Many articles contain "20%" within their title. For example: More than 20% of Earth’s plants grow only on islands, global study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-arti...island-plants/ Google’s ’20% rule’ shows exactly how much time you should spend learning new skills—and why it works https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/goog...ew-skills.html ...
Updated 11-26-2024 at 06:17 AM by Ellsworth (No warm up, lots of pre-thought, approx 12 edits.)
I've become a believer in the fact climate changes. Oh wait, I always believed that (Ice Ages). I believe temperature is trending higher at this moment in history. And it's having a significant negative impact on flora and fauna. Of course the earth can heal. But as a person living in the atrium, I sort of like the status quo. Plenty of food. Mostly fresh-ish air. Some waterways we can still swim in. Overall, not too bad. ...
I'm a live and let live type of guy, but this idea seems dead. https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/new...o-save-my-ink/ A new organization of tattoo artists and enthusiasts is helping people who don't want to take their ink with them when they go. These folks plan to have their favorite tattoos preserved and displayed for posterity by family members... Members can register one tattoo "roughly the size of a chest piece" for postmortem preservation... So he had two tattoos ...
Updated 11-25-2024 at 10:45 AM by Ellsworth (Lots of pre-thought, 2nd draft, 19 edits)
The first neural net, was the totality of verbal and directly physical/bodily based, non-verbal communication between the earliest members of our species*. Then recorded symbols expanded the abilities/range/effectiveness of the original net. Eventually the order of the printing press led the species to create the internet version of its earliest, native / natural / biologically intrinsic neural net. And with help from the early hard wired internet, neural ...
Updated 11-22-2024 at 07:21 AM by Ellsworth (No warm up, 10 edits.)
A Bomb Cyclone just hit the Seattle region, over 600,000 people lost power. As I drove around with cash in hand looking for hot food, it occurred to my why bitcoin (and digital currency in general) may be a good investment. This is an outsider's perspective, I have done virtually no reading/research on the topic digital currency other than mainstream media articles. But I have learned about and thought a lot about fiat currency. And also AI, while researching the history ...
Updated 11-27-2024 at 04:49 AM by Ellsworth (Lots of pre-thought, no warm up, 21 edits.)