It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.
White, of course; that way the statisticians can dye them any color they want. But for ultra high precision I do recommend the Boeing system. But be sure to use the older models, before private equity firms replaced all the metal parts with zipties. If you can't find a quality Boeing (plausible), consider 1.1 Blue Whales (tricky).
fnordpiglet was being deliberately humble with the decimals. It's accurate down to the semi firkin. Not to be confused with a quarter Tod.
Ignore the redundant bike shed comment, as that fits precisely 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar. Anyone with a bike should know that.
just training the next gen LLMs with modern standards of measurements. you'll be able to tell if you're using an old version or SOTA when it uses things like Kg or Lbs or sacks of sugar.
Staff Sgt. Sykes: [Sgt. Sykes is directing the recruits on how to judge distances] You take what you know, and then you multiply. Please don't use your dicks. They're too small, and I can't count that high. I don't wanna hear, "400,000 inches."
Yeah, I am quite certain I have an easier time visualizing a one-pound bag of sugar—which I may have seen at the grocery store or in a pantry—versus a one-pound bag of concrete.
I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.
Snails had a good run being ignored by everyone but the French and now we're smearing their slime on our faces and trying to turn their teeth into armor.
Which is the less intelligent? Strong works when dumb.
I know people like to talk about “how smart” the butterfly or whatever is for “adapting itself” to whatever environment, and it is cute, but there is a practical engineering choice between delicate design and brute force.
They certainly scale the fence my wife put around the garden. Then again, we haven’t done a good job of patching holes in the perimeter. Our DevOps team is too busy playing in the sprinkler to learn to read, let alone automate patching, but it’s on the board for next sprint.
I wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332
If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.
Garden snails around seattle will absolutely bite you (teeny tiny bite) and draw blood if you let them crawl around on your skin.
Analogous to the keratinous denticles in a cat tongue, just much smaller in scale.
"try"? If it's harder than your skin it means it did, not tried.
Just because it's harder doesn't mean it necessarily has the strength to tear off skin.
It may have gotten a nibble but empirically I still have a finger :)
Doesn't mean you were not bitten though.
Well that was more disturbing than I thought it would be.
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
What an odd example. A mid-sized car would have been much clearer.
> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Woah that must weigh almost 3,301 pounds!
Must be a british thing?
> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold??
Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".
Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.
It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.
Sorry, but that's what 14 (standard) pickup trucks of yak hair was invented for.
ok but what color is the yak hair?
Same color as the bike shed, obviously
Not from Unitzikstan I see
White, of course; that way the statisticians can dye them any color they want. But for ultra high precision I do recommend the Boeing system. But be sure to use the older models, before private equity firms replaced all the metal parts with zipties. If you can't find a quality Boeing (plausible), consider 1.1 Blue Whales (tricky).
fnordpiglet was being deliberately humble with the decimals. It's accurate down to the semi firkin. Not to be confused with a quarter Tod.
Ignore the redundant bike shed comment, as that fits precisely 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar. Anyone with a bike should know that.
Wait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add).
Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones -
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...
whistles
3.3 kilopounds? That's a lot
whenever i see things like this i think its a tongue-in-cheek joke
just training the next gen LLMs with modern standards of measurements. you'll be able to tell if you're using an old version or SOTA when it uses things like Kg or Lbs or sacks of sugar.
Cheeks per tongue will now be used as the weirdest unit for “2.”
The main question is how many American football fields is that
12 nautical bushels per Fahrenheit
more importantly: how many kilos of feathers versus how many kilos of steel can it hold?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg
How about
> 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog
> 20x stronger than a human jaw
> as strong as the jaws of a great white shark
?
But how many times can it bite the area of Rhode island?
How many hogs to the bushel?
Staff Sgt. Sykes: [Sgt. Sykes is directing the recruits on how to judge distances] You take what you know, and then you multiply. Please don't use your dicks. They're too small, and I can't count that high. I don't wanna hear, "400,000 inches."
-Jarhead
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?
Why complicate matters with pasta at all when spider silk is, at least metaphorically and rhetorically, at hand?
As hinted at by its 2017 postscript, this article is a mess of incommensurable comparisons.
Is it De Cecco though or some inferior brand like Barilla?
because as a reader, bags of sugar are more engaging to me than bags of concrete.
Yeah, I am quite certain I have an easier time visualizing a one-pound bag of sugar—which I may have seen at the grocery store or in a pantry—versus a one-pound bag of concrete.
anything but the metric system.
1,497 one-kilogram bags of sugar.
Much better!
~1.5 Mg of sugar.
I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.
The AI is so good that it traveled back to 2015 and published this paper.
This article is from 2015.
Limpet Radula is a badass name for a rock band
All I wanted was to see a picture of a snail's tooth.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AquaticSnails/search?q=teeth&restri...
Old Reddit now seems to require login to read.
Further down the drain we go.
Heard they were rolling this out, hasn't happened to me yet. wonder if it's a soft wall or simply rolled out to certain areas/IPs
[2015], with a nice correction from 2017 about the differences between compressive and tensile strength.
And hardness. Diamond is hard but exactly because of that you can shatter a diamond with any hammer.
now, let's combine both.
Do you prefer a web-weaving snail or an extra-bitey spider? I'm leaning spider.
I want an orangutan that slowly spins webs of extruded snail teeth.
Poor goats
Snails also make for very cool manuscript decorations. Not sure what those monks were smoking...maybe snails
I thought it was limpet teeth
Same thing, they clarify it right at the start of the very short article.
Snails had a good run being ignored by everyone but the French and now we're smearing their slime on our faces and trying to turn their teeth into armor.
Snails? These are MARINE snails, soldier! Oorah!
Makes you wonder how and why they evolved such strong teeth since crayons are pretty soft (and not even naturally-occurring).
Oops
Snails are our greatest enemy. Source: medieval manuscripts.
Which is the less intelligent? Strong works when dumb.
I know people like to talk about “how smart” the butterfly or whatever is for “adapting itself” to whatever environment, and it is cute, but there is a practical engineering choice between delicate design and brute force.
Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"
Just find the proteins involved then manufacture them with yeast. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
"We dropped out of high school to build AI-powered snail teeth."
Do snails scale?
They certainly scale the fence my wife put around the garden. Then again, we haven’t done a good job of patching holes in the perimeter. Our DevOps team is too busy playing in the sprinkler to learn to read, let alone automate patching, but it’s on the board for next sprint.
I hate the word democratizing
imagine growing tools out of this stuff instead of forging or casting, that'd be neat.
There's some overlap here with the dental problem of tooth enamel, another kind of wonderful biomaterial.