From the FAQ IV. Personalities and Emotions
In addition, Dr Robot Inc. has planned to develop unique personalities and emotions of the robot based on the relationship with its owner. Personalities such as playful and shy, as well as emotions (such as happiness, sadness, fear, dislike, surprise, and anger) can be expressed by the robot via sophisticated voice synthesis and body language to hold intelligent conversation with its owner and other people.
I agree with you... I help teach part of med school basic science and the course leader says that he thinks that the students are "wasting their time" sitting in on lectures, figuring that they could master the material on their own in a much more efficient way.
errr.... that was 37 minutes according to the article. But then again, it's worth the wait to download Foreigner's Complete Greatest Hits and Police Academy 6?
"It's like walking into a titty bar after a lifetime of burlesque shows." - Maxim - it's Playboy with bad writing and too much clothing.
All of this fuss and bother is the nuts and bolts of Robinson's raison d'Lego -- designing and building intricate scale models, right down to a Lego man at a Lego urinal, or a Lego toilet paper dispenser in a Lego toilet stall.
In this case that means be willing to give your customers some control, and more importantly allow your customers to have some sort of way to have their say.
This is very true, but the media corporations were used to dealing with miniscule contributions to content (e.g. call-ins, letters to the editor). When faced with individual "consumers" with unprecedented abilities to control not just content, but format, distribution and access, they couldn't deal. In essence, the pure consumer ceased to exist when a two way interaction became so much easier.
... but the recent splintering of Nature into a vast array of smaller journals with better expertise (Nature Neuroscience, etc.) implies that there is a demand for more detailed coverage and more in depth reviews.
I think that this was also driven by increased funding for scientific research in the last few years. More money for research means more people need places to publish to justify getting the funding. Nature publishing Group basically wanted to create instant "prestige" journals for papers to meet that need.... much like Cell Press has also splintered into Molecular Cell, etc.
No guarantee for quality, though. So now there is a proliferation of "review" style journals (e.g. Nature Reviews Neuroscience) to help sift through the pile of articles. Basically seems like an admittance that peer review of publications is seriously flawed... being sited by a review or as a "featured" article is the new benchmark for prestige.
Wawa makes a hell of a sandwich. Personally, I like the touch screens... there are literally 25+ different options for the hoagies and it's much less error prone than trying to relay this info verbally.
If you want human interaction, you can always thank the person who just made your sandwich.
Probably the major role for sialic acid is to control how cells interact with each other. For instance, the ability of Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM) to allow cells to specifically communicate and attach to each other depends on how much sialic acid is added to the NCAM - more sialic acid makes NCAM less sticky and vice versa. Controlling whether cells stick together or not helps determine tissue organization. This is part of the interest in the gene concerning apes vs. humans, since a relatively small change in sugar metabolism might have a large effect on brain development and function.
People like to treat their eBay Feedback like some sort of video game, with a numeric integer representing their score in the game. People who do this simply are missing the point.
What amazes me about this is that these people either:
think they won't get caught.
know that other researchers won't be able to reproduce their data and are hoping to get caught.
are delusional and actually believe their data is valid.
are betting that their theories are right and are making up data in the hopes that they will be first to publish and that others will validate the results.
Yes, the pressure to produce can be overwhelming, but there are other ways to survive in academia. I find that a lot of researchers fall into a trap of only wanting to publish in the absolute best journals - and then either don't publish or get pressured into cutting corners. In the meantime, they could have chipped away at a project and over time make substantial progress publishing in second tier (but still well regarded) journals, to then gradually work their way up to the more "key" findings. In my opinion, this approach generally leads to more innovative research.
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Sun face must be related to Martian face.
Lugging around those disk platters must have been a great way to stay in shape - not an overweight one in the bunch.
For that matter, how do you do the plumbing in a "freely rotating" structure?
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Oops. The babel fish is being particularly unreliable right now. Perhaps try again after a cup of coffee?
So for kicks I did a manual one at Systran -
English -> French -> German -> English
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is one that will go get me a beer right before I want one.
IV. Personalities and Emotions
In addition, Dr Robot Inc. has planned to develop unique personalities and emotions of the robot based on the relationship with its owner. Personalities such as playful and shy, as well as emotions (such as happiness, sadness, fear, dislike, surprise, and anger) can be expressed by the robot via sophisticated voice synthesis and body language to hold intelligent conversation with its owner and other people.
Great - the mechanized psycho home companion ...
Maybe it's me, but that picture looks like Saturn coming in for a crash landing. I guess it's the cut-and-paste school of astromony illustrations.
I agree with you ... I help teach part of med school basic science and the course leader says that he thinks that the students are "wasting their time" sitting in on lectures, figuring that they could master the material on their own in a much more efficient way.
Name recognition is not everything ... and if the name is valuable, someone with a better business model can always buy it.
"It's like walking into a titty bar after a lifetime of burlesque shows." - Maxim - it's Playboy with bad writing and too much clothing.
Lego toilet paper ?!?!? That's gotta hurt ...
Looks a little like Jupiter, if you ask me ....
Once you become the renaissanciest man that ever lived you will understand.
This is very true, but the media corporations were used to dealing with miniscule contributions to content (e.g. call-ins, letters to the editor). When faced with individual "consumers" with unprecedented abilities to control not just content, but format, distribution and access, they couldn't deal. In essence, the pure consumer ceased to exist when a two way interaction became so much easier.
The moon's probably too bright for Hubble - it would burn out the photodetectors.
Maybe so that the US doesn't think that it's some sort of warhead being launched ...
At least it wasn't an X-10 pop-up ....
Hey, I think that it's pretty good that Keith Jackson decided to broaden his horizons ....
According to his site, Jones does do a fair amount of philanthropy. Maybe not in the most humble way, but at least he is being charitable.
I think that this was also driven by increased funding for scientific research in the last few years. More money for research means more people need places to publish to justify getting the funding. Nature publishing Group basically wanted to create instant "prestige" journals for papers to meet that need .... much like Cell Press has also splintered into Molecular Cell, etc.
No guarantee for quality, though. So now there is a proliferation of "review" style journals (e.g. Nature Reviews Neuroscience) to help sift through the pile of articles. Basically seems like an admittance that peer review of publications is seriously flawed ... being sited by a review or as a "featured" article is the new benchmark for prestige.
If you want human interaction, you can always thank the person who just made your sandwich.
Probably the major role for sialic acid is to control how cells interact with each other. For instance, the ability of Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM) to allow cells to specifically communicate and attach to each other depends on how much sialic acid is added to the NCAM - more sialic acid makes NCAM less sticky and vice versa. Controlling whether cells stick together or not helps determine tissue organization. This is part of the interest in the gene concerning apes vs. humans, since a relatively small change in sugar metabolism might have a large effect on brain development and function.
yet another bad joke, I guess. If only I could erase these. Or for that matter, not post them ....
People like to treat their eBay Feedback like some sort of video game, with a numeric integer representing their score in the game. People who do this simply are missing the point.
Yes, the pressure to produce can be overwhelming, but there are other ways to survive in academia. I find that a lot of researchers fall into a trap of only wanting to publish in the absolute best journals - and then either don't publish or get pressured into cutting corners. In the meantime, they could have chipped away at a project and over time make substantial progress publishing in second tier (but still well regarded) journals, to then gradually work their way up to the more "key" findings. In my opinion, this approach generally leads to more innovative research.