FelipeReigosa
FelipeReigosa t1_ivfr79d wrote
Reply to If the Human Genome Project represents a map of the genome of a few individuals, why is this relevant to humans as a whole if everybody has different genetics? by bjardd
I think if you sample enough individuals (a relatively small number) you can capture the whole genetic diversity of a species. The uniqueness of each person is a combinatorial thing, think of it like this (and obviously that's a huge oversimplification): suppose humans had only 10 genes and each gene had 3 variants (alleles). Then there are only 30 different genes. But with that you can make 3^10 = 59049 different people. You only have to map the genome of enough people to get the 30 genes and you've captured the whole genetic diversity of the human race.
FelipeReigosa t1_iwhen0n wrote
Reply to Looking for Thoughts on Shifting from Visual Media as Primary Hobby to Reading by jonospark
One thing you could do is find books with very short chapters, the martian for example each chapter is a day log entry or world war z where each chapter is the pov of one of the survivors and they are quite short. Another thing I did was to stop needing to finish a chapter so I can stop, I just stop midway, so for instance while coding I might take a mini break of 10 minutes and read a few pages, half an hour later I read a few more pages. It's a little weird at first but you get used to it.