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I can't explain why the homework was baked, but then, I also can't explain why about half of my classes in high school and all of my classes in college featured at least one classmate who went and got their homework folder professionally bound. That never made sense to me either.
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Plimpton 322, the 3800 year old clay tablet with shockingly large, distinct Pythagorean* triples in cuneiform has become my touchstone for what is "old" in terms of human history. -
I liked the good ol “irrational exuberance” better than the new “mandatory exuberance”@futurebird right after that speech, the university I would transfer to in autumn held a tech jobs fair for CS undergrads. They had crazy deadlines for registering for fall classes, so I was already registered and got invited. The jobs fair featured a speech by some microsoft dweeb, who had the gall to quote Greenspan and use it as the centerpiece of an argument for why we should all get jobs right now with stable, long-lived companies that would for sure weather any upcoming economic issues.
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Plimpton 322, the 3800 year old clay tablet with shockingly large, distinct Pythagorean* triples in cuneiform has become my touchstone for what is "old" in terms of human history.@futurebird My pet hypothesis is that Plimpton 322 is a homework assignment. The student was given s and d , and expected to calculate l. Extra credit if you can prove Teacher made mistakes in the exercises.
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I'm scared to get in a time machine because I have a reoccurring nightmare about being mauled by Lystrosauruses who found some of the mean things I've written about them.@futurebird how did they learn to read your handwriting?
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I cannot stop thinking about this paper about how Iberian harvester ants can produce offspring of two entirely different species.@futurebird @nyrath @annaleen
I imagine the ants grounded it up by digging a deep hole and sticking a lighting rod in the hole so the current has somewhere to go when the reader is shocked -
Did you know that there are road engineering nerds and they do things like commission drone flights and mine interesting satellite data to understand major road failures like the one in NJ?@futurebird actually it amazes me that road building isn't a major part of ant ecology. Or maybe it is and they just get called "pheromone trails" for traditional reasons.
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Did you know that there are road engineering nerds and they do things like commission drone flights and mine interesting satellite data to understand major road failures like the one in NJ?@futurebird @Klara
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there definitely was a huge expansion in biological *science*. Most of it very genetics-oriented, but there were also expansions in other areas of biology, including paleonotology and ecology.the trouble is, investors actually don't like science, especially when it investigates environmental problems, which is where much of the biological science ended up going.
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Did you know that there are road engineering nerds and they do things like commission drone flights and mine interesting satellite data to understand major road failures like the one in NJ?well - there's kind of a lot of hardware innovation that got sank into making fixed-point special purpose matrix multipliers ... eargh... what a waste.
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Did you know that there are road engineering nerds and they do things like commission drone flights and mine interesting satellite data to understand major road failures like the one in NJ?@futurebird @Klara
raises the interesting question of how to go about making a robot that can imitate ant pheromones.( if said robot can't match their pheromones, they'd take it apart. I know, know, I'm repeating what's obvious to you, but ... )
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Why did the colony save the US economy?@futurebird a whole new interpretation of the Red Imported Fire Ant saga.