Words you can't swallow on Tumblr

he-man was right. whats going on

tbh(thinkin bout Halloween)

I believe in the saints but not the Catholic church. God is fake but the saints could actually do all that stuff for real by coincidence.

normal-horoscopes

Loving the amount of people responding to this with "god is dead but St. Anthony helps me find my keys"

brieflives

do you guys want to know one of the coolest things ever btw. i'm going to tell you either way i just like to give you the illusion of choice

brieflives

when anteaters find an anthill they don't just stick their face in and slurp with reckless abandon. they leave behind enough ants to rebuild the ant society and also don't eat queens. they're not just hunting the ants they are essentially farming them. isn't that the coolest

brieflives

if you reblog this post without my anteater fact i hate you. it's the most important part.

jaubaius

cooper214

The beauty of tumblr. I don’t know OP. Don’t follow Op but I have the same cloud from a slightly different angle.

61below

Someone posted this on fb recently, WCCO shared it (not my pic)

But yeah. I have absolutely almost gotten into a vertigo-induced car wreck bc the clouds made me feel like I was falling down into the sky.

mapsontheweb

US state borders but they are based off rivers and mountains

I think we should do this but leave Colorado alone so there’s just an extremely jarring rectangle in one part of this

supreme-leader-stoat

I like how you think.

hera-the-something

notajerusalemcricket

enough. to the Box with you

#detroit red wings

whitepeopletwitter

sindri42

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.