A few as in tens of thousands.

23andMe used a custom Illumina Infinium microarray designed around segments of particular interest.

https://www.illumina.com/products/by-brand/infinium.html

The wars of the future will not be fought on a battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today, remember always, your duty is clear: to build and maintain those robots. Thank you.

This is awesome.

Was there a particular application that inspired you to make this?

Agentic CAD is very much bottlenecked by rendering time (as well as generation time). If you make a small change to a big model you need to reload the whole thing which can take minutes.

Also if this is former ginkgo employee will turman, hi will! We have met before

The GitHub and X logos are chefs kiss

Well, it's certainly impenetrable.

I can't believe people spend their lives finding lazier ways to classify a bunch of objects that will end up heaped in dormitory dumpsters across the US next spring.

Mark Twain himself wrote a story about a sure thing, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County:

https://readmeastoryink.com/wp-content/uploads/stories/the_c...

Vision Pro: when you're done sitting in the dark on your couch looking at photos of the family who left you, you can use AR to remodel your apartment. It even has textures.

Wow that is dark. Personal experience?

Throwback reference to the original Vision Pro launch ad I believe

Perhaps this timecode: https://youtu.be/Btf4mN37OsU?t=52

All that did is make me want to buy one :-)

I forgot this entire product existed

Or to the drug-assisted VR scene in Minority Report. (Though that's even darker...)

You seem to have independently discovered the market failure commonly know as the Free-rider problem, for which there are many solutions, and which is not a dispositive preemptive argument against the establishment or management of common good(s).

For example, Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize for her work illuminating design principles illustrated by long enduring common pool resource institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#%22Design_princi...

It is interesting that the output of code is associated with sight and taste, while the quality of the code itself is associated with smell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell

*edit: that wikipedia page ^ itself is a pretty answer to your request for a list of things to avoid when writing maintainable code.

I think that's because you can usually smell when food is close to being rotten before you can see it...

EDIT: reading the WardsWiki reference from that Wikipedia page, there's also the point made by early users of the term that smells are something you have to check out, but don't always mean something needs fixing - e.g. a bad smell may be a gas leak, or it may just be a rubbish bin.

Pairs nicely with the fact that smell is the sense most likely to be experienced differently between two people :)

Is that actually true? Just because English treats scents as only describable by analogy doesnt mean all languages do. There are a number of languages with scent descriptions for aspects of a smell that are transferrable. [1] That suggests everyone is capable of decomposing a scent into components the same way.

If that's true, we're left with a question equivalent to "does everyone see the same red?". As far as I know, the pure version of that question cannot be answered because subjective experiences of sensation cannot be transferred. And at that point, I'd say the manner in which they're experienced differently is equivalent.

1. https://youtu.be/w3KswMaEBiI

It’s not my area of expertise, but a friend in the field told me the fun fact originally.

Looking into it, it seems like smell has the most potential for genetic variance: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3990440/

That said, I can’t find any direct research comparing perceived senses. So they (and now I) might have oversimplified.

Thanks for the link, looks interesting!