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  2. Nov 2024
    1. The key questions at play here

      reply to michaljjwilk at https://hypothes.is/a/rwiI4rJYEe62aaN50r2zzQ to ensure it's properly indexed:

      Most following my argument will have likely read The Two Definitions of Zettelkasten which may cover some of your initial question, or at least from my perspective. (Others certainly have different views.)

      Some of your questions relate to what Robert Hutchins calls "The Great Conversation" (1952) and efforts over time to create Summa or compilations of all knowledge.

      Variations of your remark about Plato can be seen in later Greeks' aphorism that "Everywhere I go in my head, I meet Plato coming back." or more recently in A.N. Whitehead's statement that everything is "a footnote to Plato".

  3. Oct 2024
    1. Review coordinated by Life Science Editors Foundation

      Reviewed by: Dr. Angela Andersen, Life Science Editors Foundation & Life Science Editors. *Assisted substantially by NotebookLM.

      Potential Conflicts of Interest: Angela thinks Olivia Rissland is everything a scientist should be.

      What is an N-degron? N-degrons are short amino acid sequences located at the N-terminus of a protein that signal for the protein's degradation. This process is an essential part of protein quality control and regulation within cells. N-degrons are recognized by specific E3 ubiquitin ligases, also known as N-recognins, which help target the protein for degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system.

      How was this new Arg/N-degron pathway discovered? The authors were initially studying how N-terminal sequences affect gene expression using a reporter gene assay. They found that a specific tripeptide motif (KIH) inserted at the N-terminus of a reporter protein led to a dramatic decrease in protein expression. Further investigation revealed that this decrease was due to rapid protein degradation, indicating the presence of a novel N-degron.

      What are the key features of this new N-degron pathway? This newly discovered N-degron pathway targets proteins with a lysine (K) or arginine (R) residue at the third position (position 3) from the N-terminus. Importantly, this pathway requires: * • Methionine Removal: The initiator methionine (M) at position 1 must be removed by the enzyme methionine aminopeptidase 2 (MetAP2) for the degron to be active. * • UBR4 Recognition: The E3 ligase UBR4, but not UBR1 or UBR2, recognizes this specific degron and initiates the degradation process.

      Why is the identity of the second amino acid important? The second amino acid plays a crucial role in determining whether MetAP2 can cleave the initiator methionine. This study found that the degron is only active when the second amino acid is threonine (T) or valine (V). These amino acids allow MetAP2 to remove the methionine, exposing the lysine or arginine at position 3 for recognition by UBR4. In contrast, if the second amino acid is alanine (A) or serine (S), MetAP1 removes the methionine. The researchers hypothesize that these N-termini are then acetylated, preventing UBR4 recognition.

      Is there evidence that this pathway affects endogenous proteins? Yes, analysis of previously published data and additional experiments by the researchers suggest that this MetAP2-UBR4 pathway is not limited to artificial reporter systems. They found that endogenous proteins with MTK or MVK N-termini were less stable than those with other amino acids at position.

      Does UBR4 work alone in this pathway? UBR4 appears to function as part of a complex with the protein KCMF1 to degrade proteins containing this new degron. Experiments showed that disrupting the UBR4-KCMF1 complex stabilized the degradation of reporter proteins containing the KIH degron.

      What is the broader significance of this discovery? The identification of this new Arg/N-degron pathway expands our understanding of the N-end rule, a fundamental mechanism for protein degradation in cells. It highlights the complexity of this system and reveals how the interplay between different enzymes like MetAP2 and E3 ligases like UBR4 can fine-tune protein stability. Additionally, it suggests that there may be other undiscovered N-degron pathways that remain to be characterized.

      What questions still need to be answered about this new pathway? This study raises several new questions, including: * • Substrate Specificity: What are the precise rules governing UBR4 recognition of position 3 lysine and arginine degrons? Do other amino acids in the protein sequence affect degron recognition? * • Physiological Roles: What are the specific cellular processes and pathways regulated by this MetAP2-UBR4 N-degron pathway? * • Evolutionary Conservation: Is this pathway conserved in other organisms, or is it unique to mammals? * • Therapeutic Potential: Could this pathway be targeted for therapeutic purposes? For example, could stabilizing proteins involved in disease by manipulating this pathway be beneficial?

      What was not known: * • Whether a lysine or arginine residue at position 3 of a protein could act as an N-degron. * • Whether MetAP2 could play a role in initiating N-degron-mediated degradation.

