So, for example, whereas factoring a 64-bit prime number might take a fairly hefty digital computer a decent chunk of time
I can factor even the largest Mersenne primes in under two seconds in my head. Maybe I can help these scientists out a little bit with factoring primes...:)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming says that the earth has dimmed 'only' 5% globally since the 50's. Nice try, don't forget to turn in your geek badge on the way out!
I'd also like to see somebody try to take my badge for not cross-checking my wikipedia results with some other source. Go on, have at you!
Um, I think if they were faked, it would be all over western news. Kind of like how if the Apollo landings were faked, every other country in the world (which includes the Soviet Union) would have reported that the US faked them.
Solvable by a human with an understanding of the context and an IQ of at least 40:
Encrypted: Ner gurer gjb fgnghrf urer?
Letters by guessing: Are t ere t statues ere?
Fully decrypted: Are there two statues here?
f=s
g=t
n=a
h=u
r=e
e=r
After the prisoner manipulates the chalice (or not, by his choice), he is sent back to his own cell and securely locked in.
I'm not an expert by far, and this certainly did kick my butt. I can't figure anything out. No way to establish a "leader", either, for a previous poster's idea.
We all know that these cloned trees will not have souls, quite unlike real trees which do, umm... I guess those don't have souls, either. Well. If you eat these trees you will get cancer, only natural food is, umm, who'd want to eat this tree anyway? Damn, back to drawing boards. Boo cloning!
The Romans always held their architects accountable if their buildings were to collapse. If a building collapsed and somebody died as a result, the architect was then sentenced to death.
Is it possible for an initial public offering to "fail"? How would that happen? Are there consequences to going IPO but then not gathering as much money as you had hoped? Thanks in advance.
The NYT specifically cites EA's recent trends regarding endless rehashing of titles, while EGM talks more broadly about the role of sequels in the industry. While most reviewers lament the current state of the sequel factory, those within the industry rely on new versions of old titles for their bread and butter....At least he was impartial in this article:)
While there have been numerous claims about anti-gravity using ihgh powered electro magnetic fields, given the way that the US seems unable to keep any secrets very well, I can't imagine that stuff would not have come out in the mean time.
Yeah, because you and all of us knew that there were stealth aircraft being developed at Area 51 before they were even announced. *rolls eyes* If the US Government really wants to keep a secret, especially something way more advanced and powerful than a secret formula for radar-absorbing materials, there is no way we will find out about it.
Alex is a 28-year-old grey parrot who lives in a lab at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and can count, identify objects, shapes, colors and materials. And now, Alex has grasped the concept of zero, according to World Science. In fact, Alex can describe the absence of a numerical quantity on a tray containing colored cubes. When a color is missing, Alex consistently identified this "zero quantity" by saying "none." You might think that this is just a parrot trick, but this research about 'bird intelligence' might also help autistic and other learning-disabled children "who have trouble learning language and counting skills." Read more...
One of the really interesting things about Alex is that it had learned in the past that "none" meant a lack of information. And without any training, when Alex was asked to say how many green or red cubes were on a tray in front of him, he spontaneously said "none" when there was no cubes with this color. In fact, he was able to connect two different concepts, a lack of information and the absence of a quantity. Pretty brilliant parrot, isn't?
Before going further, below is a picture of Alex in front of his counting blocks (Credit: Brandeis University). And here is a link to a larger version (193 KB).
A 'cultured' hamburger
Now, let's look at how the researchers made the discovery that Alex possessed a "zero-like concept."
The story began when researchers started testing Alex to see whether he understood small numbers, between one and six. Zero wasn't expected of him. The researchers would lay out an array of objects of different colors and sizes, and asked questions such as "what color four?" -- meaning which color are the objects of which there are four.
Apparently, Alex was pretty good on these tests, until he got bored. So the researchers "found some more interesting toys to give as rewards." And here came the decisive experiment.
One of these apparent lapses occurred one day when an experimenter asked Alex "what color three?" Laid out before Alex were sets of two, three and six objects, each set differently colored. Alex insisted on responding: "five." This made no sense given that the answer was supposed to be a color.
