The Octopus is a digital camera that has been taking pictures for millions of years!

Lead is tasty but please don’t eat it

Much has been made about the fact that we often can’t know how modern neural-nets come to the conclusions that they do…

I’ve been thinking about this loose idea of patterns that are hard to define, and the challenges of explaining them through the lens of our exceptionally scientific world view.

How does evolution, as a process acting on species, get shaped by the nature of the environment that these species exist within?

There’s a class of movies like “Digging for Fire”, or “The Overnight”, or “While We’re Young” that typically follow a young-ish couple in LA who are at some crossroads or minor crisis of identity or relationship or family. The movie typically takes place usually over the span of a couple days or sometimes just one night, the couples typically reconcile their differences without discarding them, and return to their relationships with a greater understanding. These movies are typically critically lauded, and also typically suck.