Innovation is about finding a better way of doing something. Like many of the new development buzzwords (which many of them are over-used on many business documents), the concept of innovation originates from the world of business. It refers to the generation of new products through the process of creative entrepreneurship, putting it into production, and diffusing it more widely through increased sales. Innovation can be viewed as t he application of better solutions that meet new requirements, in-articulated needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as a consequence, new, that “breaks into” the market or society.
Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation article points out that there is a form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation. The result is a failure to understand the causes of success and failure in business and hence the conditions that lead to economic growth. The definition of innovation is easy to find but it seems to be hard to understand. Here is a simple taxonomy of related activities that put innovation in context:
- Novelty: Something new
- Creation: Something new and valuable
- Invention: Something new, having potential value through utility
- Innovation: Something new and uniquely useful
The taxonomy is illustrated with the following diagram.
The differences are also evident in the mechanisms that exist to protect the works: Novelties are usually not protectable, Creations are protected by copyright or trademark, Inventions can be protected for a limited time through patents (or kept secret) and Innovations can be protected through market competition but are not defensible through legal means.
Innovation is a lot of talked about nowdays as essential to businesses to do. Is innovation essential for development work? article tells that innovation has become central to the way development organisations go about their work. In November 2011, Bill Gates told the G20 that innovation was the key to development. Donors increasingly stress innovation as a key condition for funding, and many civil society organisations emphasise that innovation is central to the work they do.
Some innovation ideas are pretty simple, and some are much more complicated and even sound crazy when heard first. The is place for crazy sounding ideas: venture capitalists are gravely concerned that the tech startups they’re investing in just aren’t crazy enough:
Not all development problems require new solutions, sometimes you just need to use old things in a slightly new way. Development innovations may involve devising technology (such as a nanotech water treatment kit), creating a new approach (such as microfinance), finding a better way of delivering public services (such as one-stop egovernment service centres), identifying ways of working with communities (such as participation), or generating a management technique (such as organisation learning).
Theorists of innovation identify innovation itself as a brief moment of creativity, to be followed by the main routine work of producing and selling the innovation. When it comes to development, things are more complicated. Innovation needs to be viewed as tool, not master. Innovation is a process, not a one time event. Genuine innovation is valuable but rare.
There are many views on the innovation and innvation process. I try to collect together there some views I have found on-line. Hopefully they help you more than confuze. Managing complexity and reducing risk article has this drawing which I think pretty well describes innovation as done in product development:
8 essential practices of successful innovation from The Innovator’s Way shows essential practices in innovation process. Those practices are all integrated into a non-sequential, coherent whole and style in the person of the innovator.
In the IT work there is lots of work where a little thinking can be a source of innovation. Automating IT processes can be a huge time saver or it can fail depending on situation. XKCD comic strip Automation as illustrates this:
System integration is a critical element in project design article has an interesting project cost influence graphic. The recommendation is to involve a system integrator early in project design to help ensure high-quality projects that satisfy project requirements. Of course this article tries to market system integration services, but has also valid points to consider.
Core Contributor Loop (CTTDC) from Art Journal blog posting Blog Is The New Black tries to link inventing an idea to theory of entrepreneurship. It is essential to tune the engine by making improvements in product, marketing, code, design and operations.
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New Cheap Carbon Capture Tech Could Be Attached To Tailpipes
A simple and cheap approach could be a useful carbon capture for smokestacks and even tailpipes.
https://www.iflscience.com/new-cheap-carbon-capture-tech-could-be-attached-to-tailpipes-64776
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A simple, cheap material for carbon capture, perhaps from tailpipes
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-simple-cheap-material-carbon-capture.html
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This Flexible, Waterproof Gas Sensor Sits Under Your Nose for Health Monitoring, Disease Diagnosis
Designed like a sandwich and keeping moisture from wrecking the graphene layer, this sensor could provide large-scale health monitoring.
https://www.hackster.io/news/this-flexible-waterproof-gas-sensor-sits-under-your-nose-for-health-monitoring-disease-diagnosis-9ca117aea00e
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Pig Organs Restored To Health One Hour After Death Using New Tech
“Basically, with intervention, we were able to show that we can persuade cells not to die,” the researcher said.
