ryanblakeley

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by ryanblakeley 1y ago
People who have so much in assets that they can live (and support their family) with the interest they earn on those assets, and by a huge margin, not just comfortably retired people. Those are the people who get richer, at the expense of y
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by ryanblakeley 1y ago
Creative expression is also about relationships with other people and connecting with an audience. Treating it like product optimization seems hollow and lonely. There's friction to asking another person to read and give feedback on so
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by ryanblakeley 1y ago
There were a number of anomalous characteristics including its shape, acceleration, rotation, origin, and reflectivity.
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by ryanblakeley 1y ago
Super-intelligent game-playing AIs, for decades, were trained on human data.
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by ryanblakeley 1y ago
I once took a group of young people foraging for mushrooms in the Willamette valley on a farm that had loads of these newts. I warned every body not to touch them. After preparing dinner, one girl got very ill, as did I, while other people
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by ryanblakeley 1y ago
Sperm bank
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by ryanblakeley 1y ago
Silicon lids on glass containers are a great combo. I use Weck jars, wide-mouth for easier cleaning, in sizes 1L, 500mL, and 200mL, in my commercial kitchen. And stainless steel hotel pans and lids for everything else. Consumer-grade stuff
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by ryanblakeley 2y ago
> something belonging to a sick person is fastened to the end of a throwing stick smeared in human or kangaroo fat. The stick is then stuck in the ground and a fire lit beneath it. Mulla-mullung chant the name of the sick person. Once
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Signs of ritual performed 12,000 years ago(cosmosmagazine.com)
3 points by ryanblakeley 2y ago|1 comments
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Ecology in science fiction: interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky(ryanblakeley.net)
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by ryanblakeley 2y ago
Just to be clear, these models can answer questions about relationships between people if you mean family relationships. Answering questions about what you're describing sounds really interesting. What would a training set be like that
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by ryanblakeley 2y ago
"Dry stack" is another term for that, a stone wall without mortar. In my opinion, thinking of this as a grid is misguided. It's barely different than flex columns. I would want to be able to have some objects take up more wid
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Ant pheromones may help protect hikers and campers from ticks(phys.org)
1 points by ryanblakeley 2y ago|0 comments
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The headspace of flying squirrels and fossil rodents with 3D brain models(ryanblakeley.net)
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Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity(phys.org)
84 points by ryanblakeley 2y ago|58 comments
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
Is sexual cannibalism off the table?
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
Adrian Tchaikovsky's sci-fi book Children of Time has a pretty cool take on the future of ant wars. I'm interviewing him in a couple weeks to talk about ecology in science fiction. If anyone has a suggestion for a question I'
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How the Aoudad Invaded Texas (2020)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by ryanblakeley 3y ago|0 comments
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
> generated 68x more power than needed to operate its sensors > all components...can be purchased at a local hardware store I can't help but think this would be used for surveillance. All you need is dirt to run a sensor and tran
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I write about animal intelligence and will be keen to pick that one up. The molecular basis of circadian rhythm has been studied in fruit flies. Every cell has a chemical clock which adjusts for a range of tem
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Are roads the biggest driver of ecological destruction?(ryanblakeley.net)
131 points by ryanblakeley 3y ago|112 comments
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
Can I get a version that lets me stare at a dog's face instead?
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
I value privacy above the marginal usefulness of targeted ads. You should be free to opt-in to tracking and personalization if that's what you want. But we shouldn't all be caught in a surveillance dragnet by default.
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
I appreciate your perspective. Perhaps I should have said "few" instead of "many" and "parts" instead of "systems". But it does sound like your overall impression of backup and restorative capacity di
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
I interviewed a guy from the NOAA to ask about that. The gist is 1) the military has hardened satellites 2) they have a phone-tree system for alerting grid operators and 3) many high voltage transformers have back-up systems in hardened sto
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Animals construct disguises using local materials(ryanblakeley.net)
3 points by ryanblakeley 3y ago|1 comments
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Four Ways That Insects Team Up(smithsonianmag.com)
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
One of our serious cultural flaws is powerful individuals don't divest their power, and the system doesn't force them too. A prerequisite to becoming rich or attaining political power is a desire to have it. And those people never
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by ryanblakeley 3y ago
That is an incredibly cool discovery. Another weird body hack in Northern Australia Hymenoptera is the honey pot ant. Their replete caste are passive food storage containers.
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The roots of remorse: do animals apologize?(ryanblakeley.net)
4 points by ryanblakeley 3y ago|0 comments

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