Trick to viewing ANSi art in a Linux terminal:
iconv -f CP437
DNA is tiny. How can we actually detect a piece of code at macroscopic scale? Multiply the DNA by billions!
That's PCR and it's how we can detect viruses/bacteria, disease, know if food is deadly.
OpenPCR is a GPL'd soft/hardware design for low cost (medical) diagnostics everywhere.
Teach computer science to kids - without a computer.
CS Unplugged uses cards, string, crayons, and printable activities to teach "computer" science concepts without the PC.
Note: CS != Programming.
A lot of cool things you can do w/ homomorphic encryption. I tried out Google's new transpiler to build a tiny program which took over an hour to compile but worked in the end. Performance is one area that needs more work. (Image is of partial homo crypto) https://github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption
Where dies B&M Gates Foundation money go? Mostly to cure diseases. I'm not seeing any pattern of problems but you can view grants/amounts for yourself: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants
Twitter @Foone got Doom playing on a pregnancy test: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302820468819288066?s=19
Disk storage price over time (decreasing like Moore's Law). But what about the next decade? https://jcmit.net/disk2015.htm
Pet #dev peeve: websites which show code and when you copy them it turns out the normal quotes were converted into LEFT & RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARKs
Tech entrepreneur living in Vietnam for a decade. Open source hacking since the 90s. I sometimes make techno with Renoise tracker (supports Linux). Fan of noodles, NLP/linguistics, parsing data in Python, decentralized protocols, and shell scripting his/him life. Bird site: @tomosaigon | @tomoXtechno