      What this preprint reveals: * • A new family of N-degrons: The study identified a new class of N-degrons characterized by a lysine or arginine residue at position 3, following a methionine at position 1 and a MetAP2-cleavable residue (threonine or valine) at position * • MetAP2-dependent initiation of the Arg/N-degron pathway: The study found that MetAP2-mediated removal of the initiator methionine is essential for the recognition and degradation of these position 3 lysine/arginine degrons. This is the first demonstration of MetAP2's involvement in this pathway * • UBR4 as the primary E3 ligase: UBR4, rather than UBR1 or UBR2, was identified as the primary E3 ligase responsible for recognizing and targeting proteins with the newly identified position 3 degrons for degradation. * • Role of downstream residues: The study showed that amino acid residues downstream of the position 3 lysine/arginine can influence both methionine cleavage by MetAP2 and recognition by UBR4, highlighting the complexity of the N-degron pathway. * • Endogenous protein regulation: The study provided evidence suggesting that this MetAP2-dependent, UBR4-mediated Arg/N-degron pathway regulates the stability of endogenous proteins, highlighting its broader biological significance.

      Ang's take- somewhat specialized and 'ectopic' but important, thorough, and unambiguous. Satisfying. Very likely to be physiologically relevant even though most of the assays were done with reporters. Regardless, showing that this rule 'is' true is useful for technological applications.

  4. Aug 2024
    1. One large study by Ben D. Woodand Frank N. Freeman in 1932 paved theway for acceptance in elementary schools.The study included 14,947 children ofelementary-school age in an experimenton the effect of the typewriter on class-room performance (3). The children whohad typing instruction actually spent onlyan hour or two a week at the typewriter,yet at the end of the first year they out-performed the nontyping pupils in read-ing.
  5. Jul 2024
    1. it might help people live more meaningful lives, by feeling a sense of connection to the greater whole of the human species, and allowing this connection to guide their lives.

      for - more meaningful lives from connecting to the greater whole of the human species - n other words - experience the sacred

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    1. Chancellor Edward N. Brandt, Jr., wearing ared T-shirt that said “The Great Discard,” chose a drawer of thecatalog and pulled it from the cabinet. With the help of a beamingCyril Feng, who was then the director of the library, he drew theretaining rod from the chosen drawer and let its several hundredcards ceremonially spill into a trash can decorated with coloredpaper.

      The intellectual historian in me: 😱

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      • for: MET, MST, MCT, FET, MET - information, MST - information, Amanda N. Robin, major evolutionary transition, major system transition, facilitating evolutionary transition

      • Title:Major Evolutionary Transitions and the Roles of Facilitation and Information in Ecosystem Transformations

      • Author: Robin et al.
      • Date: 2021

      • Abstract

        • A small number of extraordinary “Major Evolutionary Transitions” (METs) have attracted attention among biologists.
        • They comprise novel forms of
          • individuality and
          • information,
        • and are defined in relation to organismal complexity, irrespective of broader ecosystem-level effects.

        • This divorce between

          • evolutionary and
          • ecological consequences
        • qualifies unicellular eukaryotes, for example, as a MET although they alone failed to significantly alter ecosystems.

        • Additionally, this definition excludes revolutionary innovations not fitting into either MET type

          • (e.g., photosynthesis).
        • We recombine
          • evolution with
          • ecology
        • to explore how and why entire ecosystems were
          • newly created or
          • radically altered
        • as Major System Transitions (MSTs).

        • In doing so, we highlight important morphological adaptations that spread through populations because of

          • their immediate, direct-fitness advantages for individuals.
        • These are Major Competitive Transitions, or MCTs.

        • We argue that often
          • multiple
            • METs and
            • MCTs
        • must be present to produce MSTs.

        • For example, sexually-reproducing, multicellular eukaryotes (METs) with

          • anisogamy and
          • exoskeletons (MCTs)
        • significantly altered ecosystems during the Cambrian.

        • Therefore, we introduce the concepts of Facilitating Evolutionary Transitions (FETs) and Catalysts as

          • key events or agents that are insufficient themselves to set a MST into motion,
          • but are essential parts of synergies that do.
        • We further elucidate the role of information in MSTs as transitions across five levels:

          • (I) Encoded (Genetic);
          • (II) Epigenomic;
          • (III) Learned;
          • (IV) Inscribed; and
          • (V) Dark Information.
        • The latter is ‘authored’ by abiotic entities rather than biological organisms.

