Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Season One (part 2) – re:View
Best friends Rick and Morn talk about the remaining episodes of season 1 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. As of this writing, the new show Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has come out and it's release is totally unrelated to this release. The timing is pure coincidence I assure you. Mark and Gork love Star Trek and probably will continue to talk about. However, after seeing Starfleet Academy (or SA as Kurtzman calls it) it is so bad and misguided it's almost a moot point. Star Trek as it once was… is lost. I think it's too far gone. It is possible to make a new series (with new producers) and set it in the 24th century in an isolated setting and have smaller, well written stories that don't involve revenge, a super-weapon, or people that sound like total idiots and are annoying, but knowing that the future of Starfleet will eventually look like it does is a specter that cannot be ignored. What has happened? HOW did this happen? Who has dirt on who? Is NuTrek a scam? A tax write-off? Is 80% of the budget going to the 24 credited producers? I mean, how does a show with so few viewers even become profitable for a streaming service. Or even an asset and not a liability? Morg smells something fishy going on… maybe? At least according to his opinion. Rork and Glorg in no way suggest any illegal activity, but just perhaps activity that might not be moral at the very least. I mean, seriously? It's become a joke at this point. Anyway, no one can ever take my DS9 DVDs away from me. You'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hand. Anyway, enjoy this deep dive into old Trek. Rich and Mike promise more. MUCH MORE!!! WE WILL NOT STOP. WE WILL CONTINUE!!!
Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation — Peter Whidden
🦠 Mote is an interactive ecosystem simulation composed of hundreds of thousands of organisms. It integrates elements from both games and research to create a sandbox for computational biology, machine learning, and physics. It uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model the interactions of many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing a wide range of fascinating emergent phenomena.
The new biologists treating LLMs like an alien autopsy | MIT Technology Review
We now coexist with machines so vast and so complicated that nobody quite understands what they are, how they work, or what they can really do—not even the people who help build them. “You can never really fully grasp it in a human brain,” says Dan Mossing, a research scientist at OpenAI.
The design decisions behind Nature’s new look
Should science be ugly? This is a serious question asked by serious people at seminars. Some assume that an aesthetically appealing presentation signals at best a lack of priorities, and at worst a lack of rigour. I disagree. Science sorely needs best practices in visual communication as well as in information design, a mature field with quantitative methods. In my view, the idea that scholarly publishing should be divorced from evidence-based applications of good visual design is perplexing.
Are You Aging Well? 4 Simple Tests to Find Out.
They can’t guarantee future health, but they can tell you the trajectory you’re on. Take a minute to consider the last decade of your life. What type of physical shape do you hope to be in? And what are the activities you want to be able to continue doing?
Life, but not as we know it… the Prototaxites mystery deepens again!
Prototaxites has long been known as a problematic fossil: gigantic columns rising above the earliest land plants, and a structure resembling nothing else. Thought in recent years to be an extinct branch of fungi, a new study seems to refute that entirely… leaving the only explanation to be an unknown branch of the history of eukaryotes that evolved a massive multicellular structure independently of any of the living groups.
American Hippopotamus – The Atavist Magazine
Whatever strange bond these two men had, they were loyal to it. They were like repulsive magnets: Some fundamental property of each was perfectly opposed to the core of the other. And yet, somehow throughout their long lives—as several volatile phases of American history tumbled along in the background—they also had a way of continually snapping back together. One of these men was a humble patriot, known for his impeccable integrity. He tried to leave detailed, reliable accounts of what he did and thought and felt. The other, I discovered, was a megalomaniac and a pathological liar.
Noiselund feat. Red Letter Media and friends – Look At Me (Bop Bop Bop)
Ik werd er zowaar wat emotioneel van.
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found – The New York Times
The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought.