HackerNews Summary (2023-06-07 04AM)

Source: Why Was Benjamin Franklin’s Basement Filled With Skeletons?

Summary
Fifteen bodies, most likely from an anatomy school operated by Benjamin Franklin’s friend and science protege William Hewson, were discovered in Franklin’s London home after his departure for America.

Fact

💀 The 15 skeletons found in Benjamin Frankin’s basement were most likely used for illegal anatomy studies.

💼 Franklin’s protege and friend, William Hewson, was most likely responsible for the school and hiding the bones.

🕵️‍♂️Anatomy at the time was seen as ethically ambiguous, and sourcing human bodies was usually illegal and required grave robbing – Hewson’s anatomy lab would have been irresistible to set up with his trusted friend Franklin as the tenant, his mother-in-law as the landlady, and a convenient street for corpses.

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Source: Why it is time to start thinking of games as databases

Summary
Entities in an ECS can have components or relationships attached to them. A fact can be created by specifying that an entity has a component or a relationship with another entity. Queries can be built to find entities based on their components and relationships.

Fact

💡 Entities can have facts in the form of components or relationships.

✏️ A component fact is created by stating that an entity has a specific component.

😎 A relationship fact is created by stating that an entity has a relationship with another entity.

🔍 Queries can be built to find entities based on their components and relationships.

🃏 Wildcards can be used in queries to match multiple entities with different values for a component or relationship.

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Source: Ask HN: Code review as part of the peer review process?

Summary
Requiring paper authors to submit reviewable code could improve reproducibility and help discover errors in academic research.

Facts

👨‍💻 Requiring reviewable code could identify errors that impact reproducibility.

🔎 The current “crisis of reproducibility” may be due in part to poorly written code.

📝 Requiring code submission could increase transparency in research methodology.

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