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Solar-to-Jet-Fuel System Readies for Takeoff Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and concentrated sunlight can now yield kerosene
https://spectrum.ieee.org/solar-to-jet-fuel-system-readies-for-take-off?share_id=7165562
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The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators
https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/05/the-first-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-design-was-just-approved-by-us-regulators/
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Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-math-error-overturns-year-old-perception.html
A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger and others, and used by scientists and industry for more than 100 years to describe how your eye distinguishes one color from another. The research has the potential to boost scientific data visualizations, improve TVs and recalibrate the textile and paint industries.
“The assumed shape of color space requires a paradigm shift,”
“Our research shows that the current mathematical model of how the eye perceives color differences is incorrect. That model was suggested by Bernhard Riemann and developed by Hermann von Helmholtz and Erwin Schrödinger—all giants in mathematics and physics—and proving one of them wrong is pretty much the dream of a scientist,” said Bujack.
Modeling human color perception enables automation of image processing, computer graphics and visualization tasks.
“Our original idea was to develop algorithms to automatically improve color maps for data visualization, to make them easier to understand and interpret,” Bujack said. So the team was surprised when they discovered they were the first to determine that the longstanding application of Riemannian geometry, which allows generalizing straight lines to curved surfaces, didn’t work.
To create industry standards, a precise mathematical model of perceived color space is needed. First attempts used Euclidean spaces—the familiar geometry taught in many high schools; more advanced models used Riemannian geometry. The models plot red, green and blue in the 3D space. Those are the colors registered most strongly by light-detecting cones on our retinas, and—not surprisingly—the colors that blend to create all the images on your RGB computer screen.
In the study, which blends psychology, biology and mathematics, Bujack and her colleagues discovered that using Riemannian geometry overestimates the perception of large color differences. That’s because people perceive a big difference in color to be less than the sum you would get if you added up small differences in color that lie between two widely separated shades.
Riemannian geometry cannot account for this effect.
“We didn’t expect this, and we don’t know the exact geometry of this new color space yet,” Bujack said. “We might be able to think of it normally but with an added dampening or weighing function that pulls long distances in, making them shorter. But we can’t prove it yet.”
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World record for strongest steady magnetic field ‘broken’ by Chinese team
Superconductive hybrid magnet claimed to be 4,500 times stronger than a fridge stick-on
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/china_magnet_record/
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The 10 Greatest Scientists of All Time
Get to know the scientists that changed the world as we know it though their contributions and discoveries.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-10-greatest-scientists-of-all-time
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“Near-Death Experiences” Are Not Hallucinations, Says First-Ever Study Of Its Kind
https://www.iflscience.com/neardeath-experiences-are-not-hallucinations-says-firstever-study-of-its-kind-63263
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Lapsia ei kannata patistaa läksyihin, sanoo tutkija – mitä enemmän vanhempi kontrolloi kotitehtäviä, sitä enemmän lapset niitä välttelevät
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Google Program to Free Chips Boosts University Semiconductor Design
https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/08/11/google-program-to-free-chips-boosts-university-semiconductor-design/
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‘University was a waste of time. I want my money back’
Meet the disgruntled UK college students who are fighting back
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/2022/08/21/university-waste-time-want-money-back/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1661075329-1
When Tia O’Donnell took to her graduation stage with “I want a refund” spray-painted on a banner over her robes, she spoke for much of the student population. After a university experience plagued by Covid and strikes – for which many have tried, and failed, to get their money back – here, she reasoned, she could no longer be ignored. “I really don’t feel like I’ve learned anything,” the fine arts graduate from Central St Martin’s says of her three-year degree.
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The Facebook founder shares the 2 books he says changed the way he thinks about innovation.
2 books that changed the way Mark Zuckerberg thinks about innovation
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/11/2-books-that-changed-the-way-mark-zuckerberg-thinks-about-innovation.html#Echobox=1660855738
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have built his fortune around new technologies and social media, but he still knows the value a good, old-fashioned book can provide.
“I’ve found reading books very intellectually fulfilling,” he wrote on Facebook in 2015, as he embarked on a challenge of reading two books per month for a year. He says they provide an “immersive” experience.
1. “Creativity, Inc.” by Alice Wallace and Edwin Catmull
Edwin Catmull, president of Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and writer Alice Wallace give readers an inside look at how Pixar became the creative powerhouse it is today.
The book details steps the company took to make innovation a key priority. Catmull argues, for example, that companies should encourage employees to share new ideas.
2. “The Idea Factory” by Jon Gertner
“The Idea Factory” by journalist and author Jon Gertner follows the history of Bell Labs, the famed research operation founded by Alexander Graham Bell which functioned, for many years, as part of AT&T and is now owned by Nokia. Several researchers earned Nobel Prizes for the work produced at Bell Labs.
