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Re: The smartest slime [video]

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The crowning achievement of my PhD was having some of the images I took featured in one of Ze Frank's videos 10 years later. Who cares about Science and Nature papers!

Re: The smartest slime [video]

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post #4

The crowning achievement of my PhD was having some of the images I took featured in one of Ze Frank's videos 10 years later. Who cares about Science and Nature papers!

Now that he's including a bibliography at the end it should be contributing to impact factor.

Re: The smartest slime [video]

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post #4

The crowning achievement of my PhD was having some of the images I took featured in one of Ze Frank's videos 10 years later. Who cares about Science and Nature papers!

Now that he's including a bibliography at the end it should be contributing to impact factor.

I was cited in the video description, don't think any other citation to my paper got 3M reads/views.

Re: The smartest slime [video]

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Ubelievably thought provoking. If it can solve shortest paths, and it can learn, I wonder if they can solve other graph problems, then I'd wonder if there is some fusion of conway's game of life and transformer models that might produce something like a logical slime mold, or a way of integrating training sets for ML models. If life were the expression of a kind of architecture exemplified by the minimum features of these slime molds, and then this may be synthesizable programatically like we do neurons, we'd be into some interesting territory.

Re: The smartest slime [video]

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post #4

The crowning achievement of my PhD was having some of the images I took featured in one of Ze Frank's videos 10 years later. Who cares about Science and Nature papers!

Its amazing the kind of reach Youtube can have for science, even if its in an entertainment-context.
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