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    1. an additional mechanism which controls the behavior and production of the S-subsystems

      Specifically, this mechanism is our nomic and entailment net.

      In some situations the control mechanisms may come from a place external of the systems under control. For example, from a farmer (C) that controls many of the conditions/inputs of the plants (Sn) on the farm (S').

      But in the situation of a true democracy (S'), the control mechanism (perhaps better called a coordination mechanism) comes from the people themselves (Sn). This coordination mechanism (C) is composed of a good-faith process where the people (Sn) create and edit the rules they agree to live under.

    2. Constraint

      Major transitions in evolution (Maynard Smith and Szathmary 1995) mark the generation of new coherences - that is, of new and overarching constitutive regimes that are the outcome of interlocking context-independent and context-dependent constraints.

      A. Juarrero, Context Changes Everything, p.51

    1. Webster's dictionary.

      See here. From that page:

      Broadly speaking, philosophy has three concerns: how the world hangs together, how our beliefs can be justified, and how to live. — Jim Holt, New York Times Book Review, 15 Feb. 2009

    1. protect

      There is no previous basis for the "tails" to have to "protect" themselves from water. This would be a great place to add the term amphipathic to go along with hydrophobic and hydrophilic. Also to unpack polar and nonpolar molecules interacting. I have used magnets as my example for polar molecules and plastic as the nonpolar so students grab the idea that polar molecules stick together while nonpolar molecules have no affinity for the polar molecules.

    1. 16.Evolution and immortality Cybernetic integration of humans must preserve the creative core of human individual, because it is the engine of evolution. And it must make it immortal, because for the purpose of evolution there is no sense in killing humans. In natural selection, the source of change is the mutation of the gene; nature creates by experimenting on genes and seeing what kind of a body they produce. Therefore, nature has to destroy older creations in order to make room for the newer ones. The mortality of multicellular organisms is an evolutionary necessity. At the present new stage of evolution, the evolution of human-made culture, the human brain is the source of creativity, not an object of experimentation. Its loss in death is unjustifiable; it is an evolutionary absurdity. The immortality of human beings is on the agenda of Cosmic Evolution. 17.Evolution of the human person The future immortality of the human person does not imply its frozen constancy. We can understand the situation by analogy with the preceding level of organization. Genes are controllers of biological evolution and they are immortal, as they should be. They do not stay unchanged, however, but undergo mutations, so that human chromosomes are a far cry from the chromosomes of primitive viruses. Cybernetically immortal human persons may mutate and evolve in interaction with other members of the super-being, while possibly reproducing themselves in different materials. Those human persons who will evolve from us may be as different from us as we are different from viruses. But the defining principle of the human person will probably stay fixed, as did the defining principle of the gene.

      CEStoicism does not desire the immortality of the individual, to which points 16 and 17 aspire. The evolution of culture/worldview/p-individual can occur with or without the indefinite continuation of individuals. Instead, creative immortality and cultural P-individual immortality suffice.

    2. 10.Global integration Turning to the future we predict that social integration will continue in two dimensions, which we can call width and depth. On the one hand (width), the growth of existing cultures will lead to the formation of a world society and government, and the ecological unification of the biosphere under human control. The ethics of cybernetical world-view demands that each of us act so as to preserve the species and the ecosystem, and to maximize the potential for continued integration and evolution. 11.Human super-beings On the other hand (depth), we foresee the physical integration of individual people into "human super-beings", which communicate through the direct connection of their nervous systems. This is a cybernetic way for an individual human person to achieve immortality.

      On both points 10 and 11, CEStoicism differs with Principia Cybernetica. Rather than humanity integrating into a 'world society and government', CEStoicism believes that people are gaining more opportunities to discover an increasing number of non-geographic cultures/worldviews (which are themselves stable conceptual systems (SCSs), which they may explore and possibly join. SCSs converse with each other through conflict and cooperation, through interaction. These conversations may result in the emergence of more complex SCSs capable of broader and deeper conversation. Potentially, these SCSs may be semi-immortal in the sense that they have the possibility to continue propagating through human generations, if they maintain fitness. We de-emphasize the idea of human minds integrating through a technological/physical connection of their nervous systems. Instead, we see language and culture as the connection, which technology may support.

    3. old religious systems are slowly but surely losing their influence.

      CEStoicism is unsure if older religious systems, and the idea of metaphysical immortality, are losing their influence. However, we do agree that other forms of immortality are gaining appeal, including the immortality of stable conceptual systems (SCSs).

    1. We come, therefore, to the following definition: a piece of knowledge is an object which we can use to produce (generate) predictions or other pieces of knowledge.

      The definition we are most interested in.

    1. Who are we

      “Life is the universe experiencing itself, in endless variety.” -Alan Watts.

      "Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe if listening to its harmonies. We are the witness through which the universe become conscious on its glory, of its magnificence." -Alan Watts.

      See Pantheism.

    2. In cybernetics an autonomous system or agent is conceptualized as a control system, which tries to achieve its goals or values by initiating the right actions that compensate for the disturbances produced by the environment. For that, it needs to perceive or get information about the effects of its actions and the effects of the events happening in the world.

      A perception-action cycle

    1. conversations

      It amazes me how quickly the internet tries to corrupt these bots. As another comment mentioned, the same thing is also happening to Twitter's Grok, as well as many other similar bots in recent days.

