Rainer Melzer
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Rainer Melzer
@ucdflowerpower.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UCD Dublin.
Plant genetics & development.
Crops, agriculture, hemp, cereals.
Evo-devo, transcription factors.
My views.
Or maybe that shows that "thinking" is just computation?
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Turning developed this proxy for testing thinking.

Turing test - Wikipedia share.google/3KUKRSz7omPq...
Turing test - Wikipedia
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Make the initial submission process as easy as possible. No cover letter, no specific format, no manual entering coauthor names.
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Gotta be the Hoff and looking for freedom.
a crowd of people are gathered in front of a building that says zdf on the bottom
ALT: a crowd of people are gathered in front of a building that says zdf on the bottom
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November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Isn't that to some extent true for almost every new technology? Cars or trains were also not universally beloved initially. In particular cars were seen as dangerous I think.
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
High risk high reward
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Great thread, thank you!
We all know of course that true evolutionary novelties arise via coding sequence changes in TFs.
cis elements are for changing butterfly wing spots and petal colours and stuff ;)
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM