BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net
on 08 Jun 02:14
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Zoologists were all “we need the type species of every genus to have the generic epithet” and then someone raised their hand and yelled “what about subspecies?” and they went “screw it, same rule applies for subspecies” and then it turns out the whole thing was a just a prank on Thomas Savage because it’s not like anyone was about to rename humans to Homo homo
We do, the major versions have tag releases like mm7, mm8, mm9, etc. as defined by the current build, and minor patch releases too like mm10p14 as new sequences come in.
silasmariner@programming.dev
on 08 Jun 07:47
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Ignoring capitalisation you can add as many buffalos as you like and still be parsable. I’ve only ever heard buffalo used as a verb in this one context, though, so seems a bit forced to me
The scuttlebutt is that buffalo as a verb was only attested very briefly in upstate New York and the Midwest for a brief period of time in the early 1900s. It never spread nationally, and definitely not internationally.
However, checking Google ngrams shows that “he buffaloed” and “was buffaloed”, (to ensure it’s being used idiomatically as a verb and not just in the famous example sentence) emerged in 1900, peaked in the 1950s, but has sustained small but constant use in published print since then. I was actually expecting the ngram to rapidly drop off and never recover… shocked to see that some people still use it as a real phrase.
silasmariner@programming.dev
on 09 Jun 01:54
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 08 Jun 05:06
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See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)
Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek for…bear.
It’s the bear bear bear!
Bonus fun fact: Arctic means “the place with bears” and Antarctic means “the place without bears”
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
on 08 Jun 05:16
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You’re fucking kidding me
I’m renaming the arctic from now on
silverchase@sh.itjust.works
on 08 Jun 06:58
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Bearritory
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu
on 08 Jun 07:05
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Arctic and Antarctic don’t mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org
on 08 Jun 08:38
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They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 08 Jun 09:44
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Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 08 Jun 09:29
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Ursa Major means "the great bear“, though. Being named after something that’s named bear counts in my book as well as those of all but the worst pedants.
The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
That’s what the secretly hyper-intelligent penguins who scared away the polar bears WANT you to think!
Not that I’ve heard of. Now, whether Homo sapiens idaltu is a real separate species from Homo sapiens sapiens is disputed, so there’s a question as to whether the second sapiens actually differentiates us from anything… but I haven’t seen any signs of any consensus against calling ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens to date.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Jun 04:56
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The guy who named it was running away from it in a panic at the time. “AH FUCK! GORILLA! GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA!”
FiskFisk33@startrek.website
on 09 Jun 05:06
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That’s Grape Ape. I suspect you wanted Magilla Gorilla
nope, purposefully the purple beast. i was goin for the ape consonance
<img alt="chibi Eva-01" src="https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/510f3afc-d794-4bab-a728-b7de23adcd04.jpeg">
“That one to left, that’s the most gorilla that can ever gorilla. Look how hard it’s gorillaing! Name it accordingly.”
Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?
Edit: it’s not, it’s the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) Also, here’s a graphic for y’all to enjoy:
<img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Distibuci%C3%B3n_gorilla.png">
If you have a problem with neurodivergent ape namers, please understand that you’re wrong wrong wrong.
Cartoon Network Groovies (Gorilla 4 Sale) www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_oaVD4NzYo
I was literally thinking of this.
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ad8da202-081b-43f1-aecd-a008de4f2236.jpeg">
some one tell him about Buffalo
I mean, just look at 'em
10/10 gorilla
That’s how gorillas pronounce their name
seems like an OK name.
Gorilla!
I’m guessing you’ve never heard of Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom mushroom
Zoologists were all “we need the type species of every genus to have the generic epithet” and then someone raised their hand and yelled “what about subspecies?” and they went “screw it, same rule applies for subspecies” and then it turns out the whole thing was a just a prank on Thomas Savage because it’s not like anyone was about to rename humans to Homo homo
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3626bc52-960e-4176-8030-968d9fd241af.jpeg">
I miss those days, now it’s all boring version control
My junior’s commit messages look like this image. There’s always a way.
The Gen Z translation is “Gorilla fr” and “Gorilla frfr”
Maybe at some point we’ll have version control for all DNA mapping so each minor change is a commit hash and each major release is a tag
We do, the major versions have tag releases like mm7, mm8, mm9, etc. as defined by the current build, and minor patch releases too like mm10p14 as new sequences come in.
hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/mm10/bigZips/
Example, say you have 5 sequences: CAT, ATC, ATCG, CGT, and ATATA.
One way of combining them up together to build a transcriptome is like this:
5 sequences: ATATA CG-T ATC ATCG CAT Reference: ATCGATATATCATCGATATATC isn’t the only solution to these sequences, but as you get more sequences to try and overlap, the more the uncertainty goes down
That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing
gorilla together stronger
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Ignoring capitalisation you can add as many buffalos as you like and still be parsable. I’ve only ever heard buffalo used as a verb in this one context, though, so seems a bit forced to me
The scuttlebutt is that buffalo as a verb was only attested very briefly in upstate New York and the Midwest for a brief period of time in the early 1900s. It never spread nationally, and definitely not internationally.
However, checking Google ngrams shows that “he buffaloed” and “was buffaloed”, (to ensure it’s being used idiomatically as a verb and not just in the famous example sentence) emerged in 1900, peaked in the 1950s, but has sustained small but constant use in published print since then. I was actually expecting the ngram to rapidly drop off and never recover… shocked to see that some people still use it as a real phrase.
You’re doing the lord’s work
Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla Gorilla gorilla
en.wikipedia.org/…/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal…
see also en.wikipedia.org/…/James_while_John_had_had_had_h…
See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)
Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek for…bear.
It’s the bear bear bear!
Bonus fun fact: Arctic means “the place with bears” and Antarctic means “the place without bears”
You’re fucking kidding me
I’m renaming the arctic from now on
Bearritory
Arctic and Antarctic don’t mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
But isn’t Ursa Major a bear?
Yes, it means “The great bear” or “The big bear”.
no, she’s a major general in the forces, you hippie!
Lunar’s the loony, I’M the hippie!
Would you say that she’s the very model of a modern Major General, or would that be going too far?
They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!
Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩
Ursa Major means "the great bear“, though. Being named after something that’s named bear counts in my book as well as those of all but the worst pedants.
That’s what the secretly hyper-intelligent penguins who scared away the polar bears WANT you to think!
I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.
Oops! I really should be 💯 on it by now since it’s been one of my favorite facts for several years 😄
Anyways, thanks for the correction, I’ll go ahead and edit it 😁
OP missed a good opportunity to title this post “goriginallity”
Disgusted slow clap
The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.
Soon that will be ‘to ever have gorrilaed’.
<img alt="Wikipedia screenshot; “The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of two Critically Endangered subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)”" src="https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/477d1931-b6f1-49b1-99ae-f0a2378f1994.jpeg">
^(source)
Shit, here we go again.
Reminds me of my classification for different types of water when I was but a wee spud:
That look, “what you doing?”.
Because we biologists fucking SUCK at naming things.
For a long time humans were classified as homo sapien sapien
Wait, they took one of our sapiens? The bastards!
Not that I’ve heard of. Now, whether Homo sapiens idaltu is a real separate species from Homo sapiens sapiens is disputed, so there’s a question as to whether the second sapiens actually differentiates us from anything… but I haven’t seen any signs of any consensus against calling ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens to date.
The guy who named it was running away from it in a panic at the time. “AH FUCK! GORILLA! GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA!”
It’s the gorillast of them all