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by danwills 2y ago
Apologies if this becomes a re-send! Overall-size heterogeneity could be partially epigenetically-driven right? I should try to read the paper, but I'm not a biologist. I've been listening to Michael Levin quite a bit though, and
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by danwills 2y ago
Overall-size heterogeneity could be partially epigenetically-driven right? I should try to read the paper, but I'm not an academic biologist. I've been listening to Michael Levin quite a bit though, and from what he says it seems
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by danwills 3y ago
Seems to have worked on me! Well played! :)
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by danwills 3y ago
Totally sibling comment confirms it already exists! I hope that the 'shader' name sticks too! I find the idea of a shader has a very appropriate shape for tiny-program-embedded-in-specific-context so it seems perfect from a hacker
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by danwills 3y ago
It definitely sounds like hype not reproducibility! And although I'm a giant fan of Eno I really think the current cutting-edge is in the demoscene in terms of generative art..
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by danwills 3y ago
And once you've landed, Ambient 4, 'On Land'? I wouldn't usually comment in such a flippant way but if anyone discovers this album because of it and loves it as much as I do, then it's worth it!
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by danwills 3y ago
The "HackerNews Hug" I believe it's called.. indeed being on the frontpage and being (or just looking) interesting does direct a huge amount of traffic at servers! I'm just so glad that HN seems not to be getting paid (o
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by danwills 3y ago
Awesome! reminds me of the tight-audiovisual sync style of the demoscene, but in hardware? Hope it gets explored some more!
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by danwills 3y ago
I'm not sure that logical/abstract argument is the right way to progress on this.. seems like it really isn't abstract and must eventually be something that would need to be measured and compared to prediction in order to dec
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by danwills 3y ago
I think there are a few 'fringe' modern-ish physics projects that actually do suggest that space could be made from something, and can flow (which can provide an explanation for gravity and relativity) Reg Cahill's "Proc
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by danwills 3y ago
Golly comes with lots of example patterns and also uses 'hashlife' (as long as you leave it enabled!) so can go very fast and really huge: https://golly.sourceforge.io/ And if you're into that I'd defini
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by danwills 3y ago
Gamete cells get a random half of all genes from each parent so there's about 2 unique possible 'sets' from each parent, and 2*2=4. However because it's random I think you can only say there are 4 distinct completely uni
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by danwills 3y ago
Wow! Seems very like their existing 'xenobots' research but made out of human cells this time?! Fascinating stuff! (They are calling them "Anthrobots") Sounds a bit like once it matures something like this could potentia
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by danwills 3y ago
I do agree overall with this! Houdini is a bit like a brick-wall at the very start for many people (myself included). However for the HN-crowd I'd expect it wouldn't really be heaps different to picking up a few (ok maybe 6) new p
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Sag-Aftra Strike Tentatively Over(sagaftrastrike.org)
1 points by danwills 3y ago|0 comments
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Houdini 20.0 Released(sidefx.com)
27 points by danwills 3y ago|3 comments
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by danwills 3y ago
I agree it's a fair question to compare humans and flies, indeed we are ultimately not very different: both multicellular and individual (wavefront/particle-wise) beings.. I guess the size of the 'agential' goal-radius i
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by danwills 3y ago
I'm not qualified to properly respond but I've accepted what Michael Levin says about what cancer is, basically when cells become 'deaf' to the tissues around them which would normally either (by 'telling' them
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by danwills 3y ago
Yeah definitely see mallow around Adelaide quite a bit too! The photo for what the article called thistle looked a bit more like a dandylion-of-sorts to me, I'd usually expect thistle to be spikier, but maybe this is what young ones do
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by danwills 3y ago
I couldn't agree more! Agapanthas are absolutely-everywhere around Adelaide but it's hard to call it a 'weed' when people are actively-planting-them all-over-the-place! (they love our climate but I don't think they
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by danwills 3y ago
What a fascinating idea! Never considered the idea that what hemisphere-of-the-earth life started-in could have influenced our molecular chirality! Does anyone else reckon that homo-chiral life could have some advantages? Ie life in-which e
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by danwills 3y ago
I love the idea that all the plants we think-of as totally-normal-weeds could be (indeed, are) quite different across the world! Would love to be able to get a global sense of where the ones that I know well are distributed right now, and w
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by danwills 3y ago
I am not a color scientist, I do work in VFX though. Pixels and their generally-vector-valued contents are what we've mostly delivered to our clients for many years. I'm not code-shy, but I haven't worked on our color pipelin
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SwissGL: A Minimalist Wrapper on WebGL2 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by danwills 3y ago|0 comments
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by danwills 3y ago
I wouldn't say that was a shitpost, quite on topic really! However I must say I have occasionally skipped this track when listening to Baterz, finding some of his genius comes through a bit stronger. Zombie Girlfriend, Target's Ai
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by danwills 3y ago
An interesting idea for sure! Overall climate is certainly a factor but I guess I was thinking of something more localised that somehow actively (or at least strongly) disrupts the self-sustaining spinning of the vortex. Seems a bit sci-fi
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by danwills 3y ago
What about ancient 'Illusion', old 'Shake' or current 'Nuke' VFX compositing softwares that totally have been supporting node-based (ie DAG-based) comp-workflows since the early 2000s? Guess this is just a very
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by danwills 3y ago
This looks like a fractal that's been around for a long time in Fractint and UltraFractal with the name 'Icons'. I believe it's like a generalisation of the well-known 'bifurcation diagram' of the logistic map
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by danwills 3y ago
Yeah it certainly seems that there would be lots of things that could make things worse, like nuclear bombs! I did say 'air or temperature-change' on purpose though. After a while I did wonder if there's such a thing as a col
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by danwills 3y ago
I've wondered whether there might be any way to dissipate the vortex in a hurricane/tornado before it hits the land.. I accept/know that it's a very large and fairly complicated thing but also maybe it doesn't reall

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