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@phillipsmithnz

Amateur Scientist lost in genome space. Experimental evol. using Truncating ECAs.Polynesian sailing canoe enthusiast. Enjoy doing science for fun, really hate writing. All my views are temporary and subject to change without notification.

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I guess that’s why he was largely unsuccessful and no one’s ever heard of him.

08.03.2026 20:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looks like some frequency dependent selection going on.

06.03.2026 05:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Probably makes sense as GST puts downward pressure on margins for producers as well.

05.03.2026 22:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Who let the dolls out”

03.03.2026 20:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The most beautiful formula not enough people understand
The most beautiful formula not enough people understand YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

youtu.be/fsLh-NYhOoU?... this is remarkably good. When you think of all crap lectures I sat through at uni and anyone can now watch this. Especially last few seconds at the end could change the game.

27.02.2026 20:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Man things have changed I remember in ‘92 paying 12 months in advance in Osaka. 5 months of which was a compulsory gift, 5 months bond, 1 month commission and 1 month in advance. It was about NZD &10k.

26.02.2026 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Japan Has 9 Million Abandoned Homes - Here’s the Real Problem
Japan Has 9 Million Abandoned Homes - Here’s the Real Problem YouTube video by Shu Matsuo Post

youtu.be/503dTnIvp1Y?... I often think of Japan is the canary in the coal mine. Empty apartments decaying must be a nightmare.

26.02.2026 21:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a seagull do that before. Probably beating the water to drive critters to the surface to eat.

26.02.2026 19:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gardening, healthy aging, and longevity: Longitudinal evidence from 25 years of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 Gardening is a common leisure activity among older adults, yet its potential to support healthy aging remains underexplored, particularly in longitudi…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... apparently gardening is associated with increased longevity.

24.02.2026 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is private school a wise investment? Damien Venuto explores the financial pros and cons of private schooling

www.stuff.co.nz/money/360942... I’d be really interested in what spending the money does with regard the probability of becoming a grandparent.

24.02.2026 04:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
David Niven Explains How He Got An Iron Cross in WWII | The Dick Cavett Show
David Niven Explains How He Got An Iron Cross in WWII | The Dick Cavett Show YouTube video by The Dick Cavett Show

youtu.be/S1jMK-XIvUY?... “ they had some holes you popped into if there was any rudeness”

23.02.2026 07:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

80 years later, it fascinates me, that the Japanese still use the expression “Imphal operation” to describe a complete cluster fuck.

22.02.2026 02:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In Japan every town they make the best Sake or Soy sauce or Curry in Japan. AFAIK the closest we come to this is meat pies.

19.02.2026 20:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s just saying “I don’t know”with ever increasing precision.

18.02.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Prototyping my Own Motorcycle Race Engine
Prototyping my Own Motorcycle Race Engine YouTube video by The Motorcycle Forge

youtube.com/watch?v=iVyP... for all the downsides about social media and there are many. It does enable countless projects like this that put money in the pockets of tiny little businesses.

17.02.2026 21:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In light of your opinion, that process may be mediated by another protein. In other words the robots could collectively stabilise each other.

16.02.2026 23:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah I kind of played around with something like that with my arms race simulator. It showed that the genome was capable of building a machine that could force another string to be true or false.

16.02.2026 23:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One thing i don’t think is often appreciated IMHO is that proteins are not static they are constantly gyrating and so they have should innumerable activities and evolution serves to maximise time spent in useful conformations.

16.02.2026 23:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There must be strings attached…. Sorry couldn’t resist.

16.02.2026 21:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Basically Waddingtons canalisation model.

16.02.2026 20:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I tend to think of proteins as agents that catalyse or in other words increase the probability of progressively unlikely events. But they are not the causal agents of those events.

16.02.2026 20:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Public transportation use vs fertility by state in the USA, 2023 data. It’s not very fine grained but thought it would be interesting to have a look and this was the only data I could find. Peurto Rico was  left out because it’s an outlier.

Public transportation use vs fertility by state in the USA, 2023 data. It’s not very fine grained but thought it would be interesting to have a look and this was the only data I could find. Peurto Rico was left out because it’s an outlier.

That’s an interesting graph #complexity.

16.02.2026 19:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Done that

12.02.2026 22:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Nobody Is Moving to Japan’s 4th Largest Island
Why Nobody Is Moving to Japan’s 4th Largest Island YouTube video by Geography By Geoff

youtube.com/watch?v=f03i... only been to Shikoku a few times both very briefly. Rural depopulation is a massive problem for Japan and Shikoku has it bad,

12.02.2026 20:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Edge Finder Explanation
Edge Finder Explanation YouTube video by Elements Au Pu

youtube.com/watch?v=1GsT... been watching these bloody things on YouTube machining videos for years and never understood how the hell they worked. Very clever.

12.02.2026 09:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s and indicator of the topology of genome space.

11.02.2026 21:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve studied it for years. It’s really fascinating. Especially in neutral networks.

11.02.2026 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Unfortunately recombinational load also scales the same way but that’s another issue

11.02.2026 19:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, you’re basically talking about out crossing. The variance in offspring is something like 2^hamming distance between parents.

11.02.2026 19:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m kind of glad now that Apple never built a car.

11.02.2026 05:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0