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How the fuck does one "assemble DNA" lol Sorry but that's so outside of my understanding it reads like pure science fiction (I'm sure it's a thing, I'm just a moron)
Very very small tweezers.
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this is the coolest thing I have ever read. How did you even get into that?
I found a virology textbook at the local Catholic book fair when I was in 6th grade, got hooked, teacher in 7th grade let me order GFP transformation kits to the school that I could do at home, then off to the races from there. I was in this article if you're interested in more deets: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/biohackers-gene-e...
That's awesome. I also got hit hard by the science bug (pun intended) as a kid, which I can partly attribute to finding a random virology textbook in an academic bookstore dollar bin. I was obsessed with virology at least until college. I ended up majoring in math in college but made it through Ochem II and did some lab internships before committing to that path. Now I'm a ML/software engineer with a healthy interest in biochem.
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
this is the coolest thing I have ever read. How did you even get into that?
I found a virology textbook at the local Catholic book fair when I was in 6th grade, got hooked, teacher in 7th grade let me order GFP transformation kits to the school that I could do at home, then off to the races from there. I was in this article if you're interested in more deets: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/biohackers-gene-e...
Cool! Though it's a bit scary how easy it would be for someone to make something dangerous as mentioned in the nyt article. The 2018 article ends:
>“There are really only two things that could wipe 30 million people off of the planet: a nuclear weapon, or a biological one,” ....
>“Somehow, the U.S. government fears and prepares for the former, but not remotely for the latter. It baffles me.”
I guess we may have seen that kind of thing happen a year later with covid though that would have been government sponsored mucking around rather than DIY if it wasn't natural. Not sure how we stop that happening again?
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#394I’m working on https://langible.com , a language learning app intended to be fun like Duolingo and effective like Anki. Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
Just playing with it now for German, and the second ever set of words it taught me were ‘Er’, ‘aus’, and ‘Dorf’, and it then asked me to fill in the blank: Er ist aus unserem Dorf …only it hadn’t taught me ‘unserem’, so I had no way of even guessing the right answer. (I just had to get it wrong intentionally.) Is this intended behaviour or should it also have taught me ‘unserem’ first?
Thank you for checking it out!
That is not the intended behaviour, but happens sometimes when the NLP pipeline and the dictionary don’t agree on the part-of-speech of a particular word.
I’ll have to run a script identifying all such cases in the built-in decks and most likely correct them by hand.
Happy to hear any other thoughts or issues so I can make it better :)
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#395My own photogrammetry pipeline because I'm fascinated by the tech (automatically create 3d models from photos). There are also a huge number of commercial applications but I haven't addressed one well enough yet. https://beholder.vision So far I've built a first pass of the pipeline using C++/CUDA and used it to power a SaaS and desktop photogrammetry app (free for personal non-commercial use). Got some useful feedba…
I would love if someone would make a photometry app that ingests video (such as iPhone video of my house or drone footage of my property) and outputs a 3D gaussian splatting model. I want it just for fun, but I’m sure it to real estate agents!
Maybe that will interest you
https://80.lv/articles/kiri-engine-creates-meshes-from-3d-ga...
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#396I'm building electronic modules and software for high performance robotic joint control. Finally got my web store up. https://arbite.io
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a Bezos-ism: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/the-two-p...
Thank you ^... to parent comment... Apologies. I will likely change that. Probably too tongue-in-cheek.
Haha, no worries.
Totally forgot about that.
Also always hated that analogy because in Italy 1 person = 1 pizza. (And 2 for me)
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#398industry: esports
i help to sync upcoming esports matches to your Google calendar https://tournacat.com/. it's 1-click install away and you pick the esports title of your choice.
currently, we're at about 160+ users
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This is so incredibly narcissistic and mercantile. Being a grown up means you understand that you're not owed any gifts and that when somebody makes you a gift it is mainly for their pleasure and something to be grateful for, that they thought of you. These kind of people who think receiving gifts is some kind of entitlement are the same kind of people who start bringing up their diets when you invite them for dinner…
Wait, hang on, not wanting to be served poison for dinner is a cold calculating reptilian thing to do? What else do these reptilians do? Run the government?
What these reptilians do is only think about themselves.
If you're invited for dinner it doesn't mean that somebody owes you a meal. It means somebody wanted to make a nice gesture towards you and get to know you more intimately, perhaps to discuss important things.
You eat something before you go, because it's not about the food. You can ask about the ingredients when you are at the table.
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#400I am working on a data management tool called Ottava. Essentially, it's a tool that enable users to input data in a format resembling a pivot table, allowing them to conduct data analysis without the need for data transformation. For instance, users can create a gradebook with student names in the row header and subject in the column header.
The tool automatically converts this layout into database (unpivot), enabling users to perform aggregations such as SUM or AVERAGE without having to write formulas. Because the structure designed by the user often carries significance, such as organizing dates into columns with a hierarchical structure like Year -> Quarter -> Month.
Users can organize their data with grouped rows/columns and insert aggregations. Simultaneously, Ottava can derive insights from the structure metadata and propose various types of charts for data exploration. Subsequently, users can select the charts they are interested in, choose datasets, or drill down into the charts, providing further insight for Ottava to offer more precise chart suggestions based on user interactions.
Unlike AI with the capability to autopilot, our objective is to build a Mazda MX-5 for data analysis: providing users with both enjoyment and control while exploring data.