Закончил третью книгу Лю Цысиня «Вечная жизнь смерти».
Да, все три книги очень разные, и третья отличается от первых двух сильнее, чем вторая от первой. Интересно, что масштабы событий от книги к книге значительно увеличиваются, причём сейчас этот скачок ещё больше. Если первая книга концентрировалась вокруг человека и группы людей, вторая уже вокруг человечества и солнечной системы, третья охватывает ни много ни мало всю Вселенную, причём, в течение весьма продолжительного срока её жизни.
Всё ещё много крутых идей, очень многое запоминается и хочется обсуждать. У автора крутейшие описания завораживающих космических городов. А ещё автор попытался в деталях рассказать, как выглядит четырёхмерное пространство, и это очень смело, на мой взгляд: пытаться описывать то, что невозможно описать и невозможно представить.
Пожалуй, после завершения трилогии у меня только одна претензия: события развиваются так, что это обесценивает предыдущие события. И увеличение масштабов повествования и особенно концовка последней книги такие, что на их фоне всё уже пройдённое ощущение незначительным. Наверное, по-другому закончить и нельзя было, учитывая охват, но всё-таки.
Тем не менее, это одно из лучшего, что я читал в области фантастики вообще за всю жизнь. Сейчас вроде как снимается кино: очень жду его.
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⚡️STON.fi: Introducing WCPI Pools
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STON.fi has launched their first Weighted Constant Product Invariant Pool (WCPI) featuring STON/TON tokens, designed to enhance participation in the TON ecosystem. WCPI pools offer benefits such as customizable asset allocation, improved capital efficiency, and built-in diversification.
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🌍 The leafcutter ant farms fungi deep in the soil of tropical rainforests. These tiny farmers cut leaves not to eat them, but to feed their underground fungus crops—a complex partnership unique to the tropics. ✨
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🌎 The stone forests of Madagascar, called "Tsingy," are sharp limestone formations that rise in spiky towers. Over millions of years, rainwater carved deep grooves and canyons, creating a maze where unique plants and animals thrive, safe from larger predators unable to cross the jagged landscape. ✨
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🌎 Flamingos in East Africa sometimes gather in flocks of over a million birds, creating vast pink “seas” along salt lakes. These crowds help them spot predators more easily and find safer nesting grounds together. ✨
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Our latest episode of DWF Chats is up. We had the pleasure of hosting Ming Wu, CTO of Conflux Network 🚀👀
In this conversation, we chat about:
🔸The Conflux solution
🔸How Conflux breaks the #blockchain nodes limitations
🔸The global Conflux #community
🔸The #ecosystem integration between Enterprise and #NFT
🔸Conflux collaboration with China Telecom
Full interview here.
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🌍 Some coral reefs create their own sand by breaking down shells and coral fragments. Over centuries, this natural process builds entire white-sand beaches in tropical marine ecosystems. ✨
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Grassy Ridge Bald, one of the highest grassy balds in the Appalachian Mountains, at Roan Mountain on the N.C.-Tennessee state line.
Balds are home to a variety of what Weigl calls “rare, endemic, relict and disjunct plant species.” These species are light-dependent and cannot exist in forested habitats, and they must have existed over large enough distances and periods of time to speciate. Balds that have grown over have a significant decrease in vertebrate diversity, as well.
There are other places with similar stories. The polonina in Poland are one such habitat that Weigl has studied. They also support rare plants and have large herbivores including European bison, red deer, wild horses, and wild cattle. In addition to fossil data, there is a record of megafauna left by drawings on the walls of caves in that region. There are also grass balds in the Oregon coast with a similar history and rare species.
Whatever their origin, the unmanaged balds are disappearing.
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The summit of Gregory Bald (el. 4,949 ft/1,508 m) in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.
The character and distribution of Appalachian balds remained stable from the time the first naturalists explored the region, until forestry regulations no longer permitted annual pasturing of local cattle. While there is some evidence that grassy balds have natural origins, the forest quickly started to reclaim the balds once large-scale livestock grazing was eliminated by the creation of national parks and national forests, with some such as Gregory Bald being maintained by the National Park Service.
While it seems that the balds are maintained by the feeding activities of herbivores, another theory is that the balds are isolated artifacts, not natural landscapes, and a result of Native American activities or the European settlers’ agricultural practices. In other words, that the land is maintained by humans herding herbivores up there.
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TON is an up-and-coming powerhouse that we're absolutely stoked about⚡
In this video, TON's Head of Incubation, Justin Hyun, shares some exciting insights about Ton Foundation and its role in the #ecosystem.
While TON is younger than other significant Layer 1 blockchains, its rapid #growth and evolution has led it to become one of the hottest projects in the #crypto market in the last month, and it appears that next year will be exciting for TON.
In terms of transaction speed and versatility, TON Foundation remains ahead of other Layer 1 blockchains. In addition to a quick block validation time, the blockchain provides several advanced scalability features, such as sharding support.
Needless to say, we are a fan of this amazing #work and we can't wait to see the innovations that TON is going to bring to this space in the coming years.
We're a proud sponsor of the first Flow Hackathon – a global competition from 2/21–2/26 to push the limits of #web3#onFlow.
Beyond excited to be involved in the expansion of the #ecosystem and to provide an opportunity for developers to shine! 💡✨
This is what's up:
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