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futurebird

@futurebird@sauropods.win

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.

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You can sniff at block-based programming if you like, but I do find that students who used such languages in middle school have an easier time adapting to object oriented and nonlinear programming later — the downside is that nonlinearity is nearly always an illusion in computer science. And under those floating islands of functions and classes there is an absolute order —

I’ll work with some middle school students next year and so I’m learning about all this scratch nonsense.

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@JordiGH Lol yes.

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Here is a really interesting documentary about ants... including information about "cardboard ants" who build paper nests rather like wasps.

I've read about these ants but seen very little of images or videos.

It's in French, but will show English subtitles if you get the settings right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQJVZZ-BEo

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OH my god these little ants with their "gallery traps" are diabolical.

(I wish machine translation worked better with scientific names... it's going to take me a long time to find out the names of all the species of ants in this video. )

Documentary makers no matter what language you work in... please put the names of people and the names of species on the screen!

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Wow... Repulicans think FBI agents and cops shouldn't be armed. I mean that's the only way they wouldn't be moaning and crying about the FBI showing up being an "assassination attempt on Trump" ... if agents were simply not armed.

You know?

I agree. Why not.

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There is an ant colony that lives in the cracks of the asphalt in 2nd ave. In the center of the street. I don’t know if I should call them absolute legends or idiots. They use the cracks as highways like sidewalks ants. It’s a big colony although I can never get a good look at them without getting hocked at.

Perhaps I am the legendary idiot in this story.

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