The smartest slime [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GTIL7AECQ

by zdw • 3 years ago

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brianjking• 3 years ago

love ze frank.

WirelessGigabit• 3 years ago

I still have nightmares about that toad which carries her babies on her back.

64StarFox64• 3 years ago

And that Jerry, with his scripts. A true poet.

mproud2• 3 years ago

How do you wash a giant baby

With a really big mop? I don’t know, maybe?

s0rce2• 3 years ago

The crowning achievement of my PhD was having some of the images I took featured in one of Ze Frank's videos 10 years later. Who cares about Science and Nature papers!

kevin_thibedeau• 3 years ago

Now that he's including a bibliography at the end it should be contributing to impact factor.

s0rce2• 3 years ago

I was cited in the video description, don't think any other citation to my paper got 3M reads/views.

ugh123• 3 years ago

Its amazing the kind of reach Youtube can have for science, even if its in an entertainment-context.

zaps• 3 years ago

S-s-s-somethin from the comments

motohagiography• 3 years ago

Ubelievably thought provoking. If it can solve shortest paths, and it can learn, I wonder if they can solve other graph problems, then I'd wonder if there is some fusion of conway's game of life and transformer models that might produce something like a logical slime mold, or a way of integrating training sets for ML models. If life were the expression of a kind of architecture exemplified by the minimum features of these slime molds, and then this may be synthesizable programatically like we do neurons, we'd be into some interesting territory.

DonHopkins• 3 years ago

You can even harvest, cook, and eat Dog Vomit Slime Mold!

Harvesting, cooking and eating Dog Vomit Slime Mold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbLSl_4o78

Fuligo septica is a species of slime mold, and a member of the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as the scrambled egg slime, or flowers of tan[2] because of its peculiar yellowish, bile-colored appearance. Also known as the dog vomit slime mold, it is common with a worldwide distribution, and it is often found on bark mulch in urban areas after heavy rain or excessive watering. Their spores are produced on or in aerial sporangia and are spread by wind.

goodpoint• 3 years ago

Nice images, obnoxious speaker.

goodlinks• 3 years ago

He also made this, which i think of often:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8&pp=ygUUemUgZnJhbms...

(brain crack)

shanewwarren• 3 years ago

This is great thank you for posting this

mproud2• 3 years ago

I love ze frank

joshuaheard• 3 years ago

Nova did a show on these a while back. Fascinating.

Udo• 3 years ago

Sebastian Lague made an excellent video "Ant and Slime Simulations" which explores how path-finding algorithms can use trails and gradient-based signaling to solve spatial problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-iSQQgOd1A

tagami• 3 years ago

Ze is amazing. #Sportsracers

2h• 3 years ago

this channel is also home to one of my favorite YouTube videos of all time. Why Trust Is Worth It:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cWypWe9UAhQ

guythedudebro• 3 years ago

Cool subject matter, would have been nice to have either less jokes or funny jokes.

dendrite9• 3 years ago

This spring I have been collecting pictures of the various fungi and slime molds in my yard. One of the stunnning things is how quickly they can change from slimy and wet to dried out and desiccated. In two days one went from wet bubbles (10:38 in the video) to dust on little stems (10:50). The time lapse pictures make me want to set up a camera and record the next one I find.

Here are some very cool images of Myxomycetes. The metallic looking species are very cool, I'd like to see one sometime. https://www.myxotropic.org/gallery/

The smartest slime [video]

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