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gdupont

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Mainly #NLP for applied research in #conversational #search and #information_retrieval

Pushing code in a startup nowadays...

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futurebird , (edited ) to random
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How bad off would you be if you had just one genome?

An alien sends you through a transport device— on arrival every fungus, bacteria, mite, virus and plant has been eliminated from your body. You are now at the alien spaceport which is sterile, you can NOT acquire earth faunetta and floretta here. How sick would you be? Are you gonna die from this?

gdupont ,
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@futurebird I read a series of sci-fi stories (sorry don't remember the title nor the author...) where the solar system was colonized with thousands of habitable stations/bases. Each one of them had very delicate bacteria (and bioenhanced insects btw) to balance their inner ecosystem and every traveller had to gettheir own sterilised and replaced but the local fauna upon arrival. It was exhausting and disgusting for few days before getting accustomed to the new environment ;-)

futurebird , to random
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Wrote a new chapter for the story about “The Planet of the Ants” it’s on convergent evolution. (technically they are not really ants, but you wouldn’t know it— they are of course people sized … mostly.)

gdupont ,
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@futurebird @fencepost stupid question: what are ants (more genery insects) exoskeleton made of? I'm guessing not calcium based like mammals skeleton but I have no real clue...

taylorlorenz , to random
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“These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

gdupont ,
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@futurebird @taylorlorenz
Wikipedia founders tried to create a Wikipedia inspired search engine a few years ago. Timing was probably not right (and maybe some of the ideas were going a bit too far).

Maybe it's time to reboot that idea.

futurebird , to random
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Could we design a skyscraper & sewer system with the intent of creating ecological niches all through the building? Some of the work with green roofs touches on this... can your building handle rain like a forest, not produce fast run-off? Maybe even act as a water sink for less well designed nearby areas. You collect the runoff and get all the moss and plants your parking garage neighbor can't be bothered with.

Don't be mad about the bugs in the walls, design walls that attract the best bugs.

gdupont ,
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@futurebird Singapore urban design is actually doing some things related with many building integrating greeneries including trees all along their facades.

I did not investigate on the efficiency with regard to ecological niches and compensating the concrete footprint but there are certainly some papers on this.

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