Author: Anna Andrews-Mills
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Copilot Like Program for Genetic Engineering
Recently I started a conversation with a few friends and coworkers about the idea of a Copilot like program for genetic engineering. Hoping that someone would have some ideas or theories that might test my understanding of what AI tech can do currently and what it might do in the future. GitHub’s Copilot uses the […]
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Do Bees Take Breaks?
Do bees take breaks? Or are they just constantly working? Is flying back to the hive like a break or a walk after work? Is that when they think about other things? What do bees think about? Maybe these are silly questions, but what’s wrong with that! Why does it seem like kids are the […]
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Education and Learning Systems
I’ve been thinking a lot about education, from how we teach our youth to how we teach ourselves. My favorite way to learn is by doing. By getting my hands dirty, performing experiments, testing to see what happens, and making note (maybe only mentally) of what I learn, I seem to both retain better, and […]
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Bring Back the Pure Patron
Lets forget about crowd sourcing, twitch streaming, and things like Patreon for a time. How did the idea of a patron of the arts come to be? Why did it exist? And should we try to bring it back? patron (n.) “a lord-master, a protector,” c. 1300, from Old French patron “patron, protector, patron saint” […]
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Quote: Longing
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea. Antoine De Saint-Exupery I’m not sure why this quote stuck with me. My mom used to read The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, […]
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Made Up Words
The word sonder has crossed my path a few times. It’s not an officially recognized word by Webster’s standards… yet. But you might say, ain’t it just a matter of time? (Depending on your age and/or knowledge of linguistic history you might get that “ain’t” wasn’t recognized as a word by Webster even after being […]
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Earth Day Turns 50 with a Massive Livestream Event
Exciting to see this post come together. I’ll be watching the livestream where I can between work tasks! Hope you can participate too.
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Blogging Thoughts
Okay, I work for WordPress.com, full disclosure, I have a lot of blogs. Some I use for testing, some for fun, some for ramblings that I never share, the list goes on for the reasons I have so many. But I’ve been starting to wonder why. Why do I have blogs for all these different […]
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The Concept of Beauty
There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment. From the Essay Dogs, Cats, and Dancers, Thoughts about Beauty, by Ursula K. Le Guin In this essay, Usula not only talks about the concept of perfection, but also about society’s expectations of beauty, and how […]
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Ammonite Fossil Earrings, But Why?
I don’t often wear earrings anymore. I feel like I hardly ever leave the house anymore and when I do, it just doesn’t occur to me to put some on before I head out. I remember when I first got my ears pierced, in college, after I was 18, it was a big deal. I was […]
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