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barrygoldman1

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#Teacher, story teller, #naturalist, dancer, piper of tunes. Studying #chemistry and #geology of the origins of life #astrobiology
blog which i should try to be consistant with
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/
twitter: barrygoldman1

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john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Clidastes" — 2021

Clidastes, god of the sea and forked lightning, does not even look at the ships she sinks.

https://johnconway.art/clidastes

barrygoldman1,
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@john wow

futurebird, to random
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3 dollars for helados? The upper east is wild ya’ll there best be a silver dollar in the bottom of this dixiecup…

i sound like an old lady telling my students how they used to cost a quarter. one rascal said “a quarter of what? ten bucks?”

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird damm! i miss having that on the streets!

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird chocolate lemon was my fav combo. do you remember when it was a block of ice and the guy would shave the ice into a cup and pour syrup all over it? damm...

futurebird, to random
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Simply putting colored paint on a few ants has let me discover that individual ants have certain spots they like best — Tulip likes to be on the highest point of this branch. If I don’t see her there I get worried. She’s a little camera (light) shy so documenting how often I see her in the same spot has been a challenge. She has preferred this spot for at least a whole month. Here are a few times I caught here there.

Tulip peers around the edge of the branch. She’s a good looking ant.
blurry tulip runs because so turned the light on.
Another shot that at least clearly shows it’s her since all you see is a blurry pink gaster.

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird haha 'cooperative leopards' you mean cheetahs. hmmm dunno if cheetahs climb trees tho. maybe they dont cuz they eat communally? i think they hunt communally

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@futurebird i remember feeding my ants one summer on disabled fruit flies. Aphaenogaster, Crematogaster, Paratrechina, Brachymyrmex, who else did i have? Tapinoma? Lasius? so long ago...

anyway they were all so different in how they would deal with and dispatch their prey! the tiniest, the Paratrechina were the most fearless. some of the bigger ones would approach more tentetively!

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird @Heliograph but.... was she a meter long?

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird @Heliograph summer generation honeyees work themselves to death. my notes say 10 flights a day for 4 to 5 days. 2-5km per flight?

futurebird, to random
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Hey mister binturong, you a bear? or are you a cat? or are you a big rodent? Or heck... are you some kind of raccoon? Which one are you?

mister binturong: yea

barrygoldman1,
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@llewelly @futurebird haha i used to play a game on the old craigslist discussion forums cuz once a yahoo asked 'yeah how could a cat evolve into a dog?' and i would post DOZENS of species of carnivors phylogenetically surrounding cats and dogs and ask "ok wise guys, which of these kinds is cats and which is dogs?" fun days

futurebird, to random
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"Joe Biden fascist marxist prosecutors"

Like... how do you even unpack a phrase like that?

The prosecutors aren't--
Biden's not--
Marxism isn't--
Fascism doesn't--
It's New York State not--
Those aren't even--

This is beyond a Gish Gallop (lies so thick you can't sound sane as you counter them all)

It's like information anti-matter and it's not even the whole sentence.

What do we call something that is "beyond untrue" ?

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird true and false are only MINOR categories of human experience. don't sweat it. we most certainly are NOT primarily rational beings. rationality is a boutique addiction only some of us subscribe to.

futurebird, to random
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The overhead for the AI on a minecraft ant is so great that the mod creators limit the colonies to just 20 ants to prevent lag. Fine for gameplay 20 feels like a lot.

Interesting the kind of things they do: remember the location of their nest, find a path back, collect leaves etc. are so taxing.

In the real world a colony of 1000+ is typical. Some colonies have millions of ants. And real ants have much more to "process" Kind of gives you a sense of the scale of the intelligence of a colony.

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird 260 skills of honeybees is pertinant here:
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-many-skills-does-tiny-honey-bee.html

barrygoldman1,
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@mycotropic @futurebird ant info processing is very different than human osses. probly REALLY tangled and enmeshed 'code' each routine using each other's subroutines... all running on HIGHLY parallel processing structure.

only a million highly interlocked neurons at most, but we don't know if counting neurons is the right way to look.

barrygoldman1,
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@mycotropic @futurebird well here's the problems that honeybees solve (similiar in flavor to ant life)

https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-many-skills-does-tiny-honey-bee.html

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird @Woodswalked @mycotropic i've toyed with the idea of writing a story of honeybee life including each of those behaviors... i'm not focused.

but YOU you can do it (for an ant species). would be phenomenal.

many ants are more generalist than honeybees?