After several tries the experimenter gave up and said: "OK, Alex, tell me: what color five?" "None," the bird replied. This was correct, in that there was no color that graced exactly five of the objects. The researchers went on to incorporate "none" into future trials, and Alex consistently used the word correctly, they said.
A few days after this article was published, Brandeis University decided to issue a press release adding that Alex was the "first bird to comprehend numerical concept akin to zero."
"It is doubtful that Alex's achievement, or those of some other animals such as chimps, can be completely trained; rather, it seems likely that these skills are based on simpler cognitive abilities they need for survival, such as recognition of more versus less," explained comparative psychologist and cognitive scientist Dr. Irene Pepperberg.
Dr. Pepperberg's research, which uses a training method called the model-rival technique, also holds promise for teaching autistic and other learning-disabled children who have difficulty learning language, numerical concepts and even empathy.
So far, results using this learning technique with small groups of autistic children have been very promising.
The latest research work about Alex and his comprehension of zero has been published by the Journal of Comparative Psychology in its May 2005 issue (Volume 119, Issue 2) under the name "Number Comprehension by a Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Including a Zero-Like Concept." You'll get to the abstract from this page (scroll to number #8).
A Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) that was able to quantify 6 item sets (including subsets of heterogeneous groups, e.g., blue blocks within groupings of blue and green blocks and balls) us
Unfortunately, unless some other big names in law jump on this, we won't see anything more of this after this article. This won't be the first time something like this happened.
I wouldn't exactly expect Sony or Microsoft to support these as-is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were only a matter of time before these applications are released for the next-gen consoles.
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So, for example, whereas factoring a 64-bit prime number might take a fairly hefty digital computer a decent chunk of time
:)
I can factor even the largest Mersenne primes in under two seconds in my head. Maybe I can help these scientists out a little bit with factoring primes...
Holy crap, that's over one billion DeLoreans!
But we must know what they receive on a typical IQ test!
Ehhhhh?!
So in Soviet America, you abuse PATRIOT act!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming says that the earth has dimmed 'only' 5% globally since the 50's. Nice try, don't forget to turn in your geek badge on the way out!
I'd also like to see somebody try to take my badge for not cross-checking my wikipedia results with some other source. Go on, have at you!
Um, I think if they were faked, it would be all over western news. Kind of like how if the Apollo landings were faked, every other country in the world (which includes the Soviet Union) would have reported that the US faked them.
I use Gmail. :)
Solvable by a human with an understanding of the context and an IQ of at least 40: Encrypted: Ner gurer gjb fgnghrf urer?
Letters by guessing: Are t ere t statues ere?
Fully decrypted: Are there two statues here?
f=s
g=t
n=a
h=u
r=e
e=r
After the prisoner manipulates the chalice (or not, by his choice), he is sent back to his own cell and securely locked in. I'm not an expert by far, and this certainly did kick my butt. I can't figure anything out. No way to establish a "leader", either, for a previous poster's idea.
We all know that these cloned trees will not have souls, quite unlike real trees which do, umm... I guess those don't have souls, either. Well. If you eat these trees you will get cancer, only natural food is, umm, who'd want to eat this tree anyway? Damn, back to drawing boards. Boo cloning!
Yeah, because we all know that the BBC has problems getting a good pagerank on Google
The Romans always held their architects accountable if their buildings were to collapse. If a building collapsed and somebody died as a result, the architect was then sentenced to death.
and bank accounts at the three men's residences
Ahaha, who keeps bank accounts at their residence, of all places?!
Is it possible for an initial public offering to "fail"? How would that happen? Are there consequences to going IPO but then not gathering as much money as you had hoped? Thanks in advance.
The NYT specifically cites EA's recent trends regarding endless rehashing of titles, while EGM talks more broadly about the role of sequels in the industry. While most reviewers lament the current state of the sequel factory, those within the industry rely on new versions of old titles for their bread and butter. ...At least he was impartial in this article :)
Machines with incorrect daylight savings programming will display incorrent daylight savings time! Story at 11, movie at 12
this would really send the message that PS3 is vapor and lead
:)
Isn't that what we call an oxymoron?
