I’ve been thinking a lot on how the Talmud is microblogging or maybe Tumblr. They were just like us

I’m not doing daily updates as apparently the bananas take several months to ripen so see you next year

It’s worse, it’s because they think they don’t need the math and that their vibes about something being right means they’re right. Now they have a tool that tells them it’s true, so now they can’t even get embarrassed because at least their LLM buddy thinks they’re always right.

It’s really great to see it being talked about more, though, because we’re moving from “how could we simulate a theoretical living system” to “how can we describe actual biology using these models.” It’s an exciting area to work in right now!

Great paper, but I’m always surprised how network sci isn’t already more widely adopted in empirical bio models. There is a lot of potential in connecting existing ALife and computer graphics research. E.g our bio simulation is a probabilistic grammar as a multilayered graph: epcc.itch.io/idu

So many bananas!

A friend asked if we eat its flowers here, yet to us even observing the banana is a novelty; it’s a space station situation. The only natural light it’s seen would be the few summer rays filtered by the windows. It decided to live despite our forgetfulness, in a fully enclosed synthetic environment.

Listen, I’m far up North and we grew it indoors on hydroponics and I have never seen a banana flower so this is a very big deal right now

The rise in temperature paired with high humidity and the fact that the sun sets around midnight for a short time so your whole body is getting cooked by the sun at a 45-degree angle is not good.

Here’s Tallinn 😩

Is it possible to get the ammonite and other shirts online? I’m not in the UK so couldn’t come :( Thanks!

They’ll be so lucky to work with you! Hope there’ll be another opportunity, too. Would try in a heartbeat, but can’t travel due to my health situation at the moment. Best of luck to you and all applicants :)

Heii 👋 tahaksin teistega siin eesti keeles ka suhelda aga minu praegune konto jääb ilmselt täiesti ingliskeelseks. vahet pole, kas listi pannakse või mitte, otsustasin mingit “mina olen ka siin” märki endast jätta :)

I’m an undergrad maths student (part-time due to physical disability) working on researching extinction dynamics and critical transitions in ancient ecosystems by developing simulations based on fossil data.

I’m open about my disability despite the stigma to make it easier for us all.

I wrote this for my university's Maths & Stats department newsletter, OpenInterval, and the full version is available here: www3.open.ac.uk/documents/3/zx…

We’re currently working in a paper and introduced a lot of new methods, so I’ll post more details when it’s published! 🌋