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The smartest slime [video]
- brianjking 3y agolove ze frank.
- WirelessGigabit 3y agoI still have nightmares about that toad which carries her babies on her back.
- 64StarFox64 3y agoAnd that Jerry, with his scripts. A true poet.
- mproud 3y agoHow do you wash a giant baby With a really big mop? I don’t know, maybe?
- s0rce 3y agoThe crowning achievement of my PhD was having some of the images I took featured in one of Ze Frank's videos 10 years later. Who cares about Science and Nature papers!
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoNow that he's including a bibliography at the end it should be contributing to impact factor.
- s0rce 3y agoI was cited in the video description, don't think any other citation to my paper got 3M reads/views.
- ugh123 3y agoIts amazing the kind of reach Youtube can have for science, even if its in an entertainment-context.
- zaps 3y agoS-s-s-somethin from the comments
- motohagiography 3y agoUbelievably thought provoking. If it can solve shortest paths, and it can learn, I wonder if they can solve other graph problems, then I'd wonder if there is some fusion of conway's game of life and transformer models that might produce something like a logical slime mold, or a way of integrating training sets for ML models. If life were the expression of a kind of architecture exemplified by the minimum features of these slime molds, and then this may be synthesizable programatically like we do neurons, we'd be into some interesting territory.
- DonHopkins 3y agoYou can even harvest, cook, and eat Dog Vomit Slime Mold! Harvesting, cooking and eating Dog Vomit Slime Mold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbLSl_4o78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbLSl_4o78 >Fuligo septica is a species of slime mold, and a member of the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as the scrambled egg slime, or flowers of tan[2] because of its peculiar yellowish, bile-colored appearance. Also known as the dog vomit slime mold, it is common with a worldwide distribution, and it is often found on bark mulch in urban areas after heavy rain or excessive watering. Their spores are produced on or in aerial sporangia and are spread by wind.
- goodpoint 3y agoNice images, obnoxious speaker.
- goodlinks 3y agoHe also made this, which i think of often: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8&pp=ygUUemUgZnJhbmsgYnJhaW4gY3JhY2s%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8&pp=ygUUemUgZnJhbms... (brain crack)
- shanewwarren 3y agoThis is great thank you for posting this
- mproud 3y agoI love ze frank
- joshuaheard 3y agoNova did a show on these a while back. Fascinating.
- Udo 3y agoSebastian Lague made an excellent video "Ant and Slime Simulations" which explores how path-finding algorithms can use trails and gradient-based signaling to solve spatial problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-iSQQgOd1A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-iSQQgOd1A
- tagami 3y agoZe is amazing. #Sportsracers
- 2h 3y agothis channel is also home to one of my favorite YouTube videos of all time. Why Trust Is Worth It: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cWypWe9UAhQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=cWypWe9UAhQ
- guythedudebro 3y agoCool subject matter, would have been nice to have either less jokes or funny jokes.
- dendrite9 3y agoThis spring I have been collecting pictures of the various fungi and slime molds in my yard. One of the stunnning things is how quickly they can change from slimy and wet to dried out and desiccated. In two days one went from wet bubbles (10:38 in the video) to dust on little stems (10:50). The time lapse pictures make me want to set up a camera and record the next one I find. Here are some very cool images of Myxomycetes. The metallic looking species are very cool, I'd like to see one sometime. https://www.myxotropic.org/gallery/ https://www.myxotropic.org/gallery/