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What makes you think that people are not using math to analyze genetic patterns? What difference do you expect using cryptographic techniques to make?

More googly-eye news https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/googly-eyed-buoys-and-kites-help-keep-seabirds-out-of-fishing-nets-study-finds/ “Off the coast of Cornwall in southwest England, a pole rises from a buoy with a pair of big eyes on top. The head spins, creating what researchers call an “animated eye effect.” Its job is to scare away seabirds away before they dive into the fishing net below. On other nets, a kite shaped like a bird of prey flies from a pole. According to a new study in Conservation Letters, both devices reduced the chance that diving seabirds would drown in gillnets. Nets fitted with the kites had 71% lower odds of catching an auk, the bird family that includes guillemots and razorbills. Nets fitted with the buoys had 59% lower odds.”

I’m not sure what the rationale is for “not torturing/killing people is just as bad as torturing/killing them” Indeed. They are scare words. Many in the US don’t know what they actually mean, and the truth is that republicans love socialism when it benefits them. Loosening regulations is one example - companies are e.g. allowed to pollute more and society as a whole pays the price of dealing with it, with the bulk of the burden falling on the poorer people. Politicians say “socialism/communism” hoping it makes everyone clench up, but when the actual policies are discussed, honestly, they sound pretty good.

Beyond that, the pattern in genetics is not random; the genes that code for a particular trait aren’t random. If they were, identical twins wouldn’t have identical features

Coulomb’s law is >200 years old The equation is simple because that’s what describes the behavior. You can’t “keep it simple” if the behavior doesn’t warrant it. Then it’s just wrong. That’s what scientists do, in general. You’re describing two distinct meanings of statistics. The latter is more of a factoid. It depends. You can have one or the other come first. Sometimes experiment drives the math, sometimes math suggests an experiment.

Moderator NoteYou were unable or unwilling to adequately explain your equations in the previous thread so it was closed. You were told not to bring the topic up again. You had your chance.

Quite nebulous. Do you have anything of substance to offer? I’m not embarrassed by this, or the fact that there are still unsolved areas of physics. Such a description is suggestive of someone ignoring (or ignorant of) the mountain of physics that works.

Because, of course, these gangsters are normal, well-adjusted humans, and thereby a good representation of your average person.

If one accepts that the technology existed to implant the experience/memory, it’s certainly not a stretch that it could detect a suitable target, but I don’t recall that being explicitly stated. One nit I have is that it’s not portrayed as a technologically advanced society (they’re all excited about the satellite launch, it’s stated they lack the ability to evacuate the planet in the face of the impending disaster) but they could do this neurological effect. But I’m happy to suspend that disbelief because it’s such a good story

The ethics of that are indeed interesting, since he’s subjected to mental anguish (death of good friend, and wife) which could have been even worse, and there’s no consent.

I got the impression that they’re using old equipment and that limits them to a particular process, and it’s a matter of deciding to invest/coming up with the money to upgrade. Seems like with so much demand it’d be worth it. The situation might stem from a decision that made sense at the time (or perhaps it was a shortsighted one based on penny-pinching)

True, but in the case of genetically engineered food they know the “language” I can imagine there’s overlap in techniques in cryptography and trying to understand an unknown language, and you can use an obscure language as a form of encryption (e.g. Navajo code talkers)

Interesting mix of science, technology and politics proving to be a choke point for electrical expansion, including an impact on data centers “…grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES). Every transformer on the grid runs on a core made of GOES, from the large power transformers (LPTs) that carry over 90% of the nation’s electricity to the 60 to 80 million distribution transformers feeding energy to homes and businesses. GOES prices doubled from 2020 to 2024, and U.S. imports of GOES transformer cores quadrupled from 2018 to 2025. … Across multiple metrics, GOES made by [US-based] Butler Works is inferior to GOES made in nations like Japan and Korea. Because GOES imports and domestic GOES are non-substitutable, an expansion of existing production capacity would increase U.S. supply for a good that much of the U.S. market doesn’t want.“ https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/america-makes-the-wrong-steel-for-its-transformer-supply-chain

I think that a more apt analogy would be translating from one language to another, rather than encryption. There’s no intent to obscure the meaning.

To confirm this you’d have to understand something about both fields. You could point to the biological analogue of e.g. frequency analysis, or other methods of decryption. But all you have is insisting on it with no substantiation. There’s “no meat on these bones”