    2. Antagonistic bots can also be used as a form of political pushback that may be ethically justifiable. For example, the “Gender Pay Gap Bot” bot on Twitter is connected to a database on gender pay gaps for companies in the UK. Then on International Women’s Day, the bot automatically finds when any of those companies make an official tweet celebrating International Women’s Day and it quote tweets it with the pay gap at that company:

      I find it fascinating that while antagonist bots can be used negatively, there are ones, like the gender pay gap bot, that are used to create a positive impact and bring attention to issues like these. It's nice to see that, like all things, even 'antagonist bots' can also be used towards a positive change.

    3. On the other hand, some bots are made with the intention of harming, countering, or deceiving others. For example, people use bots to spam advertisements at people. You can use bots as a way of buying fake followers, or making fake crowds that appear to support a cause (called Astroturfing)

      In addition to bots that were made to spam advertisements or as a way for influencers to gain more followers, some bots can help some influencers gain more recognition. Aside from just followers, some will buy bots just to comment on their posts or share them, which can make them seem more popular, leading them to appear on more people's feeds and social media, thus gaining more real-life followers.

    1. Sensor/Receptor: A sensor, also known as a receptor, monitors a physiological value, such as temperature, respiratory rate, blood pressure, etc. This value is reported to the control center. Control Center: The control center compares the value to the normal range. If the value has changed too much from the set point, then the control center activates an effector. Effector: An effector reverses the situation and returns the value to the set point or normal range.

      Afferent and efferent pathways would be good terms to add to this list.

    1. Continuing constructive evolution is a possibility but not a necessity. Acts of will can contribute to evolution or counter it. Because of the natureof evolution, there is a fundamental difference between constructive and destructive contributions.

      Living parts of existence that continue to survive) have periods of constructive evolution in the K-phase of their adaptive cycle, and also demonstrate resilience both within one cycle and throughout many cycles in a panarchy.

    1. survival of the fittest

      This is meant in its literal sense: That systems well-suited to their environmental niche are likely to recreate themselves in that niche.

      Others misapplied this phrase to assert that the behavior of social groups is fixed and genetically-determined. This use of the phrase is called Social Darwinism, and is often used to justify racism. CEStocism does not agree with this interpretation and use of the phrase.

    1. How much a given system will invest in one strategy at the expense of the other one depends on the selective environment. In biology, this is called r-K selection: in an r-situation, organisms will invest in quick reproduction, in a K-situation they will rather invest in prolonged development and long life.

      The r- and K-situations correspond to different phases in the adaptive cycle. r is the growth or exploitation phase. K is the conservation phase.

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    1. An agent is the carrier of will, the entity that chooses between possible actions.

      For a non-anthropomorphic agent like nature, 'choice' is done non-anthropomorphically, through randomness or by natural law/principle.

      In accordance with Naturalistic Pantheism, we choose to not anthropomorphize nature.

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    1. representation

      "Taking the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant as his starting point, Schopenhauer argues that the world we experience around us—the world of objects in space and time and related in causal ways—exists solely as ‘representation’ (Vorstellung) dependent on a cognizing subject, not as a world that can be considered to exist in itself (i.e. independently of how it appears to the subject’s mind). Our knowledge of objects is thus knowledge of mere phenomena rather than things-in-themselves. Schopenhauer identifies the thing-in-itself—the inner essence of everything—as will: a blind, unconscious, aimless striving devoid of knowledge, outside of space and time, and free of all multiplicity. The world as representation is, therefore, the ‘objectification’ of the will."

      From Wikipedia's The World as Will and Representation

    2. We understand will as the quality that allows to choose between the (possible) options and act.

      For a non-anthropomorphic agent like nature, we believe 'choice' is done non-anthropomorphically, such as through randomness or by natural law/principle.

      In accordance with Naturalistic Pantheism, we choose to not anthropomorphize nature.

    3. It seems reasonable to speak of an agent which comes into being for the express purpose of causing an act of radioactive decay. At each moment in time this agent makes a choice bewteen decay and not decay. This immediately explains the exponential law of radioactivity

      Again, for a non-anthropomorphic agent like nature, 'we believe choice' is done non-anthropomorphically, such as through randomness or by natural law/principle.

      We differ from PcP here: Nature as an agent does not come into being. Rather nature itself is being, and exists throughout all time and space (as does nature's agency).

    1. Pleura: The pleura is the serous membrane surrounding the lungs, reducing friction between the lungs and the chest wall. Pericardium: The pericardium is the serous membrane that surrounds the heart, reducing friction caused by the beating of the heart. Peritoneum: The peritoneum is the serous membrane that surrounds several organs in the abdominopelvic cavity, reducing friction between the organs and the abdominal wall

      At the end of this section it would help to see the visceral and parietal terms used with the membrane/cavity terms. ie. visceral pericardium and parietal pericardium to help students see the pattern of naming membranes. This has been a difficult concept for students to grasp for a long time.

    2. Thoracic cavity

      A further break down of the thoracic cavity to include the pleural cavity, pericardial cavity, and superior mediastinum terms would be helpful here. The information is a part of the diagram, but the terms are not found in the descriptive text.

    1. Fig. 3.1 A photo that is likely from a click-farm, where a human computer is paid to do actions through multiple accounts, such as like a post or rate an app. For our purposes here, we consider this a type of automation, but we are not considering this a “bot,” since it is not using (electrical) computer programming.

      This is my first time seeing a click-farm, and I usually associate these accounts with bot accounts because they perform similar things. Both are used to boost inauthentic engagement for posts, advertisements, or other content.

