Curiosity: The neglected trait that drives success via BBC [Shared]

On 7 January 1918 at New York’s Hippodrome, the incredible illusionist Harry Houdini unveiled one of his most famous tricks – the vanishing elephant – in front of thousands of spectators.

The beast in question, Jennie, reportedly weighed 10,000 pounds (4,536kg). She raised her trunk in greeting, before a stagehand led her into a huge cabinet and closed the doors behind them. After a dramatic drum roll, the doors reopened – and the cabinet was now empty. To the thousands of spectators, it seemed that she had vanished into thin air. 

How could Houdini have managed to hide such an enormous animal? No one at the time could provide a definitive explanation of what had happened, though there is one predominant theory.

http://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/11/curiosity-the-neglected-trait-that-drives-success-via-bbc-shared/

The Australian National University in #Canberra is advertising a position for a Data Lead to help deliver #FAIR #metadata and #data from their Australian #Plant #Phenotyping #Network node. They grow (mainly crop) plants under controlled conditions, measuring #environment and imaging the plants, then process the imagery to derive #trait data to support research. Data from all stages needs to be organised for long-term reuse and interoperability.

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#rustlang

A #trait defines the functionality a particular type has and can share with other types. We can use traits to define shared behavior in an abstract way. [...]

Traits are similar to a feature often called interfaces in other languages [...]

Below a Summary trait that consists of the behavior provided by a summarize method:

pub trait Summary {
fn summarize(&self) -> String;
}

More information: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-02-traits.html

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**erased_serde**: Use Serde's Serialize/Deserialize as trait objects.

Docs: https://docs.rs/erased-serde

GitHub: https://github.com/dtolnay/erased-serde

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