Cool graphic calculator. It has a huge library of readymade stuff to play with. Made very nicely.
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June 21 2019, 11:55
I need to get to grips with the basics of immunology for work, as a project is starting in England next week where this knowledge will be necessary. I found some interesting lectures and the best collection of articles in the world. I’m leaving this here for future reference and for anyone else interested in the topic. If anyone has other useful links, throw them in the comments.
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June 19 2019, 15:49
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Juliet was played by Diana Damrau, the same who was Violetta in La Traviata. She’s about to hit fifty, but no matter, her Juliet was quite splendid. But despite all my hopes, in the end, everyone still died
June 16 2019, 20:43
From the lifeguard’s table at the pool. Dostoevsky in Turkish translation is clearly more about the plot than the form. It turns out that the whole world knows Dostoevsky from the perspective of the plot, and for those who know Russian, an additional barrier is the language itself, full of outdated words and constructions. Partly for this reason, many even avoid starting Dostoevsky in Russian, while readers in other languages do not face this problem. Of course, translators also try to preserve the form (remember Joyce), but still … Constance Garnett (1861-1946) translated 70 volumes of Russian prose, including all of Dostoevsky’s novels, hundreds of Chekhov’s stories and two volumes of his plays, almost all works of Tolstoy, major works by Turgenev, Herzen, Goncharov, and Ostrovsky. Such a volume of work could not help but reflect on the quality of execution. Garnett worked at an incredible speed, and when she encountered an unfamiliar word or phrase, she simply skipped it and translated further. Garnett often uses a smoothing translation with elements of orientation towards the target language; in general, her work resembles a free translation, a kind of retelling of the original. Vladimir Nabokov repeatedly expressed his dislike for her translations, and once even called her translation of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” “a complete disaster”. Joseph Brodsky agreed with him, stating that he understands why English-speaking readers might struggle to differentiate between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, because they are reading neither of them, they are reading Constance Garnett. Another critic of K. Garnett’s works is Korney Chukovsky, who particularly dislikes her translations of Dostoevsky. He wrote: “Reading the original, who does not feel in his (Dostoevsky’s) style the convulsions, the nervous tremor? It manifests in the convulsions of syntax, in the frantic and somewhat piercing diction, where malicious irony is mixed with tears of anguish and despair. But with Constance Garnett, it’s a smooth, well-groomed writing: not a volcano, but a lawn trimmed in the English style”. Interesting work – https://nauchkor.ru/uploads/documents/587d36545f1be77c40d58cc3.pdf
P.s. Ezilenler in Turkish translation means “the oppressed”
June 16 2019, 15:01
Saved a turtle. Silly thing, crawled onto the road. It’s a box turtle, it has an interesting feature – the lower shell has a hinge that allows it to completely close its head and tail. I used to have a Central Asian turtle at home, it didn’t have such a thing.
June 15 2019, 23:40
On the way to Philadelphia, I enjoyed the lecture by Zhenya Timakova “Where Does Society Begin,” which presented a plethora of interesting examples based on the behaviors of ants, termites, and monkeys. https://youtu.be/OUI2DXdY9Bw
On the way back – a course by the linguist Elena Shmeleva “What can swear words, jargon, and filler words tell us about language?” (available only by subscription in the “Radio Arzamas” app).
June 14 2019, 11:13
It would be cool to develop an iPad app where you could create a cartoon or comic with your voice. Something like “The bear jumps out of the bushes and says ‘Boo!'”. On the other hand, this app would have freelance developers and designers who would teach the characters various actions. Such actions could be purchased through something like an app store, which would provide bread and butter for the designers and developers, and joy for the children (and sadness for the parents, but that’s beside the point). The final video could be uploaded to YouTube in just a couple of clicks. It could start with 2D (although it would be 3D under the hood), though implementing the render on the tablet in 3D is not very complicated. For simplicity, at the start, the number of “characters” would be limited (like Masha and the Bear), as would the environment options (furniture, etc.). The basic set would include interaction of all characters with the entire environment and the ability to recognize intent from the speech of the person “programming” the cartoon. This is the trickiest part because the interaction needs to be quite complex. Moreover, you can approach a table or a chair from different sides. This can be said in various ways. The trick is that the user will speak what should happen. To combat this complexity, a community is needed. As soon as something doesn’t work as intended, immediately there appears a cheap package that makes it work. The user connects it – and voila. The developing company periodically buys packages and includes them in the free set. To prevent the local app store from overflowing with junk, quality standards and quality control by other designers and developers, recognized by the company as fair, are introduced. If, in parallel, another cartoon is launched on TV on the same theme or an already popular one is used (like Masha and the Bear, but in this case royalties would be huge), would it be successful? Konstantin Kharitonov ?
June 13 2019, 23:30
Friends, does anyone of you host your own podcast? Could you please drop me a message for a couple of questions? )
June 13 2019, 01:34
Preparing for a small project in the world of microbiology, I browse thematic websites, listen to lectures about antibodies, and am astounded by the prices of reagents that laboratories primarily purchase for research. First, a typical catalog consists of tens of thousands of items, and each costs hundreds of dollars. Among them are particularly expensive ones, like twenty drops of Anti-BRAF costing almost $10,000. There are so many trading antibodies online… hmm.. antibody trade. Sounds, though… seriously, it’s a very interesting field. If a child has not yet decided where to go to study, then bioengineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, cytology, immunology are wildly promising.
June 12 2019, 01:16
Very useful (yet another) presentation from Mary Meeker on internet trends, now for 2019
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 