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by zulko 7mo ago
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 method which relies on short sequence overhangs. T
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by zulko 10mo ago
It does, why?
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by zulko 10mo ago
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 website specifically for comparing composer works (with timel
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by zulko 10mo ago
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 Wikipedia -> Wikidata -> Atlas. There are many projects
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by zulko 10mo ago
Thank you for reporting this!
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by zulko 10mo ago
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 "Europe meets the world": https://www.r
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by zulko 10mo ago
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/?location=xnd284b0-6&date=1923
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by zulko 1y ago
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
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by zulko 1y ago
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 very surprising (I got tetris>Fa
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by zulko 1y ago
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 who needed 2 tries one day might need 10 tries another time.
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Show HN: Verbiage, a Gemini-powered word game(verbiage.cc)
5 points by zulko 1y ago|2 comments
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by zulko 1y ago
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 chords, additional voices, all with perfect rhyth
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by zulko 1y ago
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 understand what I was listening to, I assumed "piano rol
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by zulko 1y ago
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 piano roll analysis and transcription: - Unroll: https:/&
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Show HN: A map with millions of events extracted from Wikipedia(landnotes.org)
2 points by zulko 1y ago|0 comments
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by zulko 2y ago
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.
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by zulko 2y ago
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 green man synthesizing his nourishment: 10 minutes i
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by zulko 2y ago
Oooh I had missed that thanks!
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by zulko 2y ago
> 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 couldn't find how to. Just querying the H
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by zulko 2y ago
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 `[{event, year, location}, ...]` from biographies. - Using chatgpt-
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by zulko 2y ago
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...
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by zulko 4y ago
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/
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In-browser GIF captioning with 3D CSS animations(zulko.github.io)
2 points by zulko 5y ago|0 comments
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by zulko 5y ago
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.js may have as they seem to have given this much mo
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by zulko 7y ago
Edinburgh Genome Foundry | Senior Software Engineer - Synthetic Biology and Automation | Edinburgh, UK | ONSITE | Full-time We are looking for a computational software engineer to join one of the largest automated platforms for synthetic bi
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by zulko 8y ago
I believe this could work but the website lacks samples (is it better than wikipedia, youtube videos and other tutorials ?) and a proof of authority (what makes you guys experts in the field). For 500$ you need to have a better idea of what
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by zulko 8y ago
Edinburgh Genome Foundry | Senior Software Engineer - Synthetic Biology and Automation | Edinburgh, UK | ONSITE | Full-time We are looking for a computational software engineer or computational biologist to join one of the largest automated
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by zulko 8y ago
Edinburgh Genome Foundry | Senior Software Engineer - Synthetic Biology and Automation | Edinburgh, UK | ONSITE | Full-time We are looking for a computational software engineer to join one of the largest automated platforms for synthetic bi
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by zulko 8y ago
Author here (very happy to see this on HN). I have done exactly that (automated "next slide" and audio playing at specific slides) but haven't contributed back to the repo yet. It took just a few lines of code in my slideshow
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by zulko 8y ago
Your PDF will automatically reference the h1, h2, etc, as sections and subsections in your PDF (i.e. you should see them in the sidebar's document tree in PDF viewers that have such a feature). You can also certainly generate a TOC usi

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