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It's been a long time since I saw Philosoraptor...

Years ago when I took my daughter on her round of college visits, we stopped by Yale. The admissions director gave an overview to...

Neither. See post 52 for a description from Amazon.

As a wise man once said, Confusuous perhaps, or it could have been Sydney Sweeneey, I forget. "A man who asks can only be fool for a...

I hope you may find this as hilarious as do I.

Vikings were purported to use sunstones (Iceland spar, which has polarizing properties) for navigation at sea when clouds obscured the sun.

A more recent idea is that proteins in the retina, called cryptochromes, react to magnetic fields; this would allow migrating songbirds...

don't cut your finger(s) off, let alone scorch your eyeballs in 0.01 seconds. You order some laser goggles too!

Oh, don't worry. Safety goggles was a part of the package. Also, I bought some ISO-certified ones that block pretty much all wavelengths...

Autopilots in planes are examples of simple agents. And actually nowadays they're not even all that simple, they can do more than just...

For any system where it's computationally intractable to predict its behavior using physical laws, yes, if it can be modeled as an...

Looked this up. It seems to be a similar to the wetware book but focused on the nervous system and the possibly emergent process of...

The normal evolutionary process can be conceived of as having two parts: the production of variability (random to some degree or not)...

The best heuristic I can give is that anything that can do something, even something very simple, on its own, without being told what to...