Thanks for the recommendations! Haven’t read any of these books and after reading some reviews, I’m intrigued.
If you liked the details in Moby Dick about whaling, you may also be interested in this great BBC series I’ve discovered a few weeks ago: Inside nature’s giants where they dissect large animals and explain their anatomy and evolution. There are also two episodes of stranded whales being dissected ;)
Interesting, doesn’t ard also mean “ground/earth” in Arabic? Maybe one of those words that made into the indo-german languages by the Arabic conquest?
Nah, if you are an actual researcher dealing with hundreds of species you hardly now the common names (if the taxa even have common names, which most don’t!). Also, working in a diverse international environment like the research community means that knowing only common names won’t get you anywhere. It is very much necessary for you to know scientific names to be able to communicate with others.
I know many the scientific names of taxa from completely different kingdoms than my own research because I’ve been talking with other researchers about their field of study.
Humanity isn’t progressing uniformly forward like this. Lgbtqia+ people were considered normal part of society by various cultures. Also Magnus Hirschfeld was an advocate for lgbtqia+ people a hundred years ago. Slavery has been transformed into modern slavery because the western world has found other, more concealed ways to force people into labor. Ideas may die out, but they will pop into people’s head again and again.
Oof, that was a very brutal topic to read about, but very important. What monsters are those people that portray themselves as feminists and then go on and do such things. Gaiman is obviously the worst here, but Palmer seems to be also very problematic. And it goes to show that only because you were victim to abuse or are marginalized that it does not prevent you in any way to do the same thing to other people :(
In how far does gender change in your hypothetical metric with transition. If I take hormones for example, I would influence this metric.
Another confusing point would be how you try tracking gender, but having a gender identity value inside the metric. How would you even track this gender then?
Imagine confusing ronto and ronna and accidentally shifting a ronnameter instead :P
Ah OK, thanks for the context :)
Yes, I see your point and agree :)
Very interesting indeed! It’s fascinating how many adaptations there are that aren’t as obvious as anatomical ones.
Although I would take the validity of this excerpt with a grain of salt. The evolution of different kinds of fish is really messy (as they are a paraphyletic group anyways). I couldn’t find any info on how any fish or sharks evolved in freshwater conditions for example (just that their urea content is indeed higher). If you have any info on that, I would be glad to read it :)
The only interesting bit I did find was this pbs eons episode on how armored fish evolved to probably store minerals like calcium and potassium and how other vertebrates today use their endoskeleton to store those same minerals.
No, as far as I understand it, it isn’t something we invented. It is rather a placeholder for observations we made. In many different contexts we observe something that is matter but that doesn’t seem to interact with anything else. We call this dark matter. And then there are theories of dark matter that try to explain the observations of dark matter. But dark matter is that what we observe, not a theory or invention.
Yeah, that keeps happening to me on a regular basis, too :(
Isn’t the question in itself wrong? “Are dark matter models unsuited to explain observations” suggests that dark matter is a model we invented to explain something else. But as I understand it, dark matter is the observation itself and we need to come up with an explanation for it. Cf. Angela Collier’s video on exactly this.
Yes, this is great, but queerness in videogames just feels rather limited and binary still. Verilybitchie made an in-depth video about it:
It is indeed reminiscent of all the western influencers being invited by armies, police forces or prison systems (especially in the US). They also get paid for portraying a highly idealized or fake image of these institutions. Albeit there is a difference in that these influencers know upfront what they are getting into. Wanting to vlog about e.g. harmless-looking Chinese lifestyle topics and it being made into propaganda is a bit more insidious.
My point is that it doesn’t know for the reasons you gave. It is just hallucinating. So I don’t think the answer is trustworthy. Of course, it seems like a reasonable answer, but how do you get to the conclusion that the answer is truthful? It could just be made up because that was what sounded the most likely to the AI.
No, one is an actual answer to a question and the other one is a hallucination without any inherent information to answer the question.
Well, but is this really a truthful answer by the AI or is it just predicting what some human would say?
Big oof!!!
Or even better make women’s health the focus of medical research as it has been ignored for decades. Just like research has been on mostly white people.