29 Thursday Oct 2015
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22 Thursday Oct 2015
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Who “owns” who?
This cat is certainly smarter than its owner:
And this guy loses the game show to a bunch of cats:
19 Monday Oct 2015
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Seriously though, it’s amazing.
I love it. It’s relatable to anyone who has ever been a neophyte at anything. We create this thing that we think is amazing, take it to the seasoned veteran for appraisal, and…
Well, hopeful our first critiques weren’t that bad (although some are bound to be), but we’ll catch the gist (maybe), while not really understanding much, and if we’re blessed, we’ll take it constructively, laugh, and do better next time. And our mentors, while strict, will secretly smile at our successes and urge us to do better.
And while you’re at it, check out the rest of Lackadaisy Cats, ’cause it’s awesome.
08 Thursday Oct 2015
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24 Thursday Sep 2015
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Bubba the Cat Has Become a California High School’s Star Pupil
Bubba lives near Leland High School in San Jose, California and he loves going to school. Every day he’ll venture out, get treats from his favorite teachers and hang out with friends until the school day is over and everyone has gone home. He started by following his owner Matthew to the nearby Bret Harte Middle School and graduated to Leland High School with him. He has since dedicated himself to getting a good education.
21 Monday Sep 2015
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Here’s a fun one for you guys, straight from IFLS. I love riddles (even if I’m not always good at them). I solved this one. Can you?
The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. It’s also sometimes attributed to Lewis Carrol, although there’s no evidence that either of them actually wrote it. Either way, it’s fiendishly clever and is popularly called “Einstein’s riddle”. It’s rumored that only 2% of the world can solve it.
There are five houses in five different colors in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Other facts:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.
The question is: who owns the fish?
If you can’t figure it out, here’s a video to help:
17 Thursday Sep 2015
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As an author, I of course have a degree of fascination with words. Check out what VSauce has to say…
In other news, Fire Within is now available in print! Check it out on Amazon.com and CreateSpace.
10 Thursday Sep 2015
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17 Monday Aug 2015
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IFLS: “Mother” Robot Builds Evolving Babies
The end is nigh: we have taught robots to create other robots, and not only that, but for each successive generation to be more efficient and effective than the last.
I am not the first to comment that teaching robots to not only build, but improve upon, themselves might not be the best idea. I seem to recall a line from I, Robot that also lamented this lack of foresight. The Stargate series also had robots called Replicators that could do this that frequently threatened to kill everything, everywhere.
But still, this is really cool. Maybe we can learn more about intelligent evolution and how to better design and breed things. And of course, it will save us time and energy if we can work alongside machines to the same end.
Providing it’s the same end, and they don’t decide we’re taking up too much space and resources and start a robot apocalypse.
But this is just a first step. The assembly-line “Mama” robot is given a few pieces and creates her “babies” with those pieces. Then “she” watches them walk down the table. “Better” babies are able to walk further, faster. After 10 generations of babies, there is a distinct improvement in their efficiency.
Meet the instrument of our demise:
What do you think, readers?
Stephanie Beavers 