        • Level

          • IV has arguably allowed humans to produce a MST, and
          • V perhaps makes us a FET for a future transition that melds
            • biotic and
            • abiotic life
          • into one entity.
        • Understanding the interactive processes involved in past major transitions will illuminate both
          • current events and
          • the surprising possibilities that abiotically-created information may produce.

      Indyweb / Indranet citations - Michael Levin, Roy Baumeister, Adam Omary youtube conversation - specifically, the question about whether a social superorganism of global human civilization / society / culture constitutes a new Major Evolutionary Transition of Individuality - https://hyp.is/rQgvZn2hEe6-TF8HFSS9mg/docdrop.org/video/UfoVTA0ilsY/

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    1. "Surrendering" by Ocean Vuong

      1. He moved into United State when he was age of five. He first came to United State when he started kindergarten. Seven of them live in the apartment one bedroom and bathroom to share the whole. He learned ABC song and alphabet. He knows the ABC that he forgot the letter is M comes before N.

      2. He went to the library since he was on the recess. He was in the library hiding from the bully. The bully just came in the library doing the slight frame and soft voice in front of the kid where he sit. He left the library, he walked to the middle of the schoolyard started calling him the pansy and fairy. He knows the American flag that he recognize on the microphone against the backdrop.

  13. Aug 2023
    1. TL;DR For classic Rails apps we have a built-in scope for preloading attachments (e.g. User.with_attached_avatar) or can generate the scope ourselves knowing the way Active Storage names internal associations.GraphQL makes preloading data a little bit trickier—we don’t know beforehand which data is needed by the client and cannot just add with_attached_<smth> to every Active Record collection (‘cause that would add an additional overhead when we don’t need this data).That’s why classic preloading approaches (includes, eager_load, etc.) are not very helpful for building GraphQL APIs. Instead, most of the applications use the batch loading technique.
    1. N+7 algorithm used by the Oulipo writers. This algorithm replaces every noun—every person, place, or thing—in Hacking the Academy with the person, place, or thing—mostly things—that comes seven nouns later in the dictionary. The results of N+7 would seem absolutely nonsensical, if not for the disruptive juxtapositions, startling evocations, and unexpected revelations that ruthless application of the algorithm draws out from the original work. Consider the opening substitution of Hacking the Academy, sustained throughout the entire book: every instance of the word academy is literally an accident.

      How might one use quirky algorithms in interestingly destructive or even generative ways to combinatorially create new things?

  14. Jul 2023
    1. Visualizing a Field of Research With Scientometrics: Climate Change Associated With Major Aquatic Species Production in the World
      • Title
        • Visualizing a Field of Research With Scientometrics: Climate Change Associated With Major Aquatic Species Production in the World
      • Authors
        • Mohamad N. Azra
        • Mohn Iqbal Mohd Noor
        • Yeong Yik Sung
        • Mazlan Abd Ghaffar
      • Date July 13, 2022
      • Source
      • Abstract
        • Climate change research on major aquatic species assists various stakeholders (e.g. policymakers, farmers, funders) in better managing its aquaculture activities and productivity for future food sustainability.
        • However, there has been little research on the impact of climate change on aquatic production, particularly in terms of scientometric analyses.
        • Thus, using the
          • bibliometric and
          • scientometric analysis methods,
        • this study was carried out to determine what research exists on the impact of climate change on aquatic production groups.
        • We focused on
          • finfish,
          • crustaceans, and
          • molluscs.
        • Data retrieved from Web of Science was
          • mapped with CiteSpace and
          • used to assess
            • the trends and
            • current status of research topics
          • on climate change associated with worldwide aquatic production.
        • We identified ocean acidification as an important research topic for managing the future production of aquatic species.
        • We also provided a comprehensive perspective and delineated the need for:
          • i) more international collaboration for research activity focusing on climate change and aquatic production in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal by 2030;
          • ii) the incorporation of work from molecular biology, economics, and sustainability.
  15. Jun 2023
    1. Five core layers: 1. Presentation Layer 2. Application Layer 3. Domain Layer 4. Persistence Layer 5. Database Layer

    2. In the layered architecture pattern, each layer fulfills a specific responsibility and role within the application. Some focus on user interface logic, while others handle the execution of business rules. These layers complement each other's unique purposes, but they aren't explicitly reliant on one another to perform their own tasks.
    3. In software architecture, layers act as individual processes within the infrastructure of an application. These layers typically form a pattern, also called the n-tier architecture pattern.
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    1. This is the vision of OP Sapiens Star—that human’s evolution is not finished, and that the hyperthreat provides the impetus for a quantum leap into a new way of being. Through achieving a galactically significant mission—saving Earth’s ecological integrity—the Homo sapiens species “stars” within the universe. Humans go from being a menace and fighting one another to being heroic, creative, and tolerant.    

