Articles by XiXiDu

• Passing Stars and Interstellar Speculations http://ff.im/-hJEk6 #
• TED Talk: Suspended animation is within our grasp http://ff.im/-hJFsE #
• Singularity: Nanotech or AI? http://ff.im/-hJFx2 #
• Do “polar bears” exist? http://ff.im/-hJFyO #
• Blind soldier uses tongue device to 'see' http://ff.im/-hJLXF #
• Video: Sarah moves beyond the Standard Model (via seancarroll) http://tumblr.com/xzu7k0ady #
• Google TV Is Coming Soon to a Living Room Near You http://ff.im/-hJUvm #
• Polymath Reflections « A collective open way of doing mathematics http://ff.im/-hJUNG #
• Photo: (via littleteaspoon) http://tumblr.com/xzu7k0hy9 #
• Photo: fringesofmind: http://tumblr.com/xzu7k0kv6 #
• Photo: theantidote: http://tumblr.com/xzu7k0ly2 #
• Photo: fringesofmind: http://tumblr.com/xzu7k0mpy #
• Photo: Detroit, Michigan, USA (via NASA Goddard Photo and Video) http://tumblr.com/xzu7k0r6g #
• Photo: Day 54/365: flower power! (via Miss Nicole ☮) http://tumblr.com/xzu7k0sg1 #
• In Praise of Genocide http://ff.im/-hKIQa #
• The Evolution Of Symbolic Language http://ff.im/-hKIQ7 #
• China Considers High Speed Rail Line Connections to Europe http://ff.im/-hKIQb #
• Avatars in Space http://ff.im/-hKIQ8 #
• Coping with Streams http://ff.im/-hKIQ9 #
• Quantum Physics’ Big News: Weird Quantum State Observed in the Largest Object Yet http://ff.im/-hKIQ6 #
• Why is Helium so Scarce? http://ff.im/-hKIQ5 #
• GM Develops Augmented Reality Windshield http://ff.im/-hKIQc #
• Quantum Smoothing Measurement is Two Times Better than standard quantum limit. http://ff.im/-hKIQj #
• Pregnant male pipefish abort babies from unattractive females http://ff.im/-hKIQi #

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• Rutgers plans online course on the Singularity http://ff.im/-hDnJ6 #
• Updated: The Ultimate Collection of Scaling Visualisations http://bit.ly/di5w7t #
• Photo: Phobos from Mars Express http://tumblr.com/xzu7if5jl #
• Hey Perp: That Facebook Friend Request May Come From the FBI http://ff.im/-hEY5m #
• Study: Climate Hacking Scheme Could Load the Ocean With Neurotoxins http://ff.im/-hEYj8 #
• How extraverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? Inferring personality from e-mail addresses. http://ff.im/-hEYko #
• A little bit of the Others in Us http://ff.im/-hF0rA #
• Quote of the day « Why Evolution Is True http://ff.im/-hF3pL #
• Web sites that can take a punch http://ff.im/-hF4XV #
• Justin Bieber and the Rising Importance of Accelerating Media http://ff.im/-hF5ed #
• Knowing What You Don’t Believe http://ff.im/-hF5ri #
• One Universe Too Many? String Theories, The Multiverse And The Future Of Physics. http://ff.im/-hF7af #
• Photo: Amazing amazing picture…. « Optical Illusion http://tumblr.com/xzu7ign37 #
• German researchers preparing “Qur’an: The Critical Edition” http://ff.im/-hF8Ir #
• Why did it take so long for humans to have the Industrial Revolution? http://ff.im/-hFblE #
• Framing and World of Warcraft’s Rest System « The Psychology of Video Games http://ff.im/-hFc06 #
• Wind farms could cause an increase of .15 degrees Celsius over the entire global surface. http://ff.im/-hFcDg #
• First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei http://ff.im/-hFcTu #
• Video: Michael Jackson – Beat It http://tumblr.com/xzu7ihmcq #
• Reasoning isn't about logic (it's about arguing) http://ff.im/-hFgyh #
• Wednesday Round Up #107 http://ff.im/-hGftD #
• 25 million people have gone Google http://ff.im/-hGfWb #
• fMRI Reads the Images in Your Brain – We Know What You’re Looking At (Video) http://ff.im/-hGgi1 #
• Ants vs. Crabs, a surprising conclusion. [VIDEO] http://ff.im/-hGgs0 #
• Mixed-gender dorm rooms are gaining acceptance http://ff.im/-hGhgr #
• Photo: Planck Reveals Giant Dust Structures in our Local Neighborhood Dust has never looked so beautiful!… http://tumblr.com/xzu7irow2 #
• Is that a Bat or a Bot? | Parrot AR.Drone is Controlled by an iPhone http://ff.im/-hGhWy #
• Usenet Physics FAQ http://ff.im/-hGieE #
• Quantum Sensor Developed by LSU Researcher Breaks New Limits http://ff.im/-hGiGp #
• Math Challenge http://ff.im/-hGj85 #
• @hmsteinman1 Math Challenge http://bit.ly/aPRc2s #

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• Photo: Explanation: Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona… http://tumblr.com/xzu7h2k1c #
• Is The Human Mind Algorithmic? http://ff.im/-hASj9 #
• The Dropout Economy – 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years – TIME http://ff.im/-hASEs #
• Video: Shady Optical Illusion 6 http://tumblr.com/xzu7h2oiz #
• Scopolamine Lifts Depression In A Few Days http://ff.im/-hAT1m #
• Stanford Computational feat speeds finding of genes to milliseconds instead of years http://ff.im/-hATmy #
• Rydberg Quantum Simulator – A Quantum Simulator that Can be Made With Current Technology http://ff.im/-hATp7 #
• Video: Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended http://tumblr.com/xzu7h2ut9 #
• Bacteria on your keyboard point to your identity but forensic value is unlikely http://ff.im/-hAUuw #
• Video: Recoil Music Video http://tumblr.com/xzu7h2yn7 #
• 1 gene lost = 1 limb regained? Scientists demonstrate mammalian regeneration through single gene deletion http://ff.im/-hB0VD #
• Photo: Exploration (via Goddard Photo and Video Blog) Exploration: Past, Present and Future – As the LRO… http://tumblr.com/xzu7h3ybr #
• Photo: factorygirl-photography: http://tumblr.com/xzu7h3yy8 #
• Photo: Type a phrase into Google and it will attempt to auto-complete the phrase for you. An incidental… http://tumblr.com/xzu7h4490 #
• Photo: How Safe Is Your Password?| Information Is Beautiful http://tumblr.com/xzu7h46d3 #
• Web Seer – Compare Google Suggest results. http://ff.im/-hB3QE #
• Einstein in 60 Seconds (or 40 Hours) http://ff.im/-hB5Ep #
• A planetary mood ring http://ff.im/-hB5E0 #
• Bloop – Extremely powerful underwater sound – The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and… http://tumblr.com/xzu7h4jy2 #
• Dotcom web address celebrates silver anniversary http://ff.im/-hB6zr #
• Video: Bedroom Formula 1 http://tumblr.com/xzu7h4r5c #
• "Take the case of Nigeria. The country’s per-capita G.D.P. last year was about fourteen hundred dollars…." http://tumblr.com/xzu7h4vww #
• Apartheid of Iberian Neandertals & modern humans http://ff.im/-hBzoS #
• Richard Dawkins: Growing Up in the Universe – The Genesis of Purpose http://ff.im/-hBzoT #
• Less Wrong: Undiscriminating Skepticism http://ff.im/-hBXmd #
• Open Data Pointers http://ff.im/-hC9BC #
• metaphorically speaking – James Geary http://ff.im/-hC9Ee #
• …and now for some flogging and quartering of scientists http://ff.im/-hC9Qx #
• Electronics 'missing link' brings neural computing closer http://ff.im/-hCedW #
• Books which have influenced me most http://ff.im/-hCeHL #
• NASA Finds Shrimp Where No Advanced Life Should Be: 600 Feet Beneath Antarctic Ice http://ff.im/-hCf7O #
