WormAtlas by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
A collection of closely related and curated C. elegans datasets.
The default isolation level for SQLite is SERIALIZABLE
It does not appear possible to achieve the other two levels besides SERIALIZABLE and READ UNCOMMITED
SARS-CoV-2 Nsp5 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Protease that cuts up ORF1ab. Note that it is also present in ORF1ab.
Raspberry Pi Pico H by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-26
Has Serial wire debug debug pre-soldered. Why would you ever get one without unless you are a clueless newbie like Ciro Santilli?!?!
It is however possible to solder it yourself on Raspberry Pi Pico W.
Once upon a time, the British Government decided to invest some 80 million into quantum computing.
Jeremy O'Brien told his peers that he had the best tech, and that he should get it all.
Some well connected peers from well known universities did not agree however, and also bid for the money, and won.
Jeremy was defeated. And pissed.
So he moved to Palo Alto and raised a total of $665 million instead as of 2021. The end.
Makes for a reasonable the old man lost his horse.
www.ft.com/content/afc27836-9383-11e9-aea1-2b1d33ac3271 British quantum computing experts leave for Silicon Valley talks a little bit about them leaving, but nothing too juicy. They were called PsiQ previously apparently.
The departure of some of the UK’s leading experts in a potentially revolutionary new field of technology will raise fresh concerns over the country’s ability to develop industrial champions in the sector.
More interestingly, the article mentions that this was party advised by early investor Hermann Hauser, who is known to be preoccupied about UK's ability to create companies. Of course, European Tower of Babel.
PostgreSQL logging by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ubuntu 21.10 has a certain default level of logging by default to:
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-13-main.log
but it does not log everything, only/mostly errors it seems.
Setting:
log_statement = 'all'
under:
/etc/postgresql/13/main/postgresql.conf
and then restarting the server:
sudo service restart postgresql
just works.
Optical table by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
For example, that is how most modern microscopes are prototyped, see for example Video "Two Photon Microscopy by Nemonic NeuroNex (2019)".
This is kind of why they are also sometimes called "optical breadboarbds", since breadboards are what we use for early prototyping in electronics. Wikipedia however says "optical breadboard" is a simpler and cheaper type of optical table with less/no stabilization.
Video 1.
A simple refracting telescope built on an optical bench by plenum88 (2013)
Source.
Just like the adenine nucleotide translocator moves ATP/ADP in and out, this one moves loose phosphate in.
Both of those together recycle the cellular respiration carriers from/to the mitochondria.

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