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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
> Ophidascaris robertsi is a roundworm usually found in pythons...the world-first case of the parasite being found in humans.
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
The title of the article says "Insect", the first few paragraphs are about lacewings, but the study being cited only looked at fruit flies. The study didn't test memory. It looked at neuron location and activation, which coul
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
That's a nice reference. It's good to know a dental x-ray is only 1.5 mrem, compared to a full body CT scan coming in at 1000 mrem.
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
A group of hunters and anthropologists recently butchered a bison using only these kinds of tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsrkFjPiKM
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
I would have been more surprised to learn that they do a truly random walk search. They lay down pheromones to create trails, isn't that part of the answer to how they avoid crossing paths?
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Cows Learn Better with Friends (2014)(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
25 points by ryanblakeley 3y ago|0 comments
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
https://ryanblakeley.net is about animal intelligence
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
A software labor union with licensing would save a lot of trouble.
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The Wildfire, the Hunter, and a Decade of Conspiracy Theories(rollingstone.com)
2 points by ryanblakeley 3y ago|0 comments
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Indigenous children found alive 40 days after plane crash in Amazon rainforest(pbs.org)
1 points by ryanblakeley 3y ago|2 comments
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
Four siblings, ages 13, 9, 4 and 11 months. Found in thick jungle by a rescue dog.
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
You can give a working dog affection. It doesn't erode their ability to do a job. It's only an issue if you do it at the wrong time.
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
From the Science section, there is a headline "Metallic Object Falls Through New Jersey Home's Roof", which is the desensationalized version of "Possible meteorite crashes through the roof of a New Jersey home, lands in
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Phoresis, when animals hitch a ride on other animals(ryanblakeley.net)
3 points by ryanblakeley 3y ago|0 comments
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
That definitely stands out to me about nicer homes. It's amazing to be able to open the windows or be in the garden and only hear wind and animals, and still be near shops and stuff.
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
Yes, there's something interesting going on there with smells and body language. It's a matter of how flexible you want to be with the word "story". In a strict sense, there needs to be who, what, when, where, why, and h
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
That's a great place to look for story-telling, I just don't think it's been shown yet (I would love to be wrong about that). If you could decode in their language something about characters taking actions, time and place, p
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
I was hoping this would turn off the full page modal people see when they land on a post, but I already had it switched off, so I guess not.
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
We should approach animal intelligence and communication with humility. A lot of it is based on smell, body language, and signals we don't pay attention to. I don't think any animal has been shown to tell stories, but obviously th
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by ryanblakeley 4y ago
AI training sets keep expanding, and I was thinking about the rate of progress and what natural limits would there be. I took a low-effort stab at estimating the size of a Panopticon text corpus, and was wondering are my assumptions/ca
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How large is a panopticon text corpus?(ryanblakeley.net)
3 points by ryanblakeley 4y ago|1 comments
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by ryanblakeley 4y ago
> The collective annual warming effect of these five chemicals on the planet is equivalent to the emissions produced by a small country like Switzerland. > When CFCs were phased out, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were brought in as substi
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by ryanblakeley 4y ago
It seems natural that straight lines across a landscape would be useful markers. I wonder to what degree bees use non-linear landmarks, if at all. In an environment with many straight lines, like an agricultural field with row crops, irriga
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Mental time travel(ryanblakeley.net)
2 points by ryanblakeley 4y ago|0 comments
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by ryanblakeley 4y ago
It's easier to not understand the risks. It takes extra effort to understand AI safety problems and more effort again to solve them. People who blow off AI safety are being blithe and not engaging the arguments.
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by ryanblakeley 4y ago
This one had a 3:1 size ratio. Oumuamua was closer to 10:1, which was one (of several) reason it was so anomalous.
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by ryanblakeley 4y ago
What's the difference between caring and affecting behavior? If people cancel their subscriptions after a major outage, wouldn't it be reasonable to interpret that some of them cared about performance and reliability? I know I car
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Mantis shrimp eyes(ryanblakeley.net)
90 points by ryanblakeley 4y ago|20 comments
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by ryanblakeley 4y ago
Corner crossing seems like something that could be solved by saying "where two corners meet there must be an easement xx meters wide to allow the public to cross". I can't imagine any reason why the private landowner should b