CAM photosynthesis is a clever adaptation some plants have where they turn light into sugar during the day, and only breathe in CO2 at night. This lets the plant close up its leaves so they don't lose water during the heat of the day.
CAM plants use sunlight to turn malic acid into sugar, and every night they breathe in plenty of carbon dioxide, storing it as a fresh supply of malic acid. If you have keen senses, you may be able to taste the difference between a CAM plant harvested during the day and one harvested at night because of this variation in sugar and acid content.
Having evolved several times independantly, you see CAM in lots of different kinds of plants: air plants and bromeliads, which have poorly developed root systems; cacti and other succulents, which grow in hot dry environments; you even see it in some aquatic plants. For these, CAM serves not to conserve water, but carbon dioxide - which is of course hard to come by when you don't have any air.
The "crassulacean" part of the name "crassulacean acid metabolism" is there because this phenomenon was first discovered in crassulas. Jade plants are an example of this genus.
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It does sound nice. It spoke to me more over the years, and I find it helped me keep both a person quest to understand suffering and be engaged in the world, and dissolve any felt distinction between the two.
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Also how have your economic projects been going? You had shared some about a year ago here on Hexbear, but time flies too quickly, I lost track of it and fell out of touch.
Lol no, it didn't. I started the religious conversation.
I had some new ideas for economics simulations. Never did anything with them because I didn't really have a problem statement to solve. My original models already kinda answered my questions about the LTV.
My other idea was to make a model using max-plus linear algebra, to model the economy as a scheduling process/gantt chart. But that's still a linear problem with linear results and I already know how linear algebra works. Not sure what exactly I'd get out of it.
Even if I make controllers or more advanced economic models, I'd still be doing what I already am learning in class, so it felt pointless.
Maybe there's a direction for research in trying to integrate idk, category theory or neural networks into political economy somehow. But I don't understand the theory of those well enough to male headway. I can only think about doing something in the summer