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird @Woodswalked @mycotropic a whole ant mythology about wax and propolis. i think sometimes ants attack hives and i wouldnt' be surprised honeybees trap ants (dead, alive?) in propolis.

i wonder what the phylogeny of wax is! stingless honeybees make it too? when did it evolve? do other wasps make it?

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird @Woodswalked @mycotropic ok evolution of waxmaking in hymenoptera is confusing. all insects make 'waxes' (mix of hydrocarbons and esters) (ant cuticles use waxes) but i guess what we are looking for is 'combwax' is that a term?

how do i find evolution of combwax in apocrita? (bees wasps ants) @alexwild

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird @Woodswalked @mycotropic ants would rather hang from wall and stuff their honey in gross overgrown bellies!

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird @ai6yr @Woodswalked @mycotropic i guess they are easy to haul out. it's the GIANT DEAD MICE that get embalmed.

futurebird, to random
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I could deal with, but didn't agree with, the idea that a president can't be hauled into court during his term, ok, ok I can see the potential for abuse there.

But, no man is president for life, so that protection will expire and the force of the law still exists. (and the burden of proof)

I simply don't get immunity beyond that. I don't get it at all.

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird @david ur right. such a waste of time. just thow the orc into the stocks. the complexity of court proceedings in the face of blatantly BAD behavior is an affront to humanity. i've seen SO MANY examples.

franco_vazza, to Astronomy
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Tomorrow evening, quite a special event:
I will be at Villa Galilei in the hills around , where Galileo spent his latest years of home imprisonment, to speak about how the human brain and the cosmic web might look alike, through the lens of analysis and together with my (neurosurgeon) colleague.
Events organized by Inaf and University of Florence.
https://portalegiovani.comune.fi.it/urlnews/webzine/48720.html

barrygoldman1,
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@franco_vazza does information flow between the nodes of cosmic web?

once i tried to calculate how much info can flow back and forth across milky way. via nova inducing other nova to be born. i came up with about 40 waves of info back and forth in the life of the galaxy. not much.

futurebird, to random
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My current radical take that is driving the principal insane is the idea that to better educate our students about social media, online safety etc. we should have them set up and run their own social media on the school intranet.

And I get why. But, why do we just throw young people out into the wilds of the internet where they are surrounded by ads, creepy people, criminals etc.?

Part of why social media can be chaotic and destructive is because too many adults hope it just wont exist.

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird when i watched parents put their kids in front of tv back in the 70s... i did not understand. all manner of insanity they just let into their homes. like building a highway through the home and let anybody come in...

i gues it's an old problem.

schools tho... i watched them be SO STOOPIT about computers, so suckered in by snake oil salesmen.

well what WERE the ideals of school anyway?

futurebird, to random
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“Fluent Python” is an excellent example of a “good programming language book” — it’s not cluttered with “enterprise examples” it’s focused on how python works and goes into detail on edge cases. This lets one write code with real confidence that you know everything it’s doing. It is also written with the aim to justify why python is the way that it is. Which I need or I get irritated.

If you like python you should probably have a pdf or buy a copy.

Now which book on Java is analogous?

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird hmm that doesn't seem to be in my collection. i can haz pdf?

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird found a pdf hmm very interesting.

https://coderbooks.ru/fluent_python_2nd_edition/

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Java has a interface* called “Set” but the documentation is nebulous & ominous. “may throw an exception” what? does no one even know? There isn’t even a method for intersection & union?! What is the point? I taught my students to use the set object in Python. It was an elegant beautiful experience— Thought we could do it in Java but I think I will just use arraylist, write my own damn methods.

I’m biased, but Java is always more annoying like this. ugh. (*this explains part of my confusion)

barrygoldman1,
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@futurebird the set operations are insane (python) with them u can write one liners that woulda taken 10s of miinutes or more of thinking and coding up a dozens of lines of code in older languages without it.

barrygoldman1, to random
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wait. what the hell have i done now? i have 30 notifications.

barrygoldman1,
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@gay_ornithischians i posted a single board 8bit 256 byte hex keypad and 2 digit display computer i had when i was a kid.

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