Science funders gamble on grant lotteries (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03572-7) Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html) Andy Matuschak is creating tools for thought | Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/quantumcountry) The Development Abstraction Layer (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-abstraction-layer-2/) The Brexit Possibility (https://stratechery.com/2016/the-brexit-possibility/) St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox) Planet Money T-shirt (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/planetmoney/planet-money-t-shirt)

In typical Monkey Mind fashion, David and Grace talk about vaccinations, then folding proteins, then using computers and gamers to fold proteins, then things computers can't do and things computers can't do yet, and things computers might never be able to do. Meningococcal Vaccination: What Everyone Should Know (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mening/public/index.html) Protein folding - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding) Foldit: Competitive Protein Folding for Medical Science (https://www.engr.washington.edu/facresearch/highlights/cse_foldit.html) DeepMind AI handles protein folding, which humbled previous software (https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/deepmind-ai-handles-protein-folding-which-humbled-previous-software/) Shm-reduplication - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shm-reduplication) RSA (cryptosystem) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)) Why Malaysian Malay like to use short form words when they're texting? (https://www.quora.com/Why-Malaysian-Malay-like-to-use-short-form-words-when-theyre-texting) Value Drift (https://universalpaperclips.fandom.com/wiki/Value_Drift) Universal Paperclips - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Paperclips) Three Laws of Robotics - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics)

Hi, it's Grace, weeks after the recording of this episode. I can't remember what we talked about but these are our show notes, so we must have talked about birds (surprise), urban geography, Freiburg, shipping containers, something about modelling the financial markets, and more Freiburg. YouTube: The Capercaillie Bird defends its territory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xSj5XcByuA) Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Freiburg+im+Breisgau,+Germany/@47.993078,7.8544281,60m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47911b26560bd665:0x41f6bb7a5df57b0!8m2!3d47.9990077!4d7.8421043) Seeing Like a State - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State) Zum Roten Bären - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zum_Roten_B%C3%A4ren) (https://goo.gl/maps/82eegrUa9r7iu9KRA) The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691136408) Black-Scholes model - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model) Heliotrope (building) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(building))

Why comparing Covid-19 vaccine efficacy numbers can be misleading (https://www.vox.com/22311625/covid-19-vaccine-efficacy-johnson-moderna-pfizer) Is this ship still stuck? (https://istheshipstillstuck.com/) In Suez Canal, Stuck Ship Is a Warning About Excessive Globalization (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/business/ship-suez-canal.html) Swiss cheese model - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model) What Killed These Bald Eagles? After 25 Years, We Finally Know. (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/humans-accidentally-created-death-trap-bald-eagles/618413/) Bondi Vet on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnSnAq44St3dzNdgPpfChA)

Stevey's Blog Rants (https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html) Tidyverse (https://www.tidyverse.org/) Codewars Java Kata (requires sign in and some Java homework) (https://www.codewars.com/kata/reviews/54a83d11e1288d7cd70001d6/groups/54b6e0b3ac3d54604b001320) Reddit: I found this during my first day in new job (https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/lr6ip1/i_found_this_during_my_first_day_in_new_job/) Reddit: Dutch electronic voting code base (https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/juqafi/dutch_electronic_voting_code_base/) CS50's Introduction to Computer Science (https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-computer-science) Justice (https://www.edx.org/course/justice-2) Crash Course (https://thecrashcourse.com/) Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up (https://www.edx.org/course/fat-chance-probability-from-the-ground-up-2) Heidelberg Studentenkarzer (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/heidelberg-studentkarzer) Harvard Business Review Podcasts (https://hbr.org/podcasts)

Izu Islands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izu_Islands) Cattle stranded on ship in Mediterranean must be destroyed, say vets (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/27/cattle-stranded-on-ship-in-mediterranean-must-be-destroyed-say-vets) Cal Newport - Author of Deep Work, Study Hacks Blog (https://www.calnewport.com/) The Oresteia: The Trilogy by Aeschylus (1983) - IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5524714/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt) Jadeite Cabbage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadeite_Cabbage) Water Lilies (Monet series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Lilies_(Monet_series)) Guernica (Picasso) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)) Fondation Beyeler (https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/) International Klein Blue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue)

