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by sradman 6y ago
My starting assumption is that octopus, cuttlefish, and squid have similar intelligence levels. If chromatophore manipulation is correlated to cephalopod intelligence then bobtail squid are small but smart. My own anecdotal evidence is that
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Cephalopods are amazing animals but I would be careful about anthropomorphizing their behavior. If they are communicating via chromatophores, then this type of animal model will be key to understanding how this kind of signalling works. Cru
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The paper Highly Efficient Knockout of a Squid Pigmentation Gene [1] > two key advances have made it possible to develop techniques for the genetic manipulation of squid. The first is the CRISPR-Cas9 system for targeted gene disruption
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by sradman 6y ago
Since selling its Intel server business to Lenovo, IBM enterprise server hardware is Power only. It is the flip side to some of the complaints in this thread, IBM enterprise sales is the single trusted source (or single throat to choke) for
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From the Discussion in the paper A subset of broadly responsive Type III taste cells contribute to the detection of bitter, sweet and umami stimuli [1]: > Our data suggest that BR cells are a subset of Type III cells that are capable o
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Abstract from the paper The context and meaning of an intact Inca underwater offering from Lake Titicaca [1]: > As the Inca Empire expanded across the South American Andes during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD, Lake Titicaca
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by sradman 6y ago
Irate customers can be a treasure trove of information but indulging irate customers incentivizes some to game the company's goodwill. I think this complaint is of the first variety. Ultimately, the question is how to flexibly enforce
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Original paper Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat [1] > We show that widespread retreat between 2000 and 2005 resulted in a step-increase in discharge and a switch to a new dynamic state o
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See The Baumol Effect by Alex Tabarrok [1]: > After looking at education and health care and doing a statistical analysis covering 139 industries, Helland and I conclude that a big factor in price increases over time in the rising pri
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This appears the final section of a 2014 episode of Conversations with Bill Kristol [1]: > CH. 6 : THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE (1:13:57 - 1:36:39) > Is American higher education heading towards a major fiscal crisis? Thiel explains
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I noted the maintenance connection in a CNN article about a week ago on HN [1]. This “report” seems to skip the fire stage and the reports that fire fighters were on site and noted the oddity of the fire. > Maintenance was conducted on t
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Thanks :-) Cautionary Tales Ep 3 – LaLa Land: Galileo’s Warning [1] has the following in the shownotes: > Charles Perrow’s Normal Accidents introduces the idea of complex, tightly-coupled systems and has good accounts both of the Three
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I rewatched the Drone footage [1] js2 linked to and I think I made the same logical error that the captain/crew did; I mistook the breakwater as the edge of the reef and missed the slightly deeper ridge that juts out perpendicular to t
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The port explosion in Beirut would make a perfect new chapter in Normal Accidents . I’m guessing the cause of the MV Wakashio accident will turn out to be a simple failure rather than a complex and unexpected failure mode (Perrow’s “normal
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The footage makes it look like the ship ran directly into the island/reef and later buckled (the “crack”) midship as the stern partially sunk. Something must have seriously gone wrong with the navigation system. I’m assuming the accide
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> Obesity, for example, is a known risk factor for diabetes, and people who are obese also tend to have low Vitamin D levels, due mostly to the dilution of the fat-soluble vitamin in the larger mass of adipose tissue. I didn't know
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Holy bike shedding batman. I can't comprehend our inability to focus on the important things. Toronto's Port Lands need to be revitalized [1]: > Waterfront Toronto has received $1.25 billion to clean up and protect the Port Lan
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> The US National Science Foundation initiated the establishment of a network of Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites in 1980, and these now encompass a web of 25 monitoring locations across each of the country’s major ecoregions (
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> ...my big gripe with hardline “big-L” Libertarianism is that it seems to pretend these trade-offs don’t exist and that “freedom” is some sort of thing you can just assign a number to. This statement would not pass the Ideological Turin
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For those, like me, who find this article too pseudo-sciencey, the paper Psychological Stress and Mitochondria: A Conceptual Framework [1] lays the foundation I was missing: > It is also interesting to note in the context of stress reg
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Good to know, thanks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#Logical_structure_and_acce...
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Based on Mineral Evolution [1] as popularized in the books and lectures of Robert M. Hazen [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_evolution [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hazen
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The distinction should be made between fixed layout formats like PDF and reflowable text formats like HTML. In a RESTful sense, these should be two representations of the same resource.
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> Can we comprehend them? From what I've read about it, consciousness in octopuses has to be completely alien to ours... What is completely alien is the evolutionary path compared to our own. What feels familiar is the connection yo
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Cephalopods are magnificent. I knew they were smart and curious but I was caught off guard the first time I realized that a curious cuttlefish was making eye contact with me. No other reef animals exhibit anything like this kind of intellig
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Regardless of the optics, the key outstanding questions I had were asked and answered in the full PDF document [1]. Opinion and geopolitics are not substitutes for evidence and rational thought. [1] https://www.sciencemag.org&#x2
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Relevant July 24th Science Mag interview of Shi Zhengli: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/trump-owes-us-apolog...
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Recent HN thread Thoughts on Voice Interfaces [1] about a blog post by one of the Firefox Voice engineers. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24040539
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> Members of Congress clearly don’t understand the tech companies they’re supposed to regulate. But neither does anyone else. Siva Vaidhyanathan [1], the author of this Wired article, seems to be a fine representative of the humanities h
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The paper NS 1987A in SN 1987A [1] claims that Super Nova SN 1987A most likely created a Neutron Star (NS 1987A): > The suspected detection stems from an excess of infrared emission from a dust blob near the compact object’s predicted

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