Lord Alveric @lordalveric@qoto.org
The dreams of AGI. The reality that we still suck.
Joined Oct 2018
History of Pandemics. Fun stuff. 
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/
CoVID-19 Interactive chart showing different doubling periods per country.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/infection-trajectory-flattening-the-covid19-curve/
Funny how South Korea has been able to stem the tide of the Wuhan virus without taking these Draconian approaches.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/23/boris-johnsons-address-to-the-nation-in-full
I am beginning to wonder what is really going on. Why not just do what South Korea is doing instead of stripping everyone of their very basic human rights? Am I missing something here? And Germany is just as guilty.
European -- and the UK as well -- governments are scaring me, big time. Maybe I should simply return to the US. I have other problems with that country, but I know the US would never stoop this low... or would it?
Hard to know anymore. Time for a Bier. Or 10.
Most curious. S. Korea has kicked a Wuhan virus's ass.
@design_RG Indeed.
And it doesn't help that my machine has 4 monitors attached, each having nine virtual desktops.
Those tabs add up quickly, and Chrome eats up a fair chunk of my 32GBytes of RAM.
I used to run TooManyTabs to save the tabs, but that became too unmanageable.
Chrome does have a nice feature that will allow you to save entire groups of tabs open on a window to a tab folder. That help. Some.
Dr. Strangelove. Or how I learned to stop hating and love The Virus.
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Yahoo!
https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y
Is it just me, or are others accumulating browser tabs like they used to accumulate books?
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Me + Coffee = supergenius!
Me - Coffee = Dummkopf!!!!
Whoops! Hope your Macbook was not in need of repair! 😜
https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/21/apple-store-repairs-coronavirus/
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@machado
I see. Fortunately for me, the draw of mathematics and science was so strong that the school system had no hope of a snowball's chance in hell to destroy my enthusiasm or turn me off from it!!!!
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@machado You probably spent a lot of time in the Natural History museum in your area when you were a kid.
For me, I had developed a general and intense interest in all things Science, and I spent a lot of time at the Franklin Institute Museum in Philadelphia. It was a place of wonder for me at the time.
They even had a Moog synthesizer there at the time, which piqued my interests in electronic music.
Did you watch "Land of the Lost" when you were a kid? Hopefully that was not before your time! :D
Oh my... nostalgia.
https://youtu.be/rA6PXiay2YI
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@machado Marvin Minsky spoke of "Luggage Words" when I last saw him before he passed on... words that we chuck everything in that we don't understand.
I have a similar notion --"Mirage Concepts" -- concepts that seem to mean something at the surface or "from afar", but upon closer examination, the entire notion falls apart.
"Life" fits both.
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@machado @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe @tfb
And then there is Artifical Life, or "A-Life" as we like to call it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life
When I read the Steven Levy book by the same name over 20 years ago, the distinction between "living" and "non-living" became forever blurred.
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@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe @tfb And I don't care about the ignorance and myths of the "mainstream". People in general are pretty stupid.
Whether or not you care about the virus is immaterial. It will "care" about you, however.
I hope that you are taking all reasonable precautions to avoid infection by CoVID-19.
I've seen videos of millennial idiots who don't think or don't care about getting infected. They put partying ahead of their own health....
Well, Darwin will be busy this summer. Sadly.
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@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe All vaccines work by inducing our immune system to produce antibodies that will attack the pathogens. It works a bit differently for bacteria than it does for viruses. In the case of the virus, the antibodies attach to the outer shell of the virus, preventing it from attaching itself to our cells.
That's how vaccines work. I'm not sure what you mean by the usage of the word.
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@tfb @amiloradovsky@functional.cafe
Brain the size of a planet and I have to deal with this puny little virus? What kind of job satisfaction is that? Life. Don't talk to me about life. 😜
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@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe
When you look at "life" at the molecular level, where does the designation of "life" ends? At the organelles, like the mitochondria? Ribosomes? Endoplasmic reticulum? Microtubules?
These are all complex machines that take part in this phenomenon we humans label as "life". But at the molecular levels, we are talking about vast chemical factories and processes. It is beyond fascinating...
And we can even go down to the DNA, RNA and the codons, and the amino acids that the codons match up with to be assembled into polypeptide chains, etc.
Where does it all end?
ATP serves as the energy supply for this entire operation. We are talking electron transfers here.....
Are electrons "alive"? And yet they serve as the basis of all the chemical processes that we call "life".
And how far down this rabbit hole do you wish to go?
The dreams of AGI. The reality that we still suck.
Joined Oct 2018
