Seems to mostly be called “Screaming Seagull” or “Inhaling Seagull”
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RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists unveil first-of-its-kind plastic alternative that could shake up the packaging industry — here's why it's importantEnglish10·6 months agoPaper is paywalled, but from the SciTech article it looks like mostly it was sodium sulfate. They did also make some “ocean-degradable plastics”.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study findsEnglish4·7 months agoThanks for the link and breakdown.
It sounds like a better description of the estimated thinking speed would be 5-50 bits per second. And when summarizing capacity/capability, one generally uses a number near the top end. It makes far more sense to say we are capable of 50 bps but often use less, than to say we are only capable of 10 but sometimes do more than we are capable of doing. And the paper leans hard into 10 bps being a internally imposed limit rather than conditional, going as far as saying a neural-computer interface would be limited to this rate.
“Thinking speed” is also a poor description for input/output measurement, akin to calling a monitor’s bitrate the computer’s FLOPS.
Visual processing is multi-faceted. I definitely don’t think all of vision can be reduced to 50bps, but maybe the serial part after the parallel bits have done stuff like detecting lines, arcs, textures, areas of contrast, etc.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK There’s someone running around Lemmy posting misinformation against WikipediaEnglish151·7 months agoIt does look like they don’t currently have any funding issues. They have 1.5 years of reserves and give about 15% of their income out in grants to other organizations. And like most web sites, the actual hosting costs are a relatively small part of their operation.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sellEnglish5·7 months agoHaven’t played, but I found this (negative) review compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-Kd2BBpx8
He did play through the whole game.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•Balatro dev: Talked with PEGI and they do not see anything wrong Balatro being rated 18+, nor with EA sports FC (and similar games) having a 3+ ratingEnglish1910·7 months agoPlease don’t use folk’s medical condition as an insult.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•Balatro dev: Talked with PEGI and they do not see anything wrong Balatro being rated 18+, nor with EA sports FC (and similar games) having a 3+ ratingEnglish6·7 months agoFirst time I’ve seen someone mention Luck be a Landlord. Really fun game.
Roosevelt walked so Taft could waddle.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldOPto Games@lemmy.world•Trying to hit lvl 100 in for the first time in Path of ExileEnglish1·7 months agoOh. Sorry about that.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldOPto Games@lemmy.world•Trying to hit lvl 100 in for the first time in Path of ExileEnglish31·7 months agoIncidentally Equifax’s new slogan
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kayEnglish3·7 months agoHe ate all DeBussy?
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kayEnglish174·7 months agoReally though, the level of imperialism apologizing I’ve seen has been pretty humorous on this platform. Like people will say with a straight face that we need to support our client state Israel to secure our regional interests.
Is this being federated from some platform other than Lemmy? Because I have literally never seen someone support that position here.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.English1610·8 months agoYeah, such a shameful lack of bigots’ POV.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Games@sh.itjust.works•Persona 5 Battle Theme Nominated for a Grammy Thanks to Cover by a Jazz OrchestraEnglish11·8 months agoHere’s the theme cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trp99eHyDyY
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•New Literacy Statistics Just Dropped, and it's grim. 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labelsEnglish71·8 months ago50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels
Maybe they could start them off with something easier, like Finnegans Wake
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•New Literacy Statistics Just Dropped, and it's grim. 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labelsEnglish31·8 months agoIf it was primary research then it should have methodology.
But since the data is “cobbled together” from other sources, then it’s by definition secondary research (and should list those sources).
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Well, Athens wasn't built in a day.English10·8 months agoSisyphean Effort is actually a thing
omg Toad, you can’t just ask people why they’re purple!
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto California@lemmy.world•What’s the impact of California’s minimum wage hikes? Economists say there’s consensusEnglish4·9 months agomenu prices increased by only 3.7%
Worth noting this is a “difference-in-differences” study, so that change is estimating the impact of the policy alone. Folk’s observed changes will be a bit higher because they are also affected by national changes.
Those “richest people” lists are based on publicly known wealth, which is almost exclusively public stocks. There is a lot of dark money out there.