      This can be interpreted as an instantiation of the hero's journey, in the context of research that combines evolution with ecology as in the research paper: Major Evolutionary Transitions and the Roles of Facilitation and Information in Ecosystem Transformations (Robin et al., 2021).From this lens, cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) was first made possible through spoken language, then accelerated through written language. The authors claim that another Major System Transition (MST).is emerging, which they posit to be abiotic in nature involving Artificial Intelligence.

      Faced with a self-induced civilization-scale threat, we may ask whether a major cultural evolution may be necessary to avoid catastrophe and whether it may constitute another MST. Could a rapid higher level global understanding of the epistemological dualism of self and other which undergirds normative alienation, othering and conflict, both with others of our own species, of other species and with the planetary system itself play a major role in the transition?

    1. Pathogenic germline variants in DICER1 underlie an autosomal dominant, pleiotropic tumor-predisposition disorder.

      gene name: DICER 1 PMID (PubMed ID): 33570641 HGNCID: n/a Inheritance Pattern: autosomal dominant Disease Entity: benign and malignant tumor mutation Mutation: somatic Zygosity: heterozygous Variant: n/a Family Information: n/a Case: people of all sexes, ages, ethnicities and races participated CasePresentingHPOs: individuals with DICER1-associated tumors or pathogenic germline DICER1 variants were recruited to participate CasePreviousTesting: n/a gnomAD: n/a

  23. Mar 2022
    1. nicholas lerman is a sample of one 01:09:54 and if the zerocarton is a tool for thinking there are all these other thinkers out there who are thinking um and do we know how they're thinking how their 01:10:07 how you know what note systems are they using i'd like to i'd like to be able to place lerman yeah amongst all these others and and sort of in the zerocast and 01:10:23 see what others are doing as well and yeah i mean if there was one project i would have loved to do is going around 01:10:36 asking everyone i whose work i admire how do you do it how do you do it exactly what do you do in the morning how do you sit down how do you digest the books you're reading 01:10:48 um i was obsessed with the idea and it's just because i'm too shy to follow up on that

      Some discussion of doing research on zettelkasten methods and workflows.


      What do note taking methods and processes look like for individual people?


      What questions would one ask for this sort of research in an interview setting (compared to how one would look at extant physical examples in document-based research)? #openquestions


      Link this to the work of Earle Havens on commonplace books through portions of history.

  24. Jan 2022
    1. will accept late work at no penalty because life happens. Such life events are unwelcomedbecause I understand how difficult these times are. That being said, please contact me at yourearliest convenience if you need an extension to the due date for assignments.

      Not like I will be late, but how long are usually the extensions given or accepted?

  25. Dec 2021
    1. It’s not an accident or a misfortune that great-books pedagogy is an antibody in the “knowledge factory” of the research university, in other words. It was intended as an antibody. The disciplinary structure of the modern university came first; the great-books courses came after.

      It seems at odds to use Charles W. Eliot as an example here as his writings described by Cathy Davidson in The New Education indicates that Eliot was specifically attempting to create standards in education that are counter to Menand's argument here.

  26. Nov 2021
    1. Once it was not just okay but admirable that Chua and Rubenfeld had law-school students over to their house for gatherings. That moment has passed. So, too, has the time when a student could discuss her personal problems with her professor, or when an employee could gossip with his employer. Conversations between people who have different statuses—employer-employee, professor-student—can now focus only on professional matters, or strictly neutral topics. Anything sexual, even in an academic context—for example, a conversation about the laws of rape—is now risky.

      Is it simply the stratification of power and roles that is causing these problems? Is it that some of this has changed and that communication between people of different power levels is the difficulty in these cases?

      I have noticed a movement in pedagogy spaces that puts the teacher as a participant rather than as a leader thus erasing the power structures that previously existed. This exists within Cathy Davidson's The New Education where teachers indicate that they're learning as much as their students.

