Comment Re:It's a big ask (Score 1) 229
Be careful what you wish for.
Another finger curls....
Comment Re:Stupid local minima (Score 4, Insightful) 75
But a lot of the time it does something stupid.
Much like evolution: The algorithms that survive are useful.
Comment Re:FIX SLASHDOT ALREADY (Score 1) 319
What content?
I keed, I keed!
Comment Re:stop it (Score 0) 111
teach them to laugh at youtube or something
now they can collaborate with the chimps and ride the short term trading wave at Wall Street.
Comment Re:interesting (Score 0) 111
I wonder if this would work with other writing systems. Could they learn to tell real Chinese characters from random fake ones, for example?
IMO they will be able to recognize the real words(pictures/shape?) from the fake ones.
Even for humans for whom English is not their first language, the roman script itself is like pictorial representation of the real world words. I can say that since English is not my first language (or the second), so whatever English I have learned is by recognizing the basic 26 pictures and correlating them with others to form words.
In a sense, all the scripts are pictorial until you start to recognize them, then they are just "letters" that gives you feel of the language.
Comment Re:dumb pipe (Score 0) 449
Whom should my friends pay for all the gossip I get by talking over the telephone/mobile to them for hours...tabloids?!
ISPs are losing it..wait they are already dumb. duh.
Comment Better links please... (Score 1) 140
Please editors... at least link to the original press release if not the research paper.
What's the point of linking to other blogs that have crappy internal links all over the article?
What's the point of linking to other blogs that have crappy internal links all over the article?
Comment Re:49% says smarter than average... (Score 0) 584
Chewbacca is a super-genius from his species, so I guess he deservers special category.
Comment Re:Interpretation (Score 0) 584
ps. to the below average in the crowd, you are more than welcome here; have a cookie.
IMO they wouldn't be able to answer the poll.
Comment Re:While I suspect Slashdot is an atypical sample. (Score 0) 584
and men have TWICE the average number of testicles!!!
Except for married men. They have half the number of average minus one.
Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 0) 584
What do you think the Chewbacca option is?
That's Mr. Chewbacca to you.
Comment Re:George Carlin (Score 0) 584
Sampling bias at work.quote>
That's true. Chewbacca really threw off the BellShape Curve.
Fossil of Ant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered In China 64
thomst writes "Charles Q. Choi of LiveScience reports that a farmer in southern Henan Province in China has dug up the first known ant-eating dinosaur, a half-meter-long theropod (the dinosaur family to which T. Rex belongs), whose fossilized remains were described as 'fairly intact'. The 83- to 89-million-year-old pygmy dinosaur has been named named Xixianykus zhangi by Xig Xu, De-you Wang, Corwin Sullivan, David Hone, Feng-lu Han, Rong-hao Yan, and Fu-ming Du, whose paper on the critter, A basal parvicursorine (Theropoda: Alvarezsauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of China, was published in the March 29 issue of Zootaxa (the abstract is available in PDF format for free, the full article is paywall-protected.)"
Comment Re:GM's eyes are bigger than its stomach ... (Score 0) 206
You could eat breakfast, talk on your cell phone (or text), do your makeup etc. in comfort.
Aren't people doing this already while driving (including the comfort part)?
Comment Re:GM's eyes are bigger than its stomach ... (Score 0) 206
I once saw a lady(twenty something) "reading" a book while driving at 70mph on I-90.
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