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@vanderZwan@vis.social
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Wrote the loom viewer at LinnarssonLab, now at Primity Bio. he/they

A like from me usually implies "I would have boosted this but I don't think it's quite appropriate for the instance I'm on".

Profile photo description: a crop of an outdoor group photo, zoomed in on the face of a man of mixed Asian-European ethnicity with black hair, a beard and a moustache, wearing red-tinted color-blindness correcting glasses.

JobJun 5
So apparently when the display software of the SJ trains crashes it defaults to showing a trailer for Big Buck Bunny as part of its debugging info.
JobJun 1
Can't believe I never read this until now, only twenty pages in and it's already fantastic.
JobMay 16

Hey, psst, would you like an intuitive explanation of binary and hexadecimal numbers? (and really, any number base as long as it's a positive whole number)

Because I may have something for you.

https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/binary-counting-made-easy

Made with @observablehq

(I started working on this all the way back in 2019 and then completely forgot about about it for six years 🙈)

edit: just discovered that this was broken on mobile, should work now.

If you can count, you can understand binary and hexademical numbers

or: the data compression method every (literate) person on the planet uses every day. The first time I was introduced to binary and hexadecimal numbers I was struggling. The same when I had to learn about the "base" of numbers and changing "between" them. For me the problem was that it was explained purely through formulas, detached from something concrete to build an intuition on. This is my attempt at fixing that. Now, I'm not going to say that binary and hexadecimal numbers aren't hard to understand. The

Observable
JobApr 25
Gonna miss this series. At least it ended on a high note
JobMar 22

Ok this is the most niche of complaints but I cannot find a version of mancala in Sweden that's sold with dried seeds and it makes me want to cry because IT JUST SOUNDS WRONG WITH STONES

Edit: So I just looked on-line for what kind of seeds they are to see if I can get them separately somehow. The seeds are from, and I'm not joking, the "Job's tears" plant. Most far-fetched nominative determinism ever I guess?

Show threadJobMar 9
"Your fractal is the fractal that will pierce the heavens!"
JobMar 9

Got a bit nerd-sniped by the latest Numberphile video this weekend and made an interactive website to play around:

https://nbd.neocities.org/chaosgame/

(the numberphile video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnRhnZbDprE )

JobFeb 17

Our friends have a one-year-old who is already taller and heavier than our two-year-old.

My partner: "well, it's not surprising since his dad is really tall."

Me: "wdym, he's just average?"

My partner is visibly confused before we remember, once again, how biased my perception of height is due to growing up in the tallest province of the tallest country in the world.

(For the Americans, 185.2 cm is close to 6'1". On average.)

JobFeb 13
Thanks for the tip, @marlies!
JobFeb 9
Another collaboration between my two-year old and me. She didn't even realize she made a pun when she told me what to draw