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by xipho 3y ago
Here Dragons Abound is another hidden gem in this vein: https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/
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by xipho 3y ago
> and Google has untouchable resources such as all the books they've scanned (and already won court cases about) https://www.hathitrust.org/ has that corpus, and its evolution, and you can propose to get access to i
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by xipho 3y ago
You don't even need to install it, just add it as an import line to UO, Google how. Game changing.
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by xipho 3y ago
For those taxonomists types the taxon in question is here, on a new type of taxon-page. The curators are waiting for official channels (e.g. GBIF, museums) to include vouchers prior to updating the distribution. https://hoppers.s
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by xipho 3y ago
There are hundreds of thousands of "false' labels. Pictures can be classified many times.
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by xipho 3y ago
https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/html/Van_Hor... https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/html/Van_Horn... Etc.
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by xipho 3y ago
Perhaps the most successful "natural" social-network out there, well deserved. Now if we can just get citizen scientists cheap scopes and better camera lenses so we can actually make those photos of critters < 2mm useful (at s
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by xipho 3y ago
For context 260 acres is .00000713 of the total area of Indiana, or ~.00026% of the wetlands there. Now, it could be that these are critically important "primary" type, housing endangered species, that might be an important consid
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by xipho 3y ago
Ze Frank is the healthiest thing I've discovered on the internet for a while (when you need to laugh), see related video on Slime Molds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OltvGZUvpvw [edit- spelling]
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by xipho 3y ago
Some weeks ago I wrote down some ideas that "feel" like this after watching Feynman https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/fml.html#5 , but before I read this (or maybe I did read this, and it's all just late
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by xipho 3y ago
See also https://opentreeoflife.github.io/ , https://opentreeoflife.org . And some shameless plugs- One of the EOL lead devs is now a member of our group https://speciesfilegroup.org/ . We have two
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by xipho 3y ago
Nature + Identifiers is an issue (e.g. see https://github.com/tdwg/tag/issues/36 ). I've routinely mentioned to others in my field to look at other industries for ways forward, particularly ones like the
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by xipho 3y ago
The present work is a merger of that effort he claims.
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by xipho 3y ago
Considering that we can trace genetic diseases all the way through arthropod models through other model organisms to humans I can't agree more ;).
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by xipho 3y ago
While not exactly related a significant contribution has recently been published- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37094905/ in a journal. Tools like this help tease out what things "really" are, as they give
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by xipho 3y ago
See also https://www.bespokesynth.com/ . Completely open, very amazing.
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by xipho 4y ago
I did not fall, but collecting insects once in the rainforest I brushed my pant-leg against this. Couldn't understand the pain. Was dumb and naive to not read the local park brochure when we came in, only when we left after the first
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by xipho 4y ago
There are many billions more waiting to be curated and digitized in collections around the world. See also GBIF, for tons of data on the tiny fraction that has been digitized. There are > 2 billion records there alone. And now for a sham
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by xipho 4y ago
Science and Nature are the canonical exaggerators when it comes to headlines. Whole genome, whole mitochondria, complete, total, you name it, there is (nearly?) always an invisible asterisk at the end. When these words are use then Materi
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by xipho 4y ago
I can only counter the fear with more stories. Of course at this point in his life he had 4 doctors. His cancer doctor was not happy with the decision, she wanted to (and they could perhaps have), kept him strung along for several more mont
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by xipho 4y ago
For all those in the US who hear nothing but horror stories about how bad it would also be if you lived in another country, particularly in Canada, I always feel it's important to relate stories like this. My father died in Canada last
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by xipho 4y ago
Tried with a song I knew well- Everything In Its Right Place. Feels a little bit like fortune telling, I guess it is, in the sense that I am listening closely to what makes the songs similar, not just listening, but actively trying to find
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by xipho 4y ago
> stupidly accessible Don't underestimate what tiles do for a game in terms of (perceived) accessibility. Anecdotally my kids (under 11), who will almost certainly abandon the game after playing it, are demanding that we get it beca
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by xipho 4y ago
Impossible. Don't bother. Many threads on HN detailing the pain.
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by xipho 4y ago
Mushrooms are evolutionarily closer to animals than plants, so it's true in various ways. All life shares common elements, see the large and small mitochondrial subunits (rRNA). They are so critical to producing celluar energy that th
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by xipho 4y ago
I don't think blame is the best approach. The general public/media takes time to catch up with "current" science. First pollinator awareness, then, oh, there is more than just honeybees polinating Almonds, rinse, repea
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by xipho 4y ago
We consciously call those who use our services "collaborators", we're on equal-footing, to the point of not trying to say "service" (when it is). This week we just met with a potential group of users of our open-sou
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by xipho 4y ago
> But mRNA was precisely the topic that required a multi-decade commitment. It all comes down to this ^ for me. Advances take decades from start to finish. Institutions/organziations (including funders) need to start not just fundi
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by xipho 4y ago
Was exactly correct for me, predicted Lichess within 10 points. Also agree with another poster who said they were waiting to get crushed, but managed a draw. Like it "pushed" just enough.
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by xipho 4y ago
Watch the World Cup be the death of Twitter for this type of thing?!

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