Alan Emtage is a Bajan-Canadian computer scientist who created Archie, the world’s first Internet search engine. It helped users find files on public FTP archives and was created and implemented in 1989, nearly a full decade before Google came onto the scene (that also means it’s as old as me!) If you find this page …
They were really putting radium in the water, huh?
23andMe is struggling and I can’t find my tiny violin anywhere. I’m sure some people have taken comfort in their DNA results but so many haven’t and I’ve always had concerns about the data.
Primes and pitchforks.
Good news for Oceanic frogs—research suggests frogs in other contintents hold the key to fighting off deadly fungi that are killing them: […] There’s evidence that some frogs are naturally evolving resistance. Scientists are also trying to exploit the fungus’s sensitivity to temperature by building Bd-free (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) habitats or moving frogs to locales where the fungus can’t survive.
otterwiki is Python-based wiki software. As someone who loves Python and wikis, I had to post it here. Sadly the otter is just for the name and logo.
Is there anything Arduino boards can’t do? (Don’t answer that.)
A different kind of quantum realm.
Knowable Magazine wrote about the Cybathlon, an international event that focuses on robotics and assistive technology research for disabled people.
For Quanta, Steven Strogatz spoke to computational biologist Franziska Michor about the role that mathematics and machine learning could play in “the next generation of cancer care”.
Old Windows Phone, who dis?
On 17th September, the UK government announced an initiative called Sankore, with up to £1.9 million in funding to strengthen science, technology and innovation in Ghana and Nigeria through its West Africa Research and Innovation Hub.
The press release also has a link to an information page on how to apply.
Jet Suit Radio, anyone?
For Knowable Magazine, Liam Drew explained how a new drug that could reduce effects the risk of kidney disease in Black Americans of West African descent: […] success will depend upon drugs reaching the right people — and reaching them before kidneys are damaged beyond recall.
orama is a full-text, vector, and hybrid search module with a unique API
and all in less than 2KB. Been seeing a lot of these JavaScript search modules pop up and while vector search isn’t all that new, it’s nice to see lightweight versions for smaller scale projects. And the docs are powered by Astro!
Why lies beneath?
From jot to bot.
Auto Shenanigans travelled to Redditch to trace the history of cloverleaf interchanges and ask why there aren’t more in the UK. Spoiler alert: cost and safety.
What a remarkable orange-ment!
John D. Cook wrote an interesting blog post on mentally multiply by π should you not have access to a calculator. As someone who remembers π to 11 decimal places and used it as a chat-up line once (it kinda worked), this resonated with me.