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Whispers in my ghost. Spiking neuron in a well connected node.https://t.co/kzz8tkn9QD https://t.co/ZKIsuekASH
We are all being listened to.https://t.co/gnCP57fSBS
"I hear you buzzing, a fly on the wallIn through the window and up through the hallFlying in circles, just trying to landI see you hurting, I do what I can" š¶https://t.co/WYRVXPAi9q
"Unfortunately for her, rather than dying, the man remained āaliveā in the Transistor."https://t.co/GMTYjTrBRj
"Heās convinced someoneās figured out an algorithm thatās faster than anything heās ever seen before. So fast, he fears, that it might eventually put him out of a job."https://t.co/xPYPTIdO0jhttps://t.co/7BIFN1ySst
The machine is real.https://t.co/sc95ZnRTxd
"tells the story of Renaissance and its colorful founder Jim Simons, who worked as a mathematician and Cold War code breaker before trying his hand at the markets."https://t.co/DBvsXaxWb5
āgives a biological summation [...] of his quest to prove the aphorism āthe house always winsā is flawed. . . . Illuminating for the mathematically inclined, and cautionary for would-be gamblers and day tradersā https://t.co/mA5BrN7vOkTitans.
Whispers in my ghost. Like a dim image in a mirror.Trying to shine a light on the night terrors that spook me.https://t.co/r3PJCoMjnA
"growing number of established tech giants, including Cisco, Microsoft, and Motorola, sell fusion systems globally, often in the guise of āsmart cityā modernization packages"https://t.co/5jwULn1I0bNever read that, yet posted day after it was published:https://t.co/C2BwhbfIpA
Missing the forest for the trees."We knew the world would not be the same"https://t.co/iNK3vt5axh
@nosilverv I found papers on how generate 3d maps back before a certain company was even a thing - to give lawn mowing robots the ability to see the landscape. That company is now selling autonomous drones to the military."We knew the world would not be the same" https://t.co/4wY75L0iYy
"posted to bioRxiv on October 18. The discovery, which has not yet been peer reviewed, challenges many assumptions that scientists have held for years about how spiders and potentially other arthropods navigate and interact with the world around them."https://t.co/ABMnWhvSbZ
Ears on their legs, holding tight.https://t.co/RpQt5YbKB0
Singing https://t.co/obSt3UsOtx
"The spiderās world is one of vibration. Essentially blind, the web-building spider creates an image of the world through the vibrations it sends and receives through the web" https://t.co/fGpYJCNEKQ
"For the vast majority of spiders, vibrations represent signals of overwhelming behavioral significance. The vibratory world spiders live in can only be adequately appreciated if we consider it in a broad biological context." [1997]https://t.co/V9W61BcILs
"can tell them what type of meal is entangled in their net and about the intentions and quality of a prospective mate. By plucking the silk like a guitar string and listening to the 'echoes' the spider can also assess the condition of its web"https://t.co/LAVRf5E5LV
Listening to the echos.https://t.co/T1AdVgmN5N
*insert string sounds here*https://t.co/ONOlkEquPIhttps://t.co/QoqOqQgdgH
"spiders use lyriform organs distributed across their eight legs as vibration sensors. Spiders can adjust coupling to the silk fibers and use posture to modify vibrational information as it moves from the web to the sensors."https://t.co/n6eWTrNBcc
"But microelectrodes implanted in the spidersā brains showed that neurons responded to sounds such as chairs scraping and people clapping even when the noises were made 3 to 5 metres away."https://t.co/l0gAJFTHXPhttps://t.co/LsqX7RFnUB
Many Implications"implication, in logic, a relationship between two propositions in which the second is a logical consequence of the first."https://t.co/LsY81isWschttps://t.co/vOSnXUpueW
Myth Eater"retold over and over again for several reasons: because the community becomes attached to the signifiers, and they become authoritative and historically evocative; because myths are at hand, available, like the scraps of the bricoleur"https://t.co/izgGEKtyxR
Myths are echos vibrating across an abstract web.https://t.co/7Vztk7mSMf
"Thus, these spiders appear able to detect airborne sound at distances in the acoustic far-field region, beyond the near-field range often thought to bound acoustic perception in arthropods that lack tympanic ears"https://t.co/j0D0iouJHOhttps://t.co/ayHB5ckuKR
Electric spider webs."They also showed that the glue spirals can distort the Earth's electric field within a few millimetres of the web, which may enable insects to spot the webs with their antennae 'e-sensors'."https://t.co/GPMka8RcH9
"It seems spiders use light as an additional orientation aid when gravity is absent. Since spiders also build their webs in the dark and can catch prey without light, it had previously been assumed that light plays no role in their orientation."https://t.co/Szw3poPGgB
"Moths and butterflies, particularly silkworms, are well known producers of silk. And we all know spiders use it for their webs. But they are not the only invertebrates who make use of the strength and versatility of silk."https://t.co/t1ObBMYh3o
Spiders seem able to locate other insects using acoustic signals."Although vibrational signalling is widespread amongst animals, this is the first time that anyone has shown that predators can use these signals to find their prey"https://t.co/Xui012cdQUhttps://t.co/pU9N5748yk
There seems to be some evidence that just chemical mimicry alone is not enough to enable myrecophylic spiders and beetles passage in an ant nest. https://t.co/m1A8cueFqC And there is some research on vibration signals in ants being used by parasites: https://t.co/rPOBaZfwvh
"Stridulating spiders had significantly greater survival against both predators than the nonstridulating [...] This result represents the first confirmed case of a spider using stridulation against an interspecific predator." [2020] https://t.co/NEXngL5mSb
"The authors conclude that the ancestors of ants were wasps. Not just any wasps, though: the closest relatives of ants turn out to include mud dauber wasps, which make pipe-shaped nests on the walls of buildings." https://t.co/kapKxyaOw5
"The common view is that simple systems gradually become more complicated over evolutionary time, and that it can be difficult for these complex systems to evolve further.But"https://t.co/QQpOZ2K2US
Thinking about how ant and spiders interact.https://t.co/lQBgwIf5Pr
Can Ants Hear? (1900). Scientific American, 82(6), 91ā91. https://t.co/mYgNmjcQjoVia Google Books. https://t.co/v4J8toMWkE
"These acoustic properties likely evolved because of spiders' poor eyesight, NatGeo writes. They can't see an insect trapped in their web, but they can feel and hear its vibrations as it struggles to escape." https://t.co/NlMjyyhbzCbuzz buzzhttps://t.co/G05admpHsC
The echo of the vibrating web."If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device." [May 16, 2024]https://t.co/EaQkDZHZJJ
I am a fly on the wall.https://t.co/vivKaDIXoU