Zombie Fungus Turns Cicadas into Horror-Movie Sex Bots

scientificamerican.com

Another article on the topic discussed two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223925

Is that just to see the comments or what?

Now that’s a juicy headline if I ever saw one (^_^)

It's 100% accurate too.

There should be an automated NLP means of determining which stories are "crazy" based on coincidental yet unrelated keywords. That'd be a filter I would subscribe to.

This would be a pretty interesting exercise. I can imagine using path length/distance across the word2vec space or even just the inverse of an ngram's probability. E.g. "zombie" and "fungus" may be close together, so would "cicadas" and "horror" maybe, but "cicadas" and "sex" probably don't appear together very often.

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