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frustrated_staff t1_j6mp9h3 wrote

The ELI5 answer is that DNA is the architect and RNA is the builder, but to be a little above ELI5. DNA is the blueprint from which everything is copied from or to. RNA is the copy machine. When DNA needs to copied, it's RNA that comes in and attaches to the open DNA molecule (one side only) matching it's pairs to the DNA before moving off. Once in place, bits and pieces attach to the RNA until the DNA strand is complete and BOOM: new DNA.

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pro185 t1_j6mp6m0 wrote

Perhaps the most interesting part is this is a relatively high level priority ordering system that is (mostly) innately understood when learning the language as a child. Just by hearing others speak/seeing them write we program our brains to only accept one ordering of words as correct even though we were never formally taught this system.

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TrepidaciousDragon t1_j6mor7a wrote

Fun side-information that is not really answering your question: if you want to change this behaviour, you have to be very aware of it and correct yourself everytime you are doing it, kind of like you are raising yourself again. By correcting the behaviour you enter what is called a corrective script.

The last sort of script is called an improvised script, which is when you encounter a situation you don't have a script for or when you are curious whether is a better way to do something.

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AshFraxinusEps t1_j6moq6m wrote

> good luck planting every seed from every archeological site in the Roman empire to see which is silphium

This is more the problem. But could be worth it, bearing in mind how historically important it was. We may have modern equivalents, but I bet that the medicinal value in modern times would be quite high too tbh

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collegiateofzed t1_j6mofhf wrote

Pinapple enzyme."bromelain"

While you're trying to eat it the pinapple is trying to eat you.

We're just an insane organism with litteral hydrocloric acid in our stomach which denatures the enzyme.

What little bromelain stays in your mouth really isn't sufficient to cause significant damage to such a huge biomass.

And what superficial damage occurs, our bodies EASILY regenerate.

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TrepidaciousDragon t1_j6mod93 wrote

There is still a debate on this how big of a part of this is nature and this is nurture. I do not know much about the nature-part, but maybe there is someone here who can explain that part. However, for the nurture part, when we are born, we don't know anything. We learn by the things we see around us as "scripts".

One sort of script we learn is the replicative script, in which we kind of copy the things we see around us. A small thing can be that you see your parents doing the dishes a certain way and take that way over, because that is the only way you see it being done. From now on that is part of your script. Another example could be meal times, or a certain way of talking.

In your example it probably is also a replicative script, you have seen your mother talking in a certain way, and even if you find it annoying sometimes, your brain is kind of getting programmed to think "oh this is how it is supposed to be".

TLDR: Because you have seen your mother talk in a rambly way, your brain is programmed that this is a normal way to talk and so it is tend to follow that way

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psycotica0 t1_j6mmonh wrote

I think it depends on what they meant by task switching. I think they meant "do a bit of game, then do a bit of web browser, then read some files, then back to game".

The GPU is good at doing the same "task", but a billion times, often with a huge amount of parallelism. So it's obviously good at switching from doing that task on one thing to doing that task on the next thing, but in the end it's still the same task.

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joeyo1423 OP t1_j6mmmtg wrote

That's pretty interesting, hadnt thought about the unique geometries that allow flatness but still are unbounded. There doesn't appear to be any reason it would be a torus but I suppose there is no reason for it to be any shape, it just is whatever shape it is.

Tying to understand these concepts in a human mind is dizzying sometimes. I hope I can stay the course and continue studying and eventually join the effort to answer these questions

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