You should probably charge your MacBook using the ports on its right side (https://www.imore.com/heres-why-you-should-probably-charge-your-macbook-using-ports-its-right-side) Masuda method (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Masuda_method) YouTube: Ring Fit Adventure Speedruns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvjHMu_tBOs) Ring Fit Adventure on speedrun.com (https://www.speedrun.com/ring_fit_adventure#Any) YouTube: Automatic basketball hoop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FycDx69px8U)

This was recorded over a month ago, I have had no time since to listen back and make show notes, and all I know is that we talked a lot about video games and Awesome Games Done Quick 2021. Pokémon Red and Blue/Mew glitch (https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue/Mew_glitch) Mr. Bones (video game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bones_(video_game)) Azumarill (Pokémon) (https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Azumarill_(Pok%C3%A9mon))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESK5SaP-bc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESK5SaP-bc) Codewars: Achieve mastery through challenge (https://www.codewars.com/) CS50x 2021 (https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2021/) Trie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCinQIy8MI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCinQIy8MI) The Newick tree format (https://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/newicktree.html) How to root a phylogenetic tree (http://cabbagesofdoom.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-root-phylogenetic-tree.html) Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ǵenh₁- (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/%C7%B5enh%E2%82%81-) *ǵenh - (https://prezi.com/xf8pybiccaru/?token=666acc95c244911a9dc4dca04b7ebb8ec8b97edc5ac96c605c6dd23f69caa971) Floppy disk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk) Magnetic tape (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_tape)

David and Grace talk about flooding, environmental effects and urban design. Wikipedia: La Niña (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a) David's tweet (https://twitter.com/g33k5p34k/status/1345318794583920645) Video shows car driving in an extremely flooded Lorong Halus (https://mothership.sg/2021/01/lorong-halus-flooded/) Tweet about extreme weather in Singapore (https://twitter.com/winstontlchow/status/1345374250660630529) You shouldn't be alarmed by the 'flooding' at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park on Jan. 1, 2021 (https://mothership.sg/2021/01/bishan-ang-mo-kio-park-flooded/) Episode 570: The Fine Print (https://www.npr.org/transcripts/349650496) Urban Redevelopment Authority (https://www.ura.gov.sg/Corporate/Planning/Master-Plan) Deluge a 'once in 50 years' event (https://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20091123-181624.html) Buangkok MRT station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buangkok_MRT_station) Singapore and Malaysia terminate high-speed rail project (https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Singapore-and-Malaysia-terminate-high-speed-rail-project) How To Stop An Asteroid : Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949881982/how-to-stop-an-asteroid) Freiburg, Germany: is this the greenest city in the world? (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/mar/23/freiburg.germany.greenest.city) Fortifications of Vauban UNESCO World Heritage Sites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortifications_of_Vauban_UNESCO_World_Heritage_Sites#Ville_neuve,_Neuf-Brisach) Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners (https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/05/desire-paths-the-illicit-trails-that-defy-the-urban-planners)

Here's the relevant quote from Orson Scott Card's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card) Speaker for the Dead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead): If we had to observe your university under the same limitations that bind us in our observation of the Lusitanian aborigines, we would no doubt conclude that humans do not reproduce, do not form kinship groups, and devote their entire life cycle to the metamorphosis of the larval student into the adult professor. Species distribution modelling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distribution_modelling) Maximum entropy probability distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_entropy_probability_distribution) Tim Kopra's Tweet about Singapore from the ISS (https://twitter.com/astro_tim/status/711276897133596672?lang=en) Black-body radiation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation) Accidental Tech Podcast: 409: Midrange Snob (https://atp.fm/409) Acer Store: (https://store.acer.com/en-sg/nitro-vg2-series-vg272u-p) Logitech MX Master Series Advanced Keyboards & Performance Mice (https://www.logitech.com/en-sg/mx/master-series.html) You should probably charge your MacBook using the ports on its right side (https://www.imore.com/heres-why-you-should-probably-charge-your-macbook-using-ports-its-right-side) TS3 Plus | Thunderbolt 3 Dock (https://www.caldigit.com/ts3-plus/)

Eight Little Piggies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Little_Piggies) Reconstructing trees: A simple example (https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/phylogenetics_07) Colleges That Change Lives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleges_That_Change_Lives) John Costello (https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/john-costello.html) Richard Stallman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman) Map projection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection) Accidental Tech Podcast: 356: With a Heavy Heart (https://atp.fm/356) ArcGIS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcGIS) QGIS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QGIS) Programming languages used in most popular websites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_languages_used_in_most_popular_websites)

