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I got really interested in biology and genetics a few months ago, just for fun.This was largely inspired by the work of Sydney Brenner, which became the basis of my brennerbot.org project.In particular, I became very fascinated by phages, which are viruses that attack bacteria. They&#x27;re the closest thing to the &quot;fundamental particles&quot; of biology: the minimal units of genetic code that do something useful that allows them to reproduce and spread.They also have some incredible properties, like having a structure that somehow encodes an icosahedron.I always wondered how the DNA of these things translated into geometry in the physical world. That mapping between the &quot;digital&quot; realm of ACGT, which in turn maps onto the 20 amino acids in groups of 3, and the world of 3D, analog shapes, still seems magical and mysterious to me.I wanted to dig deeper into the subject, but not by reading a boring textbook. I wanted to get a sense for these phages in a tangible way. What are the different major types of phages? How do they compare to each other in terms of the length and structure of their genetic code? The physical structure they assume?I decided to make a program to explore all this stuff in an interactive way.And so I&#x27;m very pleased to present you with my open-source Phage Explorer:phage-explorer.orgI probably went a bit overboard, because what I ended up with has taken a sickening number of tokens to generate, and resulted in ~150k lines of Typescript and Rust&#x2F;Wasm.It implements 23 analysis algorithms, over 40 visualizations, and has the complete genetic data and 3D structure of 24 different classes of phage.It actually took a lot of engineering to make this work well in a browser; it&#x27;s a surprising amount of data (this becomes obvious when you look at some of the 3D structure models).It works fairly well on mobile, but if you want to get the full experience, I highly recommend opening it on a desktop browser in high resolution.As far as I know, it&#x27;s the most complete informational &#x2F; educational software about phages available anywhere. Now, I am the first to admit that I&#x27;m NOT an expert, or even that knowledgeable, about, well, ANY of this stuff.So if you’re a biology expert, please take a look and let me know what you think of what I&#x27;ve made! And if I&#x27;ve gotten anything wrong, please let me know in the GitHub Issues and I&#x27;ll fix it:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dicklesworthstone&#x2F;phage_explorer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Dicklesworthstone&#x2F;phage_explorer</a>

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Hi,I built TalkBits because most language apps focus on vocabulary or exercises, but not actual conversation. The hard part of learning a language is speaking naturally under pressure.TalkBits lets you have real-time spoken conversations with an AI that acts like a native speaker. You can choose different scenarios (travel, daily life, work, etc.), speak naturally, and the AI responds with natural speech back.The goal is to make it feel like talking to a real person rather than doing lessons.Techwise, it uses realtime speech input, transcription, LLM responses, and tts streaming to keep latency low so the conversation feels fluid.I’m specially interested in feedback about:
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– What would make you use this regularly?Happy to answer technical questions too.Thanks

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We’re Maria and Jonatan, a married couple running a small music night in Norrköping, Sweden, called Kolibri.It’s not a software project. We run it through our own small Swedish company, pay artists, and do the operations ourselves. We do one night a month (usually the last Friday) in a restaurant venue called Mitropa. A typical night is about 50–70 paying guests. The first years it was DJs only, but last year we started doing live bands as well.We made a simple site with schedule plus photos&#x2F;video so you can see what it looks like:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kolibrinkpg.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kolibrinkpg.com&#x2F;</a>On the site:<pre><code> * photos and short videos (size&#x2F;atmosphere)

 * the kind of acts we book (post-punk, darkwave, synth, adjacent electronic)

 * enough context to copy parts of the format if you’re building something similar locally

 * for the tech-curious: we built our own ticketing system (first used in February) and a media ingestion pipeline for Instagram and external photographers
</code></pre>
How it started was accidental. I was doing remote music sessions with a friend in London (Ableton projects back and forth on FaceTime), ran out of beer, and walked into the nearest place. I got talking to Nahir, who runs Mitropa, and floated the idea of running a DIY music night there. He was up for it.What made it take off was doing things in person. People will show up alone if they trust the room. Maria ended up doing a lot of that work: greeting newcomers, noticing who looks uncertain, and setting a tone where people treat each other decently.Maria didn’t come from a DJ background. Klubbvärdinnan started as a joke name at Kolibri and then became her DJ moniker. She got good quickly, and after a first gig outside our own night she started getting booked elsewhere too.Marketing-wise, what worked best was very analogue: walking around town, visiting local businesses we genuinely like, buying something, introducing ourselves, and asking if we could leave a flyer.In the beginning we weren’t sure how to present it on social media. So we filmed headphone walks: one person walking through town listening to a track we picked. It looked good, people wanted to be in them, and afterwards we’d buy them a couple of drinks and actually talk. That turned a social media interaction into a real connection. It was a bit of luck, but it worked.Questions welcome about what worked, what failed, costs&#x2F;logistics, and what we’d do differently if we started over.

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