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- Comment on Is it worth it?? 2 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of stuff where ML algorithms the state of the art. For example the raw data from nanopore DNA sequencing machines is extremely noisy and ML algorithms clean it up with much less error than the Markov chains used in years previous.
- Comment on anagenesis 3 weeks ago:
Funnily enough in Canada we have mars bars instead of the US milky way and 3 musketeers instead of the international milky way. Mars doesn’t sell anything called a milky way here
- Comment on I feel like laying an egg. 5 weeks ago:
this is cuckoo
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 5 weeks ago:
Echinoderms:
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 5 weeks ago:
I can tell the jellies are on the right and that they’re in the genus Aurelia. Seems like a skill issue
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 5 weeks ago:
That’s what makes them fluids
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 5 weeks ago:
gases are fluids tho…
- Comment on #notaseagull 5 weeks ago:
The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it’s pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”
- Comment on #notaseagull 5 weeks ago:
Je suis un ananas
- Comment on Just Terrible 1 month ago:
Yes, popularized by C
- Comment on Just Terrible 1 month ago:
I’m with that guy. C was a mistake
- Comment on My markup has my cat's contributions. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Fruit Flies 1 month ago:
The fruit flies you’ve seen eating fresh fruit are probably Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing fruit fly). Most (all?) other Drosophila species (including the model organism Drosophila melanogaster) only feed on rotting fruit. Though they’ll consume the sugars too, not just the microorganisms.
There are also some more distantly related flies that feed on fresh fruit and are commonly called fruit flies (eg the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata)
- Comment on Y tho 2 months ago:
There’s a bunch of species of cactus (family Cactaceae) but only Rhipsalis baccifera is found in the old world. Even weirder is that it’s found in sub-Saharan Africa and for some reason also Sri Lanka
- Comment on Let's gooo 2 months ago:
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for well-defined constants - Comment on Let's gooo 2 months ago:
you monster
- Comment on big ol booties 2 months ago:
Unbeweevible!
- Comment on Chemistry 2 months ago:
My uncle was a med lab tech in the hospital. They still had “no mouth pipetting” signs up in the late 90s.
- Comment on Oxygen 2 months ago:
Organisms need some oxidizing agent to respire. We use oxygen because it’s very highly reactive and thanks to photosynthesis is goddamn everywhere.
- Comment on Cursed 2 months ago:
Pipetting liquid glowstone
- Comment on Blocked 🚫 3 months ago:
Image You guys believe in objective reality?
- Comment on Crab vibes 3 months ago:
Pictured here outside the pelagic
- Comment on Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL! 3 months ago:
the humanoid puppet pilot was way worse tho
- Comment on It's no longer Wednesday, my dudes. 3 months ago:
When the condensed course has an independent research project
- Comment on me & him 3 months ago:
Male is the sex that produces the smaller gamete, female the sex that produces the larger
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
If aluminum’s so great, why isn’t there any lithotrophs that use it?
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
Yeah like look organopónicos in Cuba. Thanks to the collapse of the import market that fuelled industrial agriculture and government support of local growers, a good chunk of food in the country now comes from ecology-sound urban agriculture.
- Comment on Carl? 6 months ago:
- Comment on epidemiology 7 months ago:
Or any smallpox samples sitting in the back of an old lab, like the ones they found in 2014. Or the smallpox samples that the US and Russian governments keep
as WMDsfor research purposes. - Comment on salmon 7 months ago:
Yeah but that’s only when they’re on their way back to the sea. For Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest whose territories don’t directly border the sea (so mostly Interior and Columbia Plateau nations) the salmon run was traditionally a major source of staple food. The rivers used to run so thick with fish that people up and down the major rivers could gather enough salmon to live off for the next year.