👓 Highly integrate WordPress with Mediawiki | hawkinqian.com

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WordPress is the most popular blog software which can provide us opportunities to create beautiful and powerful websites. Mediawiki is also a very famous wiki software which can be applied to build our own knowledge pool like Wikipedia. Although some people may use WordPress to set up a small wiki system using plugins while others may use Mediawiki to blog their personal experiences, it cannot be more professional to use each of them to do things they are good at. Then the question comes as, is it possible to integrate them at the same time to make your website more functional? The answer is absolutely YES! Just take hawkinqian.com as an example. I use WordPress and Mediawiki to serve as my personal blog system and wiki system respectively, and they both function pretty well and also integrates pretty well visually. That’s what I would like to talk about, the way to highly integrate WordPress and Mediawiki.

👓 WordPress MediaWiki integration | StackOverflow

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On the other end of the spectrum, I would be happy if I could install a wiki and share the login credentials between WordPress and the wiki. I hacked MediaWiki a while ago to share logins with anot...

👓 How to Integrate MediaWiki with WordPress | WP Solver

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MediaWiki should not need any introduction to those of you who have been making Wikis online for a while now. There is no doubt that MediaWiki is a quite capable content management system for Wiki sites. It is not that hard to learn your way around it either. But integrating it with your WordPress site …

👓 How to make a wiki on WordPress for my research? Is there a plugin that work with latest WordPress 4.7.x | Quora

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👓 Call for help: We need to address suicide risk in autistic women | Spectrum | Autism Research News

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Researchers need funds to investigate why autistic women take their own lives — and how to stop them.
Alas, I’m reading this article a few weeks too late to have been aware to do so much more for a friend who in retrospect needed far more than I knew to give. I’m both gobsmacked and depressed about these numbers.

I will miss Kim Hansen’s kindness and brilliance.

👓 The promise and peril of academia wading into Twitter | Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Increasingly, scholars are turning to Twitter for sharing research and engaging with the public

👓 Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win Abel Prize for Mathematics | New York Times

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Dr. Uhlenbeck helped pioneer geometric analysis, developing techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians.

👓 8:27 pm EDT Fri Mar 15 2019 pulse rate | JR

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8:27 pm EDT Fri Mar 15 2019 pulse rate 16 to 17 beats per 10 seconds. Or 99 beats per 60 seconds. I did not check my pulse around 4am nor later in the morning but it seemed much faster. I would estimate my pulse between 130 land 150 beats per min. I think the pulse rate has declined some which is go...
An example in the wild of someone with an indie website who is posting health data.

👓 Open Your Mouth Very Wide | Peter Rukavina

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I read somewhere—perhaps it was “5 Tips to Instantly Up Your Instagram Game” or some such—that, when taking photos of people, you should ask them to open their mouths as wide as possible.

Interestingly, it works. It seems weird, both to them and to you, but the photos that result often have much more life in them than they would otherwise.

I received similar instructions many years ago from a CBC Radio producer: I was going into the studio to record a commentary, and she advised me to make my points so emphatically as to appear (to myself) to be raving. It was very hard to do this, and it made me very uncomfortable, but I had to agree that the result was better.

An interesting piece of photography advice… I like the caricature advice for audio as well. It was something that obviously worked for people like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly.

👓 Some important Known changes | Marcus Povey

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Some important changes to Known were merged in over the weekend.

Most notably, (most) external dependencies are now managed and installed via Composer, and not included natively in the repository itself.

This makes updates easier to manage, but it does mean that if you are installing from (or more importantly, upgrading from) the git repository directly, you will need to perform an extra step.

cd /path/to/known; composer install

This is particularly important if you’re upgrading, and your site is a checkout of the git repo.

I’m reminded that I desperately need to upgrade everything on my install…

👓 Engineering bioinformatics in seconds, not hours | Ryan Barrett

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It was winter 2014. Pharrell had just dropped Happy, the Rosetta probe landed on a comet, President Obama was opening diplomatic relations with Cuba

…and here at Color, the bioinformatics team had a problem. Our pipeline — the data processing system that crunches raw DNA data from our lab into the variants we report to patients — was slow. 12 to 24 hours slow.

This wasn’t a problem in and of itself — bioinformatics pipelines routinely run for hours or even days — but it was a royal pain for development. We’d write new pipeline code, start it running, go home, and return the next morning to find it had crashed halfway through because we’d missed a semicolon. Argh. Or worse, since we hadn’t launched yet, our live pipeline would hit similar bugs in production R&D samples, which would delay them until we could debug, test, and deploy the fix. No good.