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RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50%
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RNA demethylation increases the yield and biomass of rice and potato plants in field trials
Nature Biotechnology - Rice and potato plants are more productive after epitrannoscriptome engineering.
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Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code
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George Mandis
Idle JavaScript Observations
Further adventures in JavaScript
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Another misstep for Audacity
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lwn.net
Another misstep for Audacity
While it has often been said that there is no such thing as bad publicity,
the new owners of the Audacity
audio-editor project may beg to differ. The project has only recently
weathered the controversies around its acquisition by the Muse Group,
proposed…
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Algorithmic Botany, Biological Modelling and Visualization Software
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Two Japanese Jabberwocky Poems (2017)
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J-En Translations
Two Japanese Jabberwocky Poems - J-En Translations
This is one of my favourite essays from my MA in Translation Theory and Practice. The MA certainly focuses more on the theory side of translation which is evident from this essay. The point of the essay was to compare
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Preserving Worlds: a travelogue through aging but beloved virtual worlds
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Preserving Worlds
A documentary travelogue through aging virtual worlds.
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Update to Our Privacy Policy and Apology
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Update to Our Privacy Policy & Apology · audacity/audacity · Discussion #1353
Today, we are introducing a revised privacy policy to address the concerns raised with the previous privacy policy published earlier in July. The original policy, which was drafted in anticipation ...
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Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
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Winaero
Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
Windows 11 contains some quite drastic and visual changes compared to the good-old Windows 10. After installing Windows 11 preview builds, which are
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Beware explanations from AI in health care
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Science
Beware explanations from AI in health care
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms are increasingly developed in health care for diagnosis and treatment of a variety of medical conditions ([ 1 ][1]). However, despite the technical prowess of such systems, their adoption has…
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Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos
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Smithsonian Magazine
Why Australia’s Trash Bin–Raiding Cockatoos Are the ‘Punks of the Bird World’
The birds can bust open garbage lids—and the behavior is catching on fast, which could be a sign of social learning
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Entropy and Algebra and Topology = ?
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Math3Ma
Entropy + Algebra + Topology = ?
Today I'd like to share some math connecting ideas from information theory, algebra, and topology. It's all in a new paper I've recently uploaded to the arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09581), which describes a correspondence between Shannon entropy and…
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The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how science fiction works
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Public Books
The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on How Science Fiction Works
“We're in a science fiction novel now that we are all co-writing together.”
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Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
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Search Engine Land
Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result
Google now list several of the factors it used to rank a result in the about this result section.
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BirdNet – The Easiest Way to Identify Birds by Sound
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Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator from App Store
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MacRumors
Apple to Pull 'iDOS 2' DOS Emulator From App Store
iDOS 2, an app designed to allow users to play classic DOS games, will soon be pulled from the App Store, the app's creator said today. ...
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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
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www.mcmillen.dev
93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs | Colin McMillen
TLDR: read the paper and view the gallery of pretty Perl programs. In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?
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GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Go community
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The GitHub Blog
GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Go community
GitHub’s supply chain security features are now available for Go modules, which will help the Go community discover, report & prevent vulnerabilities.
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Can we survive technology? John von Neumann 1955 [pdf]
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Can we survive technology - von_Neumann_1955.pdf
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Website changes design each time you blink
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realless.glitch.me
This site changes design and makes you feel weird each time you blink.
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Syncthing: Syncing All the Things
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lwn.net
Syncing all the things
Computing devices are wonderful; they surely must be, since so many
of us have so many of them. The proliferation of computers leads directly
to a familiar problem, though: the files we want are always on the wrong
machine. One solution is synchronization…
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Ethereum dev Virgil Griffith back in jail after checking $1M Coinbase account
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Protos
Ethereum dev Virgil Griffith back in jail after checking $1M Coinbase account
Indicted Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith is back to jail after allegedly breaching bail conditions by checking his Coinbase balance.
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