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by xipho 2y ago
It has always been mainstream, it's central to the narative in the most owned book in the world.
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by xipho 2y ago
Curiously, or not, I'm not sure what the expectation is, it seemed to quickly enter somewhat of an infinite loop then I started with "What is the meaning of life?". Around level 3 or 4 each simplification is essentially what
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by xipho 2y ago
In scientific software development "don't want to reinvent the wheel" is an oft-repeated mantra that I like to push back on when I hear it. To be fair it's often used in the context of "we'd rather/like to
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by xipho 2y ago
> Conference does not imply gatekeeping. Nor do journals. I think it's straightforward to make an argument that many of today's conferences are as bad as journals, accepting submissions is only one way conferences filter. IRL t
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by xipho 2y ago
> Someone putting a crap article on arxiv does not hurt anyone else > ... only reason we need to gatekeep today is to feed the academic prestige and politics machine This to me says you have may not have experienced some parts of the
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by xipho 2y ago
And you drop a coin in the pool in one of the towns and you get a random weapon. Blasters for all on first level!
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by xipho 2y ago
And it lives on a series of incredibly active fault lines. During my undergrad I had multiple geology profs adamantly mention that when not if aspect of this, and on time-scales of 100s of years, not 1000s. YRMV.
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by xipho 2y ago
It's been production ready (if that means something) for years. Used in one of the biggest movies in the world, RRR a while back, etc. etc. [RRR]( https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-... )
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by xipho 2y ago
Caves of Qud 1.0 is out as of a couple days ago. It has a built in Tutorial now, and lots of UI improvements (though I pine for Nethack feel it started with). They have a publisher, Freehold Games, and their first DLC. I suspect the push
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by xipho 2y ago
I said nothing about caring about arthropods. Side note, I do though, they are immensely important to our well being, without them we're not around, with them, we have trillions of dollars of mess to deal with. Again note that I said
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by xipho 2y ago
You didn't read the article nor follow the argument, just jumped in. It's about suffering shrimps, not saving shrimps.
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by xipho 2y ago
A huge proportion of this corpus is found in the Hathi Trust (see https://www.hathitrust.org/the-collection/ ). We have had a grant to crawl and derive an index on it via their supercomputing resources. I'm sure t
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by xipho 2y ago
Life on Earth is the same. If we are to get off Earth, we need to know what life to bring with us. We need to look a lot more, and much more closely at all the evolutionary products out there to make those decisions (if we arrogant humans
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by xipho 2y ago
If you want to manage your own data take a look at TaxonWorks. Multi-entry and bifurcating key editors, images, much more. It, and its companions are all open source, see TaxonPages for example.
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by xipho 2y ago
CBC gets hate perhaps because it's intellectual. Growing up in a house with no TV it was on all the time. The best news, comedy, and music, and programs like Ideas to make you think. The US has PBS, but it has never felt quite like pea
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by xipho 2y ago
Dupe, but it's been quite a while. Can I get some crowdstrike and LLM please :).
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Programming Book Covers at O RLY Books(orlybooks.com)
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by xipho 2y ago
For a moment I thought quote-investigator was a LLM startup app, and was about to be seriously impressed by the attention to detail, citation list and meticulously formed credits, but alas, the origin was just a squishy human.
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by xipho 2y ago
Inspiring stuff. TLDR, AFAICT, no, you can not do this on your own without participating IRL and taking away what you learned. Am inspired that it keeps growing, am disappointed that an indoctrination of a sorts is the only (apparent) rout
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by xipho 2y ago
There is an concept in this video that perfectly encapsulates why taxonomists (in this case those who describe Earth's biodiversity) are so critical, and why their work has the impact it does. The exercise is left to the reader...
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by xipho 2y ago
Steam (Valve) too.
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by xipho 2y ago
As someone who has describe insects species we might alternately say "the evolutionary processes that lead to the anatomy of these creatures is mind-blowing". Find access to a 60x scope. Fill a yellow party bowl with water about
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by xipho 2y ago
Use DDG (Bing), append `!g` after you get nothing and search again? Do this with many many different `!`.
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by xipho 2y ago
> It's also not in the class "generating billions of dollars of value" Clearly not as much as Linux, but almost certainly it's already been a part of asset creation or use within film and video games that topped billi
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by xipho 2y ago
What about Blender? Is it not a canonical success story? I feel that science, art, and tools that provide personal agency are all compelling landscapes for open-source fruition.
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by xipho 2y ago
Perhaps not quite what you're looking for but Ankane does (a lot) of great work, e.g. https://github.com/ankane/torch.rb .
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by xipho 2y ago
AI, DNA, morphology. Biodiversity is vast, and diverse. Figuring out the clusters within it (there a huge range of concepts of what a species [== clusters] is), and figuring out how that cluster can be meaningfully applied to issues that
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by xipho 2y ago
One of my previous advisors, while working on a PhD in sociality in insects, had a lot of time to spend in a front lawn in New York City. Trained to observe he recorded hundreds of species, on that lawn. Another insect curator I worked wit
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by xipho 2y ago
This. They message to billions, every what, hour, and get how many ad contracts every minute? If the problem really is this order of magnitude they are doing an incredible job, aren't they?
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by xipho 2y ago
> One of the hurdles you would have to overcome is convincing all of the conferences to go with these reusable e-ink badges. This is the only thing that matters buisiness-wise, its what I'd expect people who frequent HN do routinely

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