The story begins soon after a few AT&T executives decided to tackle the seemingly impossible task of creating a transcontinental phone line that could connect a call between New York and San Francisco.
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Protons Could Contain A Smaller Particle That Is Heavier Than The Proton Itself
https://www.sciencealert.com/protons-could-contain-a-smaller-particle-that-is-heavier-than-the-proton-itself
Protons may have more “charm” than we thought, new research suggests.
A proton is one of the subatomic particles that make up the nucleus of an atom. As small as protons are, they are composed of even tinier elementary particles known as quarks, which come in a variety of “flavors,” or types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.
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Cheap, high capacity, and fast: New aluminum battery tech promises it all
The big catch is that it has to be at roughly the boiling point of water to work.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/new-aluminum-sulfur-battery-tech-offers-full-charging-in-under-a-minute/
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Physicists develop a perfect light trap
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Big Changes In Architectures, Transistors, Materials
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Who’s doing what in next-gen chips, and when they expect to do it.
https://semiengineering.com/big-changes-in-architectures-transistors-materials/
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Floating Artificial Leaf Turns CO2 Into Fuel Lightweight device yields hydrogen or syngas—at a comparatively cut-rate cost
https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-leaf-hydrogen-syngas
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NASA Captured The ‘Sound’ From A Black Hole, And It’s Super Eerie
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-recorded-the-sound-from-a-black-hole-and-its-super-eerie
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Compact lasers set to drive autonomous machinery
The light detection and ranging sensors that allow the autonomous movement of vehicles and robots will be improved by new photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-022-00131-z
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A superconducting diode without an external magnetic field
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New stable quantum batteries can reliably store energy into electromagnetic fields
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-stable-quantum-batteries-reliably-energy.html
However, quantum technologies need energy to operate. This simple consideration has led researchers to develop the idea of quantum batteries, which are quantum mechanical systems used as energy storage devices. Recently, researchers at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea have been able to put tight constraints on the possible charging performance of a quantum battery.
Specifically, they showed that a collection of quantum batteries can lead to an enormous improvement in charging speed compared to a classical charging protocol. This is thanks to quantum effects, which allow the cells in quantum batteries to be charged simultaneously.
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Nuorten pappi keräsi 8 keinoa, miten nuorten uupumusta voisi vähentää ilman terapiaa: “Ei käsittääkseni maksa juuri mitään”
Arto Köykkä ihmettelee, miksi nyt puhutaan lähinnä oireista, eikä mietitä ratkaisuja. Massojen ongelmaa ei voida hoitaa terapeuteilla.
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Premiere for superconducting diode in trilayer graphene without external magnetic field
https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=61286.php
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Antenna Made Of Just Excited Atoms Can Be Used To Stream Color TV And Video Games
A new tech demonstration shows atom antennae could be used in place of traditional electronics.
https://www.iflscience.com/antenna-made-of-just-excited-atoms-can-be-used-to-stream-color-tv-and-video-games-64973
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People Are Dating All Wrong, According to Data Science
Large data sets provide intriguing—and dismaying—insights into who we’re drawn to and how much that matters for our romantic happiness.
https://www.wired.com/story/data-marriage-behavior-love-psychology-romance/#intcid=_wired-bottom-recirc_0ed833eb-0880-4aaa-9d4d-acadcfa3dfba_wired-content-attribution-evergreen
This may be the most consequential decision of a person’s life. The billionaire investor Warren Buffett certainly thinks so. He calls whom you marry “the most important decision that you make.”
And yet people have rarely turned to science for help with this all-important decision. Truth be told, science has had little help to offer. Scholars of relationship science have been trying to find answers. But it has proven difficult and expensive to recruit large samples of couples. The studies in this field tended to rely on tiny samples, and different studies often showed conflicting results.
After building her team and collecting and analyzing the data, Joel was ready to present the results—results of perhaps the most exciting project in the history of relationship science.
Joel scheduled a talk in October 2019 at the University of Waterloo in Canada with the straightforward title: “Can we help people pick better romantic partners?”
So, can Samantha Joel—teaming up with 85 of the world’s most renowned scientists, combining data from 43 studies, mining hundreds of variables collected from more than 10,000, and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning models—help people pick better romantic partners?
No.
