Featured Links - February 6, 2023

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.

Birds and boats wintering on the bay

• Internet Archive’s calculator emulators offer a nostalgic trip back to high school math class. "Sin Cos Tan to your heart’s delight as the Internet Archive launched a new collection of calculator emulators."
• Excel - Chat GPT + Excel - The future is here, don't miss out. (YouTube link) This is rather impressive. I could have used this when I was at the TSX. 
• 9 Top Secret Features of the Free VLC Media Player. "VLC should be your media player of choice. The cross-platform tool has a bag full of secret features you can use right now." I have been using VLC for years and didn't know about some of these features.
• S.D.A. Approves First Vaccine for Honeybees. "Dalan Animal Health’s vaccine for American foulbrood, an aggressive bacterial disease, is the first for any insect in the United States."
• Awesome ChatGPT Prompts (Github link). "This is a collection of prompt examples to be used with the ChatGPT model."
• The Oregon Lab Where Scientists Are Riding the Waves to a Brighter Future. "At the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Lab in Corvallis, massive simulators allow researchers to test innovative ideas about sustainable energy, saving coastlines, and more." They also simulate tsunamis.
• Discovery of new ice may change our understanding of water. "Researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other known ices and that may rewrite our understanding of water and its many anomalies." Fortunately, it's not Ice-nine. 
• Elon Musk teases expendable version of SpaceX’s reusable Starship rocket. "Once optimized, SpaceX says that Starship can launch up to 150 tons (330,000 lbs) to low Earth orbit while still recovering the orbital ship and suborbital booster for reuse. CEO Elon Musk has stated that Starship reuse will eventually take hours, enabling multiple flights per day for each ship and booster and dropping the marginal cost of each launch to just a few million dollars."