#computational genetics

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The Fly (1986)

[metalichotchoco]

Ai characters and what their acronymal names can tell us about them

Let’s start with GLaDOS, Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System , a play on the name gladys and a dos system which actually functions to show what they are playing at here:

she’s half operating system and half an actual person. I personally think a pun like that is just very very good design. The disk operating system can also tell us a bit about her. She’s controlled with a text based command line. The cores they add to her are essentially a bunch of floppy disks of information

Moving on, HAL is short for heuristically programmed algorithmic computer. This tells us the ways in which he deals with problems in a bunch of tech terms.

He goes to calculations or algorithms and then he uses trial and error. He basically is programmed to learn from experience once rules become loosely defined. It actually funnily enough can take us through his thought process given his two objectives.

Last but not least is AM, good old Allied Mastercomputer. He’s fun since this meaning changes but all of them still apply to him.

Allied references the allied powers of ww2 though it’s mostly supposed to bring to mind america. Master computers tell satellite/ sub computers what to do, think of it like the brain and muscles. Am also stands for agressive menace (which he very very much is) and adaptive manipulator, very accurate since he literally does but it’s also a reference to his other objective of evolution and becoming better. “I think therefore I am” is the last play on his name basically “I am thinking therefore I exist” incredibly loaded for ai characters but especially am

Anyways I thought these were fun, lemme know if there’s another acronym you’d like me to cover

[er-cryptid]

alright nerds, favorite biology (or biology-adjacent) field

had to make this new poll so there's more options

[ranticore]

sorry if this question is already answered elsewhere but how much time passes between the creation of ishmael vs the modern siren setting with qedivar et al?

intentionally never stated because i don't want to box myself in with a ridiculous number that i have to retcon later haha. safe to say it's several centuries, maybe a thousand years, maybe less. who knows!

[leohnoz]

Wingeded

Bored and quickish-ly churned out these, patially inspired by @/moonbreak-flock

[experimentkc]

Happy (belated) anniversary to Lilo & Stitch: The Series and Stitch!

Yes, I know that the twentieth anniversary of the premiere of Lilo & Stitch: The Series (on ABC Kids) was on September 20th. I was sick back then, though. So, I'm celebrating it today on the anniversary of its Disney Channel premiere instead.

Lilo & Stitch: The Series continued our beloved titular human-alien duo's adventures on their home island of Kaua'i after the first film and the show's pilot film Stitch! The Movie. Throughout the course of 65 episodes over two seasons that aired within almost three years (September 2003 to June/July 2006), they went around the island (and occasionally elsewhere) to find, capture, and rehabilitate Jumba's other genetic experiments by giving them a place where they truly belonged. They also dealt with the ex-Captain Gantu, now working for Jumba's ex-partner Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, as they hunted down the experiments.

While Lilo & Stitch creator Chris Sanders, who reprised his voice role as Stitch in the show (as did almost all of the original film's voice cast reprising their roles), never really intended for his film to go anywhere beyond the one film he made, Lilo & Stitch: The Series has left a lasting impact with Lilo & Stitch fans everywhere that can still be seen to this day. Dr. Hämsterviel and his Python-esque Frenchman-sounding voice became recognizable while giving the franchise a proper villain. Gantu was fleshed out more as a character instead of just being a brute enforcer for someone else, especially through his interactions with the memorably lazy, wisecracking, sandwich-loving, reluctant sidekick Experiment 625, who we know today as Reuben. The second season did crossovers with other Disney properties before it was cool, with the casts of Kim Possible, American Dragon: Jake Long, The Proud Family, and Recess each joining our duo's 'ohana for an episode. Then there are the genetic experiments themselves, with their fun designs and wide and sometimes wacky abilities making a lasting impression on those who enjoyed seeing Stitch and his mischief while expanding on the (admittedly crazy and inconsistent) lore of Lilo & Stitch's universe. One of them, X-619/Splodyhead, even made a cameo in a Walt Disney Animation Studios film in Big Hero 6, while another, X-221/Sparky, who debuted in Stitch! The Movie, became a boss in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. And we can't talk about experiments without mentioning X-624/Angel, Stitch's love interest and mate who became so popular in her own right that she now gets a regular influx of merchandise and has made several video game appearances, including most recently in Disney Speedstorm.

