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The Geekiest Animals in History
Flipper writes "CNET has compiled a list of the geekiest animals throughout history. The entries include such peculiar characters as Ham The Astrochimp (the first chimp in space), Schrödinger's Cat (used to demonstrate quantum superposition) and Hans, a horse who could apparently do complex mathematics and read words. The classics are there too, Pavlov's dogs get a well-deserved mention, as does Dolly The Sheep. What sounds like a pretty bizarre list is actually strangely interesting — some of these animals are seriously geeky."
Where's Mr. Peabody?
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Has to be the long horse.
It was the multicore processor of its day.
Moores' law (not THAT Moore, his great grandfather) held that horses would double in length every 18 months.
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Less is said about an alternative test called Schrödinger's lawyer. The test involved the gun discharging no matter what state the particle was in. Schrödinger himself admitted the proposed test was pointless but much more satisfying and humane than the cat test.
I would add:
I think that finding this a strangely interesting article is the very definition of what it means to be a geek.
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Schrodinger's cat is NOT hypothetical. He exists... probably
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
A polar bear.
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Nah, Trojan Horses are more greeky.
You haven't observed him, have you?
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
A horse that understands the square root of negative one? No way.
I asked him just how smart they really were and he said VERY smart. I asked how many commands they knew, and he said 300-400, which is really very amazing.
Unfortunately, it maxes-out around 300-400, depending on how much time the whales want to spend on training the people.