we trained a fruit fly to understand emotion
We created a neural network from the male drosophila connectome, then trained it on human emotions. It was shocking to see how good it was at identification (better than some humans I know)
This week, @ActinideInc became the first startup in history to enrich uranium, producing HALEU, the fuel for next-gen and small modular reactors.
We did it using Endurance, a particle accelerator that we designed and built in Texas.
Endurance usually produces enriched Yb-176, a precursor for cancer therapies worth roughly $30,000 per gram.
After a bulk Yb-176 delivery on July 30, we reconfigured Endurance for uranium.
We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4
J’ai travaillé dans le cadre d’ONG avec des « migrants » de retour au Maroc pour une prise en charge psychosociale, principalement des jeunes hommes moins d’un an après l’expulsion.
J’aimerais partager quelques points sur l’ÉMIGRATION c’est à dire l’action de quitter son pays.
Classicist Emily Wilson has written that Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey is "abysmal."
Wilson's translation of the epic was the inspiration for Nolan's adaptation.
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Honestly this is a fascinatingly freudian display. There's no father to be seen, only mother, and the boy has literally swollen into a huge male sexualized being but is simultaneously a little boy being fed (almost looks like a baby in diapers too)
you read a woman japanese author and you are utterly stunned by the intensity of every single emotion she portrays and how her womanhood aligns with yours in striking ways then u read a male japanese author, it's only chapter three and he's talking abt a woman's bouncing tits
cannibalism and necrophilia as final declarations of love and utter devotion can be so heartbreaking if done right everyone needs to widen their horizons
and then Proust:
“We usually live with our whole being reduced to a bare minimum; most of our faculties lie dormant because they rely on habit, which knows what has to be done and has no need of them. But on this morning of travel, the interruption of the routine [+]