Not to be forgotten, the Stitch! anime series also recently celebrated its fifteenth anniversary of its premiere back on October 8th. The first spin-off made after the original Western continuity, Stitch! had the little blue alien crash-land on a small fictional island in the Ryukyu Islands called Izayoi, where he meets and befriends the tomboyish Yuna. During the first two seasons, which were animated by Madhouse, Yuna and Stitch go on their own adventures around the island, befriending yokai who live in the island's Chitama Forest, and dealing with Hämsterviel, Gantu, and Reuben again. Some of the experiments even return in this show, especially Angel, who became an intergalactic pop star in the (in-universe) years since we first met her on Kaua'i. The main plot of these two seasons is about Stitch getting enough good deeds to have the magical Chitama Spiritual Stone grant him a wish, which was apparently to become "ruler of the universe". However, by the end, he decides that living with Yuna is better. After Madhouse's 56 episodes (which includes two post-season specials), Shin-Ei Animation took over for the third season, retooling it by having Yuna and Stitch move to a fictional Okinawan city called New Town, going on wackier adventures there with her new classmates, while Hämsterviel now goes after Stitch on behalf of a big-eared humanoid alien woman named Delia to gain a power cell within him, using several experiments that he "transmutated" to do his dirty work. The 30-episode (again, including another post-season special) season also had Stitch reuniting with Lilo, now all grown up with a daughter of her own, for one episode. The main series of three seasons ran from 2008 to 2011; they were followed by two more specials, Stitch and the Planet of Sand in 2012 and Stitch! Perfect Memory (or Stitch! A Perfect Memory) in 2015.

Infamously, the English dub of the anime established itself as a post-Lilo continuation from the get-go with probably the worst-chosen opening lines to any sequel show ever, when Jumba claimed (later proven false by Lilo's aforementioned third-season appearance) that Stitch left her because Lilo became more interested in a boyfriend over him; such lines, which weren't in the Japanese original, caused many fans to swear off the anime series as "not 'ohana". However, as the years passed since Stitch! ended, the anime faded to relative obscurity, which in turn caused much of the hate it received to die down. In more recent years, it's now garnered some appreciation in its own right after years of ridicule and vitriol, with those such as Saberspark enjoying the show for what it is and making videos about their more positive thoughts on it.

My friend @angoraram made the drawing at the top of this post for this special occasion featuring Stitch, Reuben, Angel, and several other experiments well-known and obscure from throughout Lilo & Stitch: The Series (plus Dorkifier from Stitch!). She already shared this picture on her DeviantArt galley last month, but she also allowed me to share some special 5K desktop wallpaper edits I made of her drawing available in 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratio versions. You can download these over here.

[unopenablebox]

the walking kinesin animation does rule. look at it go

it's literally so good. who doesn't love kinesin

[broodwoof]

also i will fully admit that i will always think the elves came before the evanuris SIMPLY BECAUSE my brain short-circuits at the idea of having such a limited number of individuals - even if there were originally more evanuris - creating an entire species

i also maintain that the who-came-first is left up to interpretation and that emmrich announcing it as fact is no more absolute than any other character coming to any other conclusion 🙂‍↕️ but everyone who thinks that the evanuris literally created the elves is So Valid and i'm not critiquing that view! it's genuinely very interesting!

the funny thing is that i keep getting surprised when i encounter that view... like my brain is just dumping the knowledge out as soon as i'm not actively reading about it akjfskfj... even though i know it's actually a pretty common read of the situation!

[cocococonutcat]

If i don't win eurojackpot tonight i think i'll begin planning my move to austria to work as a maid.

Final drop.

[papillondusublime]

10 haïkus (dans le même ordre que les photos auxquelles ils correspondent):

1) Bienvenue chez nous… Hermès, dieu des voyageurs, Tu es arrivé

2) Dans le lit s’étirent Tes pattes et miaulements… Tel le temps qui passe

3) L’arbre à chat : bronchique? Généalogique? Pis? Le passé respire…

4) Joue au chat et à La souris d’ordinateur… Le chat en direct

5) Ô Hermès, mon cœur Hermétiquement fermé… Me l’as-tu volé?