    2. Note that sometimes people use “bots” to mean inauthentically run accounts, such as those run by actual humans, but are paid to post things like advertisements or political content. We will not consider those to be bots, since they aren’t run by a computer. Though we might consider these to be run by “human computers” who are following the instructions given to them, such as in a click farm:

      I like this clarification because “bot” gets thrown around so loosely online. It makes sense to draw the line at whether an account is actually run by software versus a human, even if that human is being paid and tightly scripted. Calling click-farm workers “human computers” is kind of unsettling, but it does a good job of showing how inauthentic behavior isn’t always automated in a technical sense.

    1. distinguishes us from the animals

      We respect the specific definition of 'thought' defined by Principia Cybernetica, but we feel the real distinction of the human animal from other animals is humans' extensive use of fine-grained signs. We also stress that self-consciousness, tool making, imagination, planning, play, sense of humor and esthetic feelings are likely abilities/activities shared by some other animals, although maybe not to the same fine-grained ability as humans. We further stress that human are still animals.

    2. which will bring us to a yet higher level of complexity or consciousness, transcending individual thought. This emergent level is perhaps best described by the metaphor of the social superorganism and its global brain.

      CEStocism believes various forms of media already allow humanity to transcend individual thought, however the use and quality of media ranges widely, and this variety leads us to disbelieve that a single coherent superorganism or global brain will come about. Rather, we see the continuing evolution, interaction, merging and splitting of distinct worldviews or stable conceptual systems.

      We also believe the future holds a chance of either or both: (a) A novel metasystem transition that allows for a continued greater conservation phase. (b) A significant risk of either a consequential collapse, release and reorganization of societal resources

    1. In this example, some clever protesters have made a donkey perform the act of protest: walking through the streets displaying a political message. But, since the donkey does not understand the act of protest it is performing, it can’t be rightly punished for protesting. The protesters have managed to separate the intention of protest (the political message inscribed on the donkey) and the act of protest (the donkey wandering through the streets). This allows the protesters to remain anonymous and the donkey unaware of it’s political mission.

      This example shows how separating intention from action can be used to avoid responsibility. This can be applied to bots, since people who deploy them can hide behind the automated actions while denying responsibility for what the bot produces.

    2. Only in Oman has the occasional donkey…been used as a mobile billboard to express anti-regime sentiments. There is no way in which police can maintain dignity in seizing and destroying a donkey on whose flank a political message has been inscribed.”

      The donkey example actually made this click for me. It’s a really clear way to show how intention and action can be separated, and how responsibility gets blurred when the “actor” doesn’t understand what it’s doing. Seeing bots framed this way helps me think less about blaming the account itself and more about the people behind it, likewho designed it, deployed it, or benefit from it, even if they’re far removed from the actual action.

    3. Bots present a similar disconnect between intentions and actions. Bot programs are written by one or more people, potentially all with different intentions, and they are run by others people, or sometimes scheduled by people to be run by computers. This means we can analyze the ethics of the action of the bot, as well as the intentions of the various people involved, though those all might be disconnected.

      I believe it is crucial to analyze the intentions of the various people involved, as they are the root of how a bot behaves online. This also draws back to the fact that all actions made by the bots should be traced back to the programmers, as bots are not autonomous and do not know the difference between right and wrong; only the people who are giving them instructions know.

    1. selection

      See https://cestoicism.neocities.org/selection

      Also see Rachel Burnham's review (http://rachelburnham.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-of-curation-power-of-selection.html) of Michael Bhaskar's book "Curation. The power of selection in a world of excess" describes curation in terms of selection:

      [Bhaskar] describes curation as 'using acts of selection and arrangement (but also refining, reducing, displaying, simplifying, presenting and explaining) to add value.
      
      ...
      
      He sees expert selection as at the start of good curation and quotes from Maria Popova, curator of the highly thought of 'Brain Pickings': "The art of curation isn't about the individual pieces of content, but about how these pieces fit together, what story they tell by being placed next to each other, and what statement the context they create makes about the culture and the world at large. This is, she argues, a process of 'pattern recognition'. Seeing how things fit together, understanding connections (which multiply in a networked environment), but then also, crucially, creating new ones by recombining them, is a massive part of curation."
      
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    1. Under these conditions, ironically, the OLP might for the time being remain ‘a democratic procedure for regulatory issues only’. However, the passage to bicameralism is real, and intergovernmental carve outs and parliamentary conservatism are part and parcel of the deepening of co-decision. The OLP compels Member States to ‘manage’ the EP in areas of sensitive issues where they would rather just ignore it. Likewise, it exposes MEPs to the growing public expectations of civil society organizations. EU bicameralism is growing out of the straitjacket of intergovernmental relations—even in sensitive cases of market regulation.

      Basically, all this resistence from Member States i in fact (as author argues) EVIDENCE OF CO - DECISION AND INTEGRATION WORKING - > necssary hurdles to overcome -> successful negortaions processes.

      OLP makes Member States "manage" the EP in areas where BEFORE LISBON they would have ignored it (selective exits? Less possible after Lisbon. Good queston idk)

      OLP is theoretically now ONLY for regulatory issues but that IS changing (ad evidenced)

      In conc -> trilogues need to be more transparent, EP needs better procedures for it. Need to connect Member States and citizens more -> therefore need more open dialogue.

      "Under these conditions, ironically, the OLP might for the time being remain ‘a democratic procedure for regulatory issues only’. However, the passage to bicameralism is real, and intergovernmental carve outs and parliamentary conservatism are part and parcel of the deepening of co-decision. The OLP compels Member States to ‘manage’ the EP in areas of sensitive issues where they would rather just ignore it. Likewise, it exposes MEPs to the growing public expectations of civil society organizations. EU bicameralism is growing out of the straitjacket of intergovernmental relations—even in sensitive cases of market regulation."