• Robot Surgery, Thy Name is DaVinci http://ff.im/-hCfVv #
• Celestial Mechanics and a Geometry Based on Area | Video Lectures http://ff.im/-hCgpc #
• Adam The Robot Scientist Makes Its First Discovery http://ff.im/-hCgcc #
• Explained: Regression analysis http://ff.im/-hCkaS #

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• Psychopathic Brains Driven To Seek Rewards http://ff.im/-hyhEX #
• Evogrid: simulating the chemical origins of life on Earth http://ff.im/-hyhXF #
• Plenty of new airports but few passengers in China http://ff.im/-hyiYd #
• The advantage of sizing down one dimension http://ff.im/-hyjdf #
• Photo: New Images of Phobos from Mars Express Flyby http://tumblr.com/xzu7g1p5s #
• Julius Caesar Gets Clipped 2054 Years Ago Today http://ff.im/-hykQm #
• Geoengineering: Global Salvation or Ruin? http://ff.im/-hylrV #
• US Air Force X-37 Robot Mini Shuttle To Launch into Space April 2010 http://ff.im/-hylxX #
• Competition for Google: A German Library for the 21st Century http://ff.im/-hylKx #
• Photo: Construction workers and organizers in Shanghai, China are busily completing tasks ahead of the… http://tumblr.com/xzu7g3c6h #
• Photo: Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010 – The Big Picture http://tumblr.com/xzu7g3d6w #
• Why HTML5 is worth your time http://ff.im/-hyvBs #
• Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants – NYTimes.com http://ff.im/-hyE4f #
• D-Wave Systems’ Quantum Computing Aims at Human Level AI | h+ Magazine http://ff.im/-hyGle #
• Startups Focus on AI at South by Southwest http://ff.im/-hyGu5 #
• God is too cute to be a literalist http://ff.im/-hyHRx #
• Photo: Fibonacci Spiral http://tumblr.com/xzu7g6sjl #
• Photo: Joey Lawrence http://tumblr.com/xzu7g6xld #
• Photo: Joey Lawrence http://tumblr.com/xzu7g6z9r #
• Photo: Joey Lawrence http://tumblr.com/xzu7g7188 #
• Photo: http://www.joeyl.com http://tumblr.com/xzu7g72ww #
• Human Cells Exhibit Foraging Behavior Like Amoebae and Bacteria http://ff.im/-hz1Z7 #
• Watch This 5 Minute Video Explain Why Stem Cell Research Has to Take so Long. http://ff.im/-hz1Z6 #
• Online Status Anxiety http://ff.im/-hz1YS #

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• Free Energy and the Meaning of Life http://ff.im/-hueJS #
• Campaign stunt launches a corporate 'candidate' for Congress http://ff.im/-hufqc #
• Brain scans read memories http://ff.im/-hufVE #
• Overcoming Bias : Parable of the Multiplier Hole http://ff.im/-huj0X #
• Photo: nihilnoetia: http://tumblr.com/xzu7eg12o #
• Photo: Binary Black Hole in 3C 75 http://tumblr.com/xzu7eg1f3 #
• Photo: factorygirl-photography: http://tumblr.com/xzu7eggu7 #
• Strogatz Unravels the Complexities of Complex Numbers http://ff.im/-hukYq #
• Photo: (via allinone) http://tumblr.com/xzu7egjfh #
• Bootstrapping Safe AGI Goal Systems [PDF] http://bit.ly/cRvo6h http://ff.im/-huoh7 #
• Photo: nihilnoetia: http://tumblr.com/xzu7ehf1b #
• Addiction « Meteuphoric http://ff.im/-huoMF #
• Overcoming Bias : Motivated Legal Bias http://ff.im/-hupw2 #
• Photo: NASA Blue Marble 2007 West (via Goddard Photo and Video Blog) http://tumblr.com/xzu7ehrw3 #
• intendix brain-computer interface http://ff.im/-huq81 #
• Video: Electromagnetic Rail Gun from the United States Navy http://tumblr.com/xzu7eigtm #
• Challenging Neuroscience to Explain Cognition http://ff.im/-huthr #
• Photo: (via satashi, swallowgod) http://tumblr.com/xzu7ein92 #
• It seems we're all more human than average http://ff.im/-hutJu #