Too Many Head and Eye Movements (https://www.monkeymind.xyz/011) An example of the LORMS marking scheme in Appendix A and B (https://www.seab.gov.sg/docs/default-source/national-examinations/syllabus/alevel/2021syllabus/9752_y21_sy.pdf) The Harvard Educational Review - HEPG (https://www.hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-88,-issue-3/herbooknote/negotiating-opportunities)

On academic assessment, computerised proctoring, gaming the system, and instructional delivery. Graduate Record Examinations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Record_Examinations) Wikipedia: National Trades Union Congress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trades_Union_Congress) Exam Day: What to Expect (https://support.proctoru.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043565051-Exam-Day-What-to-Expect-) https://twitter.com/LegendAriee16/status/1304098649186742273 (https://twitter.com/LegendAriee16/status/1304098649186742273) A-level and GCSE results in England to be based on teacher assessments in U-turn (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/17/a-levels-gcse-results-england-based-teacher-assessments-government-u-turn) All models are wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong) Twitter taught Microsoft's friendly AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day (https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist) The tank story is likely to be apocryphal, but the discussion is nonetheless relevant: The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend (https://www.gwern.net/Tanks) Prelims (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelims#Singapore,_Scotland_and_Latin_America) Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) Publish or perish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish) Is Law School a Losing Game? (Published 2011) (https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html) Dual education system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system) CS50 Releases Report on 'Regret Clause,' Cheating Cases | News | The Harvard Crimson (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/12/18/computer-science-50-report/)

We made it to Episode 10. Games, mental models, games as models, and broken models. Bloons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloons) Shopping Cart Hero 3 (https://shoppingcarthero3.net) All Abstractions Are Wrong But Some Are Useful (https://www.monkeymind.xyz/004) Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/chemists-discover-cross-platform-python-scripts-not-so-cross-platform/) Games Done Quick (https://gamesdonequick.com) The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD by Linkus7 in 1:28:27 - SGDQ2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPLytsTfCcE) ISAB (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7WQH4kpgxXJYHp8r9IAO-Q) Dungeons & Dragons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons) Dungeons & Dragons Online (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Online) quill18 (https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18/featured) F1 2020: Can I complete ONE SINGLE LAP?? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F7GupUhT5U) Robo Grand Prix (https://gizmodo.com/robo-grand-prix-24014) Micromouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse) Depth-first search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-first_search) Breadth-first search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search) Lego Rotation Sensor Internals (https://www.philohome.com/sensors/legorot.htm) Loyalty (Civ6) (https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Loyalty_(Civ6)) Warlord Era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Era) r/CivPolitics (https://www.reddit.com/r/CivPolitics/) World Record Progression: Super Mario Bros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAkY7RfajY) Super Mario Bros. Any% Speedrun in 4:55.646 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wR8x5b_ExM) Speedrunning and the Scientific Method - graceteng.ninja (http://graceteng.ninja/blogarchive/speedrunning-and-the-scientific-method)

Human colour perception, animal navigation, things that fluoresce under UV light, and a little bit about learning software engineering tacked on at the end. NDP 2020 mobile column will reach more heartland areas; to pay tribute to frontline and essential workers (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/ndp-2020-mobile-column-heartlands-covid-19-frontline-workers-12982564) ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps (https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3) Emlen funnel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emlen_funnel) Technique for Recording Migratory Orientation of Captive Birds (https://academic.oup.com/auk/article-abstract/83/3/361/5208449) Dog Finds Way to His Vet Alone After Getting Lost for Hours (https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/889kdz/lost-dog-finds-way-home-vet-help-bangkok) Don't get why iPhone movies don't look like the real thing? Look at the film coloring. (https://www.vox.com/2015/3/10/8179085/film-colorist-video) Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors (https://www.pnas.org/content/117/26/15112) What I learned from my Hotel 81 staycation | The Milelion (https://milelion.com/2020/07/24/what-i-learned-from-my-hotel-81-staycation/) Coding Bootcamp | Le Wagon (https://www.lewagon.com) rubocop-hq/rubocop (https://github.com/rubocop-hq/rubocop)

