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goddard_guryon , (edited )

Like you said, there’s a metric ton of steps involved in the overall process, and our understanding of each of these ‘levels’ of organization varies quite a bit. Closest to my personal expertise is the sub-cellular and cellular level, for which I would refer you books or papers in developmental biology, developmental genetics, and epigenetics. I can give you a couple bloopers to get you excited though:

When it comes to deciding where different organs will form (again, from a sub-cellular level), it essentially starts from a concentration gradient of certain proteins/chemicals inside the zygotic cell. This gradient then determines the level of activation of other proteins, each level then leading to different biochemical cascades which, once more cells have formed from the zygote, determine which organ systems will come from them. Messing around with this concentration gradient can, thus, dramatically affect an organism’s development, leading to, for example, a body with just ‘left’ organs on both halves, just ‘top’ organs on both halves, missing an entire organ system (like circulatory system and heart) and so on.

A more or less similar process occurs to determine the shape of organs. As a simple example, when some animals with regenerative capabilities (like axolotls) lose a limb, they are able to regrow the limb to the exact same length as before. Turns out, each cell on the periphery of their limb has a certain concentration of receptor proteins on its surface, which acts as a molecular ‘signature’ of that cell’s position in the limb. These signatures provide information on how far to grow the limb for regeneration, and some chemicals, lile retinol, can even override these signatures and fool the organism’s body into regrowing the limb from scratch on top of the place of regeneration.

I hope these examples give you an introduction to the mechanisms involved. There’s obviously a lot more involved, so I would again highly recommend textbooks and research papers if you’re interested.

goddard_guryon ,

Last I checked (which was some time ago), pandoc-bin doesn’t require the haskell dependencies. I saved quite some installation time (and screen space during installation) by switching.

goddard_guryon ,

If only it worked; the mentos would start disintegrating by your saliva and the coke would already form bubbles as soon as it enters your mouth thanks to the rough surface inside 🤓

goddard_guryon ,

As someone who is often unable to even enjoy soda because it immediately starts bubbling up and only remains as a sugary liquid by the time it reaches the esophagus, I guess I can’t replicate your observations. Also, I guess I need more water in my mouth before I can let Jesus into it (for a more pleasant experience for both of us)

goddard_guryon ,

That won’t work tho, you need to make it sys.maxsize//2 to coerce the output into int form

goddard_guryon ,

IIRC it doesn’t; that has caused me pain so many times when trying to generate fractional range

Has anyone checked out marginalia search? (search.marginalia.nu)

This is not an ad BTW, I literally stumbled upon it a few minutes ago. From what I can gather, however, this is a [DIY-ish] search engine that solely searches on text (no other forms of media, such as, … idk hypertext maybe), which allows users to have more control over queries (like including and excluding terms). I suppose...

goddard_guryon OP ,

Huh I didn’t notice that. That does sound a bit weird :/

goddard_guryon OP ,

That may be exactly what I need when searching for some highly technical problem lol

goddard_guryon ,

Indeed, an integer is divisible by 3 if and only if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3.

For proof, take the polynomial representation of an integer n = a_0 * 10^k + a_1 * 10^{k-1} + … + a_k * 1. Note that 10 mod 3 = 1, which means that 10^i mod 3 = (10 mod 3)^i = 1. This makes all powers of 10 = 1 and you’re left with n = a_0 + a_1 + … + a_k. Thus, n is divisible by 3 iff a_0 + a_1 + … + a_k is. Also note that iff answers your question then; all multiples of 3 have to, by definition, have digits whose sum is a multiple of 3

Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia (www.chemistryworld.com)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian...

goddard_guryon ,

Just to add, some also theorize that new elements may turn out to be stable, sort of the reverse of how f-block elements are a bunch of unstable elements in the middle of more stable [d-block] ones. If that is indeed the case, we may find a lot more candidates to work with in, say, materials science.

goddard_guryon ,

For Meet, I’d also suggest Jitsi. For Drive, I’d recommend giving cryptpad.fr a shot; that seems to be the closest to Drive’s file editing capabilities.

goddard_guryon ,

You are

goddard_guryon ,

I see your encourageMint and raise you a stone

goddard_guryon ,

Commenting so you see your post one more time

goddard_guryon ,

It’ll get more complex than that. I’m no expert, but I’m guessing you have to consider the depth of the crust at your location, type of soil and the distance from (and time since) the last closest volcanic eruption, possibly distance from the nearest tectonic boundary, maybe even tidal forces (assuming they have a considerable impact on magma being pushed out, but this may be a bit too far)

goddard_guryon ,

Now that’s one channel that’ll always deserve more viewers than it has

goddard_guryon ,

Not exactly what you wanted, but njalla is a privacy-focussed domain registrar that basically buys domains on your behalf under their own name and gives you all the access to it that you need

goddard_guryon , (edited )

