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Post by quicksearch »

atleastoptimal wrote: post #44

Whenever you see organic forms, it's interesting to realize the extent to which they are all "programmed" by their genetics into their structure. In their segments, you see the "for" loops of form. In the same manner this art compresses the forms into their essential mechanical geometries, so too does genetic code create essential abstractions that allow the laws of mathematics to guide their structural harmony.

this is all I got atm

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by huehehue »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #2

I don't know why, but I got Pokémon-vibes from some of those illustrations. What phenomenal work!

My first thought was that this person would be an excellent consultant for some arthropod-based game or film (Arthropods Attack?)

I wonder how common it is for folks to try to understand some new field in order to build something vs. the other way around vs. just outsourcing that expertise.

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Post by phyphy »

creatonez wrote: post #57
atleastoptimal wrote: post #44

Whenever you see organic forms, it's interesting to realize the extent to which they are all "programmed" by their genetics into their structure. In their segments, you see the "for" loops of form. In the same manner this art compresses the forms into their essential mechanical geometries, so too does genetic code create essential abstractions that allow the laws of mathematics to guide their structural harmony.

These analogies do work sometimes, but biologists struggle to fit "computer code" based analogies into what they are studying. As it turns out, biology is rather unlike computers in a lot of ways. Some interesting videos for laymen: Michael Levin - Cell Intelligence in Physiological and Morphological Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLiHLDrOTW8 SubAnima - How NOT To Think About Cells https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Makes me wonder if we can create an unsupervised AI model to "infer" features of an organism through only its genetic code.

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Post by fierro »

doesnt_know wrote: post #17

Wonderful illustrations! Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it? I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm m…

go deep enough down the rabbithole of a hobby/topic, and you find the passionate crazies

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Post by mrguyorama »

danjoredd wrote: post #86
kube-system wrote: post #55

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Which is terrifying. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png

That is absolutely true. I remember a while back an emulator developer that made the PS2 emulator for mobile phones got bullied out of developing it anymore, so once that stops working then we won't get to play PS2 games on phones anymore which, while not the worst thing ever, definitely sucks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higan_(emulator)#Author

We just recently lost Near, a brilliant person who probably had one of the best understandings of the SNES out there, and built multiple import SNES emulators because they were bullied into suicide for being non-binary.

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Post by saeranv »

belugacat wrote: post #79
pndy wrote: post #69

This is definitely way beyond a typical Wikipedia user page with all these medal "trophies" and it really looks great. In my grade school times, we had this really dedicated biology teacher who believed that being able to properly copy illustrations from books is the key element to understand lesson's subject. So we draw all these organisms, bacteria and viruses with pencils and colored em with either gray shades or…

That sounds like an amazing teacher. In elementary school I remember being extremely frustrated that art classes weren’t about actually learning to draw/paint, just doing silly things out of papier mâché. I went down the science/engineering route, and it’s only as an adult that I finally took the leap and signed up for proper drawing classes. It’s been mind expanding to say the least - I thought I spent my whole life…

In architecture school, we were taught that drawing is a powerful tool for thinking and analysis, and were drilled with different techiniques to articulate our ideas quickly and concisely in an image. Our professors were heavily influenced by the Bauhaus school in this line of thinking (i.e. Paul Klee[1]).

[1] http://ing.univaq.it/continenza/Corso%20di%20Disegno%20dell%...

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Post by vincent_s »

prawn wrote: post #48
slipandafall wrote: post #39

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Here's another one, apparently the author and maintainer of helm.el is a French mountain guide with no IT history. https://sachachua.com/blog/2018/09/interview-with-thierry-vo...

I came across a fairly detailed guide to travelling in outback Australia the other day. The site owner/author was an older woman in Germany or similar.

Can you share the link?

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Post by prawn »

vincent_s wrote: post #98
prawn wrote: post #48

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I came across a fairly detailed guide to travelling in outback Australia the other day. The site owner/author was an older woman in Germany or similar.

Can you share the link?

https://www.ritas-outback-guide.com/

"Well, my name is Rita Amend. I live in the crowded Rhine-Main-area in Germany. Perhaps that's why I love the tranquillity of the Outback so much."

"Update: Now I am retired, Australia and the vast inland is still in my dreams. At the end of 2018 we spent our 9th holiday in Australia."

Now that I think about it, I can identify. I'm from Australia but have visited Southern Utah many times, think about it often and could write an extensive site about it.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by vincent_s »

prawn wrote: post #99
vincent_s wrote: post #98

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Can you share the link?

https://www.ritas-outback-guide.com/ "Well, my name is Rita Amend. I live in the crowded Rhine-Main-area in Germany. Perhaps that's why I love the tranquillity of the Outback so much." "Update: Now I am retired, Australia and the vast inland is still in my dreams. At the end of 2018 we spent our 9th holiday in Australia." Now that I think about it, I can identify. I'm from Australia but have visited Southern Utah man…

Thanks!
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