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❤️ randal_olson tweeted 10 most populous cities in the world from 1500-2018. #dataviz https://t.co/vtGEBVLdYk https://t.co/uvIkuE4VDI
10 most populous cities in the world from 1500-2018. #datavizhttps://t.co/vtGEBVLdYk pic.twitter.com/uvIkuE4VDI
— Randy Olson (@randal_olson) March 19, 2019
👓 Call for help: We need to address suicide risk in autistic women | Spectrum | Autism Research News
Researchers need funds to investigate why autistic women take their own lives — and how to stop them.
I will miss Kim Hansen’s kindness and brilliance.
👓 The promise and peril of academia wading into Twitter | Johns Hopkins Magazine
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
Dr. Uhlenbeck helped pioneer geometric analysis, developing techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians.
👓 Schedule | WordCamp Santa Clarita Valley
We’re thrilled to debut the first-annual WordCamp Santa Clarita will be held at the Dr. Dianne G. Van Hook University Center University Center on the campus of College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California. Friday, April 5, Beginner’s Day Time Vásquez Rocks Vásquez Rocks were named after...
👓 Ten Things About Me | Aaron Davis
At the start of each team meeting somebody shares a few things to get to know each other a little more. Here are some notes relating to my contribution …
👓 Fill Crawlers | Kicks Condor
Some notes on how I am using crawlers as I’m collecting links.
👓 Gopher? Gopher. | Peter Molnar
Since last weekend, I’ serving my site over gopher as well. Yes, that nearly forgotten 90s protocol. And it’s not even an april fools joke.
👓 8:27 pm EDT Fri Mar 15 2019 pulse rate | JR
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...
WebLikes is a simple protocol for adding Likes to pages outside of any silos, on the open web.
It always feels good to catch up with #indieweb. I don't know why. Probably because I'm 100% sure the people I'm subscribed to are real.
Twitter will never understand this. Everyone may be a bot. Including your friends...
👓 Open Your Mouth Very Wide | Peter Rukavina
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.
👓 Some important Known changes | Marcus Povey
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.
👓 Engineering bioinformatics in seconds, not hours | Ryan Barrett
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.