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I grow marijuana and chillies from time to time. I got good at it. I will say that plants are malleable in untold ways and so I find this article to be unsurpri
by karim79 3mo ago
I grow marijuana and chillies from time to time. I got good at it. I will say that plants are malleable in untold ways and so I find this article to be unsurprising.
Plants will do what they need to do in the end. I've done stuff like co2 bombing, and increasing nutrients to the point to where I get a whole new ecosystem of insects and an entirely new situation.
It is such fascinating stuff that it's actually the life I want to live. I'm a computer scientist but now I yearn for the botanical sciences.
I highly recommend checking out defoliation strategies and low-stress training methods for anyone interested. Plants are not dumb creatures. The results you can get from them are astonishing and the science of what plants actually are becomes more profound by the day.
- aaron695 3mo ago[dead]
- card_zero 3mo agoThere is apparently such a thing as "Computational Botany", where you model virtual plants.
- BobaFloutist 3mo agoI suppose that would make "Botanical Computation" the use of plants to perform calculations.
- mountainriver 3mo agoWith a lot of software getting eaten up I’m increasingly interested in biology. Seems like one of the later frontiers that could have massive benefits, and AI is really well suited to help us understand it.
- karim79 3mo agoTrue and also, the actual physical contact and results are absolute magic. Maybe we need to create a "computer scientists for botony" forum. I think that has legs. Botany is great because the results are basically what I'd call magic. It's such beauty (and horror on occasion). The marriage of CS and botany seems like a match made in heaven and just from writing these comments I've convinced myself that it's probably the most practical way to go forward in life.
- globular-toast 3mo agoHave you considered computational biology? They are always looking for people. Knuth said a while back that biology has tons of open and useful problems left to be solved.
- kuerbel 3mo agoI'm studying for a bachelor's degree in horticulture part-time through a distance-learning university. If you're more interested in growing plants, I'd say horticulture is a better fit than botany. If you're more interested in understanding how plants work, botany is probably the better choice. That said, you'll still learn a lot of botany in a horticulture degree as well obviously
- karim79 3mo agoThank you sir. I actually got my CS from distance learning and somehow the combination of growing things and monitoring everything using CS just grabs me. I would work on any farm anywhere with appropriate agency.
- tryagainian 3mo agoOooo, I get a bit excited about interdisciplinary techno-plant-and-livestock Another area that might be easier to break in to as far as work goes is labouring for an irrigation business, kinda agricultural plumbing. You’ve probably seen pivots[1] and side-roll irrigation systems. This would put you in more direct contact with the farm operators, expose you to a wide range of agricultural crops, and also tie neatly in to your existing CS skill set with regard to agricultural SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), or Industrial Arduino as I like to call it. Working for seed processes / distributors and fertiliser and pest & weed control industries could also be another foot-in-the-door move. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-pivot_irrigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-pivot_irrigation
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- itomato 3mo agoone time, while communing with Nature, I looked up at the transpiring coastal tree line flexing in the wind and I uttered, "pumps." My hunch is that torsion, flex and their effect on the capillary structures are at play, but I haven't been able to step away from CS myself.
- CyberDildonics 3mo agoAnyone who sees that a giant trees leaves aren't dried out should find it unsurprising.