📌 TOPINDIATOURS Eksklusif ai: ‘World’s largest’: Record-breaking clutch of 47 Meso

In a famous fossil bed in Brazil, researchers have discovered a new treasure of three egg clutches. These provide new insights into semi-aquatic peirosaurid crocodyliforms and expand our understanding of their reproductive strategies.

The Upper Cretaceous units of the Bauru Group in Brazil boast one of the most impressive fossil records of reptilian clades, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Researchers had already discovered a wealth of turtles, crocodyliforms, and dinosaurs there in the past. And now, “cropping out in the city of Presidente Prudente,” as the study authors explained, they have found a total of 83 eggs across three clutches, plus numerous isolated eggshells.

One of these collections, which might belong to different species, contained 47 eggs, making this the largest Mesozoic crocodyliform clutch ever found.

“The new discovery shows new evolutionary implications for one of the world’s most diverse fossil crocodylomorph faunas, revealing more complex and successful reproductive habits with potential adaptations to occasionally wetter environments,” the study authors stated.

A seriously important clutch

As the authors stated in the study, “cropping out in the city of Presidente Prudente,” the clutches were first discovered in 2004 by Dr. William Nava, one of the study’s authors. Researchers didn’t realize what they held for another 16 years, until they finally understood they had stumbled upon a real treasure of eggs.

Between 2021 and 2023, they excavated the area and found they were looking at clutches of 21, 47, and 15 eggs.

Ellipsoidal in shape with blunt ends, these thin shells and trapezoidal shell units immediately communicated to researchers which animals they once belonged to, Phys.org described. Though some had never hatched, these features made it impossible to identify them as anything other than crocodyliform eggs.

Though the exact species remains unidentified, researchers believe these eggs are from the Notosuchia subgroup, as the Bauru Group holds a large collection of these fossils. The thickness and size of the shells suggest they were laid in a wetter, more humid environment. Other Bauru Group crocodyliform eggs tend to be smaller and drier; in other words, different subspecies adapted to different environments. This damp-environment feature would suggest a semi-aquatic peirosaurid crocodyliform as the mother, Phys.org continued.

New discoveries to be made about reproductive habits

Given that most fossil clutches tend to hold only two to five eggs, while modern crocodyliforms can lay between 10 and 80 eggs per clutch, researchers noted that the difference in clutch sizes reflects taxon-specific adaptations. They might represent multiple nesting events or communal nesting.

“The spatial arrangement of the nests suggests not only a crocodylomorph colonial nesting ground, but also a broader nesting site that may have supported interactions among different species,” study author Dr. Paixão explained to Phys.org.

Could some of these eggs have belonged to dinosaurs? Further studies intend to explore other clues on-site to solve this budding, exciting mystery. Currently, the study authors are pursuing clutches that may belong to theropod dinosaurs.  

“This finding expands our understanding of the reproductive strategies within the group, including nesting behavior and parental care,” the study authors concluded.

The full study is available in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com

📌 TOPINDIATOURS Hot ai: Entirely Vibe-Coded Operating System Is a Bug-Filled Disas

Last year, OpenAI cofounder and former exec Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding,” a new approach involving the rapid development of software by feeding an AI model a series of natural language prompts.

But the popular approach comes with some glaring shortcomings, as evidenced in an entirely vibe-coded operating system, dubbed Vib-OS. The project, which is being hosted on GitHub, can be run on ARM64 and x86-based computers, features a “custom kernel,” a “modern macOS-inspired graphical user interface,” and a “virtual file system.”

And yes, in case you were wondering, the project claims in its possibly AI-generated documentation that you can play Doom on it.

But as a YouTuber who goes by Tirimid discovered in a recent video, the operating system, at least in its current state, is a buggy and largely unusable mess, once again highlighting the limitations of relying on vibe-coding to quickly construct complex pieces of software.

The iconic demon-slaying shooter Doom also appears to be conspicuously absent. A launcher icon for the iconic game didn’t react at all to Tirimid’s enthusiastic mouse clicks, suggesting the AI may have hallucinated the feature altogether.

The YouTuber spent several hours agonizingly going through the operating system’s purported features, and found that it failed to connect to the internet, buttons in the File Manager didn’t respond to clicks, the Notepad app refused to save any documents, and games, such as the dumb phone era classic Snake, didn’t work very well at all.

An app labeled “Browser,” incredibly, turned out to be an image viewer, not a web browser that can render websites.

Despite the documentation noting that the OS was capable of running Python scripts, Tirimid was also disappointed to find there was no support for the programming language.

“I really found this operating system interesting,” he concluded in his video. “It was quite an absolute pain to set up to really get everything going, but once I did, it was just kind of shocking in a way. I really expected this to actually be at least reasonably usable.”

“This is actually a pretty featureless operating system,” he added. “Although I guess it is still interesting that AI can get an operating system running at all.”

Netizens were amused by the YouTuber’s experience.

“You found an early build of Windows 12,” one commenter wrote, referring to Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to control the narrative following the massive blowback to its insistence on AI.

In a follow-up note he posted in the comments of his video, Tirimid begged others not to harass the creators of Vib-OS.

“I was somewhat negative about many parts of this OS, but please don’t go to the repo and be negative in the issues or whatever,” he wrote.

Whether advancements in AI will one day allow models to build actually usable operating systems and other sophisticated software remains to be seen. But it’s certainly a future tech leaders want us to believe in, as they continue to make massive investments in AI and lay off thousands of workers.

More on vibe coding: Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas

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🔗 Sumber: futurism.com