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A recent study by Japanese and Belgian astronomers has solved a historical mystery about solar cycles by re-examining sunspot drawings made by Johannes Kepler in the 17th century. The debate about who first observed sunspots dates back to ancient Chinese astronomers in 364 BCE, and mistaken interpretations continued for centuries. Kepler, Thomas Harriot, and Galileo […]
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In Australia, a groundbreaking programme will offer treatment to babies with peanut allergies in an effort to build up immunity to the potentially life-threatening condition. Eligible infants will receive gradually increasing doses of peanut powder over a period of at least two years under supervision from select paediatric hospitals. Australia, known as the “allergy capital […]
DSCv3 is the latest version of Microsoft’s Desired State Configuration platform, designed to manage software components declaratively and idempotently. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows without relying on PowerShell, allowing you to write resources in various languages. While DSCv3 is a major change from PowerShell DSC, it can still invoke PowerShell DSC Resources. To […]
This GitHub repository is a mirror of Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb application for NeXT from 1991. The prototype Hypertext browser/editor allowed direct access to Hypertext servers, files, and news. The Implementation/Features.html file offers a historic changelog. The commit dates have been backdated to the last-modified day for each file, using a method detailed in the […]
Run the ArchiveTeam Warrior on your computer to assist with archiving efforts. The virtual appliance downloads and uploads sites to the archive easily and safely – it runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux without damaging your computer. Simply download the file, import it to VirtualBox, and start the machine to begin. Choose a username […]
The author discusses the current state and future potential of kdb+ in various use cases, including historical market data storage, local quant analysis, real-time streaming calculation engines, and distributed computing. They explore alternative technologies such as Python, DuckDB, Polars, and Clickhouse, highlighting the shift towards open-source solutions and the challenges faced by kdb+ in maintaining […]
A groundbreaking study led by the Singh Lab at McMaster University has discovered a new pathway that cancer cells use to infiltrate the brain, specifically in glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. This research offers hope for new treatments, including a therapy that can block and kill these tumors. The study, published in […]
Author summarizes format/library pairings for serializing and deserializing data in Lua. For fastest option, use lua-cbor for pure Lua or lua-protobuf for C library. JSON is widespread but slower; lua-cjson is fastest C library, while lunajson is pure Lua. MessagePack is more bandwidth-efficient than JSON; kieselsteini’s msgpack validates strings as UTF8 or sends them as […]
The sugarcane genome was recently decoded, revealing its complexity compared to rice. The study involved studying the diversity of crops and their evolution, shedding light on how plants have adapted over the years due to human selection and environmental factors. The research team utilized sorghum as a model plant to unravel the sugarcane genome, showcasing […]
Whoa! New evidence suggests that massive neutron stars could have cores made of deconfined quark matter, forming what could be called a ‘quark star’. Unlike ordinary neutron stars with densely packed neutrons, squeezing these neutrons hard enough could break them into quarks and gluons. Physicists at CERN and Brookhaven have created a similar ‘quark-gluon plasma’. […]