Test Ep 1: Machine Learning, Caterpillar Memories, and Love Island
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05/19/22 • 60 min
This week we're releasing our very first test episode of the podcast! What are neural networks? Do butterflies remember being caterpillars? And what is Love Island?
Content Warning: Mentions of suicide in the Misc Topic
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We also learn about: what is a dog? stem cell hotel, the giant squid axon, neural networks will be walking and talking soon, why is it called deep learning? Deep blue and Watson, love island AI, Amazon’s biased hiring AI, black hole imaging, completely meat circle, Janelle Shane, Getting flagged on the street to answer if butterflies remember, caterpillar soup, classically trained caterpillars, the y tube, tickling chrysalises, the rules of love island, casa amor, beauty airplane.
Sources:
Black Hole Machine Learning Algorithm
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This week we're releasing our very first test episode of the podcast! What are neural networks? Do butterflies remember being caterpillars? And what is Love Island?
Content Warning: Mentions of suicide in the Misc Topic
Support us with a Max Fun Membership!
We also learn about: what is a dog? stem cell hotel, the giant squid axon, neural networks will be walking and talking soon, why is it called deep learning? Deep blue and Watson, love island AI, Amazon’s biased hiring AI, black hole imaging, completely meat circle, Janelle Shane, Getting flagged on the street to answer if butterflies remember, caterpillar soup, classically trained caterpillars, the y tube, tickling chrysalises, the rules of love island, casa amor, beauty airplane.
Sources:
Black Hole Machine Learning Algorithm
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Previous Episode
16: The Trouble with Honeybees, Why Repeated Words Lose Meaning, and Speed Running
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When we say save the bees, which bees are we talking about? What happens when you repeat a word and it loses meaning? And how could you design an experiment to figure that out? And what is speed running and why do we all love it?
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We also learn about: solitary bees dance in their spare time, 25000 species of bees, send your enemies bees in the post, Bombus terrestris, human centric beekeeping, the billion pound honey market, honey bees are important, but also bad sometimes, local bee jobs stolen by foreign invaders, bee to bee pathogens, save ALL the bees, hanging out in the park and repeating words words words, good experimental design, the meaning test tube, tuning out meaning, Zeus, pitfalls of psychology, introspection, “familiar feels”, neutral words, clever Hans, the observer expectancy effect, dream of good experiments goodnight, don’t use flash when taking a picture of your screen, Dragster, Atari, Doom, pacifist runs, Quake done quick, games done quick, lowest percent, link stares at a rupee for 17 hours, bullet time bounce
Sources:
Caroline's Paper on the Western Honeybee
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Sheila Black's Semantic Satiation Review
Titchener's Early Description of Meaning Loss
Semantic Satiation for Poetic Effect
Jakobovits Naming Semantic Satiation
Bassett and Warne Introspective Study
Lambert and Jakobovits Semantic Polarity Experiment
Schultz Constructively Criticizing Semantic Satiation
Smith Category Verification Experiment
Neural Analysis of Semantic Satiation
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A Brief History of Speedrunning
A Quick History of Speedrunning
Marimoto Super Mario Bros 3 Speedrun
Zikubi! Super Mario Bros 3 Speedrun
The Speedrun Where Link Stares at Rupees for 17 Hours
What is the hardest trick in Speedrunning?
Next Episode
17: Cosmic Rays, Eye Colors, and the Most Disliked Instrument
What exactly are cosmic rays and how do they affect us? Why do humans have so many different eye colors? And why does everyone hate the triangle so much?
Images we talk about:
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We also learn about: pions and tiny particles with delightful names, see the rave of space, OMG particle or the What What What particle, galactic cosmic rays, anomalous cosmic rays, shower of particles, lighting a lightbulb in space, highschool physics, auroral lights, lightning scientists, speedrunning glitches, DOTA_Teabag's single event upset, airplane failure, voter fraud, red eyes, albinism, squirrels with big ol’ baby blues, America vs the rest of the world, purple eyes, epithelium, collagen, melanin, the tingle effect, ella’s piercing blue eyes, Tom’s calming brown eyes, turn your eyes blue by drinking ocean water, climate, eye colour is a new adaptation, get that paternity test guys, everyone hates the triangle, triangle historian debate, angel music battle, Garden of Earthly Delights Where’s Waldo? the triangle belongs in hell, mmm this triangle sure sounds good, the sneaky triangle concerto, you can fill violin with 1,000 baked beans! Braham’s triangle drop, creole and brazilian folk triangle music I’m not like other girls I like the triangle, find the triangles in the world.
Sources:
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Make your own Cosmic Ray Detector
Clive Saunders' Cosmic Ray Lightning Theory
DOTA_Teabag's Super Mario Speed Run
Flight Report for Cosmic Ray Incident
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American Association of Opthamology on Eye Colors
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TV Tropes "Triangles are the Worst Instrument"
James Blades' Encyclopedia Entry on the Triangle
Mark Berry's "From Angels to Orchestra" pt 1
Mark Berry's "From Angels to Orchestra" pt 2
The Percussion Encyclopedia with 5 Paragraphs on the Triangle
Liza Young's Bosch Instrument Analysis
Brahm's Symphony No.4 in E minor
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