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Possibly not what you're asking for, but I wrote a generally-accessible intro to why it can be tricky to assemble many DNA fragments with "Golden Gate Assembly", a mainstream metho…

It does, why?

Nice, how does your timeline work under the hood? Does it read from wikipedia? What could be interesting in your project is to be able to compare timelines. See for instance this w…

Yeah it would be nice if Wikipedia would host it, but it would probably require some more serious ground work so the project fits in the wikipedia ecosystem. Could be a pipeline Wi…

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This is also very true of the events reported in Wikipedia, see this animated timeline of (a hopefully representative set of) historical events reported in Wikipedia. Is really is …

Total plug but this year I scraped 400,000 wikipedia pages with Gemini to create landnotes.org, an atlas where you can ask "what happened in Japan in 1923": https://landnotes.org/?…

Very nice but the fonts render as white on white background on my phone which makes it difficult to read. Screenshot: https://ibb.co/29CqpTx

Fascinating, I knew about the "Wikipedia degrees of separation" and whe wikigame ( https://www.thewikigame.com/ ) but the actual number of paths and where they go through is still …

You should try the words from previous days (clicking on the date below the title). So far it’s been pretty random how many tries someone will need to find a word, the same person …

In terms of the music being played, piano rolls can be different from "normal piano music" because it's not played live by a real human, so it can have complex parts with full chor…

When I was about 10 I picked my first ever CD at a music shop, and it was a recording of the Gershwin piano rolls, because the cover photo caught my eye [1]. I didn't really unders…

This used to be one of my main hobbies, I listened to thousands of these and I am super grateful to the people scanning and hosting these collections. Some software I wrote for pia…

Insulin today is produced cheaply in genetically modified microbes, this is the technology that Chargaff is alluding to, which was first succesful 2 years after his letter, in 1978…

In his 1976 essay on (or against) genetic engineering [1] Erwin Chargaff wrote "But screams and empty promises fill the air: Don't you want cheap insulin? (...) And how about a gre…

Oooh I had missed that thanks!

> reduce it do only sections that are likely to be relevant (eg. "Life and career") True but I also managed to do this from HTML. I tried getting pages wikitext through the API but…

Same experience here. Been building a classical music database [1] where historical and composer life events are scraped off wikipedia by asking ChatGPT to extract lists of `[{even…

If you like this type of maze, I used to make similar ones based on traffic-light systems. http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/04/27/viennese-mazes-what-t...

There is a 2022 french movie with the same premise (an elderly woman on her way to a hospice asks the taxi driver to drive her through Paris): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14586118…

A few years ago I started an alternative to PrinceXML called ReLaXed.js [1], it's always been sufficient for my reports but it may lack some pagination/layout features that Paged.j…

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