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"There is a real tendency in the modern world to count everything but see the significance of nothing."

The titile is a bit misleading since liquid networks are not new. A core (and very interesting) point of the article is that they used to be relatively slow (and impractical) when calculating the equations representing "synapses". It seems recent advancements have discovered a closed form approximation of this that makes them much more performant.

Portable sensors and artificial intelligence are helping researchers decode animal communication—and begin to talk back to nonhumans

Those are some cool interactive explanations of how the different parts of a mechanical watch work and fit together.

Sounds like a really cool thing to do, although it must be hard if you can't set your own work schedule.