Watched a bit of the Manu world champs down on the water front. Missed the better performances some getting over 7m. I guess NZ won.

Lord spare me from old codgers having feuds in the dinghy cruising world.

If you see something that’s mildly interesting on YT it the bombards with you with similar content some of which you may watch thus reinforcing the algorithm. By this process I’m becoming an expert on the battle of Gettysburg largely against my will.

I guess that’s why he was largely unsuccessful and no one’s ever heard of him.

Looks like some frequency dependent selection going on.

Probably makes sense as GST puts downward pressure on margins for producers as well.

“Who let the dolls out”

The most beautiful formula not enough people understand YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

youtu.be/fsLh-NYhOoU?... this is remarkably good. When you think of all crap lectures I sat through at uni and anyone can now watch this. Especially last few seconds at the end could change the game.

Man things have changed I remember in ‘92 paying 12 months in advance in Osaka. 5 months of which was a compulsory gift, 5 months bond, 1 month commission and 1 month in advance. It was about NZD &10k.

Japan Has 9 Million Abandoned Homes - Here’s the Real Problem YouTube video by Shu Matsuo Post

youtu.be/503dTnIvp1Y?... I often think of Japan is the canary in the coal mine. Empty apartments decaying must be a nightmare.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a seagull do that before. Probably beating the water to drive critters to the surface to eat.

Gardening, healthy aging, and longevity: Longitudinal evidence from 25 years of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 Gardening is a common leisure activity among older adults, yet its potential to support healthy aging remains underexplored, particularly in longitudi…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... apparently gardening is associated with increased longevity.

Is private school a wise investment? Damien Venuto explores the financial pros and cons of private schooling

www.stuff.co.nz/money/360942... I’d be really interested in what spending the money does with regard the probability of becoming a grandparent.

David Niven Explains How He Got An Iron Cross in WWII | The Dick Cavett Show YouTube video by The Dick Cavett Show

youtu.be/S1jMK-XIvUY?... “ they had some holes you popped into if there was any rudeness”

80 years later, it fascinates me, that the Japanese still use the expression “Imphal operation” to describe a complete cluster fuck.

In Japan every town they make the best Sake or Soy sauce or Curry in Japan. AFAIK the closest we come to this is meat pies.

It’s just saying “I don’t know”with ever increasing precision.

Prototyping my Own Motorcycle Race Engine YouTube video by The Motorcycle Forge

youtube.com/watch?v=iVyP... for all the downsides about social media and there are many. It does enable countless projects like this that put money in the pockets of tiny little businesses.

In light of your opinion, that process may be mediated by another protein. In other words the robots could collectively stabilise each other.

Yeah I kind of played around with something like that with my arms race simulator. It showed that the genome was capable of building a machine that could force another string to be true or false.

One thing i don’t think is often appreciated IMHO is that proteins are not static they are constantly gyrating and so they have should innumerable activities and evolution serves to maximise time spent in useful conformations.

There must be strings attached…. Sorry couldn’t resist.

Basically Waddingtons canalisation model.

I tend to think of proteins as agents that catalyse or in other words increase the probability of progressively unlikely events. But they are not the causal agents of those events.

Public transportation use vs fertility by state in the USA, 2023 data. It’s not very fine grained but thought it would be interesting to have a look and this was the only data I could find. Peurto Rico was left out because it’s an outlier.

That’s an interesting graph #complexity.

Done that

Why Nobody Is Moving to Japan’s 4th Largest Island YouTube video by Geography By Geoff

youtube.com/watch?v=f03i... only been to Shikoku a few times both very briefly. Rural depopulation is a massive problem for Japan and Shikoku has it bad,

Edge Finder Explanation YouTube video by Elements Au Pu

youtube.com/watch?v=1GsT... been watching these bloody things on YouTube machining videos for years and never understood how the hell they worked. Very clever.

It’s and indicator of the topology of genome space.

I’ve studied it for years. It’s really fascinating. Especially in neutral networks.