Author Archives: Luc Beaulieu

Online vs in-person invited presentation: the butterflies won’t go!

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Due to COVID-19, many meetings went virtual. This was the case of the main meeting in my field. For that meeting, we were asked to record ourself using (minimally) the PPT application record feature and export as mp4 the result. For a given session, we would be present live with camera and mic but our presentation would be a replay of our video. At the end, we would be available for the live Q&A portion of the session.

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Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for MacOS!

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If you loved those high resolution (1080p or 4K HDR), slow motion movies that are used for screensaver on Apple TV, you will love Aerial that bring these features for macOS (same movies, both day and night settings).

Free download from GitHub!

Source: JohnCoates/Aerial: Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac

You love those high resolution, slow motion movies that are used as screensavers on the Apple TV? Aerial brings those same movies (1080p and 4K HDR) to your macOS systems to be used as screensavers with a few added bonus such as superimposing the weather, time, battery status (for a macbook) and so on.

Free download on GitHub and donate if you love.

Digital Complexity

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As I previously stated, we are currently living the largest social and professional experiment of our time in which many activities have moved to digital, virtual long distance connections. Quite interestingly over that past 5 weeks my usage of videoconferencing software has been on average 14h/week (range 8h to 19h). Even is the most busy videoconferencing week, I have found that the interaction with colleagues and students not fully satisfying.

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The largest technological and social experiment of our time

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Over the past few weeks a lot of us have become, willingly or forced, the participants in the largest unplanned international experiment of our time. Some might even say that this particular experiment contains multiple sub-experiments that will feed the researchers across a very wide spectrum for years to come. It is also the largest (in scale)  telecommuting experiment ever attempted, again across multiple industries as well as social , educational and health-related activities.

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Free Ebook: Take Control – Working From Home

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The Take Control ebook series is well-known from many internet users and it was recently brought to my attention that the one dedicated on Working From Home is available free of charge.

It provides a number of advices on a range of topics from the general set-up of your workspace to gear and “relation” with family members(!) while working from home. The ebook is relatively short and constitute a good read. if at the very least to be reminded of the best practice.

Online MRI Teaching Ressources

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Top educator and COMP gold medal winner Prof. Jerry Battista from Western Ontario has decided to make available materials that he is using in his classes.

Find below his message and the links to three incredibly well-done videos.

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