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The tool is on his own website https://shell.hawzen.me/
Ok and now where is the source code for the tool?
In the repository? https://github.com/Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-o...
I found a seashell in the middle of the desert
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#43land snails ?
In the middle of a desert?
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#44Herodotus did it first, and even speculated that that region must have been covered by water at some point.
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#45Cool find and a very interesting analysis! There's a lot more to morphology than just the shape of the shell, and indeed the shape can sometimes be misleading, in that very different species can have somewhat similar shells, and different individuals of the same species can have quite different shell shapes. You've got a gasteropod, so it would be good to pay special attention to the peristome and siphonal canal (bas…
I'm a little confused about how significant of information can be derived from a 2d projection of the shell. This sort of mathematical modeling looks like phrenology.
Using PCA on 3d shapes is a proven method for identification. It's nothing like phrenology aside from both involving morphology. Former actually works, latter does not.
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Huh? Plenty of places have geology where the rocks were formed under ancient oceans and are full of sea fossils.
Maybe. But I don’t see anything in this piece that says that it’s a fossil, rather than something that resembles this person’s idea of a fossil. It doesn’t look like a fossil to me. It looks like a piece of rock that’s been bashed about a bit. And given the whole premise of the piece is “this should not be here!” I don’t really understand the point you’re making. The author says it’s a strange find in that area - so…
It says right there it’s a seashell hard as a rock. Guess why, Sherlock.
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#49Are you sure that's a fossil and not just a rook that happens to look kinda like a snail's shell?
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Maybe. But I don’t see anything in this piece that says that it’s a fossil, rather than something that resembles this person’s idea of a fossil. It doesn’t look like a fossil to me. It looks like a piece of rock that’s been bashed about a bit. And given the whole premise of the piece is “this should not be here!” I don’t really understand the point you’re making. The author says it’s a strange find in that area - so…
Author points out themselves, in the second paragraph, that its not a strange find. The strangeness of the find is his personal experience. Not that its a strange find geologically.
I agree it's not a strange find. Because fossils. But then what was the big deal about finding it?
Remember, the same author says "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert!" "shouldn't be here" and "coastline 500 miles"