The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
The mineral in question (goethite - yup, named after the poet Goethe) is iron III oxide and hydroxide. It’s 5~5.5 hardness in the Mohs scale, so it’s softer than glass. The snail teeth is probably combining the goethite strains with proteins to make it so hard. I wonder if we couldn’t sub the proteins with kevlar or another para-aramid to create something similar.
Banana [slug] for scale.
“I’m whatever you aren’t, you fucker” - water, to the substance you mixed with it.
Gloss info. In a simplified way:
It’s important in this case because both Luwian and Greek allow you to shift words back and forth for emphasis, and it’s poetry so the order gets even messier, so without that it’s hard to parse the sentence.
Also note that this is from my part, it isn’t present in the original.
Uh, TIL Ruffy’s mum was a poster woman for eclampsia!
The more I look at it, the more it bugs me:
That’s what happens when a crowd of bloody muppets, who: don’t understand science, refuse to learn about it, refuse to understand what specialists are talking about, take conclusions from a mix of wishful belief + assumptions + pulp fiction, manages to get one of themselves in power. And if anything it proves to me that stupidity is worse than malice.
Like, let’s pretend for a moment that they totally resurrected the dire wolf, instead of editing a few grey wolf genes and calling it a day. And let’s pretend that this strategy would be viable for multiple species, even dinos. You’re still doing a lot more effort to resurrect a species than to just keep it alive, you know? The efficient strategy here is to protect those species.
Boba egg chain/cluster
Sagu is even more similar, since it’s smaller:
I think you can use vegetative electron microscopy to detect the quantic social engineering of diatomic algae.
I’m not aware of any paper about this; specially with how recent LLMs are, it’s kind of hard to detect tendencies.
That said, if I had to take a guess, the impact of LLMs in language will be rather subtle:
Text-to-speech, mentioned by @Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world, is another can of worms; it might reinforce non-common pronunciations until they become common. This should not be a big issue e.g. in Italian (that uses a mostly regular spelling), but it might be noticeable in English.
I wonder how many glazed parasites they’ll find in it. Specially fish parasites - mostly from garum, and guess where garum factories were? Near Pompeii.
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It’s a cool read though - I’m still reading it, but so far it did a great job showing that concepts are fuzzy and inside our heads, not those well-defined abstractions in some external realm.
Feathered dinos are hardcore.
If I got this right the relationship between this and the game of Ur is a lot like chess vs. shōgi: similar board and objective; common origin; different pieces, rules, and strategy.
Modern AI techniques are further aiding the understanding of ancient games. By simulating thousands of potential rulesets, AI algorithms help determine which rules result in enjoyable gameplay.
The “AI” in question is probably more like chess engines, and completely unlike LLMs or diffusion models. Just a way to simulate a huge number of games between decent-ish players, for any given ruleset. That allows you to check if any given ruleset has blatant issues, like:
Gamesets with those issues are unlikely to be played by human beings enough to allow the game to spread.
There’s probably a lot of guesswork in the ruleset that the researchers chose though.
So, ~30kya? It makes sense actually, given the diversity of the languages in the Americas.
The main current hypothesis (10k~15kya) feels fishy. Around those times, around the globe, Proto-Afro-Asiatic was being spoken; and you still do see a few family features in its descendants, like the feminine suffix (typically -t), that “consonant roots, vowel infixes” world building template, or even the “emphatic” series. You don’t see anything remotely similar in the languages of the Americas, even if you give the founder effect some leeway and say that the Americas were initially settled by speakers of, say, five or six unrelated languages.
Some write papers full of mental masturbation.
This guy simply skipped the “mental” part.
At least here in my city (Curitiba - somewhere in the southern cone), the city hall has been plopping beehouses across the city, all of them with native species. That has been going on for a few years, and I did notice them far more often (they go crazy for my sage).
I feel like other places in the Americas could / should do the same.
It’s tempting to look for potential vocab exchange between Rapa Nui and (Quechua and Aymara). That could help dating the exchange with the Andes, as the lexicon stops following the lender’s sound changes to follow the borrower’s instead.
(Polynesian syllabic structure and small phonemic stock make this extra tricky though. For example, Classical Quechua /s ʂ h/ would probably end all merged into /h/, and you’d see multiple epenthetic vowels popping up.)
Even then I wouldn’t be surprised if they contacted the folks up south, like the Mapuche. Specially as I don’t expect the landing spot from a Rapa Nui → South America to be the best spot to start the opposite travel, due to sea currents.
Yup. Because a cultured Roman was all about something those chuds lack - temperance.
A kingdom always seeking expansion. Stop expanding into my stale bread dammit!