I’m not sure what exactly you’re looking for as an answer here. I’ll say that instead of looking for alternatives of science itself, we can list through the central tenets of science and then explore perspectives that counter one or more of those tenets. I’m not sure of the generally accepted list of tenets, so I’ll try coming up with what I think those are:

  • observation: to understand the world around you, you need to be able to see/hear/feel it. Without this, you’re basically making up whatever you feel like (one could argue that the scientific method begins with a hypothesis followed by observations to test it, but the hypothesis itself has to be based in reality, which again requires prior observation of reality)
  • logical reasoning: once you make observations, you try to make sense of them. You do this by applying logic on your observations. Alternative worldviews would say that this logical reasoning has no inherent advantage over, say, not having it, but those worldviews would be useless themselves because a) as far as we can tell, the world does follow logic; “the world around us doesn’t have to make sense, yet it does”, and b) if we were to still accept alternative worldviews that throw away logic, it would get us nowhere. Theories that disregard logic have no consistency and thus no utility whatsoever. You can say this about most (if not all) religions: one of the arguments I’ve heard a lot against atheism is that science is useless because it’s ‘incomplete’, hence God. But that essentially stops science in its tracks: saying we should throw away science and blindly accept any faith solely because science hasn’t solved everything already actively harms science from making progress, and the religions being presented as the alternatives don’t answer the same questions satisfactorily (or consistently) either.
  • skepticism: this may partially overlap with the previous one. A huge part of the scientific method is to not blindly accept whatever is presented as model, or even observation, of the world around us. If an observation is objectively good, it should be possible to make basically the same observation by different people. If a model of reality is objectively good, it should match with the reality regardless of who tries to apply it. An alternative of this, like before, would be blind faithband superstition. Things like ‘miracles’ are not scientific because they cannot be (or at least have not been) repeatedly observed under controlled conditions. God as a model of reality is not scientific because it does not have much predictive power (as far as we can tell based on ‘prophecies’).

There may be more ways an alternative theory could try to counter science, but I think these points should give you an idea.

goddard_guryon ,

That’s some high IQ usage of a meme. Lemme see if I’m getting this right:

  • the total area of the image ( = RHS of the equation) is 1
  • you divide the image into 4 parts so that the area of 1 part is is 1/4 ( = 1/2^(2*1)). You take the first three quarters and leave the fourth quarter for recursion (I’ll call it x1). That gives you 3(1/4) + x1 = 1
  • now you take x1 and do the same with it. This time, the area of each sub-quarter is 1/16 ( = 1/2^(2*2)). Three such sub-quarters and a leftover x2 gives you 3(1/16) + x2 = x1. Put this back into the first equation to get 3(1/4 + 1/16) + x2 = 1.
  • repeat until infinity; each time the area of the resulting tile is 1/4 of the previous tile (which is the 2n in the exponent part)

Edit: imma remove all markdown since it doesn’t seem to work, at least on liftoff. Enjoy the lisp-like mess

Ok, how do I start self-hosting?

I’ve been following this community for some time in order to learn about self-hosting and, while I have learnt about a bunch of cool web services to host, I’m still lost on where/how to start. Does anyone have, like, a very beginner guide that is not just “install this distro and click these buttons”? I have an old...

goddard_guryon OP ,

Holy shit dude, that was actually very helpful! I’ll need a few more go-throughs to fully grasp every piece here, but thanks a ton for writing it so precisely.

Based on this though, is there no way to have port-forwarding except setting it up explicitly in my router? I ask this because 1) in my personal setup, I’ll be switching between wifi and mobile data quite often, and 2) I may end up on an institutional wifi after some time, in which case I won’t have access to the router

goddard_guryon OP ,

Oh interesting (now, if only I can recall this the next time I need it)

goddard_guryon OP ,

Wait, does Docker work without me setting me the IP address and all that stuff too? Coz that’s the stuff I’m more confused about. At least in my head, setting up docker is just launching the service and, optionally, setting reverse proxy. But wouldn’t that work solely on my own device instead of the internet?

goddard_guryon OP ,

This is what I was planning to go with, until I read a couple posts/comments here about privacy issues with this approach (something something cloudflare has to read every incoming request to stop spam). By VPN, you mean I just connect the server to a VPN and put the VPN’s address as my server’s address?

goddard_guryon OP ,

I did try launching a website on my local network, but widening it to the public network is what I was confused about, like you said. But the idea of overlay network sounds interesting, I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

goddard_guryon OP ,

Welp, port-forwarding seems to be the major issue then, since I’m soon going to shift to an institutional wifi where I may (not) have access to the router. But you’re right, I should try getting familiar with what I have first lol. Thanks!

goddard_guryon OP ,

I’ve been putting off learning docker for a while now, guess it’s finally time to dive right into it. Thanks for the info about freshrss, I’d been looking for ways to get more into cybersecurity and this might be it

goddard_guryon OP ,

Understood. Guess I’ll figure out setting up all the services before I get to figuring out putting them beyond my local network. Thanks!

goddard_guryon OP ,

Oh I’ve never heard about openwrt, but it sounds interesting. I’ll check it out, thanks!

goddard_guryon OP ,

That’s super cool, I’ll check it out. Thanks a lot!

goddard_guryon OP ,

Haha I think it’s best if I stop running towards just getting my own server up and actually learn this stuff instead, regardless of how long it takes. I’ll try to follow through on this, thanks again for all the help :D

goddard_guryon OP ,

Ah now it makes a lot more sense. I’ll have to stick with things like overlay network simply because my ISP is super unreliable (for example, I’m out of wifi right now because of mildly incovenient weather lmao)

goddard_guryon OP ,

Going for a RasPi might be a bigger hassle for me due to the market, but I suppose I can try the rest on my laptop as easily. Thanks!

goddard_guryon OP ,

That’s fair too. I was just trying to get some use out of my old device, but I think it’ll be better if I simply use to run some CLI tools via SSH that I don’t want running on my main device :P

goddard_guryon ,

DISINGENUOUS COUNTER-ARGUMENT WITH SLIGHT PERSONAL ATTACK

EDIT: TYPO

goddard_guryon ,

Basically this. I just read it as “exhibition + sale”. Also, yo is this not common knowledge? I’ve seen this thrown around everywhere (I mean the phrase) and thought the whole world uses this phrasing (o_O )

goddard_guryon ,

More like “-20459 will be my year”

goddard_guryon ,

Uhhh…it’s the only [top] comment here. Are you seeing something I’m not? ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

goddard_guryon ,

Soo… you’re implying that correlation does equal causation, right?

Now is the last chance to escape from AI driven captology

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goddard_guryon ,

While I somewhat agree with your point about the upcoming wave of invasive AI, I don’t think adopting a digital hermit lifestyle is the best way through this. Think of it as the wave of PCs and smartphones: did a lot of people get negatively impacted by it? Sure, but did all (or even most) people who completely shunned the technology come out any better? Not necessarily. As this new technology became a central part of society in the past decades, the people who did the best were the ones who actively used it while simultaneously preventing themselves from…idk, developing a sort of mental dependence on it (though the degree to which most have succeeded in doing the latter is variable, the point still stays).

Now, is the upcoming AI wave the same as the smartphone wave? Well, not really. But are our options of tackling it the same? I’d say, basically yes. And that’s my point: it’s better to make use of this technology in ways that are less likely to backfire. Since the premise of your captology argument is that more invasive AI will be better in convincing us to buy products, this is, I’d argue, one of the perfect spots for FOSS alternatives. What if we do end up becoming addicted to some new AI app(s) that we know is (/are) manipulative? Look for alternatives not controlled by a corporation. It’s not the perfect option, but in my opinion it’s certainly better than completely boycotting the technology.

goddard_guryon ,

I thought that’s the is/am/are (I forgot the term for these)

goddard_guryon ,

For those who don’t know, adrak = ginger and elaichi = cardamom in hindi (just to point out how smart the abbreviation is)

goddard_guryon ,

I don’t know the language either, and any guess I make will come off as North-India chauvinist XD maybe someone else here who knows the script will point it out

goddard_guryon ,
  1. Strairdrac is three crabs in a trenchcoat, now teaching others of his kind how to blend in with humans
goddard_guryon ,

Genuinely curious about this one, what function are you assuming when using the limit approach to evaluate? I presume it is f(x) = x, but then it would not have a discontinuity at 1. Or is the point that whether 0.999… = 1 or not depends on the implicit function in the context (in which case, limits wouldn’t disprove the argument but rather add nuance to it)?

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goddard_guryon ,

They gotta sell it somehow. “Meta’s own Twitter” only worked for so long, so maybe this is part of a rebranding effort (or maybe a simple typo, who knows)

goddard_guryon ,

For your first point, I’d just like to add that the scientists didn’t give conservative estimates to stay clear of conspiracy theorists, but to stay clear of criticisms of fellow scientists. If there’s insufficient data to back up the claims a researcher makes, you can bet the other researchers will always beat the conspiracy theorists in calling out the bullshit.

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