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This river is made of light, and it’s beautiful

Interference and irregularity come together to create beautiful art.

arstechnica.com

 

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Why isn't news like this plastered on the 6 o'clock news?

After a rigorous peer review process in the Australian Research Council, six grants were vetoed last Christmas by the acting education minister for political reasons. This meant several jobs were lost from the research sector on the whim of a politician.

Australia spent a million dollars training me – and now I’m leaving

 

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Solar eclipse on Mars - Phobos passes in front of the Sun.

 

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ok, 3D printing has leveled up to ...errr 3D

Making 3D printing truly 3D by eliminating need for 2D layering (w/video)

Researchers developed a technique of volumetric 3D printing that goes beyond the bottom-up, layered approach. The process eliminates the need for support structures because the resin it creates is self-supporting.

www.nanowerk.com

 

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people would know about scribbly gums

Scribbly Gums – Friends of Aranda Bushland

www.friendsofarandabushland.org.au

but what about scribbly bums ??

Army of worm larvae hatch from man’s bum, visibly slither under his skin

Doctors watched the shifting rash blanket his body in rare hyperinfection.

arstechnica.com

 

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Why do we say Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink?

Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink: The source of this phrase and how to use it.

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you can get a glass now...

From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button

MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water.

techxplore.com

 

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grow you good thing

Scientists grow plants in soil from the Moon for the first time

The University of Florida researchers only had 12 grams of 'lunar regolith' to work with.

www.engadget.com

 

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The holy hand grenade of Antioch has been found If this is a hand grenade, it backs up a long-debated theory about the Crusades

 

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manners...

Watch dolphins line up to self-medicate skin ailments at coral 'clinics'

If a human comes down with a rash, they might go to the doctor and come away with some ointment to put on it. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins get skin conditions, too, but they come about their medication by queuing up nose-to-tail to rub themselves against corals. In the journal iScience on...

phys.org

 

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Bear essentials

Bear hibernation: More than a winter’s nap

The creatures’ annual protracted snoozes have much to tell us about the biology of mammals, ourselves included. Now scientists are watching to see how bears will tweak their habits as the climate warms.

knowablemagazine.org

 

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A neuro scientist talks about the impossibility of up loading your brain to a computer When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer?, while guys from Harvard have 3D printed functional heart fibres using SWIFT (Sacrificial Writing in Functional Tissue) bioprinting technology Scientists 3D-print a functional piece of a heart | Engadget

 

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Maximus Fantasticus !!!!!

'Fantastic giant tortoise,' believed extinct, confirmed alive in the Galápagos

A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive. The tortoise, named Fernanda after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century.

phys.org

 

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Why can’t you remember being born, learning to walk or saying your first words? What scientists know about ‘infantile amnesia’

Psychologists know babies can form memories soon after birth. So why can’t people remember anything that happened to them before around age 2? A child development expert describes possible reasons.

theconversation.com

 

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Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division, revealed to The Washington Post that he believes one of the company's AI projects has achieved sentience.

www.engadget.com

So LaMDA had been with friends...Exterminate...Exterminate

 

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Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division, revealed to The Washington Post that he believes one of the company's AI projects has achieved sentience.

www.engadget.com

So LaMDA had been with friends...Exterminate...Exterminate

Yes, hang on to your hat's boys and girls, the AI singularity event is here, well, maybe, maybe not. Google engineers assure it's not. You can
read a long and fascinating transcript of one of the conversations is here
In some parts it's very convincing, in others it sounds like canned answers and other times I expected it to say 'share and enjoy', like the elevators in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. At the very least it's a magnificent example of natural language processing and a convincing virtual intelligence. Perhaps it's more, the long predicted emergent sentience emerging from a complex neural network. Time will tell.

 

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Yes, hang on to your hat's boys and girls, the AI singularity event is here, well, maybe, maybe not. Google engineers assure it's not. You can
read a long and fascinating transcript of one of the conversations is here
In some parts it's very convincing, in others it sounds like canned answers and other times I expected it to say 'share and enjoy', like the elevators in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. At the very least it's a magnificent example of natural language processing and a convincing virtual intelligence. Perhaps it's more, the long predicted emergent sentience emerging from a complex neural network. Time will tell.

great read, yet to read it really carefully to dissect it, was hoping for a question like do you cry ? and how would you if you physically cannot ?

Alas, just hurry up and get me a fembot already.

Would be nice to get an idea of some sort of delay before the answers were spat out...like if it was instantly well then hmm..here's one I prepared earlier...while a human might pause and think deeply before answering.

 

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Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division, revealed to The Washington Post that he believes one of the company's AI projects has achieved sentience.

www.engadget.com

So LaMDA had been with friends...Exterminate...Exterminate

Yes, hang on to your hat's boys and girls, the AI singularity event is here, well, maybe, maybe not. Google engineers assure it's not. You can
read a long and fascinating transcript of one of the conversations is here
In some parts it's very convincing, in others it sounds like canned answers and other times I expected it to say 'share and enjoy', like the elevators in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. At the very least it's a magnificent example of natural language processing and a convincing virtual intelligence. Perhaps it's more, the long predicted emergent sentience emerging from a complex neural network. Time will tell.

Old mate has since disclosed via Twitter that (1) his belief that LaMDA is sentient is based solely on his own religious beliefs; and (2) his religious beliefs are Discordianism.

Feel free to disregard

 

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Secundinus......you $hitter !!!

Ancient Roman soldier carved a phallus with a personal insult in this stone

The carving also included a crude personal insult directed at someone named Secundinus.

arstechnica.com

 

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sticky....no not this post...the mistletoe berries

Mistletoe berries may hold the secret for creating a biological super glue

Each mistletoe berry can produce up to two meters of a gluey thread called viscin. It allows the seeds of this parasitic plant to stick to and infect host plants. Since ancient times, mistletoe berries have been explored as treatments for everything from infertility and epilepsy to cancer. But...

phys.org

a bit more techy and tldr but got some really beautiful slides to look at:

Mistletoe viscin: a hygro- and mechano-responsive cellulose-based adhesive for diverse material applications

Abstract. Mistletoe viscin is a natural cellulosic adhesive consisting of hierarchically organized cellulose microfibrils (CMFs) surrounded by a humidity-respon

academic.oup.com

 

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Automated sails on a bulk carrier are expected to reduce fuel us by 30% Massive Mitsubishi Carrier to Be Fitted With a Revolutionary Sailing System Watch the vid, it looks pretty neat. This idea adding sails has been kicking around for a while, I think this is going to be the first large scale deployment.

 

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Automated sails on a bulk carrier are expected to reduce fuel us by 30% Massive Mitsubishi Carrier to Be Fitted With a Revolutionary Sailing System Watch the vid, it looks pretty neat. This idea adding sails has been kicking around for a while, I think this is going to be the first large scale deployment.

Whats old is new again.

 

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Senescence

Humans can't, but turtles can: Switching off senescence

All living organisms age and die—there is no way of escaping death. But not all organisms follow the same pattern of weakening and deterioration to old age and death—counter-intuitive as it may seem.

phys.org

 

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Automated sails on a bulk carrier are expected to reduce fuel us by 30% Massive Mitsubishi Carrier to Be Fitted With a Revolutionary Sailing System Watch the vid, it looks pretty neat. This idea adding sails has been kicking around for a while, I think this is going to be the first large scale deployment.

what about giant Sailar panels

 

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what about giant Sailar panels

Your boat would have to be electric powered, whereas the sails can go on any current diesel powered boats. Probably will happen if electric powered boats become common.

 

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braking mid air

Hawk has landed: braking mid-air to prioritise safety over energy or speed

New research from the Oxford Flight Group using computer simulations and Hollywood-style motion capture shows how birds optimise their landing

www.miragenews.com