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My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit

https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-animal-books-that-make-you-go-holy-sht
15•bwb•4h ago

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ProllyInfamous•1h ago
I'll add mine:

Dr. Seely's Honeybee Democracy, which I read in 2022 (during my first GPT-2 experiences). The book discusses basic bee dances, but then expands much further into Seely's own research discovering how simple rulesets allow for the complexity of the supraorganism (i.e. the hive).

The book ends with comparisons between coordinated workerbees as miniature robots, which definitely helped me realize how important K.I.S.S. is, organizationally (whether in life or LLM, "keep it simple stupid").

[•] <https://www.amazon.com/Honeybee-Democracy-Thomas-D-Seeley/dp...>

Otterly99•1h ago
Loved "An immense world" !

The chapters on bats and eels are absolutely crazy.

bwb•45m ago
It is on my list as I keep hearing great things!
jzemeocala•56m ago
I'll add and old tome I used to keep by the toilet as a kid.

"Hens Teeth and Horse's Toes"

Awesome sort of factoid book on the quirky ways different animals evolved

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https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/
192•zoenolan•2h ago•50 comments

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https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/
153•ColinWright•4h ago•63 comments

Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/delphi-13-community-edition-is-now-available/
65•layer8•2h ago•47 comments

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404•theanonymousone•7h ago•161 comments

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136•adius•4h ago•14 comments

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74•bookofjoe•6d ago•6 comments

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15•doublepg23•5d ago•5 comments

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339•robtherobber•4h ago•201 comments

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293•dcminter•5d ago•46 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
605•nikolay•18h ago•252 comments

Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today

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108•doener•5d ago•38 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MILwxfQBm6Q
23•surprisetalk•1w ago•2 comments

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https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
39•advaith08•6h ago•11 comments

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257•EwanG•16h ago•79 comments

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105•cwwc•22h ago•239 comments

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https://stolen-thoughts.com/
659•quantumgarbage•1d ago•294 comments

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5•Petiver•18h ago•0 comments

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160•shagie•14h ago•124 comments

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https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/
154•burnto•11h ago•70 comments

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174•michaefe•13h ago•141 comments

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411•dayanruben•21h ago•210 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
246•droidjj•18h ago•123 comments

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125•refp•5d ago•65 comments

Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

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73•newusertoday•18h ago•147 comments

llama.cpp

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308•kristianpaul•9h ago•136 comments

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7•Tintly•2h ago•4 comments

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322•rvz•20h ago•298 comments

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103•bundie•1h ago•85 comments

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

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159•speckx•19h ago•122 comments

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311•sajomes•3d ago•290 comments