• Theory of optimal punishment, Stanley Kubrick edition http://ff.im/-huu2g #
• Outliers Complexity – Or, The Risk of Extrapolating Linear Trends Against Non-Linear Systems. http://ff.im/-huulQ #
• Photo: what radiation does in comics/cartoons http://tumblr.com/xzu7ejq7w #
• Photo: Spectrum of the Sky (via Dominic Kamp, nihilnoetia) http://tumblr.com/xzu7ejskd #
• Photo: Maldevian Starry Sky (via Dominic Kamp) http://tumblr.com/xzu7ejtgo #
• Video: A day in the life of New York City (HD: Vimeo) http://tumblr.com/xzu7ejvls #
• Brain scans read memories : Neurophilosophy http://ff.im/-huy8a #
• Evolutionary game theory: Temporal and spatial effects beyond replicator dynamics http://ff.im/-huCsY #
• Photo: factorygirl-photography: http://tumblr.com/xzu7el207 #
• Photo: nihilnoetia: http://tumblr.com/xzu7el75a #
• Photo: Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie http://tumblr.com/xzu7emcbh #
• The Importance of Goodhart's Law http://ff.im/-huPwQ #
• Photo: (via littleteaspoon) http://tumblr.com/xzu7epr7a #
• Cloud Computing Explained http://ff.im/-huPXH #
• Odds Are, It's Wrong – Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics http://ff.im/-huQiq #
• "In fact, if you believe what you read in the scientific literature, you shouldn’t believe what you read…" http://tumblr.com/xzu7eq3f3 #
• Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics http://ff.im/-huRdw #
• Photo: factorygirl-photography: http://tumblr.com/xzu7eqqj0 #
• Photo: nihilnoetia: http://tumblr.com/xzu7eqv3s #
• Photo: factorygirl-photography: http://tumblr.com/xzu7eujiq #

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• World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" http://ff.im/-hpXLI #
• What’s Happening—and Where? http://ff.im/-hpXLL #
• Friday Videos — The Lost Episode http://ff.im/-hpXM5 #
• Photo: APOD: 2010 March 13 – Centaurus A http://tumblr.com/xzu7d2pm7 #
• Spooky “Dark Flow” Tracked Deeper Into the Cosmos; No Word on What’s Tugging at Galaxies http://ff.im/-hrRlf #
• Should the Internet Win the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize? http://ff.im/-hrRzN #
• What kind of erotic film clips should we use in female sex research? An exploratory study. http://ff.im/-hrRMv #
• Orange Dwarf Star Set to Smash into The Solar System http://ff.im/-hrS2N #
• This is the Way the World Ends http://ff.im/-hrUCg #
• Decoding Mental States http://ff.im/-hrURH #
• Solar 'Current of Fire' Speeds Up http://ff.im/-hrV5v #
• Bloggingheads.tv – Science Saturday: What’s Wrong With Transhumanism? http://ff.im/-hrVgk #
• Photo: On the Spot with Kim Jong-il – The Big Picture – (31 photos total) http://tumblr.com/xzu7db6ju #
• Learning Bioinformatics http://ff.im/-hrXqs #
• Photo: As Close As You’ll Get To Holding a 35,000 Year Old Lion-Man Figurine http://tumblr.com/xzu7dbk04 #
• Reduction of human intelligence as global risk http://ff.im/-hrXSP #
• The remote rural community that thinks letting someone die is as bad as killing them http://ff.im/-hrYox #
• Photo: The Great Sperm Race: The Most Extreme Race on Earth http://tumblr.com/xzu7dbqeh #

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• 2 of oldest people in US die – Japan’s Kama Chinen Still World’s Oldest at 114 http://ff.im/-hmORR #
• ‘Dark Flow’ Pushes Deeper into the Cosmos http://ff.im/-hmORP #
• Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks — PNAS http://ff.im/-hmORN #
• What Alcohol Does to Your Mind: Attentional Myopia http://ff.im/-hmORM #
