Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org
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mad scientist/artist
Interests: cognition, artificial cognition, epistemology, machines, history, understanding most things.
Academic and professional credentials: 3D structure of proteins (PhD), program analysis with OCaml, free software author.
Hobbies: trail running, mushrooms, art.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, originally from Orléans, France
Ancien rameur à l'ACOO. Ancien élève du Lycée Saint-Louis et de l'École normale supérieure de Lyon.
Joined Nov 2022
The acronym "GOAT" stands for "greatest of all time" and means "greatest so far" especially when referring to a challenge that didn't exist 100 years ago.
Left: Tuna Fishing by Salvador Dalí (1966-1967). It's 3 by 4 meters!
Right: Day and Night by M.C. Escher (1938).
Your job is to find the Escher birds in the Dalí painting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Fishing_(painting)
#art #surrealism #fish #birds #psychedelic
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I think one of the things that fundamentally bothers me when conspiracy theorists get into scientific topics is the basic laziness of it.
There are a lot of things about the universe that are hard to understand or that nobody understands, but to a remarkable extent it's basically an open book. It takes a lot of effort though. It works in complicated and subtle ways that the human brain isn't trivially suited to comprehend. Trying to understand all that is a huge adventure.
These people imagine that all of the big questions of existence have easy peasy answers but that they only seem hard because someone is deliberately hiding the answers from them, like some annoying nerd who won't let them copy their homework. We got the answers all handed to us on a silver platter but they're locked up in a government warehouse somewhere next to the Ark of the Covenant.
Mon père était à la télé dans l'émission "C'est toujours pas sorcier" (à 9:50 et à 2 reprises après) : https://www.france.tv/france-4/c-est-toujours-pas-sorcier/saison-6/5623608-d-ou-vient-le-fer.html
My dad was on TV talking about meteorite iron found in archaeological artifacts prior to the iron age. They know it's from meteorites due to the high nickel content not found in ordinary iron objects.
(video requires IP address from France; I use ExpressVPN)
#archaeology #archéologie #geology #géologie #meteorites #science #tv #kidstv
First piece of 2024! Here's some music I was listening to, a cover of Depeche Mode's Somebody by hante: https://youtu.be/l84NU2ZWo9I
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Did you know the W3C published Ethical Principles for how the web should work?
https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/
I find them so inspiring. And they guide what developers should be doing, too.
“The web should empower an equitable, informed and interconnected society. It has been, and should continue to be, designed to enable communication and knowledge-sharing for everyone… we need to consider the ethical implications of our work when we build web technologies, applications, and sites.”
I like the hobby of mushroom hunting. In particular, I like mushroom identification forums because their members stay down to earth. You won't find people patting each other on the back for being inexcusably terrible, due to the consequences of making mistakes.
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Le livre de la sociologue Joanna Kempner est désormais en précommande ! Elle y étudiera comment des personnes atteintes de douleurs résistantes sont parvenues, grâce à leur union et à internet, à mettre au point des traitements à base de champignons psychédéliques et à faire connaître leurs découvertes à la communauté scientifique.
« La poursuite de leur combat en dit long sur un système si défectueux que nos thérapies antidouleur les plus innovantes
Remember The Dress, a viral sensation back in 2015? I was wondering if I was still perceiving it like I used to, that is white and gold. I now see it "as it is", i.e. a terrible photo that could be interpreted either as a completely backlit white and gold dress or a blue and black dress with strong lighting coming from inside the store. I also see the colors that I would have to use to turn the photo into a painting. This is probably as a result of spending a lot of time looking at paintings and painting.
Do you see it differently than you used to 8 years ago?
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Do you use an ad blocker while browsing the internet?
#Mastodon #Fediverse #AdBlocker #InternetBrowsing #UserPreferences #Ads #Internet
Of course, it could also be that flying birds evolved into walking giants thanks to their lightweight bones...
I'm reading about giant dinosaurs and now I'm convinced that their large size required lightweight bones which became later key to evolving into flying birds.
Helvooo, December 2023
46 cm × 61 cm, acrylic+brass on canvas
Gymnopilus ventricosus - jumbo gyms. Santa Cruz Mountains, California.
#mushrooms #fungi #trees #california
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8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/8-months-of-ocaml-after-8-years-of-haskell-in-production/13729
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/8-months-of-ocaml-after-8-years-of-haskell-in-production/13729
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This paper describes the predatory bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii, which preys on members of the bacterial species of the genus Halochromatium [1].
This thing is incredible. For example: Vampirococcus lugosii has a severely reduced genome, something like 1.3 Mbp, and lacks the genes which code for many of the standard biosynthetic metabolic pathways (e.g. phospholipid synthesis, amino acid synthesis, and nucleotide synthesis). Yet it is somehow still alive.
How does this work?
One mechanism that Vampirococcus uses is to get these raw materials from its prey. An example of this are the nucleotides that Vampirococcus lugosii gets by chopping up the DNA that it sucks out of its prey. And amazingly, Vampirococcus lugosii uses a CRISPR-Cas system and various restriction enzymes to accomplish this. See the image for a cartoon of this system.
Predatory microbes.
Crazy.
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Description of “Candidatus Vampirococcus lugosii”]
Lugosii after Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), who played the role of the vampire in the iconic 1931’s film “Dracula”. Epibiotic bacterium that preys on anoxygenic photosynthetic gammaproteobacterial species of the genus Halochromatium. Non-flagellated, small flat rounded cells (500–600 nm diameter and 200–250 nm height) that form piles of up to 10 cells attached to the surface of the host. Gram-positive cell wall structure. Complete genome sequence, GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number PRJNA678638.
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#biology #vampirococcuslugosii
References
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[1] "Reductive evolution and unique infection and feeding mode in the CPR predatory bacterium Vampirococcus lugosii", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22762-4
Amanita pachycolea (Western grisette), Pacific coast of northern California. One of the low-risk edible amanitas.
#mushrooms #fungi #champignons
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- Art Website
- https://martinj.art
- https://www.instagram.com/martinjambon/
- Website
- https://mjambon.com
- https://twitter.com/mjambon
mad scientist/artist
Interests: cognition, artificial cognition, epistemology, machines, history, understanding most things.
Academic and professional credentials: 3D structure of proteins (PhD), program analysis with OCaml, free software author.
Hobbies: trail running, mushrooms, art.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, originally from Orléans, France
Ancien rameur à l'ACOO. Ancien élève du Lycée Saint-Louis et de l'École normale supérieure de Lyon.
Joined Nov 2022
