geb-typogenetics-dna-rna

Flashcards for the Typogenetics/DNA/RNA sections in Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach

Cards created while reading Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (GEB). Chapter XVI: Self-Ref and Self-Rep. pp. 504–532.

Installation/generation

This section is only relevant if you want to compile the website locally for development purposes.

You will need the command-line programs unzip and pandoc in order to run the following commands. If you don't have them, on Ubuntu you can just run sudo apt install unzip pandoc. Also, you will need to install the anki Python Pip package. To do this, you can run python3 -m pip install -U anki.

First download the .apkg file into the main directory, and name it geb-typogenetics.apkg. Then run the following commands:

# .apkg file is actually secretly a zip file. so unzip its contents to a directory called apkg/
unzip -d apkg/ docs/geb-typogenetics.apkg

# Remove unneeded files
rm apkg/meta
rm apkg/collection.anki2

# Create some required directories
mkdir -p docs/browse
mkdir -p docs/orbit

# Rename images/other media files to their correct locations
./media.py

# Generate the browse page
./browse.py

# Generate the Orbit pages
./orbit.py