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A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free
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Souradip Mookerjee
A new era of personalised medicine: or how I got myself sequenced for free!
I should probably say that my primary reason for signing up to a stem cell donor registry is to actu...
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"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio]
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BBC
BBC Radio 4 - Out of the Ordinary, Series 8, How to memorise anything
How the world of 'memory sports' was rocked by a group of North Korean teenage girls.
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BackBlaze: Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
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Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
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How SpaceX lands Starship (sort of)
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Medium
How SpaceX lands Starship. (sort of)
aka: how I βaccidentallyβ discovered what I already suspected: optimization methods are at the heart of landing rockets.
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Lets Lisp like it's 1959 (2019) [video]
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Lets LISP like it's 1959
Kristoffer Gronlund
https://2019.linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/153/
One of my favorite papers in computer science is the original LISP
paper by John McCarthy. Written in 1959, it describes something
mind-bending: The interpreter for a language inβ¦
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Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
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The Zulip Blog
Zulip 4.0: Threaded open-source team chat
Weβre excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 4.0, containing hundreds
of new features and bug fixes! Zulip is an open-source
team collaboration tool with unique
topic-based threading that combines the best of
email and chat to make remote work productiveβ¦
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The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
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Quanta Magazine
The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces
Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more universal theory of cognition.
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Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
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GitHub
GitHub - syncthing/syncthing: Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization. Contribute to syncthing/syncthing development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Wake Turbulence from a Paper Airplane (2020) [video]
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YouTube
Wake Turbulence From a Paper Airplane
A huge thank you to photographer Michael Marston for allowing me to share his wake turbulence video, which helped make this video possible. Check out his pages below!
Michael's YouTube βΊhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7tX9ADmDjL1QkNYptlsOOw
Michael'sβ¦
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Framework Laptop β pre-orders are now open
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Framework
Introducing the Framework Desktop and newest Framework Laptop 13
Choose between our latest Framework Laptop 13 powered by Ryzen
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AI 300 Series processors or our brand new Framework Desktop with Ryzen
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AI Max Series processors.
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Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor
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Battlestar Galactica Lessons from Ransomware to the Pandemic
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www.theinsight.org
Battlestar Galactica Lessons from Ransomware to the Pandemic
Networked vulnerabilities are thorny
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Ads Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban
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themarkup.org
Ads Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban β The Markup
The company pledged to eliminate ads for sites that charge hefty fees for otherwise free or inexpensive servicesβbut they continue
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By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave
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Ars Technica
By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave
The Neanderthals appear to have met a very bad end.
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The Pin-Pen Merger (2020)
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Acelinguist
The PIN-PEN Merger
Why are so many Americans rhyming "ten" and "tin"? The origin of this ubiquitous feature in American English.
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Machine Learning Is a Marvelously Executed Scam
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Last Week in AWS
Machine Learning is a Marvelously Executed Scam
Machine Learning is a Marvelously Executed Scam I've joked periodically that machine learning (or "ML") adherents claim to be able to sort through vast
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In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly
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IEEE Spectrum
In Mahle's Contact-Free Electric Motor, Power Reaches the Rotor Wirelessly
There's no wear and tearβand no rare earths, either
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Tether reserves backed by 2.9% cash
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Tether says its reserves are backed by cash to the tune of . . . 2.9%
Rather far off from the 100% it used to claim isnβt it?! But still, we now have βunrivaled transparencyβ AKA pie charts!
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Show HN: Hupreter β Create apps by describing them in English
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Microfarms come to South L.A. frontyards, bringing fresh produce to food deserts
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Los Angeles Times
'Microfarms' come to South L.A. frontyards, bringing fresh produce to food deserts
Jamiah Hargins wants microfarms to feed Los Angeles one frontyard at a time.
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Scala 3.0.0
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GitHub
Release 3.0.0 Β· scala/scala3
Release blog post at https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2021/05/14/scala3-is-here.html
Changelog from 3.0.0-RC3
Fix typo in file name #12181
Tasty: set experimental to zero #12438
Contributors
Thank...
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