    2. Summing u

      "Summing up the comparative observations on these three dimensions, these cases show the strengths and weaknesses of EU bicameralism, as it enters into new, sensitive areas of market regulation. Member States do not yet consider EU bicameralism as the only game in town; in this respect, agriculture is no different from financial regulation. However, MEPs still have a considerable influence on the daily process of bicameral law-making by instituting democratic control and pluralistic representation. The analysis shows that faced with pressure, MEPs reacted very differently in agriculture and in financial affairs, resulting in a lower degree of EP autonomy from the Council in agriculture than in financial affairs. These different outcomes probably reflect a range of circumstances and conditions, which researchers now need to disentangle. They likely include the extent to which EP committees are used to working with co-decision, the intensity of public pressure, and the configuration of policy networks."

    3. On virtually all aspects of policy-making, agriculture and finance are so different that any similarities in the process or outcome of EU bicameralism would have to be taken seriously.

      LASTLY -> last way to measure impact of cultural / political effects of OLP are via looking at specific SECTORS of legislation -> in this case agricultural and financial market policy -> use these two exampels because they are SO DIFFERENT -> therefore any post OLP / Lisbon treaty trends must be related/

      "On virtually all aspects of policy-making, agriculture and finance are so different that any similarities in the process or outcome of EU bicameralism would have to be taken seriously."

    4. All in all, the democratic effects of the co-decision and OLP procedures seem to trickle down in everyday law-making through a sedimental process where democratic norms play a certain, but not uncontested, role.

      Anyway, existence of trilogues (they are regulated -> EP has reporting requirements on them, but still controversial) is evidence of DEMOCRATIZATION of co-decision process -> i.e., not those macro treaty level things, but in DAILY PRACTICE -> in other words, Democratic effects of the OLP and co-decision being codified are influence on EVERY DAY actings of legislative bodies and this is EVIDENCED by the existence of trilogues.

      Trilogue "socialization" is the "realist" interpretation of co-decision.

      "the trilogues themselves have generated their own norms and expectations as part and parcel of the broader process of socialization between the Commission, EP, and Council participants. It has been argued that trilogue socialization has promoted a more ‘realist’ interpretation of co-decision, which has moderated the reformist ambitions of the EP by linking its credibility to expectations of ‘responsible’ legislator (Ripoll Servent 2012). All in all, the democratic effects of the co-decision and OLP procedures seem to trickle down in everyday law-making through a sedimental process where democratic norms play a certain, but not uncontested, role."

    5. importance of institutionalization: the moment when legal rules and procedures acquire substance and stability.

      KEY -> Cultural / political measurement of OLP / Lisbon impact can also be seen as the importance of INSTITUTIONALIZATION -> i.e., the increasing legitimacy of legal rules and procedures -> when these acquire "substance and stability" (in OLP's case is INSTITUTIONALIZATION of the co-decision procedure, which already existed -> here is saying that this is a MOMENT IN TIME when such a procedure is absolutely codified into law)

      "importance of institutionalization: the moment when legal rules and procedures acquire substance and stability. "

    6. three main explanations of the legislative empowerment of the EP. A ‘policy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the instrumentalist logic of Member States’ constitutional choices (Golub 1999; Schulz and König 2000). By contrast, a ‘legitimacy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the role of normative constraints on Member States’ constitutional choices (Rittberger 2005, 2006, 2012; Schimmelfennig 2010). Finally, an ‘inter-institutional bargaining’ perspective has highlighted the strategic role of the EP, in between constitutional moments (Farrell and Héritier 2003, 2007; Hix 2002).

      Okay -> so this IS TALKING, LIKE HIX, ABOUT THE EMPOWERMENT PROCESS OF EP VIA LEGISLATION (I.e., something more than a regulatory body)

      Again, that's because this article is talking about co-decision -> emergence of EU democracy BEYOND the intergovernmental sphere.

      THREE EXPLANATIONS for EP legislative empowerment: 1. "policy seeking" -> decision by Member States (evidenced by constitutional choices / changes in them) 2. legitimacy-seeking -> constraints 3. inter-institutional bargaining -> strategic role of EP

      "three main explanations of the legislative empowerment of the EP. A ‘policy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the instrumentalist logic of Member States’ constitutional choices (Golub 1999; Schulz and König 2000). By contrast, a ‘legitimacy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the role of normative constraints on Member States’ constitutional choices (Rittberger 2005, 2006, 2012; Schimmelfennig 2010). Finally, an ‘inter-institutional bargaining’ perspective has highlighted the strategic role of the EP, in between constitutional moments (Farrell and Héritier 2003, 2007; Hix 2002)."

      "three main explanations of the legislative empowerment of the EP. A ‘policy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the instrumentalist logic of Member States’ constitutional choices (Golub 1999; Schulz and König 2000). By contrast, a ‘legitimacy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the role of normative constraints on Member States’ constitutional choices (Rittberger 2005, 2006, 2012; Schimmelfennig 2010). Finally, an ‘inter-institutional bargaining’ perspective has highlighted the strategic role of the EP, in between constitutional moments (Farrell and Héritier 2003, 2007; Hix 2002)."

    1. hereditary

      “Hereditary / 遗传的” — with appropriate images

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      English — hereditary (thorough explanation)

      1) Core meaning

      Hereditary means passed from parents to offspring through genes. If something is hereditary, it can be inherited biologically because it is encoded in DNA.

