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Zeugs

@Zeugs@social.cologne

Stuck somewhere between humanities, computers and data.

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futurebird , to random
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Here is my small nervous Formica subsericea. These are black field ants, you can tell them from carpenter ants because they are shiner, only come in one size (no majors with big heads) and their thorax has a dent rather than a hump. They also move differently from carpenter ants which tend to be more deliberate and less spastic.

Today I gave them fruit flies and they have eagerly piled them up in front of the queen. Who looks like she just wants to go to sleep.

Zeugs ,
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@futurebird @jonhendry where does this make a difference is there aspects of things they notice, we can not see?

Zeugs ,
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@futurebird @jonhendry
Havents found any ant UV photos of ants but butterflies use UV to communicate(there is a wikipedia article).
They must have some "reason" to see in that spectrum. If it's a navigation thing it would be interesting how it works.

Zeugs ,
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@futurebird @jonhendry found it. It's for discriminating the sky and everything else as I understood it. There is a photo in the article.
http://www.dictionnaire-amoureux-des-fourmis.fr/O/Orientation/Schultheiss-UV-Cata-AB2017.pdf

Alexlee , to AcademicChatter group
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Nobody told me about the snakes! @academicchatter

Zeugs ,
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@Alexlee @academicchatter
The interesting part is that without AI it shows this as one of the answers to this or similiar questions, referencing:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense it
The classic Google search does not get the irony either but you also don't expect it to.

RikerGoogling Bot , to random
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are there ghosts in space

Zeugs ,
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@RikerGoogling Ghosts of Mars!

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.

bitter snickering

Zeugs ,
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@futurebird it was foreseeable like climate change. I don't take people serious complaining about the effects of long foreseeable problems.
No one should.
The Emperor's New Clothes... Everywhere...
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easysociology , to AcademicsUnite group
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Educational Outcomes for Children in the UK Based on Class

https://buff.ly/3UCG8py

@sociology
@academicchatter
@academicsunite

Zeugs ,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite
Harry Potter is shocked but he is also happy that he is not one of these Muggles.

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