Tag: biology
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Links van 5 tot 13 april 2026
Why Modern Chinese is Just ‘English with Hanzi’ – by JingYu Looking at the fundamental architecture of language. Traditional Chinese is a language of parataxis (意合, idea-joining). It is like a traditional landscape painting; elements are placed side by side, and the relationship between them is inferred by context, intuition, and white space. There are…
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Links van 30 maart tot 5 april 2026
Bird brains — Dhanish We default to thinking intelligence scales with brain size, that it's a mammal thing, that it correlates with being "higher" on some imaginary evolutionary ladder. Turns out it's about neuron density and architecture, not mass. A 10 gram raven brain running 1.2 billion neurons is doing more per gram than almost…
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Links van 20 tot 26 maart 2026
I Stopped Going to the Gym… Here’s What Happened Is het mogelijk om niét verliefd te zijn op Patty? Ik dacht het niet. LeanBeefPatty, vlog Project NOMAD – Offline Knowledge & AI Server Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools running on your own hardware — completely free. No internet required. survival, zombia apocalypse, knowledge, data…
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Links van 7 tot 16 maart 2026
We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI | Techdirt As Maye discovered through painful experience, the answer is to stop treating AI as a policing problem and start treating it as an educational one. Teach students how to write. Teach them how to…
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Links van 7 tot 13 december 2025
rePalm – Dmitry.GR Pixter was quite popular, as far as kids' toys go, in USA in the early 2000s. A friend brought it to my attention a year ago as a potential rePalm target. The screen resolution was right and looking inside a "Pixter Color" showed an ARM SoC – a Sharp LH75411. The device…
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Links van 28 november tot 1 december 2025
20 Years of ZBrush… And I'm Blown Away by Nomad Er zijn geen zekerheden meer — "After almost 20 years of using ZBrush, we are giving Nomad a try! This is our first impressions of Nomad after using it for a few weeks. We're covering both the ipad and desktop version of Nomad" 3D, sculpture,…
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Links van 23 tot 28 november 2025
First-ever recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks — School of Medicine University of Louisville <p>Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as “life recall,” can be…
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Links van 2 april 2016 tot 10 april 2016
Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: Our research was key to the 10,000-hour rule, but here’s what got oversimplified – Salon.comYes, it takes effort to be an expert. But Gladwell based 10,000-hour rule in part on our work, and misunderstood Mounting data suggest antibacterial soaps do more harm than good | Ars TechnicaWhether you’re coming home…
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Links van 30 mei 2012 tot 13 juni 2012
Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms Living Inside People’s Brains | Infectious Diseases | DISCOVER MagazineParasitic worms leave millions of victims paralyzed, epileptic, or worse. So why isn’t anyone mobilizing to eradicate them? I’ve been playing the same game of Civilization II for almost 10 years. This is the result. : gamingI've been playing the same game of…
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Links van 25 maart 2011 tot 26 maart 2011
A History of the World in 100 Seconds on VimeoMany wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered. The Tree of…