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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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OK, gardeners -- I need your advice. Two cantaloupe seeds sprouted from my compost heap, so I planted them in the garden bed with low expectations. One died, but the other is now blooming beautifully. I read somewhere that you're supposed to have more than one plant to encourage pollination. Is that true? What can I do to make it more likely that it'll fruit? I see occasional bees here, but not necessarily enough to rely on -- could I maybe try to hand-pollinate it, or should I leave it alone?
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This was amazing to see.
The barn swallow parent (above) had apparently had it with its lazy fledgling (below), and literally dragged it from the nest and dropped it into the sky over the water. Fortunately, the nestling could indeed fly, and just hadn't wanted to.
they did Annie Murphy wrong having her wear that yellow jumpsuit after we'd just seen Salma Hayek wearing it
#tv #blackmirror
@est@emily.news oh, I knew it was a joke. I think the question is fun and interesting regardless
@mikemccaffrey
depending on what you mean, the answer is trivial. if you mean, "did eggs exist before chickens," then, obviously, yes.
if you mean, "did chickens exist before the first chicken egg," it's an ill-posed because so-called speciation events involve populations of pre-existing species. the creatures that produced chicken eggs must have been more or less continuous with what came before because otherwise you just don't have a way to get to the chicken. you'd have to pick some arbitrary dividing line in the evolutionary history
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"..the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
Somebody says you have no language & you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. ... None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing."
-- Toni Morrison
I'm privileged to have the opportunity to view the several spiders' feeding behaviors. something I hadn't appreciated before is just how long it can take to subdue prey. it's been three hours since I first saw this caterpillar caught in a spider's web and the struggle is still ongoing. it doesn't even look like the situation has changed substantially since then.
#spiders #animals #nature
I've avoided wading into this conversation because I'm not really in the field of machine learning (I kinda was for a bit, but I never really grokked modern language models).
Don't have that much to add. I just want to say, to me, "just" predicting the next word in a sequence doesn't sound like the constrained task it's made out to be. the main thing I and doing in typing this is "predicting the next word in a sequence".
#machinelearning #AI #LLM
@izaya wow. I couldn't even get any of my family members to use Linux. how did you get saddled with managing all their computers though?
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After doodling Xenia I itched to draw Kiki as well. Linux & Krita were a major turning point in my life 10 years ago where I decided that digital art can be sustainable and kept at it.
Kiki is Krita's mascot and here she is in battle gear to defend creative freedom for you :D
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When I was a child, I wrote a series of love songs to my cat. I think this is the thing I have done in my life for which I feel the least regret. I only wish I had written more.
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You all have seen this amazing image... Right?
Check out the #CurratedAccount @AstroMigration for more mind blowing #astronomy #space and #AstroPhysics everyday.
Explanation: Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure... nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole.
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NASA's #AstrophotoChallenge is under way! Time to start processing your astro images of the Phantom Galaxy (M74).
How can you enter the challenge? 👉 https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/astrophoto/index.html
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@troublewithwords shiii- I actually really wanna watch this. and finish B5.
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102 years ago, on June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman achieved a significant milestone as the FIRST Black woman in history to earn a pilot's license, 2 years before Amelia Earhart. With great courage and determination, “Brave Bessie,” as she would later be called, pursued her own path, striving always to fulfill her mother's aspiration for her children to “amount to something.”
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#BlackHistory @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #histodons #History #Aviation
I want a flying drone with a camera and a VR headset for me. I want to turn my life into an adventure game.
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas: 239 | Brian Lowery on the Social Self
Episode webpage: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
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AI developers worry that AI models will degrade if they train on the coming flood of AI-generated content. I wonder if all post-2023 creative works will be suspect (at least as training data).
You could draw an analogy to low background steel. For certain applications (like Geiger counters) only pre-1945 steel can be used because all modern steel has too much radiation because of nuclear testing.
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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