• Rob Glaser Defines the Superphone and Predicts the Mobile Future http://ff.im/-hmORO #
• Dark Pools http://ff.im/-hmORQ #
• Genetically Modified for the People http://ff.im/-hmOSm #
• BART partners with junaio to visualize transit data through augmented reality http://ff.im/-hnotU #
• Subliminal flag shifts political views and voting choices http://ff.im/-hoH4r #
• Who Reads Journals? http://ff.im/-hoHnh #
• Deep Brain Stimulation – A New Frontier in Psychiatry http://ff.im/-hoHni #
• Computers One Step Closer To Reading Your Mind http://ff.im/-hoHng #
• Recognizing courage, securing online freedom http://ff.im/-hoHnf #
• People Consider More Possibilities For Past Than Future? http://ff.im/-hoHne #
• Google Translate Progresses to the Real Time Global Voice Translating Phone http://ff.im/-hoHnk #
• Vaccinating School Kids Can Protect the Whole “Herd” of Community Members http://ff.im/-hoHnl #
• Reading minds with computers and fMRI http://ff.im/-hoHnj #
• How should we think about brains? http://ff.im/-hp3Mr #
• Flickr Flow / The relative proportions of different colors seen in photos taken in each month of the year. http://ff.im/-hp3QZ #
• Video: Captain Kirk deals with a strange alien culture http://tumblr.com/xzu7c8psr #

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• The Speculist: Posthuman Rules http://ff.im/-hjPQq #
• The Last Digit of Pi http://ff.im/-hjQeL #
• The sun rises more surely with Jeffreys than Laplace http://ff.im/-hjRGh #
• Photo: factorygirl-photography: http://tumblr.com/xzu7ak3hg #
• Photo: (via factorygirl-photography) http://tumblr.com/xzu7ak5eg #
• Photo: fringesofmind: http://tumblr.com/xzu7akag4 #
• Photo: fringesofmind: http://tumblr.com/xzu7akc63 #
• Photo: theantidote: http://tumblr.com/xzu7akisd #
• Photo: View of the entire near-infrared sky Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles… http://tumblr.com/xzu7akllq #
• Photo: A Distant Progression via nihilnoetia http://tumblr.com/xzu7aktsy #
• Jurassic Park Science: DNA of Extinct Bird Extracted From Eggshells http://ff.im/-hjYzb #
• Gallery: The Complete UAV Field Guide http://ff.im/-hjZ68 #
• An Island, Sucked Into a Giant Whirlpool http://ff.im/-hjZIB #
• Photo: The Biggest Ships in the World, Part 2 http://tumblr.com/xzu7al5dq #
• Video: Pink Terror Hawking http://tumblr.com/xzu7al8or #
• Photo: (via littleteaspoon) http://tumblr.com/xzu7alfsd #
• Video: Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrasse http://tumblr.com/xzu7alimw #
• hybrid medical animation 2010 reel http://ff.im/-hk3ts #
• Photo: (via theantidote, mfs) http://tumblr.com/xzu7alno2 #
• Is Twitter… http://ff.im/-hk52Q #
• Professors banning computers http://ff.im/-hk52X #
• Photo: Global warming: temporal pattern of public opinion http://tumblr.com/xzu7alvzt #
• Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play http://ff.im/-hk5kY #
• Photo: (via fringesofmind, jamooo) http://tumblr.com/xzu7alzy0 #
• Coffee: When it helps, when it hurts http://ff.im/-hk6oJ #
• Can We Rely on fMRI? http://ff.im/-hk6Vh #
• Every cell in a chicken has its own male or female identity http://ff.im/-hk6VN #
• Cowpea Virus Delivers Drugs to Kill Cancer Cells http://ff.im/-hk6VI #
• Photo: What do you see when you look at this? http://tumblr.com/xzu7am807 #
• Marijuana and Divergent Thinking http://ff.im/-hk7NH #
• Scientists learning how monkeys fend off "monkey AIDS" http://ff.im/-hk8Ec #
