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my contribution to the discourse for today is that coding is a form of craft, like knitting
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imagine if one day all the worms quit and we had to monch the dirt ourselves
Japanese Fan Artists challenged themselves to create 3D models of Pokemon in 5 minutes. These were the results
Tangela has a strong Clippy aura
but should we pay worms for their contributions to society?
a handful of trilobites and not a worry in the world
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This person found an old plastic pen in their yard that a tiny native mason bee turned into her nest.
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TIL that Kafka’s The Metamorphosis was originally a much more positive story where the last line was Gregor Samsa saying “fuck yeah, I am so happy to be a bug, this is what I’ve always wanted!”
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Bowling Constrictor.
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Tumblr wouldn’t let me upload the video but I let the mice write a tumblr post for me and this is the result :^)
holy fucking shit people simulated the 302 neurons in a worm’s brain with software, put it in a Lego robot and it behaves like a worm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weve-put-worms-mind-lego-robot-body-180953399/?no-ist
upload the nematode
upload the nematode / lock it in a box / keep it there for fifty years / then see if it talks!
but, like, it’s a worm. its behavior isn’t that complex.
if it’s not accurately behaving like a worm, how would we tell?
^ an important point. IIRC they don’t even really have a complete characterization of the worm’s nervous system, so C. legogans here is at best a preliminary test. Still pretty cool, though.
I looked at the article, and to my mind the significant thing here is that the lego robot demonstrated consistent behavior with no programming. They didn’t program any stimulus-response behavior into it. They just gave it their best approximation of worm neurons, and it made up the behavior.
I may be misunderstanding some aspect of this but to me that feels kinda huge?
They made an artifical reactive set of neurons with consistent observable behaviors. Yeah, this is a big deal. It’s the first step towards ‘uploading’ minds.
Bagworm Moth caterpillars collect little twigs and cut them off to construct elaborate tiny log houses to live in (photos: Melvyn Yeo, Nick Bay)
#is this real?
yes this is real, and even better each species has their own particular case-building aesthetic, favouring different materials and construction patterns