      2) Biological mechanism

      • Genes are segments of DNA located on chromosomes.
      • Each person usually inherits two versions of a gene (alleles):

      • one from the mother

      • one from the father
      • These alleles influence:

      • traits (eye color, hair texture)

      • disease risk (some genetic disorders)

      3) Traits vs. conditions

      • Hereditary traits → visible or functional characteristics
      • Hereditary diseases → conditions influenced by inherited genes

      Important:

      • Hereditary ≠ contagious
      • Hereditary ≠ guaranteed (a gene can increase risk without causing disease)

      4) Common inheritance patterns

      • Autosomal dominant: one allele is enough to show the trait
      • Autosomal recessive: two recessive alleles are required
      • X-linked: gene is on the X chromosome, affecting males and females differently

      5) Example sentences

      • “Eye color is partly hereditary.”
      • “This disease is hereditary, but symptoms may not appear in every carrier.”

      中文 — hereditary(遗传的) 详细解释

      1) 核心含义

      遗传的(hereditary)通过基因从父母传给子女的性状或特征,本质上与 DNA 有关。

      2) 生物学原理

      • 基因存在于 染色体 上,由 DNA 构成
      • 人通常从父母各获得一份 等位基因
      • 等位基因共同决定:

      • 外貌或生理性状

      • 是否携带某些遗传性疾病的风险

      3) 重要区分

      • 遗传 ≠ 传染(不是病菌传播)
      • 遗传 ≠ 一定会发生

      • 有些人携带基因,但并不表现症状

      4) 常见遗传方式(中学重点)

      • 显性遗传:一份显性基因即可表现
      • 隐性遗传:需要两份隐性基因
      • 伴性遗传:基因位于 X 染色体上

      5) 中文例句

      • “这种特征是遗传的,会在家族中出现。”
      • “这是遗传性疾病,但并非每个携带者都会发病。”

      学习提示(给 Biology / Genetics)

      看到 hereditary,可以立刻联想到这条逻辑链: DNA → 基因 → 等位基因 → 遗传方式 → 性状 / 疾病

      如果你愿意,我可以下一步把它做成 中英对照生物词卡(flashcards),或直接嵌入你之前的 Unit 1 DNA HTML 教学页面

    2. incomplete dominance

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      English — incomplete dominance (thorough explanation)

      1) What incomplete dominance means (core idea)

      Incomplete dominance is an inheritance pattern in which neither allele is completely dominant, so the heterozygous phenotype is an intermediate (blended) form of the two homozygous phenotypes.

      Incomplete dominance = blending of traits in heterozygotes


      2) How incomplete dominance works

      • Two different alleles affect the trait
      • In a heterozygous individual, both alleles partially influence the outcome
      • The result looks like a mix, not one trait hiding the other

      3) Classic example (Science 10 favorite): flower color

      Let:

      • R = red flowers
      • W = white flowers

      Cross: RR × WW

      Offspring:

      • RWpink flowers

      📌 Pink is not a new allele; it’s the intermediate phenotype.


      4) Incomplete dominance in Punnett squares

      Parents: RW × RW

      Possible offspring:

      • RR → red
      • RW → pink
      • RW → pink
      • WW → white

      Phenotype ratio: 1 red : 2 pink : 1 white

      📌 Notice: phenotype ratio = genotype ratio in incomplete dominance.


      5) Incomplete dominance vs other patterns (very important)

      | Pattern | Heterozygous result | Example | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------ | | Dominant–recessive | Dominant trait only | Brown eyes | | Incomplete dominance | Blended trait | Red × white → pink | | Codominance | Both traits fully visible | AB blood type |


      6) Why incomplete dominance matters

      Incomplete dominance:

      • Explains traits that don’t follow simple dominance
      • Increases visible variation in populations
      • Is common in plants, animals, and humans (for some traits)

      One-sentence exam summary

      Incomplete dominance occurs when heterozygous individuals show an intermediate, blended phenotype.


      中文 — incomplete dominance(不完全显性) 详细解释

      1) 什么是不完全显性(核心概念)

      不完全显性是指: 两个等位基因中没有一个完全显性,杂合体表现为中间型性状

      不完全显性 = 性状混合表现


      2) 不完全显性的表现特点

      • 显性不能完全压制另一等位基因
      • 杂合体表现为中间状态
      • 性状不是“要么这个,要么那个”

      3) 经典例子(考试常考)

      花的颜色:

      • 红花(RR)
      • 白花(WW)

      杂交后:

      • RW → 粉红色花

      📌 粉红不是新基因,而是红和白的中间表现


      4) 潘尼特方格中的不完全显性

      父母:RW × RW

      后代比例:

      • 1 红(RR)
      • 2 粉(RW)
      • 1 白(WW)

      👉 表现型比例 = 基因型比例


      5) 不完全显性 vs 共显性(重点区分)

      | 遗传方式 | 表现结果 | | ----- | ---------- | | 不完全显性 | 中间型(混合) | | 共显性 | 两种性状同时清楚出现 |


      一句话考试版总结

      不完全显性指杂合体表现为两种性状的中间型。

      如果你愿意,我可以把 dominant / recessive / incomplete dominance / codominance 整理成 Science 10 中英对照对比表、潘尼特方格练习或互动闪卡,非常适合系统复习与教学。


      不完全显性(incomplete dominance) EN: A condition in which neither allele for a gene completely conceals the presence of the other, resulting in an intermediate expression of a trait. Example: In four o’clock plants, red flowers crossed with white flowers produce pink offspring, an intermediate phenotype. 中文:两种等位基因互不完全掩盖对方,从而产生介于双亲之间的中间型表现。 例子:紫茉莉红花与白花杂交产生粉红花,就是不完全显性的例子。

    3. traits

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      English — traits (thorough explanation)

      1) What traits are (core idea)

      Traits are characteristics or features of an organism. They describe how an organism looks, behaves, or functions.

