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Iterative recombinase technologies for efficient and precise genome engineering(cell.com)
1 points by jbotz 1y ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 1y ago
I see everybody talking about the nitrate, but there is another substance in beets that might be relevant... betaine, also known as trimethylglycine HCL. I take about 800mg of this pure in my orange juice in the mornings and it gives me a
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by jbotz 1y ago
Yes, but on all reasonably recent distros (including all current "LTS" releases) just `python` will also get you python 3.x. If there is still a python 2.x on your system you'll have to type `python2` to get it. So it is u
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by jbotz 1y ago
While comparing things... a colony of leaf-cutter ants (which form some of the largest colonies with as many as 2 million individuals when the colony is mature) has roughly the same metabolic rate as cow (easily measured from the CO2 at the
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by jbotz 1y ago
Yes, ants evolved from wasps, and it's really not that surprising if you take a close look at a typical ant and a typical wasp, pretty much the only difference are wings and coloring. There also exist wingless wasps, and some of them
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by jbotz 1y ago
When you do `python -m pip install` you're going to get a version of pip that has the same idea of what its environment looks like as the python executable, which is what you want, and which isn't guaranteed with the the `pip` exe
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Why U.S. Geothermal May Advance, Despite Political Headwinds(e360.yale.edu)
3 points by jbotz 1y ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 1y ago
Energy storage. This is making very rapid progress already, but "solving" it is has the highest payoff for tackling global heating. Within the field of energy storage there are two important sub-fields... grid-level storage (chea
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by jbotz 1y ago
When I first read this a question jumped out at me: Wait, Neanderthals were able to render fat? That requires boiling, and doesn't boiling require pottery? This led me down a bit of a rabbit-hole. It turns out that no, you don't
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A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition(nature.com)
3 points by jbotz 1y ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 1y ago
That "gap between stimulus and response" is in some circles known as "mindfulness". And meditation is an effective exercise for building and strengthening that gap.
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by jbotz 1y ago
Strikes me as a one-trick pony.
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Super-Turing synaptic resistor circuits for intelligent morphing wing(nature.com)
1 points by jbotz 1y ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 1y ago
This has nothing to do with dark matter, it's about the missing baryonic matter. And this result just confirms what most people thought anyway, but it's still rather important because it's a very solid result so we don'
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by jbotz 1y ago
The key to your difficulty is "my brain doesn't talk to me"... the solution is to realize that there is no "me" that's separate from your brain for it to talk to. You are the sum of the processes occurring in
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by jbotz 1y ago
Maybe all humans (and indeed other intelligent mammals) have an inner narrative, but it doesn't necessarily involve language. A mime or a silent film can tell a story without words, and the inner narrative can take likewise be in visu
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by jbotz 1y ago
Plants are our cousin eucaryotes, and they've been evolving as long as we animals have and so there is likely to be equivalent information processing complexity to be found in them, we just don't know how to recognize it because i
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Gravitational Bounce from the Quantum Exclusion Principle(arxiv.org)
2 points by jbotz 1y ago|0 comments
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Order of amino acid recruitment into genetic code resolved by LUCAs protein doms(pnas.org)
2 points by jbotz 1y ago|0 comments
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Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations(science.org)
73 points by jbotz 1y ago|22 comments
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by jbotz 1y ago
As for rebar making concrete structures less durable; yes, that's certainly true for steel rebar. The reason being that it will rust, very slowly at first, but once it starts the expansion of the rusted part causes cracks in the con
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by jbotz 1y ago
You can't build sky-scrapers without rebar (i.e. with un-reinforced concrete), but you can build some pretty large structures if you use curves, arches, widening bases, buttresses, etc. The Pantheon is pretty big, built from un-reinfo
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EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs(github.com)
113 points by jbotz 1y ago|11 comments
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by jbotz 2y ago
Also muscle cramps. I like to stretch out all my muscles when I first wake up while still in bed and when I don't supplement magnesium this has sometimes triggered cramps in leg muscles. When supplementing magnesium this never happen
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by jbotz 2y ago
It gets metabolised. No you can't make Chili Chicken by feeding chilies to the chicken before killing and cooking it.
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by jbotz 2y ago
It's called "the ring of fire".
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by jbotz 2y ago
Pure essential peppermint oil definitely works as a rodent repellent, even in very small quantities, although the effect wears off pretty quickly (that's the thing about essential oils, the essence is volatile). Plan to reapply every
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by jbotz 2y ago
Mitochondria are in endosymbiosis with eucaryotic cells. Symbiogenesis is the idea that eucaryotes came into being ("genesis") because some prior lifeforms joined in endosymbiosis.
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Ancient Roman rule continues to shape personality and well-being in Germany(psypost.org)
1 points by jbotz 2y ago|1 comments
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by jbotz 2y ago
What about humans? Are we individual, indivisible beings or are we colonies of cells cooperating as a superorganism? That may sound like a dumb question since our cells are so specialized that they can't survive individually and can&

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