Honestly I have people ringing me on my mobile trying to sell me time share holidays and phone deals. I don't think ditching the mobile is going to help you for all that long.
Not necessarily. There are two main methods of catching prey.
1.) Outrun your prey 2.)Sneak and Ambush.
Both of these are in some respects interchangable but for the purposes of illustration, lets assume they're not.
If your main predator uses strategy 1 then you want to be able to detect it as soon as possible. The sooner you notice the cheetah charging towards you the sooner you can run for it. The sooner you run for it the bigger the lead you have on your pursuer.
Thus motion dection and a wide field of view has a considerable evolutionary advantage to prey species.
On the other hand your predator could use strategy 2. This involves sneaking up on a prey or positioning yourself somewhere where prey will come close to (ie. forest trails, water holes, etc).
Motion dectection becomes even more useful for a prey species as it will allow them to detect a predator sneaking up on or hiding from them.
So in either case, motion detection and a wide field of view can be useful tool in avoiding predation. It's not the only way to do so, but it's still useful when you have it.
Is that if you clone neanderthals, put them in a park and charge tourist money to see them, then it is only a matter of time before they go beserk and start eating people.
Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your pig here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Toastie: How-de-doodlee-do!Toastie Toaster's the name and Toasting's the game. Would anyone like any toast?"
Lister: I don't want any toast and he doesn't want any toast. In fact no-one round here wants any toast, not now, not ever! No TOAST!
Toastie: How about a muffin?
Lister: Or muffins,we don't want muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels. No quassants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes, and no hot-cross-buns, and definitely no smeggin flap-jacks!"
Toastie: Ahh, so you're a waffle man.
Lister: We don't want any smegging bread based products. Why can't you see that.
Toastie: I am a Toaster, I toast therefore I am. If you didn't want any toast why did you repair me?
Frankly, an unwarranted cavity search performed on a minor without the express permission of a legal de jure guardian is tantamount to child molestation.
Schools have few more "rights" than babysitters.
And here I was just starting to become interested in a career in teaching.
A comment that one of my lecturers made way back when I was doing my Cognitive Science degree always stuck with me. She said that what we consider A.I now won't be considered A.I in the future.
Take Chess as an example. Back in the 60s and 70s it was thought of as the cutting edge of A.I research. But when I was studying many moons ago it had long been realised that the ability to win a chess game did not help you solve other complex problems.
Self driving cars were considered science fiction ten years ago, are cutting edge now and will probably be passe ten years from now.
All I can say is don't get to locked into one vision of what robotics entails. Be flexible in what you learn and how you apply those skills to your job.
Agreed. Does that mean we can shoot Jack Thompson in the face? Maybe this is his way of expressing his need for this. Any takers?
I can imagine a mob of gamers swarming this guy, all shooting him in the face
The word Bukkake somehow sprung to mind when I read this and I began to feel really ill.
[freeze frame of Bo and Luke Duke bent over a laptop]
Well now, Bo and Luke Duke have to do a system upgrade and their laptop's fuel cell is lower than a gator's belly. And what with Boss Hogg tying up all of the ethanol in Hazzard county, these boys are in a bit of a pickle.
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... Graves or Nursing homes.
Force them to watch a couple hours of Big Brother or (your country) Idol. That's torture to me.
He's been working for Disney for years.
It's the only way to be sure that it's free of malware.
Honestly I have people ringing me on my mobile trying to sell me time share holidays and phone deals. I don't think ditching the mobile is going to help you for all that long.
Maybe they can get their act together and arrest this cherry tree chopping miscreant too!
This guy strapped jet engines to his feet.
I for one welcome our radioactive Scor... save us Spidey, save us.
Not necessarily. There are two main methods of catching prey.
1.) Outrun your prey 2.)Sneak and Ambush.
Both of these are in some respects interchangable but for the purposes of illustration, lets assume they're not.
If your main predator uses strategy 1 then you want to be able to detect it as soon as possible. The sooner you notice the cheetah charging towards you the sooner you can run for it. The sooner you run for it the bigger the lead you have on your pursuer.
Thus motion dection and a wide field of view has a considerable evolutionary advantage to prey species.
On the other hand your predator could use strategy 2. This involves sneaking up on a prey or positioning yourself somewhere where prey will come close to (ie. forest trails, water holes, etc).
Motion dectection becomes even more useful for a prey species as it will allow them to detect a predator sneaking up on or hiding from them. So in either case, motion detection and a wide field of view can be useful tool in avoiding predation. It's not the only way to do so, but it's still useful when you have it.
But that show had the best. line. ever.
You thawed Vikings frozen in a glacier? You fools, when will science learn!
Said Vikings proceed to run Amok(tm).
Is that if you clone neanderthals, put them in a park and charge tourist money to see them, then it is only a matter of time before they go beserk and start eating people.
No wait that's dinosaurs.
Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your pig here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
What's that?
Make sausages
Toastie: How-de-doodlee-do!Toastie Toaster's the name and Toasting's the game. Would anyone like any toast?"
Lister: I don't want any toast and he doesn't want any toast. In fact no-one round here wants any toast, not now, not ever! No TOAST!
Toastie: How about a muffin? Lister: Or muffins,we don't want muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels. No quassants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes, and no hot-cross-buns, and definitely no smeggin flap-jacks!"
Toastie: Ahh, so you're a waffle man.
Lister: We don't want any smegging bread based products. Why can't you see that.
Toastie: I am a Toaster, I toast therefore I am. If you didn't want any toast why did you repair me?
And here I was just starting to become interested in a career in teaching.
Worse yet the entire screen suddenly turns blue.
Because I'd be pretty pissed if I spent 18 years in a coma and I wasn't psychic.
McGyver strikes again.
Is there nothing he can't do?
PWNED!!!!!
A comment that one of my lecturers made way back when I was doing my Cognitive Science degree always stuck with me. She said that what we consider A.I now won't be considered A.I in the future.
Take Chess as an example. Back in the 60s and 70s it was thought of as the cutting edge of A.I research. But when I was studying many moons ago it had long been realised that the ability to win a chess game did not help you solve other complex problems.
Self driving cars were considered science fiction ten years ago, are cutting edge now and will probably be passe ten years from now.
All I can say is don't get to locked into one vision of what robotics entails. Be flexible in what you learn and how you apply those skills to your job.
... when the answer comes back 42.
I think of Davros
Ah but which side should the stripe go down? That's the tricky question.
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The word Bukkake somehow sprung to mind when I read this and I began to feel really ill.
[freeze frame of Bo and Luke Duke bent over a laptop]
Well now, Bo and Luke Duke have to do a system upgrade and their laptop's fuel cell is lower than a gator's belly. And what with Boss Hogg tying up all of the ethanol in Hazzard county, these boys are in a bit of a pickle.