The number one—and most surprising—lesson in the data, Samantha Joel told me in a Zoom interview, is “how unpredictable relationships seem to be.” Joel and her coauthors found that the demographics, preferences, and values of two people had surprisingly little power in predicting whether those two people were happy in a romantic relationship.
And there you have it, folks. Ask AI to figure out whether a set of two human beings can build a happy life together and it is just as clueless as the rest of us.
Well … that sure seems like a letdown.
Another way to say all this: Good romantic partners are difficult to predict with data. Desired romantic partners are easy to predict with data. And that suggests that many of us are dating all wrong.
So, what traits make people desirable to others?
Well, the first truth about what people look for in romantic partners, like so many important truths about life, was expressed by a rock star before the scientists figured it out. As Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows told us in his 1993 masterpiece “Mr. Jones”: We are all looking for “something beautiful.” The conventional attractiveness of a mate is the number one predictor of how many messages someone gets, for both men and women. We are also looking for:
someone tall (if a man)
someone of a desired race (even though most never admit it)
someone rich
someone in an enforcement profession (like lawyer or firefighter) if a man
someone with a sexy name (such as Jacob or Emma)
and someone just like ourselves (people are 11.3 percent more likely to match with someone who shares their initials)
The fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, data from online dating sites tells us that single people predictably are drawn to certain qualities. But should they be drawn to these qualities? If you are like the average single dater—predictably clicking on people with the traits the scientists found are most desired—are you going about dating correctly? Or are you dating all wrong?
According to my read of the research of Joel and her coauthors, as well as some other research in relationship science, the best three questions to figure out whether John is happy with Sally would have nothing to do with Sally; in fact, all would be related to John. The best questions to predict John’s happiness with Sally might look something like these:
“John, were you satisfied with your life before you met Sally?”
“John, were you free from depression before you met Sally?”
“John, did you have a positive affect before you met Sally?”
Researchers have found that people who answered “yes” to questions such as these are significantly more likely to report being happy in their romantic relationship. In other words, a person who is happy outside their relationship is far more likely to be happy inside their relationship, as well.
Further—and this was quite striking—how a person answered questions about themselves was roughly four times more predictive of their relationship happiness than all the traits of their romantic partner combined.
Let’s call these traits the Irrelevant Eight, as partners appear about as likely to end up happy in their relationship when they pair off with people with any combo of these traits:
Race/ethnicity
Religious affiliation
Height
Occupation
Physical attractiveness
Previous marital status
Sexual tastes
Similarity to oneself
What should we make of this list, the Irrelevant Eight? I was immediately struck by an overlap between the list of irrelevant traits and another data-driven list discussed in this chapter.
If I had to sum up, in one sentence, the most important finding in the field of relationship science, thanks to these Big Data studies, it would be something like this (call it the First Law of Love): In the dating market, people compete ferociously for mates with qualities that do not increase one’s chances of romantic happiness.
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Physicists Broke The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-broke-the-speed-of-light-with-pulses-inside-hot-plasma
Most of us grow up familiar with the prevailing law that limits how quickly information can travel through empty space: the speed of light, which tops out at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second.
Physicists in the US have shown that, under certain conditions, waves made up of groups of photons can move faster than light.
Researchers have been playing hard and fast with the speed limit of light pulses for a while, speeding them up and even slowing them to a virtual stand-still using various materials like cold atomic gases, refractive crystals, and optical fibers.
But impressively, last year, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the University of Rochester in New York managed it inside hot swarms of charged particles, fine-tuning the speed of light waves within plasma to anywhere from around one-tenth of light’s usual vacuum speed to more than 30 percent faster.
This is both more – and less – impressive than it sounds.
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New fur for the quantum cat: Entanglement of many atoms discovered for the first time
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-fur-quantum-cat-entanglement-atoms.html#!
Be it magnets or superconductors, materials are known for their various properties. However, these properties may change spontaneously under extreme conditions. Researchers at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and the Technische Universität München (TUM) have discovered an entirely new type of these phase transitions. They display the phenomenon of quantum entanglement involving many atoms, which previously has only been observed in the realm of a few atoms. The results were recently published in the scientific journal Nature.
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Laser tech that could cut into manufacturing emissions
Energy-efficient laser light generated using photonic crystals could help reduce manufacturing power consumption, helping industry hit climate change goals.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-022-00105-1
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https://hackaday.com/2022/09/05/nanoparticles-rip-hydrogen-from-water/
Hydrogen fuel is promising, and while there’s plenty of hydrogen in the air and water, the problem is extracting it. Researchers have developed a way to use aluminum nanoparticles to rip hydrogen out of water with no additional energy input. It does, however, require gallium to enable the reaction. The reaction isn’t unknown (see the video below), but the new research has some interesting twists.
