Sony researchers have created several Aibo robot dogs that are capable of curiosity and learning. Using somthing called a metabrain the researchers gave the robots a curiosity about their surrondings, and an awareness of the value of learning.
The researchers placed the dogs in rooms with several small balls and, over the course of four to [...]
Archive for June, 2005
19 Jun
Learning robots
14 Jun
EFF legal guide for bloggers
The Electronic Frontier Froundation (EFF) has published a legal guide for bloggers who aren’t sure how the law applies to them.
Obviously a necessary bookmark for any blogger.
Link.
10 Jun
Birds again
Well, the last two birds died today. I ran out of worms some time this morning and was waiting for my brother to go buy some more or for it to rain so I could get some when the second bird died. Afraid of the other one dying my brother suggested that I give him [...]
9 Jun
Runt
One of the birds, who I named Runt because he was the runt, died sometime last night. He hadn’t been eating right and he kept falling asleap during the day. I hoped he would be able to live, but I guess it just wasn’t meant to be.
I’m going to have a funeral for him in [...]
7 Jun
Birds
My brother got a Jeep Cherokee the other day, to replace the one he destroyed in a flood, and inside the body was a bird’s nest, with three baby birds no momma. Well, after about a day we were finally able to get them out. Now they are sitting in a small cardboard box in [...]
2 Jun
Xxx
Stop. Whatever dirty thoughts just ran through your mind, get them out you dirty pervert.
That said, this actually is about porn, so your dirty thoughts were somewhat justified.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has officially anounced that they will be offering an “xxx” domain name to adult websites. The domains will be offered [...]
