Monthly Archives: March 2021

Tecnicismos y conexiones profundas del Vaporwave: Influencias temáticas y musicales del Ambient

Esta entrada es la primera de una serie sobre el Vaporwave, que bien podría ser el género musical que más me ha influido en la veintena. A raíz de haber escuchado cientos de álbumes, otros tantos EPs, y muchos vídeos (y papers!) de análisis, he decidido recopilar de manera más o menos estructurada todo aquello que me fascina de este género y que, a veces, quedan un poco ‘overlooked’ en los análisis. Con esta entrada también nace la primera categoría en casi 10 años en el blog, ‘Música’.

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Generate wordclouds of Gene Ontology GO terms using wordcloud, RColorBrewer and base::abbreviate() in R

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I have two different Gene Ontology annotations for the genome annotation I am working with, and I’ve been trying different ways to quickly visualize Gene Ontology information, such as GO enrichment analysis using p-values as a proxy of significance (as per usual in genomic analyses). I thought of adapting this quick tutorial on wordcloud, but soon I noticed that sometimes the GO term human-readable descriptions are excruciatingly long, and the plots can become a total mess.

One option could be to inject a jumpline character after N words in the GO term string, which the R plotting engine seems to work fine with, but my first I thought was to abbreviate the words in the description. Perhaps unsurprised I learned that the foundational knowledge of R base has what I was looking for: the abbreviate() function.

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Manifiesto SolarPunk

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SolarPunk album art by Various Artists under **global pattern**

Interesante las conexiones que pueda tener con el New Age, la estética de ciencia ficción naturalista, el futurismo y el positivismo.

Como dice en la descripción del álbum en Vapor Memory:

“Solarpunk is a dream, is a speculation, a science fiction – yet, it’s a possible future. It’s not retrofuturism, but instead a vision of how can we get there, to a better world. It is in our power to change the way we live, to think different, to abolish any kind of domination between ourselves and above nature. We have all the means to build a new kind of society: compassionate, ecological, inclusive for all cultures and identities, decentralized and free of political manipulation. Hi-tech may and should co-exist with the biosphere and we have the most powerful source of energy for that – our Sun. Let it shine our way as we look into the future! “
Vapor Memory. (2021) Various Artists : Solarpunk : A Possible Future [Video]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O55hfyEZ4s (Accessed: 11 March, 2021).

Redistribuido en este blog a través de su licencia original Creative Commons.

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Pseudocódigo para una idea de un meta-randomizador de Pokémon | Pseudocode for a Pokémon meta-randomizer

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Tomado de la web de Sanqui randomizer – Taken from the Sanqui randomizer website.

(ES) (English Below)

Ando en una época de estar relativamente disperso con mis hobbies (hoy estoy escribiendo y actualizando entradas después de dos años y medio con esto olvidado), con lo que muchas veces recurro a emuladores para echar partidas rápidas o viciarme rápido a lo que sea. Durante 2020 ha habido un boom de nuevos ROM Hacks de Pokémon (¿por qué será…?), y he estado bastante pendiente de lo que se cocía en ThePokéCommunity y en el subreddit de PokemonROMHacks. Así volví a toparme con los randomizadores o aleatorizadores (más información, en inglés, aquí y aquí) y uno de mis trabajos favoritos de ingeniería reversa, las decompilaciones de los juegos de Pokémon (GitHub), concretamente el de primera generación (pokered).

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Checkpoint (Feb-2021)

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This is a Checkpoint during one of those days that February or March borrow a sunny day from July.

It’s been almost five months since the passing of an extremely important person who had a very big impact in my life despite the short time we shared together. It has been even less time since a very close person to me also left this world after a lifetime being there and providing love and joy. I’ve moved on slowly, although the sense of impeding doom never fully fades. It never will, as I’m growing older and realising one thing or two about life and death. The passing of time often poses as the most defining entity of this cosmology.

So many things have changed since 2019 that I doubt it makes sense to list them and summarise them. In many aspects I am a very different person from what I was back then.

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