In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the Information Age: Following the advent of transistors, microprocessors, integrated circuits, and memory chips of the 1960s, economists and companies expected these new technologies to disrupt workplaces and result in a surge of productivity. Instead, productivity growth slowed, dropping from 2.9% from 1948 to 1973, to 1.1% after 1973.

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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62853763

Here lies darkness.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45637051

the study: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN9.0000000000000057

Samsung is retiring it's messages app, and I don't want to install Google messages to replace it.

What apps are you using instead and what do you like or hate about them?

Edit: thank you for the suggestions :) This is more options than I was expecting!

But couldn’t find anything I wanted to play.

So I went outside and pulled weeds in the garden.

I accidentally loaded the Steam Store today, so decided to scroll down and selected the option Popular Upcoming and saw... a game

Hopefully it's also Monday for the mods

Modern physics is all about conserved quantities. Every physical law can be described through an associated conserved quantity. Noether's theorem establishes a connection between the two.

It makes sense to try to copy that approach to biology, or at least it's worth a try. The conserved quantity in a living being is the genetics, i think. Because while the body has cell turnover rate, the information that says how the body is built, is constant. That's why it can be used as a marker and to identify an individual, i.e. when we try to establish whether a person is still the same as they were last year (ship of theseus), we look at whether they have the same blueprint; Similar to how we don't identify a river by the water molecules in it, but by its trajectory on the landscape. And if that shape is still the same, then we call it the same river, independent of whether the water molecules changed. So the abstract shape or blueprint of something is the conserved quantity that we use to define identity, and therefore it's the conserved quantity that is relevant in the system. And that's why it should be considered an important concept, i think.

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