David talks about birds (surprise), we talk a little bit about RSA cryptography, and Grace struggles to remember her undergraduate language acquisition class. White-bellied erpornis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-bellied_erpornis) Pitta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitta) Sapayoa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapayoa) Parrotbill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrotbill) Recent African origin of modern humans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans) Coalescent theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalescent_theory) RSA (cryptosystem) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)) RSA-129 - Numberphile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQw124CtvO0) Chinese room (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room) Voice onset time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_onset_time) Praat: doing Phonetics by Computer (https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/) Formant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formant)

This episode is about bugs, bugs as food, and then global cuisines and what happens to foods that are transposed outside of their original habitat. Recorded on 24 May 2020, before Bon Appetit imploded. Hemiptera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera) On Data Formats and Speciation (https://www.monkeymind.xyz/002) Speech Jammer (https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/speech-jammer/) Chagas disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease) Wheel bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_bug) Periodical cicadas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas) Independent divergence of 13- and 17-y life cycles among three periodical cicada lineages (https://www.pnas.org/content/110/17/6919) Cave Dwellers, 1938 (https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/cave-dwellers-1938-33966) Moths come out to enjoy the weather (https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/moths-come-out-enjoy-weather) Fried spider (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_spider) Competition with insectivorous ants as a contributor to low songbird diversity at low elevations in the eastern Himalaya (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6196?af=R&fbclid=IwAR3asLUcYtKBBINm-XRgmWmVDlHEE_QS-J19_YNsxl_w0eF9hLf9vo04jzo) Boiled eggs > Soft-boiled eggs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiled_egg#Soft-boiled_eggs) The Bon Appetit test kitchen's race problem (https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/The-Bon-Appetit-test-kitchen-s-race-problem-15002875.php) Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, and the 'Global Pantry' Problem (https://www.eater.com/platform/amp/2020/5/20/21262304/global-pantry-alison-roman-bon-appetit?fbclid=IwAR04BFpi9pCbEoKIPG7THZ47PduSbvjBjFdoeKZ6e4_8bnd5Ks9jqQdB6DI) 7 (New York City Subway service) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(New_York_City_Subway_service)) Pandanus amaryllifolius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandanus_amaryllifolius) Tangyuan (food) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangyuan_(food)) Peanut sauce (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_sauce)

Grace is still obsessed with CS50x. We talk about development frameworks, rooting out bugs that are not your fault, and demonstrated skill as a professional calling card. C$50 Finance (https://finance.cs50.net/) Commonplace book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book) Longform (https://longform.org) jQuery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery) Bootstrap (front-end framework) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_(front-end_framework)) PHP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#History) Dependency hell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell) The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet (https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/) Infosec Without a Degree - MalwareTech (https://www.malwaretech.com/2016/05/infosec-without-degree.html) Browser wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars) Food, Nutrition and Health (https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/wageningenx-food-nutrition-and-health)

Grace has a new obsession: Harvard's CS50x Introduction to Computer Science, so we talk about online education, and how to teach and learn online. CS50x (https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020/) Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share (https://scratch.mit.edu) The Perils of JavaSchools (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/29/the-perils-of-javaschools-2/) Segmentation fault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault) Accidental Tech Podcast: 375: Wobbly Goblin (https://atp.fm/375) C - Pointers (https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_pointers.htm) Principal component analysis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis) Online Course: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfc2WtGuVPdmhYaQjd449k-YeY71fiaFp) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (https://www.amazon.sg/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095) Food, Nutrition and Health (https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/wageningenx-food-nutrition-and-health) Debugging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging) Hemiptera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera) Rubber duck debugging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging) CS50 2019 - Lecture 4 - Memory (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15retFlVW_bH8MqEQHlcDQiFemMcRGUpHWn7VWQ4ftaE/edit) CS50 Sandbox: Secure Execution of Untrusted Code (https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10745001/85035036.pdf?sequence=3) CS50 Shop (https://cs50.harvardshop.com) Regular expression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression)

David and Grace talk about abstraction in statistics, computing, mathematics and a few other things besides. Birth-death process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth–death_process) Akaike information criterion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaike_information_criterion) Stratechery by Ben Thompson (https://stratechery.com) Subtraction.com (https://www.subtraction.com) The Law of Leaky Abstractions (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/) Logic gate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate) The 10,000 Domino Computer (https://youtu.be/OpLU__bhu2w) CS50's Introduction to Computer Science (https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-computer-science) Floating-point arithmetic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic) Single Variable Calculus (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01sc-single-variable-calculus-fall-2010/) Zone of proximal development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development) principle of specificity (https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110810105645210) Progressive overload (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_overload) Species distribution modelling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distribution_modelling) Population genetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_genetics) Coalescent theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalescent_theory)

