marathon @marathon0@qoto.org

"Schools across Uganda will close two weeks before the scheduled end of term after 23 Ebola cases were confirmed among pupils, including eight children who died.

Education Minister Janet Kataha Museveni said on Tuesday that the cabinet had taken the decision to close preschools, primary schools and secondary schools on November 25 because densely packed classrooms were making students highly vulnerable to infection."
#Ebola

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/8/uganda-to-close-schools-early-after-eight-children-die-of-ebola

I thought I had avoided the dreaded Covid-19 until a month or two back when I developed a hacking cough that lasted for 4 - 5 days and I felt a bit off colour. A Lateral flow test was positive so I kept my head down for a week or so. After 7 days I was testing -ve every day for 3 days so I considered myself safe to venture out (masked of course). I didn't get a proper professional test as to do so would have meant taking a bus into town thus putting a bus full of people at risk!

It was all over comfortably within a week except that I experienced what I believe was the dreaded brain fog quite noticeably. For example: I'd be looking at the computer and thinking "I need to create a Word document". It would then take me anything up to 30 seconds to figure out how to do that. That sort of fogginess!!! (I used to be a computer programmer so creating a Word document is not alien to me at all).

Thankfully, my full faculties seem to have returned to me but it was getting rather scary for a while!

Has anyone experienced similar symptoms?

Arctic ice volume continues to go up in the monthly report.
https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2022/11/arctic-ice-volume-marches-to-different.html

This is the most uncontroversial chart. You don't have to extrapolate, but be happy for the polar bears.

"The vaccine, called Qdenga and developed by the pharmaceutical company Takeda, headquartered in Tokyo, is particularly significant because it is the first for people who have not been exposed to dengue. The virus infects up to 400 million people a year. The Indonesian drug regulator approved use of the vaccine without testing for previous exposure in August. Europe’s drug regulator is also considering approving the vaccine without testing."
#Dengue

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03546-2

Approval of a vaccine against Dengué fever without requiring pre-testing is a dramatic step forward. Dengué fever is, at present, confined to the tropics but with global warming, one of the primary vectors of the disease, the Asian Tiger mozzie, has been found in some areas of Europe. If it can establish itself here, so surely will Dengué fever.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03546-2

I have spent a few years developing a #microresponsive web site design and management system called #ecoWeb. It results in much smaller site code, which is thus more #sustainable (less energy & resource) and much faster - google #PageSpeed Insights conclude up to 99% speed.
Altogether a good thing I suspect?
Examples are:
https://operabrava.com &
https://sailscorpion.co.uk
I am interested in talking with others who have an interest in this area of better engineered performant web sites?

Golden temple

#Buddhist #Temple #Wat #Architecture #GooglePixel #Travel #Google #Pixel #Photography #Pixel6 #TeamPixel #Pixelfed #Asia #Buddha #Thailand #ShotOnPixel #Yaowarat #Chinatown

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Now that I have the opportunity, let me #introduce our quality-diversity #compchem algorithm to Mastadon. It's based on @janhjensen 's generative algorithm. We avoid stagnation issues, and illuminates opportunities across chemical space, and outperforms #deeplearning approaches!

Code: https://github.com/Jonas-Verhellen/Argenomic

Paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/sc/d0sc03544k

#drugdesign #optimisation #algorithm #chemistry #generative

Less than 45 minutes, including preparation, and the rice is done in parallel

EU talks a lot about Free Movement of Goods + People but it only applies to Goods. In 2004 #EU was in a rush to get Eastern Europe countries into EU - Why? To access a cheap pool of Labour for Western Europe and to get them into #NATO - And now look where NATO expansion got us..?

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/wallacemick/status/1590010749400756224