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Emil Funk retweeted
This is Knap. It's a new language I created that turns data into Markdown. The syntax should feel familiar and comes with wonderfully pleasant features to modify and format plain text.
Knap is open source. Over a million people already use Knap directly or indirectly because it started as the templating language I made for Obsidian Web Clipper. Now any tool can use it.
You can add Knap to your app or use it via CLI. Create a batch of Markdown files from JSON or CSV, or pipe Defuddle directly into Knap to generate Markdown from HTML/URLs.
The Knap site is color-coded to help beginners understand the relationship between variables (blue), filters (orange), and logic (green). I've tried to document it as comprehensively as I can.
Try the Knap Playground so you can see how fun the syntax is to use!
Knap is pronounced /knæp/ (with a hard k). It's named after knapping (with a silent k): the process of shaping stones to form arrowheads, scrapers, and other tools.
Enjoy!
Emil Funk retweeted
Last week, I published a chapter about color. It's fairly comprehensive:
makingsoftware.com/chapters/…
Emil Funk retweeted
I’m starting to get into a habit of reading everything (blogs, articles, book chapters,…) with LLMs. Usually pass 1 is manual, then pass 2 “explain/summarize”, pass 3 Q&A. I usually end up with a better/deeper understanding than if I moved on. Growing to among top use cases.
On the flip side, if you’re a writer trying to explain/communicate something, we may increasingly see less of a mindset of “I’m writing this for another human” and more “I’m writing this for an LLM”. Because once an LLM “gets it”, it can then target, personalize and serve the idea to its user.
Emil Funk retweeted
RFdiffusion is capable of designing diverse antibodies, that are truly de novo (no similarity to existing antibodies to those epitopes/in the training set). @RobertRagotte led the experimental effort, and characterised numerous VHH antibody binders to four different targets.
Emil Funk retweeted
Interested in lipopeptides? Check out our new review on lipopeptide regulation in Pseudomonas for biotechnology. Thanks to generous support from @novonordiskfond and huge thanks to co-authors Monica Höfte and Lu Zhou.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
Emil Funk retweeted
The EU is now entering a crucial phase in changing the law on gene editing. Please support the open letter below and share it with your colleagues. It is important that scientists speak out as anti-GM NGOs such as Greenpeace and Friend of the Earth bombard MEPs with fear-mongering. efbiotechnology.org/sections…
Emil Funk retweeted
Happy #InternationalSynthDay! 🎹 🎛️🎚️ 🎶
We teamed up with @RST_Burbank to give one lucky follower a FREE copy of @Spectrasonics Omnisphere AND a fully restored Roland Juno 106!
Enter to win these two amazing synths here: ilio.com/contest
""It cannot be stressed enough that fundamental science takes time and patience.""
In praise of research in fundamental biology via @_Glasp
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Emil Funk retweeted
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
Emil Funk retweeted
The summer is coming to an end (at least here in Denmark) so we're enjoying the last pieces of sunshine before winter starts kicking in. We're so lucky to have gotten our own office in the beautiful Copenhagen Plant Science Center at @unicopenhagen