David and Grace talk about the relationship between human beings and the rest of the animal kingdom. What is a wet market? (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/16/what-is-a-wet-market-coronavirus) Pro Chef Tries Butchering a Whole Pig for the First Time | Bon Appétit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaOQrgC_iNs) Snake wine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_wine) Bought for a Song: An Indonesian Craze Puts Wild Birds at Risk (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/world/asia/indonesia-songbirds-competition.html) Bill to amend Wild Animals and Birds Act introduced in Parliament (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/bill-amend-wild-animals-and-birds-act-introduced-parliament-12509598) Exclusively Mongrels (https://www.exclusivelymongrels.org) SOSD Dog Shelter Volunteer & Donation Singapore | Dog Shelter (https://sosd.org.sg) NYU Animal Studies (https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/environment/animal-studies.html) Monkey mind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_mind)

We talk about remote audiovisual production, wrangling data, and genealogy in evolutionary biology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/567d5c40c647adf832eb7aa5/1589694146158-AM7T3EF4M1Z9U0RBNKSJ/002+Audio+Hijack.png?content-type=image%2Fpng Audio Hijack - Record any audio on Mac (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) Bon Appétit (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbpMy0Fg74eXXkvxJrtEn3w) Pro Chefs Make 13 Kinds of Pantry Pasta | Test Kitchen Talks @ Home | Bon Appétit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECoTEcPv4U) Have I Got News for You (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_I_Got_News_for_You) The Mash Report (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mash_Report) Someone Practicing (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJp7z2lBrG6BCozj4w-Flw) Final Cut Pro X (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Cut_Pro_X#Reception) Material Exchange Format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Exchange_Format) FASTA format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTA_format) FASTQ format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTQ_format) Help desk software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_desk_software) Airtable: Organize anything you can imagine (https://airtable.com) Cryptic and extensive hybridization between ancient lineages of American crows (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15377) Allopatric speciation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopatric_speciation) Proto-language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-language)

David is serving his Stay-Home Notice at a hotel with bad wi-fi. We talk a little bit about the state of Covid-19 in Singapore on 28 March (ahh, such innocent times), how science gets done, and what happens when science is done badly. Recorded on 28 March 2020. Everything you need to know about Stay-Home Notice (https://www.gov.sg/article/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-stay-home-notice) COVID-19: Stay-home notices for all travellers entering Singapore from ASEAN countries, Japan, UK, Switzerland (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/coronavirus-covid-19-singapore-malaysia-asean-stay-home-notice-12539952) Wonder how dangerous a gathering can be? Here's how one event sparked hundreds of coronavirus cases across Asia (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-19/coronavirus-spread-from-malaysian-event-to-multiple-countries/12066092) Tracking the Coronavirus: How Crowded Asian Cities Tackled an Epidemic (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/world/asia/coronavirus-singapore-hong-kong-taiwan.html) ICA | Singapore Permanent Resident Failed To Declare Recent Travel History To Indonesia (https://www.ica.gov.sg/news-and-publications/media-releases/media-release/singapore-permanent-resident-failed-to-declare-recent-travel-history-to-indonesia) Hydroxychloroquine-COVID-19 study did not meet publishing society's "expected standard" (https://retractionwatch.com/2020/04/06/hydroxychlorine-covid-19-study-did-not-meet-publishing-societys-expected-standard/) Bad Pharma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma) Bad Science (Goldacre book) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(Goldacre_book)) Compensatory Vowel Lengthening for Omitted Coda Consonants: A Phonetic Investigation of Children's Early Representations of Prosodic Words - Jae Yung Song, Katherine Demuth, 2008 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0023830908099071) 'Avalanche' of spider-paper retractions shakes behavioural-ecology community (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00287-y) #pruittgate (https://twitter.com/hashtag/pruittgate?lang=en) A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/books/review/bottle-of-lies-katherine-eban.html) MOH | Clinical Evidence Summaries (https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/clinical-evidence-summaries)