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E. Coli K-12 MG1655 operon thrLABC by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
That page lists several components of the promoter, which we should try to understand!
After the first gene in the codon, thrL, there is a rho-independent termination. By comparing:we understand that the presence of threonine or isoleucine variants, L-threonyl and L-isoleucyl, makes the rho-independent termination become more efficient, so the control loop is quite direct! Not sure why it cares about isoleucine as well though.
TODO which factor is actually specific to that DNA region?
Luchezar L. Avramov is a mathematician known for his work in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and related fields. He has contributed to the understanding of modules over local rings and the properties of various algebraic structures.
Marie Johanna Weiss does not appear to be a widely recognized figure or concept in public knowledge based on information available up to October 2023. It's possible that there may be individuals with that name, or it could refer to something less known or more recent.
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Michel Kervaire was a French mathematician known for his contributions to topology, particularly in the field of algebraic topology and geometric topology. Born on January 21, 1927, he is best known for the Kervaire-Millson theorem regarding the existence of certain smooth structures on spheres in high dimensions. He has made significant contributions to various areas within mathematics, particularly in the study of manifolds and homotopy theory.
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"Punk Goes 80's" is a compilation album released in 2005 as part of the "Punk Goes…" series produced by Fearless Records. This specific album features punk and alternative bands covering popular songs from the 1980s. Each track offers a punk interpretation of iconic songs from that decade, showcasing the bands' unique styles while paying homage to the originals.
Wu Man by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
Chordate subclade by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
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Peter Cameron is a noted mathematician known for his contributions to various areas of mathematics, particularly in combinatorics, algebra, and graph theory. He has made significant strides in the study of permutation groups, finite geometries, and design theory. Cameron has published numerous papers and has contributed to the mathematical community through his research and teaching. In addition to his research work, Peter Cameron has held academic positions at various institutions and has been involved in mathematical education and mentorship.
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Philip Hall can refer to a few different things, depending on the context. Here are a couple of possibilities: 1. **Philip Hall (Mathematician)**: Philip Hall was a British mathematician known for his work in group theory and combinatorial design. He made significant contributions to mathematics in the mid-20th century.
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Human genome by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
OurBigBook.com / Action plan by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated +Created
The steps are sorted in roughly chronological order. The project might fail at any point, and some steps may be carried in parallel:
  • make OurBigBook Markup good enough, to the point that it allows to create a static version of the website, which is used to prototype certain ideas, and for Ciro to start writing test content.
    Status March 2022: reached a point that it is already highly usable. The following website may continue.
  • create a basic implementation of the website, without advanced features like PageRank sorting and WYSIWYG. This is not much more than a blog with some extra metadata, so it is definitely achievable with constrained resources.
  • find a university teacher would would like to try it out.
    Ciro would like to volunteer to work for free for this teacher and students to help the students learn.
    He would like act like a "super student" who has a lot of free time and motivation.
    Ciro would start by mapping the headers of the lecture notes onto the website, and then slowly adding content as he feels the need to improve certain explanations.
    Finding teachers willing to allow this will be a major roadblock: how to convince teachers to use CC BY-SA.
    If such enlightened teacher is found, it will allow for the initial validation of the website, to decide what kind of tweaking the idea might need, and start uploading quality technical content to the site.
  • once some level of validation as been done, Ciro will start looking for charitable charitable grant opportunities more aggressively
  • if things seem to be working, start adding more advance features: PageRank-like ranking sorting and WYSIWYG editing
    The recommendation algorithms notably is left for a second stage because it needs real world data to be tested. And at the beginning, before Eternal September kicks in, there would be few posts written by well educated university students, so a simple sort by upvote would likely be good enough.
Ciro decided to start with a decent markup language with a decent implementation: OurBigBook Markup. Once that gets reasonable, he will move on to another attempt at the website itself.
The project description was originally at: github.com/cirosantilli/write-free-science-books-to-get-famous-website but being migrated here. The original working project name was "Write free books to get famous website", until Ciro decided to settle for OurBigBook.com and fixed the domain name.

Pinned article: ourbigbook/introduction-to-the-ourbigbook-project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
    .
    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact