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Using newly digitised logbooks detailing the hunting of sperm whales in the north Pacific, the authors discovered that within just a few years, the strike rate of the whalers’ harpoons fell by 58%. This simple fact leads to an astonishing conclusion: that information about what was happening to them was being collectively shared among the whales, who made vital changes to their behaviour.
Before humans, orca were their only predators, against whom sperm whales form defensive circles, their powerful tails held outwards to keep their assailants at bay. But such techniques “just made it easier for the whalers to slaughter them”, says Whitehead.
Sperm whales are highly socialised animals, able to communicate over great distances. They associate in clans defined by the dialect pattern of their sonar clicks. Their culture is matrilinear, and information about the new dangers may have been passed on in the same way whale matriarchs share knowledge about feeding grounds. Sperm whales also possess the largest brain on the planet. It is not hard to imagine that they understood what was happening to them.
Abandoning their usual defensive formations, the whales swam upwind to escape the hunters’ ships, themselves wind-powered. ‘This was cultural evolution, much too fast for genetic evolution,’ says Whitehead.
JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
Yesterday I was going through a box of some of my moms' things and I found a letter written to her in 1966.
The sender? Bob Hope.
Apparently she's written him as part of a class project, and this was his reply. It was a typewritten letter with a signature and I'm sure it's probably a form letter with a reproduced signature, but I was struck by how long, and specific, and un-form-letter-y it was.
like it was five paragraphs long and a had a thing that went like (paraphrasing)
"Believe me, I share your frustration with the USO tour schedule. Nobody knows better than me how much the fellows on the front desperately need a laugh, especially right now. Or more than that, just a friendly face from home. Anything. But the wheels of military bureaucracy have always turned slowly - don't I know it! - but if anything, it seems to be even slower than the last war. I guess we're set on breaking another speed record here in the 1960s, just the wrong way around!"
it was oddly human and fascinating. I wish I knew what she'd written but I was left to infer it from the text. Anyway, I'm going to be scannning it asap.
ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
What does "eight logic gates in a byte" mean?
I feel like this is something I should know, but.. don't. Does it mean you can define a byte using e.g. eight XOR operations?
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
"Conclusions. To address race disparities in diabetes, policymakers should address problems created by concentrated poverty (e.g., lack of access to reasonably priced fruits and vegetables, recreational facilities, and health care services; high crime rates; and greater exposures to environmental toxins). Housing and development policies in urban areas should avoid creating high-poverty neighborhoods."
I knew there was something we forgot! It was to not do that.
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
That's really cool Jacob. I wish I had done more of that with my grandparent's stuff, specifically digitized it.
are YOU on the beer list?
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AuralynxDarkness is a perspectiveWatching the ego workRegistered Userregular
"Conclusions. To address race disparities in diabetes, policymakers should address problems created by concentrated poverty (e.g., lack of access to reasonably priced fruits and vegetables, recreational facilities, and health care services; high crime rates; and greater exposures to environmental toxins). Housing and development policies in urban areas should avoid creating high-poverty neighborhoods."
I knew there was something we forgot! It was to not do that.
I think we skipped the "money helicopter" node in the tech tree or something.
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
"Conclusions. To address race disparities in diabetes, policymakers should address problems created by concentrated poverty (e.g., lack of access to reasonably priced fruits and vegetables, recreational facilities, and health care services; high crime rates; and greater exposures to environmental toxins). Housing and development policies in urban areas should avoid creating high-poverty neighborhoods."
I knew there was something we forgot! It was to not do that.
"Conclusions. To address race disparities in diabetes, policymakers should address problems created by concentrated poverty (e.g., lack of access to reasonably priced fruits and vegetables, recreational facilities, and health care services; high crime rates; and greater exposures to environmental toxins). Housing and development policies in urban areas should avoid creating high-poverty neighborhoods."
I knew there was something we forgot! It was to not do that.
If I were a society I would simply not do racism
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SummaryJudgmentGrab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front doorRegistered Userregular
Show up to a houseparty on a lawn and just do bodyshots off a coed
Summer is going to be stupid
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
I should go work for the bad guys. They get to invent cool shit, like freeze rays, and shrink rays, and child-molesting robots, and medieval fast food chains with small beef sandwiches.
I just have to spend all day reminding people not to shit on the floor.
One of the reasons why I make such a point of only doing jobs where I am specifically not bringing harm to the world is that I have severe mad scientist tendencies. I also won't write certain kinds of villains for that reason.
it just makes sure that if the evildoing system goes down we get it back up and running as fast as possible
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Nova_CI have the needThe need for speedRegistered Userregular
The other thing that's good about Steins;Gate is that it accurately portrays CERN as an evil time-traveling organization that is attempting to violently enforce perpetual dystopia by using the LHC for time travel experiments
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
"Conclusions. To address race disparities in diabetes, policymakers should address problems created by concentrated poverty (e.g., lack of access to reasonably priced fruits and vegetables, recreational facilities, and health care services; high crime rates; and greater exposures to environmental toxins). Housing and development policies in urban areas should avoid creating high-poverty neighborhoods."
I knew there was something we forgot! It was to not do that.
If I were a society I would simply not do racism
Listening to my wife talk to family friends of her parents about my wife's work....
We are probably at least a generation away from new policy containing intentional 'cisms and longer for unintentional stuff.
"Conclusions. To address race disparities in diabetes, policymakers should address problems created by concentrated poverty (e.g., lack of access to reasonably priced fruits and vegetables, recreational facilities, and health care services; high crime rates; and greater exposures to environmental toxins). Housing and development policies in urban areas should avoid creating high-poverty neighborhoods."
I knew there was something we forgot! It was to not do that.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I feel like this is something I should know, but.. don't. Does it mean you can define a byte using e.g. eight XOR operations?
Wouldn't it just be each gate representing a bit?
Yeah, each bit is a logic gate in that it's 'on/off' is how I'm interpreting what they're saying.
"Logic gate" has a specific meaning that I'm trying to reconcile with that. You can use a single logic gate and a bit that you have to set the value of another bit, but I don't know if that's what is meant.
I am wondering if I'm missing something! Likely I'm not, though, it's just phrased funny.
I feel like this is something I should know, but.. don't. Does it mean you can define a byte using e.g. eight XOR operations?
It's weird and doesn't mean anything. A basic logic gate takes one or two bits as input and outputs a bit, and there are 8 bits to a byte. Therefore, eight logic gates produce a byte of data. That's what they're getting at.
But this doesn't really make sense here. You can't define a tweet in those terms. You don't say "the first bit of the first letter of the tweet is 0 XOR 1". It doesn't make sense to talk about it that way (even if that bit actually is 1!).
What we're really talking about is memory. You do create memory with logic gates. But it's more than one per bit. If you want a 1, you're not going to use one gate to produce that 1, you're going to use four gates to create a simple flip-flop, and then you use that flip-flop to store a 1.
I just got into it with our security guard. He is so invested in stopping theft and I’m like- listen, I will do the things I’m empowered to do. That list of things is very small. And he kept using verbiage like, well, I *notified* you so I’m not sure what else I can do *crossed arms*
Nothing! Same as me! We have strict non confrontation policies. We are insured against theft. Fucking… stop acting like you did your job by telling me and now I’m ignoring it or shirking my job duties. You giant self important asshole.
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
I just got into it with our security guard. He is so invested in stopping theft and I’m like- listen, I will do the things I’m empowered to do. That list of things is very small. And he kept using verbiage like, well, I *notified* you so I’m not sure what else I can do *crossed arms*
Nothing! Same as me! We have strict non confrontation policies. We are insured against theft. Fucking… stop acting like you did your job by telling me and now I’m ignoring it or shirking my job duties. You giant self important asshole.
I flipped out on a greeter once who stopped me to search my cart and I feel really shitty about it still.
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The sender? Bob Hope.
Apparently she's written him as part of a class project, and this was his reply. It was a typewritten letter with a signature and I'm sure it's probably a form letter with a reproduced signature, but I was struck by how long, and specific, and un-form-letter-y it was.
like it was five paragraphs long and a had a thing that went like (paraphrasing)
"Believe me, I share your frustration with the USO tour schedule. Nobody knows better than me how much the fellows on the front desperately need a laugh, especially right now. Or more than that, just a friendly face from home. Anything. But the wheels of military bureaucracy have always turned slowly - don't I know it! - but if anything, it seems to be even slower than the last war. I guess we're set on breaking another speed record here in the 1960s, just the wrong way around!"
it was oddly human and fascinating. I wish I knew what she'd written but I was left to infer it from the text. Anyway, I'm going to be scannning it asap.
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I feel like this is something I should know, but.. don't. Does it mean you can define a byte using e.g. eight XOR operations?
I knew there was something we forgot! It was to not do that.
I think we skipped the "money helicopter" node in the tech tree or something.
So is that what Gentrification aimed to fix?
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It means one logic gate for each leg
If I were a society I would simply not do racism
Summer is going to be stupid
^^me when I was on PrEP^^
Its going to be a very horny summer
Wouldn't it just be each gate representing a bit?
0 OR 1
I dunno if they have their definitions right
One of the reasons why I make such a point of only doing jobs where I am specifically not bringing harm to the world is that I have severe mad scientist tendencies. I also won't write certain kinds of villains for that reason.
it just makes sure that if the evildoing system goes down we get it back up and running as fast as possible
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Yeah, each bit is a logic gate in that it's 'on/off' is how I'm interpreting what they're saying.
This is, presumably, a teaser for the long-awaited Shadow of the Colossus sequel?
If they did manage to get some fancier XOR with crabs that'd be cool.
I think it's made up of diode boolean logic.
Listening to my wife talk to family friends of her parents about my wife's work....
We are probably at least a generation away from new policy containing intentional 'cisms and longer for unintentional stuff.
So we can finally say Doom can run on crabs
Oh this makes sense. But really the legs have multiple joints, surely it's a trinary byte or something!
"Logic gate" has a specific meaning that I'm trying to reconcile with that. You can use a single logic gate and a bit that you have to set the value of another bit, but I don't know if that's what is meant.
I am wondering if I'm missing something! Likely I'm not, though, it's just phrased funny.
It's weird and doesn't mean anything. A basic logic gate takes one or two bits as input and outputs a bit, and there are 8 bits to a byte. Therefore, eight logic gates produce a byte of data. That's what they're getting at.
But this doesn't really make sense here. You can't define a tweet in those terms. You don't say "the first bit of the first letter of the tweet is 0 XOR 1". It doesn't make sense to talk about it that way (even if that bit actually is 1!).
What we're really talking about is memory. You do create memory with logic gates. But it's more than one per bit. If you want a 1, you're not going to use one gate to produce that 1, you're going to use four gates to create a simple flip-flop, and then you use that flip-flop to store a 1.
Is a wire a bit?
I'll bet Bob from Hydra ended up on the Raft fucking waterboarded or something too... Just for trying to get health insurance.
It's a crab pinch
Nothing! Same as me! We have strict non confrontation policies. We are insured against theft. Fucking… stop acting like you did your job by telling me and now I’m ignoring it or shirking my job duties. You giant self important asshole.
I flipped out on a greeter once who stopped me to search my cart and I feel really shitty about it still.