      Trait = a characteristic of a living thing

      Traits can be:

      • Inherited (passed down from parents)
      • Influenced by the environment
      • Or a combination of both

      2) Types of traits

      A) Inherited (genetic) traits

      These traits are controlled by genes and passed from parents to offspring.

      Examples:

      • Eye color
      • Hair color and texture
      • Blood type
      • Natural height potential

      📌 These traits are present from birth.


      B) Acquired (environmental) traits

      These traits develop due to life experiences or environment.

      Examples:

      • Suntan
      • Muscle strength from exercise
      • Scars
      • Language spoken

      📌 These traits are not inherited genetically.


      C) Traits influenced by both genes and environment

      Many traits result from both heredity and environment.

      Examples:

      • Height (genes + nutrition)
      • Intelligence (genes + education)
      • Athletic ability (genes + training)

      3) Traits in genetics (Science 10 focus)

      In genetics, traits are:

      • Controlled by genes
      • Each gene may have different alleles
      • Alleles can be dominant or recessive

      📌 Example:

      • Brown eyes (dominant)
      • Blue eyes (recessive)

      Punnett squares are used to predict traits in offspring.


      4) Genotype vs phenotype (important distinction)

      | Term | Meaning | Example | | --------- | ------------------- | ---------- | | Genotype | Genetic makeup | Bb | | Phenotype | Physical expression | Brown eyes |

      📌 Traits are what you see (phenotype), based on genes (genotype).


      5) Why traits matter

      Traits:

      • Explain similarities and differences between organisms
      • Help scientists study inheritance
      • Are the basis of natural selection and evolution

      One-sentence exam summary

      Traits are characteristics of organisms that can be inherited, acquired, or influenced by both genes and environment.


      中文 — traits(性状 / 特征) 详细解释

      1) 什么是性状(核心概念)

      性状(traits)是指生物表现出来的特征或特点

      性状 = 生物的特征


      2) 性状的类型

      ① 遗传性状

      基因决定,从父母传给子女。

      例子:

      • 眼睛颜色
      • 头发颜色
      • 血型

      ② 获得性状

      环境或经历造成。

      例子:

      • 晒黑
      • 肌肉增强
      • 疤痕

      ③ 遗传 + 环境共同影响

      • 身高
      • 学习能力
      • 运动能力

      3) 遗传学中的性状(考试重点)

      • 性状由基因控制
      • 基因有不同等位基因
      • 等位基因有显性隐性

      4) 基因型 vs 表现型

      | 概念 | 含义 | | --- | ---- | | 基因型 | 基因组合 | | 表现型 | 外在性状 |


      一句话考试版总结

      性状是生物的特征,由遗传和环境共同决定。

      如果你需要,我可以把 traits / inherited traits / acquired traits / Punnett squares 做成 Science 10 中英对照闪卡或课堂练习题,直接用于教学或复习。


      性状(trait) EN: An inherited characteristic, such as eye colour or hair colour. Example: Traits like seed colour in pea plants or the ability to taste bitterness are controlled by genes. 中文:一种可遗传的特征,如眼睛颜色、头发颜色等。 例子:豌豆的种子颜色、是否能尝出苦味,都是由基因控制的性状。

    4. alleles

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      English — alleles (thorough explanation)

      1) What alleles are (core idea)

      Alleles are different versions of the same gene. They control variations of a trait, such as eye color or flower color.

      Allele = one version of a gene

      Each gene can have two or more alleles, but an individual organism usually carries two alleles per gene (one from each parent).


      2) Where alleles are found

      • Genes are located on chromosomes
      • Alleles sit at the same position (locus) on homologous chromosomes
      • One allele comes from the mother
      • One allele comes from the father

      📌 This is why offspring show traits from both parents.


      3) Example of alleles (simple)

      Trait: Seed color

      • Y = yellow
      • y = green

      Possible allele combinations:

      • YY
      • Yy
      • yy

      These combinations affect the trait that appears.


      4) Dominant vs recessive alleles (Science 10 focus)

      Dominant allele

      • Shown with a capital letter (A)
      • Expressed if at least one copy is present

      Recessive allele

      • Shown with a lowercase letter (a)
      • Expressed only if two copies are present

      📌 Example:

      • Aa → dominant trait shows
      • aa → recessive trait shows

      5) Alleles, genotype, and phenotype (key relationship)

      | Term | Meaning | Example | | --------- | ------------------ | ---------- | | Allele | Version of a gene | A or a | | Genotype | Allele combination | Aa | | Phenotype | Physical trait | Brown eyes |

      Alleles determine the genotype, which determines the phenotype.


      6) Alleles in Punnett squares

      Punnett squares:

      • Show how alleles from parents combine
      • Predict possible offspring genotypes
      • Estimate trait probabilities

      📌 Example: Parents: Aa × Aa

      • Possible offspring: AA, Aa, Aa, aa

      7) Why alleles are important

      Alleles:

      • Explain variation within a species
      • Help predict inheritance patterns
      • Are the basis of genetics and evolution
      • Allow populations to adapt over time

      One-sentence exam summary

      Alleles are different versions of the same gene that determine variations in traits.


