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A living cell is “just” a bag of chemicals that is animated by the memory it stores and the goals it acts on 🧐 Life is how the past connects to the future 🫡
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U were Watching Mission Impossible Fallout 👀👀
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Mr Gravity crying in the corner 🙂🥲
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Life is too short to live boldly & too long to live monotonously...
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I was completely blown away when I read about this 🤯🤯 Imagine scientists creating a living cell from scratch—using a genome they designed, coded, and assembled on a computer. It’s real: the J. Craig Venter Institute built a cell controlled entirely by synthetic DNA, proving that life can be programmed like software. It’s both mind-boggling and a little unsettling. If we can write—and rewrite—the code of life, what does that mean for our future? Curious? You should be. This is the dawn of synthetic biology, and it’s rewriting what’s possible 🫡🫡
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I was completely blown away when I read about this 🤯🤯 Imagine scientists creating a living cell from scratch—using a genome they designed, coded, and assembled on a computer. It’s real: the J. Craig Venter Institute built a cell controlled entirely by synthetic DNA, proving that life can be programmed like software. It’s both mind-boggling and a little unsettling. If we can write—and rewrite—the code of life, what does that mean for our future? Curious? You should be. This is the dawn of synthetic biology, and it’s rewriting what’s possible 🫡🫡
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The best thing about Farcaster is that it’s an open backend that can be used to create many different kinds of frontends. The initial Twitter clone flagship app shows how to use accounts, posts, likes, a feed, and other tools. And it also packages a wallet, embedded apps, and soon DMs. But it’s only partially an app. It’s really a dev kit. Showing the sophistication of what can be built.
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Physics has a long way to go & unify 🫡🫡
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Hello friends, After several days of internet outage in the country, it’s finally back today. Here, the ceiling of our dreams is as high as a sigh… And hearts are filled with words that haven’t found the chance to be spoken for years. A place where smiles hide behind a curtain of patience, and hope- despite all hardships- still quietly breathes.
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honest personal take (disclaimer: i'm not an ML expert, i just study and use a lot of social apps): i think its highly unimaginative and tired to tell new users on a social platform to "reply a lot" in order to get any engagement. social platforms, for a long time, pinned discovery as a user problem. tiktok changed that. they didn't expect users to earn attention the hard way (hustling to self-promote and get follows). instead tiktok took on discovery as a platform problem and decoupled distribution from follower count entirely: a content-first, graph-agnostic approach. on tiktok, a user's responsibility is to make good content and the algo would do the rest based micro interactions and watch behavior. YouTube took a similar approach, but favored creators who mastered their (effort intensive) rules: SEO knowledge, thumbnails, content cadence, etc. if we're hearing that discovery is a problem, the question should be: whose problem — the user's or the platform's? take long-form text platform substack: the recommender engine places more of the burden on the platform than the user, and the platform bias is towards quality via a trust graph. it recommends newsletters based on what you read, introduces editorial curation, and the "recommended by other writers" feature means that small / new writers can get regularly recommended to audiences that a specific writer's taste. each platform makes a design choice about who should work to be seen. on substack, they believe that good writers should be lifted through network effects and curation. does this scale easily? no, it scales slowly but is compounding. so why is this so hard for short-form text-based platforms like twitter, threads, bluesky, or farcaster? because short-form text is typically low-signal, high-noise. short posts on their own carry very little context or signal. it's easier to produce, but harder to evaluate. as a result, discovery for short-form text platform has relied heavily on follower graphs. twitter initially solved this with hashtags (then failed to do it at scale with lists, fleets, and circle). substack partially solved this with its writer graph (trust graph) and categories (topic / semantic clustering). and i think farcaster's open data, mini apps, and interoperability (zkTLS) can be leveraged for creative solutions here that aren't possible on other platforms. that excites me.
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So never forget that dollar 🙈
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Wow 😲 I hope that's kinda fun job 😁
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⚡️ SolanaRacer is the game everyone should be playing right now! @gmonchain.eth #SolanaRacer
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Wow that's more than a mere dollar 😁
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It's worse than falling for anime 🤣🤣
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Yes 😄
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I hope you & your family is fine ♥️ I pray the situation would get normal soon 🙏
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I got to know today that the hole in lizard's neck is a highly sophisticated external ear opening that serves essential functions for hearing, sound localization, and environmental awareness. Far from being just a simple hole, it's the gateway to a complex auditory system that has been refined through millions of years of evolution to help lizard navigate its world safely and effectively... Nature is Amazing 🫡
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Death is the only certainty in life 🙃
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