Scientists Find a Simple Way to Produce Hydrogen From Water at Room Temperature
https://www.sciencealert.com/clean-fuel-breakthrough-turns-water-into-hydrogen-at-room-temperature
In the new research, scientists describe a relatively simple method involving aluminum nanoparticles that are able to strip the oxygen from water molecules and leave hydrogen gas.
The process yields large amounts of hydrogen, and it all works at room temperature.
That removes one of the big barriers to hydrogen fuel production: the large amounts of power required to produce it using existing methods.
This technique works with any kind of water, too, including wastewater and ocean water.
“We don’t need any energy input, and it bubbles hydrogen like crazy,” says materials scientist Scott Oliver from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).
Key to the process is the use of gallium metal to enable an ongoing reaction with the water. This aluminum-gallium-water reaction has been known about for decades, but here the team optimized and enhanced it in a few particular ways.
With the help of scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques, the researchers were able to find the best mix of aluminum and gallium for producing hydrogen with the greatest efficiency: a 3:1 gallium-aluminum composite.
Aluminum is easier to get hold of than gallium as it can be sourced from post-consumer materials, such as discarded aluminum cans and foil.
Gallium is more expensive and less abundant, but in this process at least it can be recovered and reused many times over without losing its effectiveness.
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Aluminium-Sulphur Batteries For Local Grid Storage?
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/05/aluminium-sulphur-batteries-for-local-grid-storage/
Lithium-Sulphur batteries have been on the cusp of commercial availability for a little while now, but nothing much has hit the shelves as of yet. There are still issues with lifetime due to cell degradation, and news about developments seems to be drying up a little. Not to worry, because MIT have come along with a new battery technology using some of the most available and cheap materials found on this planet of ours. The Aluminium-Sulphur battery developed has very promising characteristics for use with static and automotive applications, specifically its scalability and its incredible charge/discharge performance.
A new concept for low-cost batteries
https://news.mit.edu/2022/aluminum-sulfur-battery-0824
Made from inexpensive, abundant materials, an aluminum-sulfur battery could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources.
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Today’s The Day You Finally Learn Quaternions
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/05/todays-the-day-you-finally-learn-quaternions/
If you’ve ever dealt with orbital mechanics or sophisticated computer graphics, you’ve probably run across the math term quaternions. [Anyleaf] has a guide to the practical use of this math concept which focuses more on practicality than theory. We like it!
Quaternions are one of at least two ways to model rotations in a 3D space. Most people are familiar with the classic Euler angles which cover yaw, pitch, and roll. However, this method is prone to some ambiguities — in other words, there are multiple ways to go from one Euler state to another and all are equally valid. In addition, Euler angles are prone to gimbal lock where two of the axes are parallel and, thus, don’t have a different effect on the object’s orientation. There are several ways to combat that including the use of quaternions.
Quaternions: A practical guide
https://www.anyleaf.org/blog/quaternions:-a-practical-guide
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Turning carbon dioxide into valuable products
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-carbon-dioxide-valuable-products.html
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Using game theory mathematics to resolve human conflicts
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-game-theory-mathematics-human-conflicts.html
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Laser tech that could cut into manufacturing emissions
Energy-efficient laser light generated using photonic crystals could help reduce manufacturing power consumption, helping industry hit climate change goals.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-022-00105-1
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Lab grown chicken nuggets makes cruelty-free meat possible
We eat 50 billion chickens every year. Is there a better way?
https://bigthink.com/the-future/lab-grown-chicken/#Echobox=1662352085
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3D-printed, laser-cooked meat may be the future of cooking
A future kitchen appliance could make it possible to 3D-print entirely new recipes and cook them with lasers.
https://bigthink.com/the-future/laser-cooking-meat/#Echobox=1662191275-1
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https://phys.org/news/2022-08-naturally-insulating-material-emits-pulses.html
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https://phys.org/news/2022-08-physicists-entangle-dozen-photons-efficiently.html
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Surprise! Protons Contain a Subatomic Particle That’s Heavier Than the Proton Itself
But when the charm quark is present, it still only accounts for around half of the proton’s mass. How can that be?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a41031157/protons-contain-charm-quarks/