      中文 — alleles(等位基因) 详细解释

      1) 什么是等位基因(核心概念)

      等位基因(alleles)是指同一基因的不同版本,决定同一性状的不同表现。

      等位基因 = 同一基因的不同形式


      2) 等位基因在哪里

      • 基因位于染色体
      • 等位基因位于同源染色体的相同位置
      • 一个来自母亲,一个来自父亲

      3) 等位基因举例

      性状:豌豆高度

      • T = 高
      • t = 矮

      组合可能是:

      • TT
      • Tt
      • tt

      4) 显性与隐性等位基因(必考)

      • 显性等位基因:只要有一个就会表现
      • 隐性等位基因:必须两个都有才表现

      📌 Tt → 显性性状 📌 tt → 隐性性状


      5) 等位基因与性状的关系

      • 等位基因 → 基因型
      • 基因型 → 表现型

      一句话考试版总结

      等位基因是控制同一性状的不同基因形式。

      如果你愿意,我可以把 alleles → genotype → phenotype → Punnett squares 整理成 Science 10 中英对照闪卡或互动练习,直接用于复习或教学。


      等位基因(allele) EN: Different versions of the same gene that may produce different forms of a trait. Example: For pea flower colour, one allele codes for purple and another for white. 中文:位于同源染色体相同位置、控制同一性状的基因的不同形式。 例子:例如花色基因可以有紫花等位基因和白花等位基因。

    1. We're not going to get a better internet by waiting for platforms to become less extractive. We build it by building it. By maintaining our own spaces, linking to each other, creating the interconnected web of independent sites that the blogosphere once was and could be again.

      yes, build what you want to have.

    2. He kept going because the infrastructure mattered, because how we structure the presentation of ideas affects the ideas themselves.

      encyclopedie as infra, in the sense of having a stable set of refs for all. Not blogs therefore (except for uris).

    3. Virginia Woolf wrote about the importance of having a room of one's own: physical space for creative work, free from interruption and control. A blog is a room of your own on the internet. It's a place where you decide what to write about and how to write about it,

      A room of one's own (Virginia Woolf) digitally is a blog. Disagree, bc it's public, which is the opposite. It is a window on the output of that room.

    4. And the fragmentation of social media is actually creating demand for alternatives. Every time a platform implodes (Twitter's ongoing collapse, Instagram's slow retirement // decay into a metaphorical Floridian condo, TikTok's uncertain status, Facebook's demographic hollowing) people start looking for more stable ground. The infrastructure exists. It's waiting.

      I do think there's more people who get fed up with the empty carbs of socmed yes. I also think they don't see alternatives, def not writing for themselves at any length. An issue is that bringing in all those people doesn't scale the writing. At first everyone blogged bc that was how you participated in the conversation, so it attracted those that were ok with writing

    5. Newsletters are still a discovery layer, no matter how many people pronounce their untimely death. You can write on your own site and distribute via email, getting the permanence of a blog with the push distribution of a newsletter. The writing lives at your domain; the email is notification infrastructure.

      newsletters seem to still work well imo. Consistency and rhythm is a challenge though.

    6. Search engines still index blogs far better than social media posts. A well-written blog post on a specific topic can draw readers for year

      blogposts still get indexed well by search engines, and certainly way better than socmed utterings.

    7. I keep thinking about how many interesting folks have essentially stopped writing anything substantial because they've moved their entire intellectual presence to Twitter or Substack Notes. These are people who used to produce ten-thousand-word explorations of complex topics, and now they produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each one optimized for immediate engagement and none of them building toward anything coherent.

      Sees bloggers switching to socmed or substack and impoverishing themselves intellectually in the process.

    8. Michel de Montaigne arguably invented the essay in the 1570s, sitting in a tower in his French château, writing about whatever interested him: cannibals, thumbs, the education of children, how to talk to people who are dying. He called these writings essais, meaning "attempts" or "tries." The form was explicitly provisional. Montaigne was trying out ideas, seeing where they led, acknowledging uncertainty as a fundamental feature rather than a bug to be eliminated.The blog, at its best (a best I aspire one day to reach) is Montaigne's direct descendant.

      Blogging as essays, attempts to put something into words, acknowledging the uncertainty.

    9. Diderot understood that the container shapes the contents. The Encyclopédie was a collection of facts, yes, but more fundamentally it was an argument about how knowledge should be organized. Cross-references between entries were themselves a form of commentary, connecting ideas that authorities wanted kept separate.

      Posits the original encyclopedia was both a k organising attempt and a network of references between ideas, thus bringing them together

    10. Everything I produce has to compete, in real-time, with everything else that could possibly occupy that user's attention.

      Platform stuff is in a competition for attention. And that is its only purpose.

    11. When I write a blog post, I'm writing for an imagined reader who has arrived at this specific URL because they're interested in this specific topic; I can assume a baseline of engagement; I can make my case over several thousand words, trusting that anyone who's made it to paragraph twelve probably intends to make it to paragraph twenty.

      blogging has an imagined audience, and any output can be referred to.

    12. The platform has no interest in whether your post is found next week or next year; it has a vested interest in keeping users scrolling through new content right now.

      platforms have no interest in permanence, only in engagement in the now

    13. But it also produced actual intellectual communities. Remember those?People wrote long responses to each other's posts, those responses generated further responses, and you could follow the thread of an argument across multiple sites and weeks of discussion. The format rewarded careful thinking because careful thinking was legible in a way that it simply isn't on platforms designed for rapid-fire engagement.

      describing the distributed conversations that were important to me for blogging too. Not sure we were as exalted though.