While there have been numerous claims about anti-gravity using ihgh powered electro magnetic fields, given the way that the US seems unable to keep any secrets very well, I can't imagine that stuff would not have come out in the mean time.
Yeah, because you and all of us knew that there were stealth aircraft being developed at Area 51 before they were even announced. *rolls eyes* If the US Government really wants to keep a secret, especially something way more advanced and powerful than a secret formula for radar-absorbing materials, there is no way we will find out about it.
Is the parent being funny or insightful? Oh dear...
I'd like to thank the author, Spy der Mann, for having the foresight to make a coral cache of the site before posting. Kudos to you, mate.
Alex is a 28-year-old grey parrot who lives in a lab at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and can count, identify objects, shapes, colors and materials. And now, Alex has grasped the concept of zero, according to World Science. In fact, Alex can describe the absence of a numerical quantity on a tray containing colored cubes. When a color is missing, Alex consistently identified this "zero quantity" by saying "none." You might think that this is just a parrot trick, but this research about 'bird intelligence' might also help autistic and other learning-disabled children "who have trouble learning language and counting skills." Read more...
One of the really interesting things about Alex is that it had learned in the past that "none" meant a lack of information. And without any training, when Alex was asked to say how many green or red cubes were on a tray in front of him, he spontaneously said "none" when there was no cubes with this color. In fact, he was able to connect two different concepts, a lack of information and the absence of a quantity. Pretty brilliant parrot, isn't?
Before going further, below is a picture of Alex in front of his counting blocks (Credit: Brandeis University). And here is a link to a larger version (193 KB).
A 'cultured' hamburger
Now, let's look at how the researchers made the discovery that Alex possessed a "zero-like concept."
The story began when researchers started testing Alex to see whether he understood small numbers, between one and six. Zero wasn't expected of him. The researchers would lay out an array of objects of different colors and sizes, and asked questions such as "what color four?" -- meaning which color are the objects of which there are four.
Apparently, Alex was pretty good on these tests, until he got bored. So the researchers "found some more interesting toys to give as rewards." And here came the decisive experiment.
One of these apparent lapses occurred one day when an experimenter asked Alex "what color three?" Laid out before Alex were sets of two, three and six objects, each set differently colored. Alex insisted on responding: "five." This made no sense given that the answer was supposed to be a color.
After several tries the experimenter gave up and said: "OK, Alex, tell me: what color five?" "None," the bird replied. This was correct, in that there was no color that graced exactly five of the objects. The researchers went on to incorporate "none" into future trials, and Alex consistently used the word correctly, they said.
A few days after this article was published, Brandeis University decided to issue a press release adding that Alex was the "first bird to comprehend numerical concept akin to zero."
"It is doubtful that Alex's achievement, or those of some other animals such as chimps, can be completely trained; rather, it seems likely that these skills are based on simpler cognitive abilities they need for survival, such as recognition of more versus less," explained comparative psychologist and cognitive scientist Dr. Irene Pepperberg.
Dr. Pepperberg's research, which uses a training method called the model-rival technique, also holds promise for teaching autistic and other learning-disabled children who have difficulty learning language, numerical concepts and even empathy.
So far, results using this learning technique with small groups of autistic children have been very promising.
The latest research work about Alex and his comprehension of zero has been published by the Journal of Comparative Psychology in its May 2005 issue (Volume 119, Issue 2) under the name "Number Comprehension by a Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Including a Zero-Like Concept." You'll get to the abstract from this page (scroll to number #8).
A Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) that was able to quantify 6 item sets (including subsets of heterogeneous groups, e.g., blue blocks within groupings of blue and green blocks and balls) us
How do I install this on my windows comp? :P
Unfortunately, unless some other big names in law jump on this, we won't see anything more of this after this article. This won't be the first time something like this happened.
I wouldn't exactly expect Sony or Microsoft to support these as-is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were only a matter of time before these applications are released for the next-gen consoles.