NaibofTabr

Is it sexism? It's sexism isn't it.

Don't like Mastodon, huh?

Well duh. Kind of missing the point though.

What if I hire a dozen people to randomly, individually go and pick all the fruit and bring it to me, and then I make a profit reselling what they collect?

Tragedy of the commons

Also connections to nerve cells are not constant. Some connections are strong and the nerve cell is more likely to activate when triggered through one of them while other are weak and need stronger signal to trigger (someone who knows biology can rephrase this part better). so with 50 million connections of varying strength simulation becomes much more difficult.

I don't see why adding weights to the connections would be particularly difficult. Even if the weights need to vary over time or by other conditions, that could be included in the simulation. It might be a bit more complex, but current neural network systems already do variable connection strength between nodes.

The other thing is that 99% of the time the brain respond to outside stimuli. You see something, signal is sent to brain and brain make decision based on the input.

In this case you have absolutely zero input.

This should be very easy - if we're simulating the presence of sensory neurons then we can certainly simulate some input stimuli on them.

Simulate it how? you need an initial state.

I don't see why this would be true, and anyway how do you know that the connection map doesn't already represent an initial state?

Miyazaki Airport was built in 1943 as a former Imperial Japanese Navy flight training field from which some kamikaze pilots took off on suicide attack missions.

It was originally a military airfield during the war, which explains why there are bombs in the ground. Not exactly a comforting thought... I bet it's hard to detect a bomb that's been buried for 80 years and had a foundation laid on top of it.

So this is basically a physical map of the cells and their interconnections. We also know quite a lot about how the individual cells function.

So... if we simulated the behavior of all those cells and connected them as described by this map, and basically just turned it on... would it behave like a fly? Would it respond to stimuli as if it were a fly?

The computer needed for that would probably be the size of a building and eat electricity like candy, but it'd be interesting - the functional brain of a living creature reproduced in software.

What, guns aren't enough compensation?

Floating solar farms make use of water surfaces that would otherwise go unused. Plus, by shading the water below, floating solar arrays help reduce evaporation – an added bonus in arid regions like this one.

The dual benefit makes this seem like a no-brainer, but I suspect there are some careful considerations needed before floating a high-voltage system on a lake... I wonder how much risk there is from wind.

However, in this meme, she says sometimes.

Yeah this is vague. The sentence: "Sometimes men's egos can be so fragile" can be read as meaning that all men's egos are sometimes fragile, or it could mean that some men's egos are always fragile. But the use of "sometimes" implies a variance with time (e.g. not with person) which makes the first interpretation a better fit.

If the second meaning was intended, then the sentence should be restated to avoid the apparent sexism.

You could also say that the meaning is that some men's egos are sometimes fragile, but I don't think that interpretation is valid because then the ending of comic doesn't make sense.

Pointing out anyone's fragile ego isn't a bad thing.

Pointing out a person's fragile ego based on an experience of such isn't a bad thing, but generalizing this conclusion to an entire group of people (where the group is defined by a single characteristic such as race/sex/gender/religion/culture/etc) is a bad thing.

To put it another way, one sample is bad statistics.

A better version of this might say "Many of the men I meet seem to have fragile egos" or even "Most of the men I know [etc]". This could be a valid statement supported by the individual's experience, and avoids the sexism displayed in the comic.