    14. And I think the fix, or at least part of it = going backwards to a technology we've largely abandoned: the blog, humble // archaic as it may seem.

      Blog as a more prudent way to spread ideas than the twitter type short messages

    15. When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work

      Enlightenment was not a salon, but an era where coming up with ideas and spreading them carried risk.

    1. ith these definitions, τ 0Oe takesa positive value, by Ampère’s law,

      Naively, looks like it should take a negative value. H_oe points in -Y by amperes law. for a magnetization with phi=0, then by right hand rule the torque points down.

      However, torque and tau are related by a minus sign, because tau is defined as mhatdot

    1. Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confusedAnd drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the airThat freshened from the window,

      The first ecounter of Enea and Didone in Virgil's "Aeneid".

    1. Some good pointers to [[Brian Eno c]] work and thinking, to follow up.

      Also good anecdote from one of those links on Rem Koolhaas notion of n:: premature sheen Making things look nice early takes away from thinking about other points of quality. Jeremy applies it to AI too, the premature sheen generate awe, but not quality output.

    1. "I think of Cognitive Debt as ‘where we have the answers, but not the thinking that went into producing those answers”. It is a phenomenal largely (but not exclusively) fuelled by the deployment of LLMs at scale. Answers are now much, much cheaper to come by.

      Additionally, I am most interested in exploring Cognitive Debt not from an individual perspective, but from a group one. It is critical to thinking through the implications of using these technologies inside an organisation, or between an organisation and its employees, a government and its citizens, and so on and so forth."

      n:: cognitive debt - [ ] return

    1. O swallow swallowLe Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie

      "The Prince of Aquitaine, of the ruined tower", a line which Eliot refers to its source in the sonnet ‘El Desdichado’ (‘The Disinherited’) by Gérard de Nerval.

    1. Down Greenwich reach           Past the Isle of Dogs.

      The Thames River at Greenwich, downstream from London. The Isle of Dogs is the name given to the riverbank opposite Greenwich.

    2. Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest—I too awaited the expected guest.

      Every single gesture is mechanic, both the prophet and the narrating voice know what will happen becuase it's inevitable.

    3. C.i.f. London: documents at sight,

      "Cost, insurance and freight". The documents of ownership and transport would be handed to the purchaser in exchange for a bank draft payable on sight.

    4. The Fire Sermon

      Begun in spring 1921. Eliot incorporated in constructing "The Waste Land", this is considered to be the first part he wrote with a sense of the poem as a whole in mind. The Fire Sermon was preached by the Buddha against the fires of lust, anger, envy and the other passions that consume men.

    1. You can grab a skills folder right now, point Codex CLI or Gemini CLI at it and say “read pdf/SKILL.md and then create me a PDF describing this project” and it will work, despite those tools and models having no baked in knowledge of the skills system.

      skills 又是一个通用的系统。

    2. Skills have exactly the same advantage, only now I don’t even need to implement a new CLI tool. I can drop a Markdown file in describing how to do a task instead, adding extra scripts only if they’ll help make things more reliable or efficient.

      还是需要理解一下,markdown 暴露给 agent 能力的部分,是如何让 agent 知道的。

    3. Congratulations, you just built a “data journalism agent” that can discover and help publish stories against fresh drops of US census data. And you did it with a folder full of Markdown files and maybe a couple of example Python scripts.

      但是编写这些 skill 的 scripts 本身就是一件挺难的工作不是吗?为什么不能让 llm 进化到自己可以编写这些 skills.

    4. I was entirely wrong about that. 2025 really has been the year of “agents”, no matter which of the many conflicting definitions you decide to use (I eventually settled on "tools in a loop").

      这里讨论了 agents 的定义。

    5. This requirement is the biggest difference between skills and other previous attempts at expanding the abilities of LLMs, such as MCP and ChatGPT Plugins. It’s a significant dependency, but it’s somewhat bewildering how much new capability it unlocks.

      需要依赖本地环境(文件系统、工具)来拓展 agent 的能力,是 skills 和 mcp 的巨大不同。

    1. Open the .claude/settings.local.json file and add the server to the allow array: { "permissions": { "allow": ["mcp__playwright"], "deny": [] } }

      可以在 .claude/settings.local.json 里面来赋予权限

    2. This command does two things: Names the MCP server "playwright" Provides the command that starts the server locally on your machine

      claude mcp add 可以添加 MCP server

      名字 服务器:可以是远程的,也可以是本地(直接启动一个也行)

    3. You can extend Claude Code's capabilities by adding MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. These servers run either remotely or locally on your machine and provide Claude with new tools and abilities it wouldn't normally have.

      MCP 可以拓展 claude code 的能力,给它更多的工具和能力。

    1. ‘New Updike,’ he might think, with a little uptick of a tricky heart, as he came across a trifling piece in the New Yorker, a meatier story in Playboy, a new novel every few years, all backgrounded by the same infusions of radio and television and newsprint, the same social glosses in Life and Time. I am not such a man. And so, nearly deranged by the time I had commando-crawled my way to the 1980s, I started making notes like ‘drink cold cum in hell’ and ‘i’m glad that god killed you.’ I read on and on, waiting for him to become as good as he had been as a boy.

      lol

    1. Custom commands are particularly useful for project-specific workflows like running test suites, deploying code, or generating boilerplate following your team's conventions.

      其实 build 工具也可以做这件事,自己封装一系列步骤成一个命令,然后一次性运行,那么 claude code 的这个自定义 command 好在: - 提供了 convention - 自然语言的 argument,本质上还是利用了 claude 的功能