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It's too bad there aren't more software projects (and jobs) like this.
Octopuses don’t have money, so the people with money aren’t interested in putting more resources into understanding octopuses.
Octopuses are practically alien. They can: - shape shift into so many different forms and shapes. - "invisibility", by instantanously changing colors & it's own skin texture, to match surrounds. - can regrow entire body parts if cut off (like arms) - have 9 brains (localized) - and are ridiculous intelligent
I love imagining how the fish are almost an extension of the way the octopuses think. Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain. Now they're wrangling independent fish brains instead of octopus arm brains. Incredible
You might enjoy 'Children of Ruin' by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which explores this idea in depth with a civilization of genetically modified, super-intelligent octopuses. (Though I'd start with the first book in the series, 'Children of Time')
I love imagining how the fish are almost an extension of the way the octopuses think. Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain. Now they're wrangling independent fish brains instead of octopus arm brains. Incredible
You might enjoy 'Children of Ruin' by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which explores this idea in depth with a civilization of genetically modified, super-intelligent octopuses. (Though I'd start with the first book in the series, 'Children of Time')
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But "teleporters" or "marathoners" or tons of other words follow the same pattern of stress and sound fine. "Photocopiers" extends it to four unstressed syllables and sounds fine.
We treat words like they have a single stressed syllable and everything else is unstressed, and that's a useful abstraction sometimes, but that's not actually true. "Photocopiers" has primary stress on the first syllable but secondary on the third - PHO -to-CO-pi-ers. The same goes for "teleporters" and "marathoners". But that also goes for "octopuses", so what gives? Seems like there's something else going on that m…
I'm just slightly disturbed that someone thinks a rich social life is defined by punching your co-workers
Disneyfication of octopuses. In that video you'll see, exactly anything that you want to see. Would justify perfectly an: "in the video the octopus is seen trying to avoid being stolen its food by all the other fishes", that is the same behavior that you'll see if you break a crab or an urchin underwater. Many coastal fishes from rocky bottoms will come to steal any food scrap available. They don't cooperate with oth…
Probably shouldn't base your entire opinion of the study on a 17 second video or a fluff article.
aside: me after reading the headline: Shouldn't that be Octopii? But no! "The plural form octopii is doubly incorrect. Firstly, octopus derives from Greek, not Latin; its etymologically-consistent plural form is octopodes. Secondly, even if octopus were a second-declension Latin noun, the plural form would be octopi; in the correct plurals radii and gladii, with which octopii is analogous, the first ‘i’s are part of…
While I'm all for a history lesson (and the double-I octopii is indeed simply incorrect) I take issue with anyone insisting that "octopi" is wrong: 1. Language is neither static nor a series of rules to be blindly followed. The way a word was pluralized 1400 years ago has limited relevance today. 2. As noted just about everywhere, "octopodes" looks insane in any modern English sentence because we don't pluralize any…
I'm guessing "platypodes" doesn't count.
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Could it be "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky? (ht Claude)
> Could it be "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky? Currently reading that one and there is no octopuses (only read half so far though) but a lot of spiders, ants and space-faring primates :)
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Because it turns it into a four-syllable word with three consecutive unstressed syllables. It has bad meter and ruins the meter of almost any sentence constructed around it.
But "teleporters" or "marathoners" or tons of other words follow the same pattern of stress and sound fine. "Photocopiers" extends it to four unstressed syllables and sounds fine.