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greenappletree t1_jaesbcl wrote
Reply to comment by dilldoeorg in TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty. by geekteam6
That would be twisted in a nice way playing the role of the co-creator who created the role he played jn - would actually sort of fit the metaverse they are narrating as well haha
greenappletree t1_jacmxmw wrote
Reply to Scientists unveil plan to create biocomputers powered by human brain cells - Now, scientists unveil a revolutionary path to drive computing forward: organoid intelligence, where lab-grown brain organoids act as biological hardware by Gari_305
Very cool stuff and can be used to screen for drug and discovery - the hope is reduce/eliminate animal models for certain things and at the same time increase ability mimick what is being studied. With that said it worries me about growing a brain organoid bigger and more complex and possibility of it becoming enthical is a possibility - we don’t need a bicomputer
greenappletree t1_ja9ses7 wrote
Reply to TIL Last year 93yo actor James Hong became the oldest person ever to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has over 600 acting credits spanning 70 years. by n3xus-7
Well deserved and he looks great for his age.
greenappletree t1_ja6k576 wrote
Reply to comment by embracing_insanity in Your brain can remember a random event from 7 years ago, but can easily forget why you walked in a room 10 secs ago. by Living_Psychology_95
Worse - Can continue to play and repeat said jingo all day.
greenappletree OP t1_j9zmrja wrote
Reply to comment by RabidMortal in TIL: "Popcorn" is not simply a descriptive term, but also refers to a specific variety of corn which has the unique characteristic of being able to pop, while the other five varieties of corn do not have this capability. by greenappletree
yah that was another surpsing thing that popcorn is actually one the oldest variety.
greenappletree OP t1_j9zkm48 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL: "Popcorn" is not simply a descriptive term, but also refers to a specific variety of corn which has the unique characteristic of being able to pop, while the other five varieties of corn do not have this capability. by greenappletree
Naively I thought the kernels were processed a certain way 😛
greenappletree t1_j9z23l9 wrote
Reply to comment by AdEnvironmental8339 in How does adenosine accumulate in brain and cause sleep? by Lojcs
so in the brain we have two main type of neurons ( excitatory and inhibitory ) or glumate vs gaba. When glumate is release it causes a neuron to fire and thus exitatory. Adenosine is release when neurons fire sometimes (what we call presynaptic) and feed back onto itself, when it binds to the receptor it inhibit glutamate release and thus decreases activity. There are other mechnism, like I mentioned above such as increasing release of gaba, but I think this is the main one.
greenappletree t1_j9x5fc7 wrote
it causes sleep because when adenosine binds to specific receptors in the brain, it slows down the activity of neurons, reducing arousal and promoting sleepiness. adenosine can also increase the release of sleep-promoting neurotransmitters, such as GABA, which further enhance the feeling of drowsines
greenappletree t1_j9uzx3b wrote
Reply to TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
TIL there is a difference in lice, yikes. But wow that is a loooong time
greenappletree t1_j9tr62o wrote
Sounds great but this is way early and only hypothetical- not to mention scaling this would be difficult- from the article itself
> Of course, there’s still a long way to go before mushrooms can replace plastic
greenappletree t1_j5tqtoy wrote
Reply to comment by iboughtarock in WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans by iboughtarock
That incredible- were they able to distinguish different people or is this a control room with a single individual standing still. I would imagine it can get exponentially more complicated with multiple people moving around.
greenappletree t1_j5mu4ot wrote
Reply to comment by Imnot_your_buddy_guy in CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism by iingot
This is an interesting point but to play devil advocate couldn’t the same be said about a person who is learning from all these material for free, assimilated it and made it their own?
greenappletree t1_j5lqou1 wrote
Reply to comment by firem1ndr in CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism by iingot
This is going to be an interesting problem - just today I heard that chatGPT when as to code something was just basically scraping from GitHub. At what point does an AI infringe in copyright and who is responsible. Developers are just going to shrug and say the ai is a black box.
greenappletree t1_j5fz243 wrote
Reply to Radxa Rock5 Model A is a credit card-sized single-board PC with RK3588S and up to 16GB RAM (starting at $99) by giuliomagnifico
This little thing packs more oomph than full blown pc — crazy
greenappletree t1_j4a0dds wrote
Reply to comment by BroadElderberry in How do people across the world spend their time and what does this tell us about living conditions? by kraken_enrager
if thats the case then they should had use the median or have a seperate chart of only people working.
greenappletree t1_j3ou0tz wrote
Reply to Lab-grown retinal eye cells make successful connections, open door for clinical trials to treat blindness by Melodic-Work7436
This sounds amazing and I hope it works; I'm a bit worry why this is not in a bigger impact paper; PNAS is great but it just seems out of place if this is true.
greenappletree t1_j2e9j6d wrote
imagine if this was the last question, for the million, I would still be very careful since it could be a trick question, what if some lady's nickname was andy, hmm.
greenappletree t1_j00hlkk wrote
Reply to comment by Phoenix5869 in Scientists have developed a solid-state battery material that doesn't diminish after repeated charge cycles, potentially offering a durable alternative to the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles by unswsydney
I think getting something to work in an ideal environment with exotic materials and having it scale is a huge limitation.
greenappletree t1_izzgfpz wrote
Reply to Scientists have developed a solid-state battery material that doesn't diminish after repeated charge cycles, potentially offering a durable alternative to the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles by unswsydney
That would be gaming changing - question is how scalable is this and can they mass produce this to be commercially viable?
greenappletree t1_izagavi wrote
Reply to Ben & Jerry's owner may launch ice cream made from cow-free dairy | The potential rise of lab-grown milk could result in amazing advances in the world of ice cream by chrisdh79
Excited to try this - The animal feee and lactose free is a game changer.
greenappletree t1_iyyrvb4 wrote
Reply to I made a website which features positive/inspiring news stories with no ads! by happydazenews
Wow thanks ! The oral I insulin story made me happy - I don’t need it but would imagine how awesome that would be for someone who does.
greenappletree t1_iyeladi wrote
Reply to comment by hirthquake in The underside of the chopsticks holders at Tao say “stolen from Tao” by hirthquake
Bill gates once said if they gonna steal it anyways then it might as well be windows.
greenappletree t1_iyekos5 wrote
Reply to In a thousand years, archaeologists will find tanning beds and think we fried people for punishment. by qarasaq
And seeing pictures of Botox injections will add to the lore. Yikes
greenappletree t1_ixuz542 wrote
Reply to comment by sayterdarkwynd in Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind: worth the read? by Sacred-Moose
Yah it’s one of those series that I don’t mind reading hundred upon hundred of pages but don’t particularly think it’s that good. I think i stopped after then 4 th as well. One criticism were the weird bdsm/masochistic which I found weird and didn’t really add to the stories.
greenappletree t1_jb9rxv4 wrote
Reply to comment by czl in A group of researchers has achieved a breakthrough in secure communications by developing an algorithm that conceals sensitive information so effectively that it is impossible to detect that anything has been hidden by thebelsnickle1991
Wouldn’t it be even safer to encrypt the orinal anyway and then obfuscate it with stengraphy?