simiansays

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by simiansays 2y ago
Well yeah, it's big numbers! These sims (at least the ones I did) can never be compared to earth, because they make assumptions that start from maybe billions of years of simulated time, and then further make tons of ridiculous assumpt
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by simiansays 2y ago
Really interesting topic. For about 5 years, I spent much of my hobby time writing a-life sims and messing with them. I wanted an "aquarium" that looked interesting that I could have running 24/7, constantly evolving. I guess
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by simiansays 3y ago
I get convergent evolution, but among large (let's say 10g+) organisms, I'm not aware of convergent evolution resulting in compatible species (with fertile offsping) that would not otherwise have been compatible? I'm super ru
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by simiansays 3y ago
Haha yes please! I thought you were talking about literal taxonomic trees.
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by simiansays 3y ago
Sorry, as stated above I misunderstood "There is no such thing as a tree." to mean that OP though taxonomic trees were fundamentally broken in some way, I misunderstood OP! That said, if we had perfect knowledge of the speciation
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by simiansays 3y ago
Yeah I definitely did not get the reference, I thought OP literally meant that taxonomic trees in general are useless and/or don't exist!
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by simiansays 3y ago
I definitely understand that the majority of taxonomies are problematic for the reasons you cited. When OP said "no such thing as a tree", I thought OP meant a taxonomic tree, not a literal plant tree, hence my example of binary n
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by simiansays 3y ago
> All taxonomies are broken, full stop. Your categories are gonna be completely wrong and everybody’s going to argue over every single thing. There is no such thing as a tree. Is this a serious statement? If so, wouldn't it be incom
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by simiansays 3y ago
Why not both? The modern dismantling of antitrust regulation and enforcement is a significant driver of both. It's gotten way worse now than ever, to the point where private equity firms like Vanguard and Blackrock can be the biggest s
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by simiansays 3y ago
As a middle-aged long-time smoker who quit smoking immediately upon buying a vape several years ago, and having quite a number of friends who did the same thing, I'll point out a number of issues I have with this measure. - I do see a
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by simiansays 6y ago
This is a game I made so my friends and I could do something over Zoom on Saturday nights during the lockdown. It's best with Discord or Zoom for chat, but it can also be played solo or without a communication channel for the other pla
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Show HN: Couchmoney trivia – a “Name That Film” trivia game for the lockdown(couchmoneytrivia.tv)
1 points by simiansays 6y ago|1 comments
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by simiansays 6y ago
This is a really cool idea, love it. Could be done with lots of other things - books, snack food, restaurant gift certificates!
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by simiansays 6y ago
For my movie recommender project, I wanted to support Letterboxd but they didn't respond to any of my emails (they have a closed API). So for now I only support Trakt. If anyone knows how to get onto the Letterboxd API please let me kn
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by simiansays 6y ago
Awesome! I did a similar thing as my quarantine side project! It's https://couchmoney.tv Quite a few years ago, I wrote a boardgame recommendation engine for reddit (/r/boardgamerecommender), and when the quaranti