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John Sulston Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16

Fun fact, in 2024 Ciro Santilli corrected John's place of birth on hist Nobel Prize page: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2002/sulston/facts/, details: Getting a list of all currencies from Wikidata with SPARQL.

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John Sulston in 2008
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16

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The cool think about Ramanujan is how British mathematicians heard about him and then just went crazy that someone they had never heard of before had come up with so many novel results. It is as if God had come down from the clouds and handed them those results. Without proof. But in that field of research, the statements are not easy to come up with, so much so that G. H. Hardy commented that:

they must be true, because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them

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Nova (American TV program) Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16

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They suffer extremely from Section "To talk about something without giving the real name to not scare off the audience". But they also have merits.

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Science bibliography Created 2024-11-26 Updated 2025-07-16

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I'd rather starve Created 2024-11-19 Updated 2025-07-16

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This section is about idealists who would rather starve doing what they love or believe in rather than do shitty jobs to survive. Artists for the most part you may call them.

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Zim Created 2024-11-18 Updated 2025-07-16

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Zim zim-wiki.org/

Local only.

WYSIWYG:

bold
images
lists. But it is either hard or impossible to have a paragraph inside a list item.

Mathematics requires a plugin and a full LaTeX install: zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Equation_Editor.html They have a bunch of plugins: zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins.html

Can only link to toplevel of each source, not subheaders? And subpages get forced scope. github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki

Publishing to static HTML can be done with:

zim --export Notes -o out

The output does not contain any table of contents? There is a plugin however: zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Table_Of_Contents.html

It is unclear if their markup is compatible with an existing language of if it was made up from scratch. Wikipedia says:

In Zim, text is written and saved in a lightweight mark-up that is a hybrid of DokuWiki and Markdown.

You can't determine the ordering or pages at the same level, alphabetical ordering of force. The poplevel is encoded in notebook.zim:

[Notebook]
home=Home

Feature request: github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/issues/32. It's not usable as a publishing system!

Doesn't seem to have image captions: superuser.com/questions/1285898/picture-description-in-zim-wiki-0-64

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The Academic Family Tree Created 2024-11-18 Updated 2025-07-16

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E.g. list of papers by Isidor Isaac Rabi which includes A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment.

But unfortunately they don't have paper to paper citations.

neurotree.org/neurotree/faq.php explains that you have to contact an admin to download the database, kind of sad:

How can I export tree data for my own analysis?
Registered users should contact the site administrator (admin at neurotree dot org) for instructions on how to export data from the tree database.

That page also explains how they disambiguate authors with the same name:

How do you identify researchers' publications?
Publications data are drawn from two databases: Medline and Scopus. Because of the large number of researchers with the same name, a disambiguation algorithm is required to accurately link researchers to papers they have authored. We match authors to papers using a two-step process. First, we identify candidate publications based on a simple string match between researcher name and the author list. Second, we look for overlap between co-authors and other individuals in the researcher's mentor network (trainees, mentors, collaborators, etc), and label publications with overlap as high-probability matches. Thus a complete family tree is likely to produce more accurate publication matches.