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    1. Vats

      A vat is a large barrel or tank in which liquids can be stored. 大桶; 缸

    2. misapprehension

      N-VAR A misapprehension is a wrong idea or impression that you have about something. 误解; 误会

    3. donor

      捐赠者;供者;赠送人

    4. biopsy

      活组织检查;活组织切片检查;切片检查法

    5. visionaries

      空想主义者;愿景者;远见者(visionary的复数)

    6. rodent

      N-COUNT Rodents are small mammals which have sharp front teeth. Rats, mice, and squirrels are rodents. 啮齿动物

  31. Jan 2021
    1. quandary

      N-COUNT If you are in a quandary, you have to make a decision but cannot decide what to do. 不知所措

    2. vegans

      n. a strict vegetarian; someone who eats no animal or dairy products at all

    3. vegetarians

      N-COUNT A vegetarian is someone who is vegetarian. 素食者

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  38. Feb 2019
    1. the melancholy mournings of the turtle,

      gilmanhernandez already linked to the video I was considering, but (according to a cursory search of YouTube at least) videos of turtle sounds are also likely to be videos of turtles mating or attempting to mate, so how 'mournful' they are is perhaps up to interpretation... 😂

  39. Jan 2019
    1. nature—as opposed to cul-ture—is ahistorical and timeless?

      Doreen Massey has an interesting book that touches on this (Space, Place, and Gender), where she points out that time and space are treated as binaries, where time is typically masculine and dynamic and space is feminine and static. Nature (gendered feminine) is spatial, a place, and therefore not a time ("ahistorical and timeless"). Culture, on the other hand, is temporal, dynamic, masculine. It's a very particular rhetoric which begs the "which one?" question.

      (While Massey points out this common way of conceiving of time/space and binaries in general [A vs. Not A], she argues that the concept of space needs to be defined on its own merit, distinct from its binary opposite.)

  40. Jul 2018
    1. Even Charlotte and the girls were too much for him to-night. They were too... too... But all his drowsing brain could think of was—too rich for him.

      I'm curious about what we would find by tracking the word "too" across the entire Mansfield short story corpus, mainly with word counts, word collocations, and n-grams. My hypothesis would be that the word "too" appears most frequently (perhaps exclusively) in stories with thematics of excess, both material and immaterial.

    2. And after all the weather was ideal.

      The story begins with the additive conjunction "and," which already suggests accumulation (and perhaps even festive excess) on a syntactical level. Some part-of-speech tagging and n-grams would allow us to see how often the speaker uses additive conjunctions, and to what effects.

  41. May 2018
    1. Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal. Only a solemn man who brought him fruits Thanked him; and then enquired about his soul.

      not many care for his return from war but for those who celebrated his return were not that excited to see him only one man showed his appreciation toward the guy with no legs. he thanks the man in the wheel chair for sacrificing his life for the people. he also gave out fruits to him showing his appreciation.

  42. Feb 2018
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    1. Mop 'N Glo 2.0
      1. Dai-Riki 135 size 14
      2. 140 denier yellow thread
      3. Mop tenticles
      4. Clown egg material
  44. Dec 2017
    1. Check each input form field for an ID and a corresponding LABEL or a descriptive TITLE. Fieldset and Legend may be used for grouping and associating two instructions to one input field.

      Does this mean wrapping an edit field with a label is not sufficient? Do such labels need a for attribute pointing to the id of the field?

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    1. Oh, and that Dycpgc-Egpj-uyllyzc was going on about some other such nonsense here. Methinks she believes she’s clever. Ha. Perhaps, insightful, even . Haha. Again, you be the judge ^.^ 

      Nmr, wms pcyjjw lccb rm kccr rfyr icrrjc~

    1. eye

      Qm ufw lmr pcnspnmqc rfc "yaacqqmpgcq" glrm yarsyj mlcq jgic zmuq? Kcrfgliq rfcw'b yr jcyqr zc md sqc rfcl... Qglac wms'pc yjj ynnypclrjw kmpc zjglb rfyl kwqcjd ^.^

  49. Feb 2017
    1. Rumors are undeniably resilient, but they are far easier to trace, track, and debunk now than they were when Franklin Roosevelt or Al Smith was running for president.

      Very true. If people note that they were debunked.

  50. Jan 2017
    1. The second, you have to live with for a while, before you can hear where it wants you to go. But for that, you need time and attention and effort, resources that are deeply endangered, in the era when all music is available to anyone from anywhere all the time.

      Attention / Rock n roll

    2. Even the most interesting of them rarely survived repeated listening. I wanted a kind of music that could concentrate me, that could teach me how to concentrate. Music that would keep getting richer and deeper, the more I listened.

      rock and roll / attention

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    1. It's like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself."