Reminds me of my mother. Yes, we had a difficult relationship.
Reminds me of my mother. Yes, we had a difficult relationship.
They don’t vote Republican because it helps them. They vote Republican for religious reasons, because they believe that the world has to be destroyed before God becomes real.
It’s a meme because it first makes you laugh, and then it makes you think.
As of April 2021, PLOS One charges a publication fee of $1,745 to publish an article.
I mean, seriously, I would like to publish to one of these, but who has the money to do that?
how can one catgirl eep so much I ask myself as I purrr myself to the other side
That’s so many ungrounded thoughts and opinions though! The topic of this comment thread has changed like 7 times, I’m just having fun at this point. =D
same for me :D
Sometimes that’s just trying to justify why fictional Earth with time machines still has dictators and not a huge past interventionist problem,
In fiction, the best way to resolve this I feel is to assume that nothing can be changed from before the first time machines were invented, because the first time machine sets something like an “anchor” that all other time machines can jump to.
I look at time in general a lot like water in a river. It flows from the river to the sea (no pun intended) only in one direction, but once it reaches the sea, it can move relatively freely in all directions. I think that time will lose its sense of unidirectionality at some point, but that’s solely my own hypothesis. I have zero evidence to back that up. It’s more or less based on the idea that time represents progress, and at some point our world will be “fully developed”, just like a child grown into an adult or an acorn grows into a tree. At that point, there is no more progress, and therefore, time kinda stops or becomes meaningless. Just that it happens at a cosmological scale, affecting all of humanity.
the real question should be why society is letting that happen.
serious advice: don’t.
gambling is a scam designed to extract money out of poor-witting desperate souls. don’t start, it’s designed to be addictive, but mathematically, on average you always lose money with gambling.
Except the teapot. The teapot is highly valuable.
Computer programmers are the wizards of the present.
Well, there is people that write assembly language code directly.
Yeah, sunlight on clouded days doesn’t hurt us either.
But mirrored light does not affect vampires?
I think the advantage of thinking of DNA as some kind of program code is that we can draw inspiration about what can/can’t be done from IT. And the other way around, nature’s DNA code might give inspiration to computer language development.
DNA is a long molecule that is made of many individual smaller molecules (called nucleotids) that come in four variants (called A, T, G, C). So a DNA molecule is a sequence that can be represented as ATGCTGCCTA…
This is a sequence of characters in this representation, but it’s also a sequence of something resembling characters in reality. The cell has a component called “ribosome” that can take this sequence of characters as input and uses it kinda like a blueprint, and produces a protein (enzyme) depending on the blueprint. That enzyme can have many varying functions. So yes, this is a complex system.
The flow of information goes mostly in one direction: that is, from the cell nucleus’s DNA to mRNA (intermediary step) and then to the ribosomes, where proteins are produced. Still, many parts of this process resemble script and communication (the transport of information), which I call “language”.
Thanks for elaborating. I think you have some interesting thoughts in that.
Perhaps we’ll nail down entropy as a real property instead of just a statistical observation.
I like this one. I have been thinking about how we have introduced imaginary things like magnetic field as something real in the past, in order to find a missing link to explain interactions.
But maybe we’ll find that causality isn’t so solid, with time-like paths everywhere, and determinism only at medium scales.
Especially this one hits.
I have been thinking about these “chains of causes” for a bit now, and I’ve come to jokingly call them “threads of fate” or more provokingly “world lines”. I like the idea that much of the world is in chaos, but sometimes, strong causal links relate some parts of the past with some parts of the future, just like an invisible chain; just like a ray of sunlight through all the fog.
Yeah well I guess it depends on whether you call bytes on a computer a language.
What if those bytes represent characters that compose language that carries meaning? Because precisely that happens in DNA. An individual fraction of DNA might not carry much meaning, but in its sequence (ATGCCAT…) it encodes blueprints, and therefore meaning.
it’s the main component of a meal.