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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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Best movement of “The Planets” by Holst?

futurebird,
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@noplasticshower I thought it literally was the sound track as a kid since I didn’t really watch the movies.

futurebird,
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half of you have tin ears! it’s Uranus! That’s the correct answer! It sounds like a dinosaur made of steampunk junk dancing and falling apart as it dances!

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@MrBerard see me after class’

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Is it "unjust" and "mean" to not let Pica lick (but not even eat) my mozzarella sicks?

Facts:

  1. She has done this before
  2. She won't even eat them, just mouth them.
  3. She has a strong opinion about doing this.
futurebird,
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@StrangeNoises @lisamelton They are such irresistible little twerps.

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@richpuchalsky The ants always win every vote in our house— something I think I should have considered before putting the system in place.

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Been doing some research into GitHub Sponsors the past few days.

Out of 27k accounts analysed:

~12k had at least one sponsor,
~2k had at least 10 sponsors,
~900 have more than 100 sponsors 78 more than 1000 (past or present)

About 10% of GitHub sponsor accounts are organizations, 90% individuals.

futurebird,
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@andrewnez

Kinda shocked to see Java doing so poorly!

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Overheard on the bus:

1: “… a big sexy fireman.”
2: “oh no girl”
2: “… even has one of them spotty dogs. Takes it jogging.”
3: “Dalmation! Dalmation!”
1: “Yeah!”
2: “You shure he’s a real fireman?”
1: “He’s got the dalmation!”
3:”he got 101 bitches!”
1: 😡
2: 🤭

😆

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“Lazy Mary” is a real person!

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Do all animal's mouths open horizontally?

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@timhutton @simon

In terms of function the mandibles of ants are their hands. Although, they do use their front legs and antennae to manipulate objects often. (they use their antennae to pack down sand, for example)

But in terms of development I don’t even know if it would be proper to say arthropod limbs are analogous to mammal limbs! We are both bilaterians but beyond being symmetric tubes? We have more in common with starfish and urchins than ants!

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@timhutton @simon

I don't think so. But, to be eusocial you must also be social and that's why there are all these similar developments... that have totally different origins.

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@timhutton @simon Which should really make you hairs stand on end as you contemplate the nature of ant cognitive activity— it is absolutely alien and yet — there are parallels— deep parallels: especially in the patterns of social organization.

Ants and humans do agriculture, make wars, take care of each other, and mould our local environment.

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@econads @timhutton @simon

Most people seem to assume that and that is their primary function. But, I've watched ants use them like we might use the tips of our fingers to nudge and tap soil in particular.

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I think one reason there aren’t better resources for 8-12 grade CS education is a reluctance to admit that it’s a core subject— but the other issue is so many CS people are largely self taught: creating a kind of RTFM gate keeping only matched by higher mathematics.

But it doesn’t need to stay this way forever.

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