A science YouTube video asks where does an ant colony keep its brain?
A science YouTube video asks where does an ant colony keep its brain? We're so used to assuming intelligence has to emerge from a brain. But I would argue swarm intelligence...
Topic: youtube video
13 chunks · 11 episodes
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- youtube video appears in 13 chunks across 11 episodes, from 2024-07-15 to 2026-02-09.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/25/25 (2025-08-25), with 2 observations on this topic.
- By chunk count it sits between vice versa and Ben Follington; its yearly rank moved from #144 in 2024 to #81 in 2026.
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A YouTube video: Why Owning Nothing is so Expensive.
A YouTube video: Why Owning Nothing is so Expensive. Subscriptions have become so common because the psychology is so effective. The company makes the first use of t...
A nice insight from a YouTube video:
A nice insight from a YouTube video: "Making ai models is less like training an animal intelligence and more like summoning ghosts."[eb]
A YouTube video: Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" anymore:
A YouTube video: Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" anymore: Retaining optionally creates hollowness[gl][gm] Resonance comes from boldly committing.[gn]
A YouTube video about why restaurant food is so bland.
A YouTube video about why restaurant food is so bland. Sysco dominates food production. Efficiency and hyper scale leads to focusing on numbers to the exclusion of q...
A YouTube video: "Why This Giant Snake Is So Destructive"
A YouTube video: "Why This Giant Snake Is So Destructive" In Asia the prey coevolved with the pythons. The Pythons never got too far beyond the prey's ability to def...
Some riffs on the YouTube video: "Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen"
Some riffs on the YouTube video: "Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen" "Maintenance trap" refers to a thing that will evaporate without constant human attention. All ...
Some races have a second-mover advantage.
...g for the other to go first, so they can slip stream behind the other. Here's a YouTube video about this strange game theoretic phenomena.
K-selection is more likely to emerge in stable environments.
...election is more likely to emerge in stable environments. I learned this in the YouTube video "How Dinosaur Extinction Gave Us Fruit"
This week I learned from a YouTube video about what limited the biggest land animals' size.
This week I learned from a YouTube video about what limited the biggest land animals' size. I would have expected it to be a structural limitation. Turns out their body plan could have gone ...
I loved this YouTube video about a possible solution to the fermi paradox.
I loved this YouTube video about a possible solution to the fermi paradox. The transition from prokaryotic to eukaryotic appears to be the singular unlikely event, and might be...
Because humans get bored easily, information has to be wrapped in charismatic, attention-grabbing wrappers.
...ention-grabbing wrappers. It's much easier for our brains to grok a charismatic YouTube video than a dry page of technical documentation. If we get bored or distracted or impatient, we give up. So most content aimed at humans is primarily comp...
Have 2 hours to do a 5 minute task?
...ake you less productive, "I can delay that by a few more minutes, just one more YouTube video…" One good way to keep the time urgency up: spend a lot of time in your creative / flow state, so you have only a small amount of time to do the vari...