tsmith5432

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   by tsmith5432 8y ago

   For some plants, there is a great variance in behavior between the parent plant and a plant grown from seed. Apples for instance, if grown from seed, likely will not carry all the properties of the parent plant. E.g., the fruit will not ta
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   by tsmith5432 8y ago

   A plant grown from a cutting is indeed a clone. It is the actual tissue of the original plant, just grown out. Same DNA as the original plant. Only, you use clever techniques to stimulate undifferentiated cells to produce roots. One of t
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   by tsmith5432 13y ago

   I don't have any of the old papers / results. But my recollection is that the Lisp workstations greatly outperformed LISP on a contemporary VAX for a given cost, in part because of the workstation's microcoded instruction se
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   by tsmith5432 13y ago

   I worked in an expert systems company in the 80s (one mentioned in the Phillips thesis referenced in the danweinreb article). Take all this with a dose of IIRC. As part of out work, we evaluated and benchmarked Xerox Interlisp machines, Sy