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Molecule Generation Experience

I wrote the article about the molecule recommendation before [1]. Now the interesting service called "IBM" MolGX" (IBM Molecule Generation Experience) was launched from IBM Research [2][3][4]. Updated by 12th March 2021. IBM Research also …

A sustainable laptop: Framework laptop

I see the success of the business model of FairPhone who does things differently unlike other phone companies, and the growth, who was featured by World Economic Forum recently [1]. Now we can see the laptop version from a new company "Fra…

Nature Aging launched

Nature Aging [1] was launched on 14th January 2021. Here is the message. [2] One of the articles: "Artificial intelligence in longevity medicine" [3] looks interesting. One of the authors, Alex Zhavoronkov who published the book "THE AGELE…

Memo: WHO Model List of Essential Medicines

This one. [1][2]. According to [3] - definition, the essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. According to [1], are the medications considered to be most effective and safe to meet the mo…

Scaling the Scientific Method

2 challenges related to scaling scientific method I did read the book Lifespan [1], that is a new detailed inclusive report and history of aging biology. I see 2 challenges in the process of the science. First, verifying a hypothesis needs…

The best devices/apps 2020

As a 2nd part of my reflection in 2020, I share my best devices and apps I bought in 2020. Devices Fairphone 3 [1] When I wanted to buy the battery replaceable phone that users can replace it easily by themselves, this phone attracted me. …

Reflecting on 2020

Foreword Happy New Year 2021! In the past I have been writing articles about my year of reflection in Japanese. But this time changing my mind, I would do in English as other articles for some reasons. Reflecting on 2020, first I focused o…

Daigo Umehara's Lecture at Keio Univerity

In the past, as I shared on the blog [1], I have been inspired by Daigo Umehara who is a pioneer and well-known professional gamer in the world. I think his talk or focus is about avoiding an approval emotion as extrinsic motivation, and e…

Theory of constraints (TOC) - thinking process

There is a management paradigm Theory of Constraints (TOC) [1] developed originally from hard science by Eliyahu Goldratt. This time my goal is to clarify the steps for all the stakeholders to find bottlenecks (constraints) to change in a …

Designing healthy habits

The goal is to maximize my energy in AM after waking up, and improve an environment to think. I noticed caring some basic needs is important to do some activities for higher needs, according to the human's growth psychology models such as …

Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

When you arrive to "Kutná Hora hl.n train" station from other cities, then use a small local train to go to "Kutná Hora město" train station to go to the city centre or use the bus. I recommend the cafe "Dobrá Čajovna Kutná Hora" [1]. I vi…

Pardubice, Czech Republic

I recommend "Galerie Café park restaurant" Galerie Café park restaurant: http://www.galeriecafepardubice.cz/ , Address: Sukova tř. 2876, 530 02 Pardubice I

Náchod and Adršpach, Czech Republic

When I looked for a good place to think, I found this place. Náchod Náchod is a small city but good place to stay to think, buying the healthy foods, going to the restaurants. And it is accessible to Adršpach and from other cities in Czech…

i3: Install & set up Japanese input environment

I installed and did set up Japanese input environment on i3 window manager on Fedora. Here is the working log. Install Install the following packages at first. $ sudo dnf install fcitx $ sudo dnf install fcitx-configtool $ sudo dnf install…

Telč and Třebíč, Czech Republic

Telč Třebíč

Berlin

Some photos from 2020 early winter travel before COVID-19 lock down. Potsdamer Platz "Rice On! Berlin" [1] in Berlin Hauptbahnhof building. I went 2 times in the travel. :-D References [1] https://www.riceon.de/

Anatomy

Book The books "カラー図解 新しい人体の教科書" ("Color pictured book: New textbook of Human Body" in English) I bought was very interesting unexpectedly. カラー図解 新しい人体の教科書 上 (ブルーバックス) | 山科正平 | 医学・薬学 | Kindleス…

i3: window manager

I have an issue that is mouse lag in Gnome 3, Fedora 32. I could not find the solution after checking it. This issue does not happen on other installed window managers KDE Plasma and dwm. And it also did not happen on Gnome 3 in another la…

Install Fedora 32

Note to install Fedora 32 to a laptop. I like the way to install it from the USB bootable media. Go to https://getfedora.org/en/, then check the way https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/. Create the USB media Referr this web site.…

Install Miniconda3 on Fedora

Install Miniconda referring the Miniconda and Installing in silient mode. Install /home/root/local/miniconda3-py38-4.8.3 is installed directory in my case. $ wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-py38_4.8.3-Linux-x86_64.sh $ …

Desire for big picture - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Let's say that you are at a restaurant, you are hungry. Do you like ordering a food without seeing all the menu? Or you want to order it after seeing all the menu, checking which is the best? The second pattern connects to the desire for s…

DNA sequencing: Standing of the shoulders of giants

Learning materials of DNA sequencing I found the teaching materials of Ben Langmead who is the author of bowtie and bowtie2. This is a great material to learn DNA sequencing. Langmead Lab @ Johns Hopkins University - Teaching Materials: ht…

Florence, Italy

The photos are from the travel last year.

Rome, Italy and Vatican

The photos are from the travel last year. Rome and Vatican.

Budapest, Hungary

The photos are from the travel last year.

Videos: Sequncing and history

Just put interesting videos about the DNA sequencing and the history. Reading DNA - Clive Brown, CTO of Oxford Nanopore Technologies www.youtube.com Broad@15 Talk Series; From bases to bytes (Live Stream) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU…

Toledo, Seville and Arcos de la Frontera, Spain

The photos from months ago. Toledo Seville Arcos de la Frontera

The day of changing the context of capitalism

I think that the important context of the present capitalism is sustainable growth. It is a scaffold of today's education, values and people's behavior in many regions. Growth is an encouraged value in the regions, but it was not always en…

yEd Graph Editor for Linux?

I love the tool yEd Graph Editor. yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, and macOS. It's available on Linux too. Is it packaged like FreeMind on Linux? www.yworks.com

Biomakespace to start training for gene editiong and sequencing with MinION

Very exciting news. https://biomake.space/home/blog/mozilla-grant-win-biomakespace-facilitates-accessible-gene-editing-and-dna-sequencing-technology Publicly-available datasets, open hardware, and good open-science practices will be used t…