xipho

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by xipho 2mo ago
> were predatory ... ? Were they? Sawflies are herbivores, and are at minimum share a common ancestor with those that were not herbivores. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
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by xipho 4mo ago
He's streaming live "right now". https://www.twitch.tv/textfiles
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by xipho 5mo ago
Come spend some time with the TaxonWorks community, docs can always use love. https://taxonworks.org .
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by xipho 6mo ago
Inspirational stuff, with lots of great references to the OGs at the bottom, and source available. Now can it be merged with the look/feel of https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/ . ;)
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by xipho 6mo ago
I've tried a lot of note management but always come back to [potwiki]( https://github.com/vim-scripts/potwiki.vim ) + "Vim". Only one necessary functional bit in the whole thing, write CamelCase and your
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by xipho 6mo ago
As if by magic from here on HN - https://www.science.org/content/article/can-wealthy-family-c...
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by xipho 6mo ago
One could argue all science is still funded that way. My team is funded by a philanthrophist. NSF "royalty" re-distributes the peasant's taxes to do science. Etc.
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by xipho 6mo ago
When AI is done consuming (and it basically has, except for redundant human-human social network interactions), then will there be a renaissance of re-exploring the natural world? Without understanding its complexities I would posit we&#x27
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by xipho 7mo ago
Anyone chime in on how they typically engage something like this? No way am I dropping my primary contact info into something so outwardly cryptic. Phone number? Hah! Do you scaffold a new identity/email (semi-automagically)?
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by xipho 7mo ago
This is the way. I get plenty of feeds, recommendations etc. from others, enough to keep me busy. Follow who I want, and drop in when I see they have something new.
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by xipho 8mo ago
That too! There seem to be a lot of YT videos that are memes on this theme as well though. He alludes to the fact that people make build videos that are essentially adding a couple of pre-existing more or less built components together. Th
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by xipho 8mo ago
That's no meme- it's a fully operational crazy custom build. A remarkable video that doesn't end in "like and mash subscribe".
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by xipho 8mo ago
Ok, I'll bite. What if solar panels turn into breeding grounds with perfect environmental temperatures to create viruses that kill us all? Who is to say the sun won't blow up tomorrow? Why not enumerate all the things that might
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by xipho 11mo ago
"But here’s the thing: this massively understates the opportunity. The solar system is the Trojan horse. The real business is the financial relationship with 40 million customers." Soooo... they have a good thing going, there is a
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by xipho 11mo ago
Notes on mushroom clouds are sobering.
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by xipho 1y ago
Related, the OG, with research behind it- https://colorbrewer2.org/ .
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by xipho 1y ago
I've pitched Blender to NSF Review panels and the higher ups that come by those to visit as the way science should do software. Would love to know of others as successful as this, particularly as it crosses boundries to industry.
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by xipho 1y ago
If the only two examples that are presented are "SpaceX" and "Latin America" can we not dismiss any further importance on the conflict-of-interest aspect alone? A completely failed experiment, and a company that can crea
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by xipho 1y ago
Child comment is probably right, "asymmetrical" was likely going through my mind, or some chimera of both. I mean to say that whatever humans do, their actions ("requests"), don't get a response from "nature&
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by xipho 1y ago
Big pharma will intervene when they realize that life is one big chemistry experiment, and it's running longer than any lab has. AI to predict, nature to produce, then you need to figure out how nature produced. Understanding the pat
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by xipho 1y ago
Very hard to escape biology unless you invest in understanding it. Ticks, mosquito-born diseases, agricultural pests, they don't care about AI, politics, or space-races or geo political boundaries. We, on the other hand, require life
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by xipho 1y ago
But yet I lurked longer than many of other product pages I land on to think about what might be going on thanks to the nature of graphics and the non-standard non-bootstrap template approach. Sometimes providing TLDR means you are providi
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by xipho 1y ago
"To ensure consistent data interpretation and enable robust aggregation across experiments, metadata were standardized using established ontologies." Can't emphasize enough about how DNA requires human data curation to make t
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by xipho 1y ago
Previously at HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434730
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by xipho 1y ago
The discovery part is anything but. I was trained to recognize scams in grocery stores (the on sale smaller is never cheaper then the bulk item... until rarely it is) early on by my parents. Few people recognize just how bad this is. Edu
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by xipho 1y ago
On a "price awareness vein" - I've thought that a killer app would be a phone app that runs in a grocery store, it detects costs, brands, and sizes, and overlays two things 1) the option that is cheaper per mass and 2) whethe
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by xipho 1y ago
Right, they are not underwater. Hemimetaboulous insects like Holobates look like baby adults when they are born, and undergo multiple "partial" metamorphosis. In this case their wings are almost non-existent. They will go through
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by xipho 1y ago
I know of Halobates, they live on top the ocean, not in the ocean. I.e. they have no adaptations to breathe in salt water. There are many other species like this that are restricted to tidal (flies, parasitic wasps, etc.) or costal areas
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by xipho 1y ago
I suspect arthropods are way too diverse to fall under a single umbrella of "is_allergic". Millions of years of evolution can produce very radically different things for our bodies to worry about. Just the fact that there are no
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by xipho 1y ago
I find this very amusing. In philosophy of science some 20+ years ago I had a wonderful prof who went through 3(?) periods of thought. He laid out this argument, followed by the arguments seen below in this thread in various ways, in a syst

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