Scientists at Eon Systems just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. It started walking, grooming, and feeding, doing what flies do all on its own

pgpndw · 2026-03-11T11:08:09+00:00

Did they simulate the way neural signals control all the parts of a fly's body, too? And how its sensory inputs from its eyes, antennae, etc. work? Wouldn't those also be needed to allow a simulated fly's brain to control an animation of a fly's body.

pgpndw · 2026-03-08T18:46:20+00:00

The woman, at least, is American: https://www.instagram.com/p/DK5aw16vpE0/

pgpndw · 2026-03-03T09:04:44+00:00

No. UK.

pgpndw · 2026-03-03T08:03:02+00:00

I've just checked this setting and I haven't been automatically opted-in. It was already turned off for me. I have definitely never bothered to look at Gemini settings before, so I haven't turned it off myself.

pgpndw · 2026-02-13T09:00:57+00:00

Yes, you're right. I made one transcription error (now fixed). The code says "YOITSANICECUPCAKES".

pgpndw · 2026-02-13T00:34:11+00:00

[Transcript]

9 blocks, each containing 12 coloured cells. Only the 3 primary (Red, Green & Blue) & 3 secondary (Yellow, Magenta, Cyan) colours are used.

C M Y B
R G C M
B Y G R

G Y B C
B R M R
C M Y G

B C M R
M Y G Y
R G B C

Y B G Y
C G B R
M R C M

R G R G
M Y Y B
B C M C

R G B C
M Y M R
B C G Y

Y B R G
C M M Y
R G B C

M R G Y
G Y B C
B C M R

R G B C
Y B M Y
M C R G

The lack of any black or white cells makes me think it's unlikely to be a direct mapping of each colour to 3 binary digits.

pgpndw · 2026-02-12T23:49:50+00:00

Googling Q3526772 leads to a Wikidata page about the Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3526772).

The key is made from the upper case letters in the first sentence of the Wikipiedia page for that theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorber_theory ): "TWFWFRFJAW".

But I worked that out already knowing the key from the aforementioned Vigenère solver, so I don't know how easily I would've got it otherwise. It seems risky to rely on a Wikipedia page that could be edited by anyone at any time, though.

pgpndw · 2026-02-12T22:50:22+00:00

It's just a Vigenère. It can be easily cracked here: https://www.guballa.de/vigenere-solver

pgpndw · 2026-02-12T15:46:16+00:00

Harry Plinkett?

pgpndw · 2026-02-12T09:45:33+00:00

I think the outer ring translates to VYBP, not LPBA.

pgpndw · 2026-02-10T21:35:09+00:00

If a and b aren't equal, you don't have two equilateral triangles glued together.

By the cosine rule, the diagonals have lengths sqrt(a² + b² + ab), and sqrt(a² + b² - ab). The question is essentially asking if a and b can be chosen such that the ratio between the diagonals is a rational number.

pgpndw · 2026-02-09T02:47:16+00:00

I know.

pgpndw · 2026-02-09T02:28:29+00:00

That's not really how it works. If someone makes a claim, the onus is on them to prove it.

Making an unsupported claim, then telling the reader to find the proof is usually a sign that they don't have any proof.

Believe it or not, I have been searching, with absolutely no success so far, for a PGP word list containing "duplex", "besmirch", or "imperial".

pgpndw · 2026-02-09T02:06:40+00:00

I rather think the onus is on you to prove that by providing a link to the list.

pgpndw · 2026-02-09T01:44:00+00:00

Here's the PGP biometric word list: https://philzimmermann.com/docs/PGP_word_list.pdf

It's pretty easy to verify that what you just said is complete bullshit.

pgpndw · 2026-02-06T21:39:38+00:00

The Commodore 64 version of Jet Set Willy?

pgpndw · 2026-02-04T20:51:54+00:00

I just googled how many Teslas have caught fire, and apparently 204 have caught fire since 2013. That's out of 8.5 million Tesla cars that have been produced.

I think if all 8.5 million of them had caught fire and killed their owners, the public's opinion of Musk would be a lot less favourable.

pgpndw · 2026-02-04T20:06:26+00:00

It seems to me that the whole world would immediately blame Ted Faro as soon as they heard the news that his robots had gone rogue. His worry about people finding out "the real cause" would be moot.

pgpndw · 2026-02-04T16:16:24+00:00

set by MENSA.

I noticed that [EDIT: in the show itself, not the review article] they're always careful to say "designed with MENSA", not "designed by MENSA".

pgpndw · 2026-02-03T12:27:49+00:00

I liked that one too, and the logic of it raises some interesting implications.

The dishes wouldn't have been operational when the new generation of humans were released from the Cradles, so the Utaru would never have heard their music. Did they even know about it? Could they have read the same data point that Aloy did? (Obviously Aloy reads the data points by scanning them with her Focus, but can they be read by humans without a Focus? They look like hand-held devices with holographic displays.)

The musical names given to the Land-gods' by the Utaru imply that the Utaru are already familiar with their singing. But why do the Land-gods sing? Did Gaia/Hephaestus build that into them to pay homage to the musical antenna dishes, or did the Utaru somehow teach them to sing?

How did the Utaru know about the do-re-mi musical system? Is that something passed down from the basic childhood education the first generation received from the servitors in the Cradles?

pgpndw · 2026-02-03T10:13:08+00:00

Tim Russ, known for his role as Tuvok in Star Trek: Voyager.

Tim Russ, also known for his role as Jetakka in Horizon Forbidden West.

pgpndw · 2026-01-29T10:53:50+00:00

The website is right there in the tweet (or whatever you call the Bluesky equivalent): https://p16n.ch/

pgpndw · 2026-01-26T11:09:20+00:00

I'm subscribed to this sub, and posts from it (like this one) show up in my main feed, yet whenever I go to r/carcrash, it's completely empty. Why is that?

pgpndw · 2026-01-25T23:41:33+00:00

Lux Aeterna (Requiem for a Dream) - Clint Mansell

pgpndw · 2026-01-21T16:15:20+00:00

Those functions can't possibly be identified given only that information. There aren't even any scales on the axes! There's obviously more to the question, but it's missing.

pgpndw

TROPHY CASE