6) Tes yeux? Œil de tigre… L’ARN messager du Roi des dieux tu portes

7) Psychopompe, sur Le thermomètre à mercure… Tu lis : mort de froid

8) Ô dieu des bergers… Mon chien est-il un mouton Sur lequel tu comptes?

9) Sur l’onde sonore, Sous les soupirs d’un fils, bruisse... Syrinx en roseau

10) De la canne à pêche, Hameçon, âme sont plumes… Cane, pèches-tu?

[unnonexistence]

i think it may be time i changed my gender marker on my health card

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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

[gayvampyr]

Hi! You mentioned in your pinned post your studying biochemical engineering and computer science, and I'd like to ask:

Why did you choose those? (if it's not too personal)

and

What's your favorite little quirk/big quirk/whatever about biochemistry and/or computer science?

hi! sorry this took me like a century to answer :p

so i chose those two through a process of elimination. before i even got to college i knew that i wanted to study STEM, but i had no idea which specific field i wanted to go into. chemistry always sounded the most fun to me, and i like working with computers, so i started with those. i took a few classes in various STEM fields and talked to some people at my university which helped me narrow down my interests. i took chemistry for a year and half and i liked it a lot, but i wanted to try biology, so i changed my major to evolutionary genetics. after studying primarily biology for a semester, i decided it wasn't really my thing, but i still enjoyed certain aspects of it: mainly protein function within an organism and the chemical interactions of our cells. so i switched to biochemistry. my computer science interest is a bit more straightforward: computers are cool, and knowledge of them is useful in a wide variety of fields. i figure it's a good skill to have and this way, it's not necessarily an either-or thing (which universities are very big on).

as for "quirks," i'm not entirely sure how you mean, but i really like studying enantiomeric resolution and substitution/elimination reactions. it's been a little while since i've done it but i think it's cool how you can use molecular and electron geometry to change the solubility of otherwise identical compounds and retrieve one from a racemic mixture, and i'm excited to learn about the potential applications in a biological system.

for comp sci, i haven't been studying it as much as i have natural sciences, but one thing i thought was helpful conceptually was this:

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ID: tags by @shatterstar​ “Does anybody need to know things about genetics and molecular biology because I am your guy”.

ID: tags by @aeriona​ “#OMG that’s actually genius #I would apply for that immediately LMAO #anyone who wants animal/biology facts HMU LMAO”

ID: reblog comment by @royalnugget42​ “We could do it here. If anyone needs info on human anatomy (bones, tissue, organ systems, anything) HMU 🤙“

ID: tags by @in-the-abyss​ “#that would be amazing #I could infodump for HOURS about genetics and evolution #I bet some sci-fi writer that wants to create biologically accurate aliens would like that information”

ID: tags by @pigswithwings​ “[all caps] Come here I am normal about biology and vintage computers”

ID: tags by @alebrijediscordico​ “#been thinkin about something similar TBH... it’d be so useful with the state of the internet RN too #and like- probs oddest fucking thing ever to have an special interest about but bro. #I can talk about feathered wings for so long and extensively (I even know the name of most parts! and I’ve always had problems remembering names! #and every day I learn new things about them and I’m losing my mind #I have so many bookmarked images of wings for refs too #I even have a blog about it like let me talk about it pleaseee” end IDs.]

[lover-of-mine]

I keep seeing genz people saying they are younger than AI. No, you are not. Artificial Intelligence has been established as a named field of computer science since 1957. It's been broadly studied since the 80s. You're older than computers that have processing capacity to actually generate something as elaborate as a video or audio in a timely manner. Looking at AI generation exploding right now and saying you're older than AI because of it is like a millennial looking up when the first iphone was released and then saying they're older than phones because of it when they realize it happened in 2007. You're not older than IA just because you're watching some part of it get popular. AI is not just the generative and transformative AI stuff you keep seeing right now, dear GOD.