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Entries from 2023-01-01 to 1 year

Memo: BRICS countries

There are changes around BRICS. BRICS (the currently 5 countries) will add the plus 5 countries available from January 1st, 2024.[1][3] Argentina, which was planned to be one of the plus 6 countries, was pulled out of the plans to join the…

Information, People, and Community as a catalyst of paradigm shift

I am in Casablanca, Morroco now. I visited in this country for the first time. And I have many new experiences here. There are many of information around us. But I think it's important for us to select information that we are exposed to. I…

Traveling tools

I am in Prague airport now, and waiting for a flight. I want to introduce the traveling tools that I mainly bought in Prague. Backpack I am using backpacks that is a lightweight and flexible size with folding, and look formal so that I can…

A brain type quiz by Dr. Daniel Amen

I tried a quiz in the website https://www.brainhealthassessment.com/ by Daniel G. Amen, MD. And my type was the brain type 5. www.youtube.com The traits of the brain type 5 is below. Cautious Prepared Motivated Busy Mind Can Have Trouble R…

AI-based apps in biomedical literature and document mining

I am trying to install AI-based applications such as BioBERT and BioGPT to play. The following paper summarizes the list of applications and what we can do for the technologies very well. Applications of cutting-edge artificial intelligenc…

Czech language: Improving listening numbers.

To improve my Czech language listening about numbers, My teacher introduced the following website to me. It is fun to practice it on the website. Czech Numbers Listening Practice

Install and setup ydotool on sway on Fedora

The ydotool is a kind of Wayland version of the xdotool. How to install Install the ydotool RPM package. $ sudo dnf install ydotool $ rpm -q ydotool ydotool-1.0.4-1.fc38.x86_64 Enable and start the daemon. $ sudo systemctl enable ydotool $…

Cooking beef steak with sous vide

Sous vide is a cooking tool to boil foods at a specific temperature and time. I have been using a sous vide to cook beef steak. Because it is the leading food that I instake ingredient by. I want to eat a healthy beef steak not depending o…

Card number checksum

I am reading the book Understanding the Digital World - Brian Kernighan - Japanese translation edition. It's a book to learn computer science as a liberal arts. And I see a checksum algorithm of card number invented in 1954 is interesting.…

Lisbon, Portugal

I traveled there in July. Padrão dos Descobrimentos This is called byobu. There was trading between Japan and Portugal around 15XX ~ 16XX. This byobu was given by Japan to Portugal. Grilled cod (bacalhau).

Porto, Portugal

I traveled to Porto and Lisbon, Portugal in July 2023. In a small art gallery in an art district in Porto. I really like this area. An authentic Japanese cafe, Musubu Cafe Proto (map). A brown rice onigiri with wakame (2/3 brown rice, and …

Install LibreSSL on Fedora

I am working for Ruby OpenSSL library and OpenSSL. and Ruby OpenSSL Library's repository supports both OpenSSL and LibreSSL that is a fork from OpenSSL. It seems that LibreSSL is mainly used in *BSD. To fix LibreSSL related issues, I need …

Genome data ecosystem

I think that in biology, the ecosystem Ecosystem - Wikipedia means a system of living things (organisms). You can imagine a variety of living things in the forest, jungle, or sea. But I am using the terminology "ecosystem" as another meani…

Nebula Genomics summary & thoughts

The process until getting the report I wrote I submitted Nebula Genomics on my past blog. I selected the Ultra-deep 100x coverage plan. If I checked my email history, it is below. I ordered it on 1st November 2022. I received the kit from …

Organisms are algorithms - A case of alcohol biochemical pathway

The famous historian Yuval Nora Halari mentioned "organisms are algorithms" in the main stage of the World Economic Forum in January 2018.[1] In this article, I want to show that the algorithms exist commonly in software, hardware, and bio…

DevConf CZ 2023 in Brno, Czech Republic

I attended DevConf CZ 2023, the 3 days event from Friday to Sunday yesterday. What is DevConf CZ? The event DevConf means Developer's Conference with so many technical and non-technical sessions. Total 280 sessions. Over 1100 attendances. …

HiFi / ONT genome asssembly pipeline with WDL in ECCB 2022

Last year in 2022, I helped to present the demo for HiFI / ONT (Oxford Nanopore Technology) genome assembly sequencing pipeline on WDL (Workflow Definition Language) in the event ECCB (European Conference on Computing Biology) 2022. It see…

Sweep Bling LP: Typing letters by shorting pins on the controller and caution

Previously I wrote an article about what to do before soldering the DIY keyboard. This article is also about the topic. Prepare before soldering Typing letters by shorting pins on the controller After succeeding in flashing the firmware of…

Sweep Bling LP: Flash the controller: Sea Picro via QMK before soldering on Fedora 36

Bought a new split keyboard: Sweep Bling LP In the past article, I wrote my plan to buy a new split keyboard. Now I bought a new split keyboard, called Sweep Bling LP at Beekeeb - Sweep Bling LP, and I already got it. Beekeeb's Sweep Bling…

Open Science and Research Assessment

I wrote a blog article about an incentivized system in academia. This article is also about the topic. I found the videos of the "Workshop on Open Science and Research Assessment - From a European to a Local perspective" published a few da…

Debugging OpenSSL with GDB and ltrace

This article is to note to debug OpenSSL with GDB. I use the case of this issue on OpenSSL making a segmentation fault on OpenSSL version 3.0.1, then fixed in OpenSSL version 3.0.2. My environment Fedora 37 GCC version 12.2.1 $ gcc --versi…

Exploring a DIY split keyboard and CAD file

I am testing my 24 keys keyboard layout on Moonlander. And I think it's time to consider buying a new "DIY" split keyboard. Below is my current preference. A new DIY split keyboard PCB: Sweep Bling LP (GitHub, Shop) or Aurora Sweep is a ca…

An incentivized system in academia and a game changer in bio-tech

An incentivized system in academia Recently I learned Goodharts law by this article. If an incentivized system measures or evaluates people by strong force using something to achieve a goal, the something tends to be the goal itself. The o…