I… I never knew or considered this.

For me there’s no real difference beyond the vague sense that the bolded text is over-emphasizing first syllables - it’s like Shatner reading the paragraph to me.

It’s a pretty cool effect, though (as the graphic sorta makes clear - if you look at the really red parts) it only really comes into play at huge redshifts (thousands or millions of years after the big bang).

I feel the same way. Also in my head, I’m reading like a robot.

And I should add that it’s completely awesome that this helps other people, it’s just clearly not universally beneficial. Different strokes and all that.

It’s cool, but they don’t talk about what happens with the waste products - typically the highly salty water from desalinization is an environmental hazard and is usually piped 20 miles offshore. These are MIT engineers, so they may have something figured out other than just dumping it in the backyard salt pit.

I really hope there are direct analogues for humans.

Fascinating article on how electric eels developed their shocking capabilities:

Absolutely amazing:

“A machine learning inference algorithm we previously developed led us to discover something new and fundamental about the equations that govern the general relativistic effect of light- bending by two massive bodies,” Joshua Bloom wrote in a blog post last year when he uploaded the paper to a preprint server, arXiv. Bloom is a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and chair of the department.

He compared the discovery by UC Berkeley graduate student Keming Zhang to connections that Google’s AI team, DeepMind, recently made between two different areas of mathematics. Taken together, these examples show that AI systems can reveal fundamental associations that humans miss.

New Crab discovered. What a cutie!

It looks like it should be for sale at Toys’r’us

A shower loofah that really surprises you when washing your private parts.

I will forever be suspicious of my shower loofahs in the future thanks to you.

Australia is always coming up with new ways to kill you.

Not deadly you say? Sure it isn’t.

This is amazing.

Just the science of a keyboard and learning to type and getting better understanding of Autism makes this awe-inspiring, and important for everyone who doesn’t see things also changing for the better. Her HS Principal said “we can’t have the retard as valedictorian”… Now she’s valedictorian in College as well. Take inspiration! Be the Light!

Wow, that’s freaking amazing. Thanks, I shared it with a co-worker who has an 8yo autistic child. Hopefully this kind of methodolgy propogates rapidly as SOP for raising and eductating those with autism, especially at an early age.

This is fascinating.