IsThisWhereITypeTheURL

Nope I give up already.

[restingpanicface]

my contribution to the discourse for today is that coding is a form of craft, like knitting

[angelicguy]

please follow my very good brother on twitter

[doyouevenfilm]

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) dir. Jack Arnold

[restingpanicface]

@postmetaectotranscendentalism

[restingpanicface]

imagine if one day all the worms quit and we had to monch the dirt ourselves

[retrogamingblog]

Japanese Fan Artists challenged themselves to create 3D models of Pokemon in 5 minutes. These were the results

[restingpanicface]

Tangela has a strong Clippy aura

[restingpanicface]

but should we pay worms for their contributions to society?

[bowelflies]

[bunjywunjy]

a handful of trilobites and not a worry in the world

[restingpanicface]

Drag King Names

• Mike Spencer-Count

[bogleech]

This person found an old plastic pen in their yard that a tiny native mason bee turned into her nest.

[restingpanicface]

University Gothic

- grading of this unit is divided into three assessments.

- all assessment items are compulsory.

- assessments are weighted 10%, 25%, and 50%

- all assessments are graded on pass/fail basis

[foulserpent]

i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire

[restingpanicface]

I am,,, a tractor

[todayilearnedthat]

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!”

via reddit.com

[william-snekspeare]

hey everyone I adj abdhjsbfjkk

[xenosmorch]

is that a carpet python

[william-snekspeare]

new species bowling alley carpet python

[knight-of-night]

Bowling Constrictor.

[catbreon-draws]

I’m p

Yes I’m

Yes hmmms ow

Eh

Tnhk

[catbreon-draws]

Tumblr wouldn’t let me upload the video but I let the mice write a tumblr post for me and this is the result :^)

[ewaneneollav]

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

[explodingbat-deactivated2017072]

upload the nematode

[asocratesgonemad]

upload the nematode / lock it in a box / keep it there for fifty years / then see if it talks!

[brazenautomaton]

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?

[asocratesgonemad]

^ 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.

[animatedamerican]

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?

[crocabit]

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.

[beefstrugglenoff]

Bagworm Moth caterpillars collect little twigs and cut them off to construct elaborate tiny log houses to live in (photos: Melvyn Yeo, Nick Bay)

[restingpanicface]

#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

[welcometoyouredoom]