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The Open-World Game Pioneer(medium.com)
1 points by fnwk 4y ago|1 comments
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by fnwk 4y ago
This is about an early video game made by Steve Grand who became famous for the Creatures series.
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Period tracking apps warning over Roe vs. Wade case in US(bbc.com)
25 points by fnwk 4y ago|1 comments
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by fnwk 5y ago
I've been fascinated by the interactivity of Common Lisp for a while, and would really like to be able to, say, redefine functions of a running program in other languages as well. I feel like it would be extremely beneficial for debugg
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Peter Pan, Existentialist Fairy Tale? (2017)(erraticus.co)
23 points by fnwk 5y ago|15 comments
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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with scientific mass collaboration(pnas.org)
1 points by fnwk 6y ago|0 comments
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by fnwk 7y ago
It is almost impossible to show how tame the fur farm foxes on Prince Edward Island really were, but in addition to the photos - of which there are more than one [1] - there are also written reports about how tame the foxes where [2]: &quot
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by fnwk 7y ago
The foxes are great proof that behaviour has a genetic component. But the change in behaviour over the course of Belyaev's experiments does not seem that remarkable. Some foxes of the initial population were already happy to approach h
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by fnwk 7y ago
It is doubtful, though, that the spotted fur, floppy ears, and other physical characteristics (domestication syndrome) are a result of the experiment [1]: "The history of the Farm-Fox population undermines the commonly repeated narrati
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by fnwk 7y ago
The experiment specifically selected for behaviour, though. And the fur-farm foxes seem to have been quite tame already before the start of the experiment. Therefore, I don't find the changes in behaviour very interesting on their own
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by fnwk 7y ago
There has been some doubt about the validity of this experiment [1]: "A widespread misconception maintains that the Farm-Fox Experiment started with wild foxes and recapitulated the entire process of domestication. Belyaev himself accu