• The trials of Catherine Ashton http://ff.im/-hkbV2 #
• An Incredible New Video Series From Composer Steven Bryant http://ff.im/-hkcur #
• Photo: theantidote: http://tumblr.com/xzu7an4bn #
• Photo: Screen Grabs, Blog Jabs http://tumblr.com/xzu7an71u #
• Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management http://ff.im/-hke69 #
• Visualising the internet – Mapping the growth of the internet http://ff.im/-hke7j #
• Photo: Scenes from Kenya – The Big Picture http://tumblr.com/xzu7ancd8 #
• Museum 2.0 | The Participatory Museum Process Part 1: Overview and Statistics http://ff.im/-hkeJL #
• Photo: Não é fácil… « Aliciante via theantidote http://tumblr.com/xzu7anefo #
• Picking Your Guildies: The Role of Attraction, Selection, and Attrition http://ff.im/-hkfXI #
• Cautionary Tale From Chechnya | Anna Badkhen | Boston.com | 11 March 2010 http://ff.im/-hkgoj #
• Language according to Pinker http://ff.im/-hkgpj #
• Photo: Black penguin!!! « Why Evolution Is True http://tumblr.com/xzu7annbs #
• "A while ago, I was talking to a young man looking for a job, and asked him why he didn’t look online…." http://tumblr.com/xzu7anqnx #
• Photo: theantidote: http://tumblr.com/xzu7ansvt #
• Photo: Myke Preuss via nihilnoetia http://tumblr.com/xzu7anuhf #
• If you could know only one statistic about an alien civilization http://ff.im/-hknPs #
• "I see it, but I don’t believe it!" – Georg Cantor, on discovering that the set of points on the interval [0,… http://tumblr.com/xzu7aotku #
• Photo: fringesofmind: http://tumblr.com/xzu7apdvg #
• Basics: Finding pin 1 – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories http://ff.im/-hktcX #
• When Kurt met Tazio http://ff.im/-hkulD #
• "No system can understand itself for that the very understanding would evade itself forever. A bin trying…" http://tumblr.com/xzu7apr06 #
• Photo: Hawaiian Volcano Landscape post by jchip8, rd67 http://tumblr.com/xzu7aq6m3 #
• Video: A year of seasonal changes at a public park http://tumblr.com/xzu7aq9vj #
• Your Computer Really Is a Part of You http://ff.im/-hkzLO #
• "The person and the various parts of their brain and the mouse and the monitor are so tightly intertwined…" http://tumblr.com/xzu7aqci0 #
• Photo: theantidote: http://tumblr.com/xzu7aql5h #
• "Probabilities do not describe reality — only our information about reality." – E. T. Jaynes http://tumblr.com/xzu7aqqvm #
• Ergodic theory – Wikipedia http://ff.im/-hkDLU #
• Photo: (via littleteaspoon) http://tumblr.com/xzu7ar5yp #
• "Even though there are these different flavors of randomness, it is impossible to make clean distinctions…" http://tumblr.com/xzu7arcpq #
• Search for Randomness | Video Lectures http://ff.im/-hkHJS #
• The Audience as Prisoner: Reflections on the Activity of the Object http://ff.im/-hkIJJ #
• "Whenever we try to describe or to control (or to grasp) a physical process, randomness reflects effects…" http://tumblr.com/xzu7arreg #
• "An electron is not a billiard ball, and it’s not a crest and trough moving through a pool of water. An…" http://tumblr.com/xzu7as1u8 #
• Photo: nihilnoetia: http://tumblr.com/xzu7au7iz #
• Why choose the future over the present? http://bit.ly/aJkCRk #
• Photo: chinchowdoll: http://tumblr.com/xzu7awayf #
• "One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from…" http://tumblr.com/xzu7azeer #
• First Look at SnapGroups: A Delightful Tool For Lightweight Discussion http://ff.im/-hltYb #

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