Archives: Tweets
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“Because metabolic rate — the rate at which energy is supplied to cells — is the fundamental driver of all biological rates and times, *all of the central features of life from gestation and growth to mortality are exponentially sensitive to temperature*.” twitter.com/MoJoe/status/1…
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Do the math: 2C average temp increase = 3.8 Fahrenheit — SQUARED = *14.4*. twitter.com/MoJoe/status/1…
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“What is shocking is how few people, even many scientists, appreciate that this sensitivity to temperature is *exponential*.” [No sh&t. In 30+ years active reading about climate change, *no one’s* mentioned this previously.]
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“Only now, with the advent of global warming, are we beginning to appreciate how sensitive the natural world and the environment are to small changes in temperature and the threat this imposes.”
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“The next revolution will be the ascent of analog systems over which the dominion of digital programming comes to an end. Nature’s answer to those who sought control through programmable machines is to allow us to build machines whose nature is beyond programmable control.”
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“These new hybrid organizations …built upon digital computers, are operating as analog computers on a vast, global scale, processing information as continuous functions and treating bits the way vacuum tubes treat electrons, or the way neurons treat information in a brain.”
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“Algorithms and digital simulations have become so embedded in our culture and world view that we find it almost impossible to recognize that other forms of computation, without algorithms or digital models, effectively control much of the world.”
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“In analog computing, complexity resides in topology, not code. Information is processed as continuous functions of values such as voltage and relative pulse frequency rather than by logical operations on discrete strings of bits.” edge.org/conversation/g…
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RT @swardley: Ok, happy 2019. So, let’s kick this year off with something that I can only describe as awesome … “Jarvis” and conversation…
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RT @vgr: In 2019 ribbonfarm will bring you refactorings with Chinese characteristics