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  • m0darn@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzNutritional Hexes
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    16 hours ago

    Breast feeding is a huge amount of work, asking a person to do that and have a job is a big deal. Pumping breastmilk is incompatible with lots of jobs. If they have already stopped breastfeeding they may not be able to restart.

    It would be great to live in a society where breastfeeding was normal and easy. Society is crazy and women shouldn’t be criticised for trying to exist within it.








  • m0darn@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzForbidden Fruit
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    25 days ago

    Genetic incompatibility - the interspecific cross could only occur one way.

    This could be human male-neanderthal female (HMNF) coupling didn’t result in fertile offspring right? Could it also be that HMNF (coupling) didn’t result in fertile female offspring, but did have fertile male offspring?




  • I learned on the internet 15-20 years ago or so. I’ve also done 5x5 and 4x4 they aren’t really much harder, I didn’t need additional info, but when I hit the parity problem on the 4x4 I just scrambled and tried again. I mean they are harder, but not astronomically harder.

    My almost 8 year old is obsessed. I went through how to do a 3x3, and wrote out the steps and he has copied my instructions into a notebook. He can do it in 3 and a half minutes with his notes. He hasn’t managed without his notes yet but he has only been learning since Valentine’s day. He just woke me up looking for his notebook.

    Earlier this week I met somebody that did a Rubik’s cube independently in the 80s. (My son’s classmates grampa).



  • I’m surprised P ended up that high, the amount of autotune in it sounds like AI speech synthesizer with articulation cranked all the way 11 where it just makes random weird sounds

    59.1% AI-detection™ score

    A small note: that I wasn’t trying to decide whether something was AI, I was trying to evaluate its creativity. So I actually thought A was real, but that it was extremely generic… I also suspected D was AI but trying to judge on creativity, I was unimpressed with the lyrics (not that creative) but I found the soundscape it created interesting. That’s a place where my (un)familiarity with the genre was a liability. I also found the pitch of “you” in “who are you” nrar the end to be creative, like in the wrong key but in a good way.

    Also I only listened to each track once, then decided where to put it in the list. Like “top”, “bottom”, “near bottom but not worst”. And I placed them as I went. If I went through the list again I’d probably swap some but that would have taken way longer and I decided it was more important to be done. I probably should have done some spot checks at the end to make sure things ended up where I wanted.


  • IVQJHOUPLGCFDNERTSMBKA

    Great work. A few thoughts re: methodology.

    • I despair for society’s musical inclinations.
    • Not being able to understand the lyrics was a big impediment.
    • Not being familiar with/fond of the genres was a big impediment.
    • given those two limitations I think I may have inadvertently selected for intra-song diversity and that may favour AI generation since it’s a lot more work for musicians to change sounds in the middle of a song.

    I’m very curious to see the results. Sorry I didn’t get to it sooner.







  • m0darn@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzAlchemy is so hot right now.
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    3 months ago

    It’s a neat idea for sure, but the out of place artifacts are rarely/never as mysterious as people like Graham Hancock would suggest.

    Younger Dryas wasn’t as catastrophic either. Nor are flood myths as unified.

    It’s fun to imagine possibilities like that but I can’t conceive of how a society could advance to a nonphysical/digital technology paradigm without impacting the earth in enormously detectable ways.

    I think it’s interesting to imagine a scenario like what if European explorers shipwrecked on a place like Rapa Nui, the most isolated inhabitable place on the planet. How many generations could they maintain knowledge of the globe, and their culture.

    Obviously the Polynesians basically maintained their language (ie it was identifiable as a polynesian dialect) for ~500+ years in plausibly total isolation.