Poles, Backboards, Hoops, and such...

A text only post, and about history, afield from fauna and flora, sort of...and grim, so dear readers, a caution to read on...

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Towards the end of his life, Turing turned to mathematical biology, publishing the "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" in 1952. He was interested in morphogenesis, the development of patterns and shapes in biological organisms. His central interest in the field was understanding Fibonacci phyllotaxis, the existence of Fibonacci numbers in plant structures.^[99] He suggested that a system of chemicals reacting with each other and diffusing across space, termed a reaction-diffusion system, could account for "the main phenomena of morphogenesis."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

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There is a similarity in the timbre and rhythm of their voices, but it comes down to the roles they play in scenes. Like The Big Bang Theory, a lot of The Imitation Game is scenes where a genius treats a bunch of lesser geniuses like they're dummies. There are many scenes in which the other code-breakers ping-pong ideas back and forth, just for Turing to come over the top to say everything they're saying is stupid. Conversely, there are the scenes where the greater genius fails to comprehend the normal behavior of the lesser geniuses as they do things like flirt and tell jokes. Seriously, is that not every single Big Bang Theory scene?

Benedict Cumberbatch’s Alan Turing Is Basically Just Sheldon From The Big Bang Theory

By Jesse David Fox                                                

http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/cumberbatchs-turing-is-just-sheldon-from-bbt.html

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"There's never yet been a TEDxCooper..."

(at about the 1:05 minute mark) (it's a humorous remark referring to Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory...Warwick is charmed that they named this TED his TEDxWarwick)

Implants & Technology -- The Future of Healthcare? Kevin Warwick at TEDxWarwick 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8HeFNJjuj0

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hmmmph...for today I wanted to search out Morphegens, but curious about the article that I couldn't open because of subscription, I tried to search out this quote from yesterday's post:

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Extracting Morphogens from Natural Systems and the Work  of Alan Turing in Order to Intergrate Artificial Process into proposals for a Universal Design Engine
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and that, that just brought up more subscription sites, but one had a bit more to go on...

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Intelligent Buildings International
Volume 5, Issue 4, 2013

Kevin Warwick asks "Can we have conscious buildings?"

It's a pdf file I can't copy paste...and it notes that the 'universal design engine' idea is derived from the works of D'Arcy Thompson and Turing...

Here's link:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17508975.2013.835100?journalCode=tibi20

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And from there I looked up Kevin Warwick, and found his youtube TED talk...

My friend S. in the Valley got his first computer, a Mac book, while I was there, and during breaks and lulls in work, he'd regale me with his adventures trying to sort out how to use his Mac...I'd smile...a noob...and his efforts took him to the internet, more stories, more adventures, and he'd discovered TED, this back like ten years now, so TED must have just started up then too...I took no interest in TED then, a brief look impressed me as nerds being nerds...but now having landed on two youtube TED clips, one yesterday and another today, that move forward my stories, my adventures, I tip my hat to S....and TED...

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He suggested that a system of chemicals reacting with each other and diffusing across space, termed a reaction-diffusion system, could account for "the main phenomena of morphogenesis."

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That would seem to have something to do with what I found here searching out morphogens...

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Eric Wieschaus (Princeton) Part 1: Patterning Development in the Embryo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncxs21KEj0g

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Another youtube...not a TED, but very TED like...and I've only watched the first of three...

what I gather, is that in the example of the fly egg, a protein diffuses across the 6000 cells at the 13th division, and cues the cells to bifurcate, begin to become the different cells needed for bones and skin and muscle and such...it has a name, bicoid...here's a site that has some of this with an illustration of the diffusion, which, I think, is the same illustration Turing was reaching for...

http://www.iephb.nw.ru/hoxpro/bicoid.html

there's a lot on the web about this, and one can find much...

I'm annoyed that I didn't find this when I was going on about eggs and bees....

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and I got the impression that all of the yoke cells were undifferentieated to start, they hadn't decided yet what to be, a beak cell or a wing cell or a foot cell and such...and I likely have that wrong...but I imagine that in the yoke, something calls out to all the cells, and they all at once begin to go their separate ways...

http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2015/09/its-thursday.html

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and there it is, I gather, this protein in the fly egg is doing that, calling out to the cells...

I haven't sorted it out yet, but the fly egg is explained as having uniquely evolved this protein for the 13th cell division...if I remember right, in the chicken egg, bifurcation begins at the 8th cell division......maybe the other two youtube clips in the series go on about what protein, or what gene, does the calling in chicken eggs!...

Oh...I have a basketball meeting to go to....back...

Cells have this duality, they are one thing, a wing cell or a beak cell or a feather cell, and they are also everything a cell can be...the dna in a cell, the blueprint, is the blueprint for the whole body...but cells just use one particular part of the dna, one part of the blueprint, to occupy their niche while doing their occupation in the day to day....

I'm not a scientist with an experimental laboratory and microscopes, and it's not my occupation, which must annoy those for whom science is their occupation, but I wonder about things from what I can observe in the everyday...I just came back from a basketball meeting, a training and a review meeting, and one administrator spoke to us about it's best not be a ref for the money, there's not much money, and one should have an interest  to ref, like contributing to the community, enjoyment of the game, and such...and I was thinking of the duality of cells, how they become this or that, but have the potential to be every this and that...and clearly people have this duality...they take on one occupation, but they have the potential to be any occupation...and a lot of the things we do have little to do with money, which one would think would be the one thing to determine our occupations...from a sports talk on the radio I have it that there are 350 million basketball players in China...

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Since Yao Ming's 2002 arrival in the NBA, basketball has become increasingly more popular. The NBA and the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) are widely followed and more than 400 million people regularly play basketball for leisure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_China

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I could post it, it's a pic...but let me just describe it (it used to be at the Library of Congress American Memory site, which disappointingly, has never amounted to anything), it's a panorama picture of graduation day at Nanking University sometime in the 1920's, and in the far right lower corner is a basketball hoop...pole, backboard, ring...

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The game was introduced to China by American YMCA workers in 1896, just five years after Canadian-American James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 while working for the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.^[11

from wiki

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I found the panorama photo, it's on wiki here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nanking

and here I think is the same school:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_University

Poles, backboards, hoops, and such...

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