The Real Difference Between Humans and Other Animals

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FC Now: Animals Got a Tsunami Warning.
Why Didn't Humans?

FC Now: Animals Got a Tsunami Warning.
Why Didn't Humans? 01/05/2005 06:49 AM
Reading about the aftermath of the tsunami in south Asia, I'm struck by one story now making the rounds. As rescuers began assessing the damage, they reported that, remarkably (and true to legend), the wildlife populations of the region sensed...

"Surviving the Tsunami - What Sri
Lanka's animals knew that humans didn't"

"Surviving the Tsunami - What Sri
Lanka's animals knew that humans didn't" 01/02/2005 11:09 AM

Employing Humans To Get Real-Time
Answers

Employing Humans To Get Real-Time
Answers 05/11/2004 01:24 PM
I've always been a big fan of technology businesses that actually use humans to fill in the gaps where technology fails. However, as someone who runs a company that fits under that umbrella, the big question everyone asks is "how well does it scale?" I'm sure that's the same question that the folks that the folks running Any Questions Answered - a new service in the UK that lets anyone using a mobile phone send in a text message question - which will be quickly (one hopes) answered by a human at the other end (for a pound each). Of course, the trick to scaling is to have technology help those humans do what they do more efficiently. Thus, AQA's answerers apparently have some software (Google?) that helps them quickly answer standard questions. The company also is looking to employ random people at home to help answer the questions - which raises the inevitable (second) question of quality. Of course, in many ways this is similar to Google Answers - with the big difference being that you only pay if you get the correct answer with Google. Though, it's also not done via a mobile phone and not nearly as quick.

The real difference between structured
and unstructured data (XML.org)

The real difference between structured
and unstructured data (XML.org) 06/11/2002 07:06 PM

Real-Life 'Lassie' Alerts Humans to
Smoke (AP)

Real-Life 'Lassie' Alerts Humans to
Smoke (AP) 09/26/2004 11:30 AM
AP - Foxie's cleverness is not doubted by Lake County Animal Control officials after the collie warned them about smoke coming from an area that contained 10 dogs.

REAL Software Announces REAL World 2005
Conference Dates and Location

REAL Software Announces REAL World 2005
Conference Dates and Location 08/27/2004 02:00 PM
AUSTIN, Texas (August 26, 2004) - REAL Software, Inc. announced today that REAL World 2005, The REALbasic User Conference, will be held March 23-25, 2005 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Noted REALbasic authors and experts and REAL Software engineers will be presenting sessions at REAL World 2005.

"REAL World is the perfect opportunity for REALbasic users, both expert and novice alike, to get together to share ideas, information and techniques. Attendees gain critical content that helps make them better, more informed REALbasic developers," offered Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software.

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars (Reuters)

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars (Reuters) 06/02/2004 03:30 PM
Reuters - Rising interest rates have yet to cool white-hot real estate prices. Perhaps that's why the concept of virtual home ownership has captured the imagination of a growing number of online gamers, who are plunking down real cash for their own slice of the digital frontier.

Virtual computing offers real benefits,
real challenges

Virtual computing offers real benefits,
real challenges 04/29/2004 10:42 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 29 2004 1:50PM GMT

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars 06/03/2004 03:29 PM

"die puny humans:"

"die puny humans:" 12/24/2003 09:20 PM

die puny humans:

die puny humans: 12/24/2003 03:01 AM
posting to Die Puny Humans .. "statements for 2004," .. wrote a short piece

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XAML is for humans

XAML is for humans 11/10/2003 11:12 PM

Don Box: Today, the data needed to initialize an object graph is hidden behind imperative statements in your programming language of choice. That makes it difficult to tease out of the rest of your program without weird markers in the source code to delimit the structure of your code into recognizable pieces.

My previous post on this subject had more to it, but I chickened out and didn't post it.  What the heck, I could be wrong, but... here's essentially what I said.

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"points us towards one key difference "

"points us towards one key difference " 04/23/2004 04:28 PM

How Big is the Difference Between
Websites?

How Big is the Difference Between
Websites? 01/18/2004 10:26 PM

Speed Difference

Speed Difference 06/30/2004 10:42 PM
I finally decided to run internet speed tests between my Airport Extreme, 802.11G, wireless connection and my wired ethernet connection. I ran the DSL Reports...

Top Tip: Difference between L2 and L3
cache?

Top Tip: Difference between L2 and L3
cache? 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
What is L2 cache? What is L3 cache? What is the major difference between the two.

The difference between POST and GET

The difference between POST and GET 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

How important is the ability to tell the difference between data sent by POST and data sent by GET (i.e in the query string) when developing web applications? Some web frameworks (such as PHP) provide separate mechanisms for accessing POST and GET data. Others (such as Python's cgi module) provide a single interface to form information that doesn't distinguish between the two. I already have a strong opinion on this but I'm going to leave it open for discussion here for a bit before weighing in.

"see if you can work out the difference"

"see if you can work out the difference" 09/27/2004 02:37 AM

vive la difference

vive la difference 02/17/2004 08:47 AM
She claimed to be a sporting champion whose brave and public battle against cancer turned her into a national hero across France. But when Florence le Vot was asked to become the patron of a charity to tackle the disease her conscience finally got the better of her.

What's The Difference Between DRM And A
Virus?

What's The Difference Between DRM And A
Virus? 06/23/2004 11:06 AM
Over the past few days a number of sites have commented on the fact that the new Beastie Boy album comes with copy protection (though, apparently not in the US or the UK, according to some). While this set off the usual argumen ts about why DRM is bad, The Register has rewritten the story as if t he DRM is a virus or similar malware. They may have a point. The DRM is silently installed without alerting the user as soon as they put the CD into their computer. It prevents their computer from functioning the way it was designed to. In fact, the article suggests the fact that it's installed without asking the end user or getting permission may constitute a crime. I'm not entirely sure, but I think the CDs do note on the case that they come with copy protection, so it is possible that sticker could be considered "letting the user know." Still, this does raise some important questions about DRM and whether or not it will violate any anti-spyware law that's being discussed, since most of them focus on the fact that they're installed without explicit permission.

ISU Interfaces: What is the Difference?

ISU Interfaces: What is the Difference? 08/17/2004 11:34 AM

Difference of Opinion

Difference of Opinion 07/18/2004 03:12 PM
Last Sunday's column, about the entertainment industry's latest effort to restrict our ability to make use of the copyrighted material we've purchased, took the technology industry to task for a belated response. Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, challenged me on that, saying the response was as quick and effective as he's seen from the industry to any challenge. Shapiro was, indeed, quick to jump into the fray, but the bulk of the tech industry didn't wake up nearly fast enough. Meanwhile, I'll take this opportunity to ask you again to contact your U.S. senators and express your strong opposition to the bill in question, S.2560. There's no time to waste. The text of Shapiro's note, edited slightly with his permission, is posted below. More...

Making a Difference

Making a Difference 01/01/2005 06:54 PM
New Year's

Amazing Animals

Amazing Animals 08/18/2004 06:30 PM

Animals on the Underground

Animals on the Underground 02/15/2004 03:45 PM

Sometimes it is a totally obvious and simple idea that is the most brilliant. Animals on the Underground is just that sort of brilliant, simple idea. Constellations of stars have been illustrated for centuries using the connect the dots technique, but applying it to the underground station map is clever and the animals are adorable. Maybe I'll dig out my underground map and try to find a few new ones.

Stuffed Animals

Stuffed Animals 04/24/2004 05:03 AM

A few pictures from a trip to the Helsinki Hall of Taxidermy, a.k.a. the Finnish Museum of Natural History.

Ok, it's true, we were bored while Jarkko was on 2 weeks of holiday that didn't include a trip somewhere and also featured the 4-5 day Easter holiday. What do you do when you've got a few days to kill, no car, no plane tickets and don't want to sit at home answering email or aimlessly surfing the web from the couch? The Finnish Natural History Museum seemed like a good idea one afternoon. We went, we saw, we were impressed by the taxidermic skill and then we went to dinner. If you're into taxidermy and dioramas, head straight for this museum as it has them both in abundance.

Infrasound animals

Infrasound animals 01/03/2005 10:02 PM
"Infrason ic Symphony" Intrigued by reports of tsunami-avoidance behavior in Sri Lankan wildlife? Science News offers a timely antidote to simplistic mumbo-jumbo about the "mythical power" of animal earthquake detection with a detailed look at the latest research into low-frequency sound. The Elephant Listening Project is particularly interested in elephant rumblings that produce Rayleigh waves. "Mammals, birds, insects, and spiders can detect Rayleigh waves," notes The Explainer. "Most can feel the movement in their bodies, although some, like snakes and salamanders, put their ears to the ground in order to perceive it."

When animals go to school

When animals go to school 08/31/2004 09:52 AM
Maybe we can save endangered species, but can we teach animals to be wild? Salon contributor Susan McCarthy talks about her new book, "Becoming a Tiger" -- and debunks the 100th monkey theory along the way.

FDA says it's OK to eat cloned animals

FDA says it's OK to eat cloned animals 10/31/2003 08:33 PM
USA Today Oct 31 2003 7:53PM ET

On The Emperor's Animals...

On The Emperor's Animals... 10/29/2003 12:10 AM

So here's a concept for a new Typepad weblog, inspired by the quirky and immensely pleasing post categories on a friend's weblog. The concept is called The Emperor's Animals and is basically a collection of funny animal links and stories from around the web. The site is designed to resemble 18th/19th Century illustrated guide to fabulous beasts and uses as post categories the The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge typology of animals outlined in Jorge Luis Borges' The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. Please please will someone make this. I'd read it every day! Just in case you don't know them off-by-heart already, these categories are:

1. belonging to the Emperor
2. embalmed
3. trained
4. pigs
5. sirens
6. fabulous
7. stray dogs
8. included in this classification
9. trembling like crazy
10. innumerable
11. drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
12. et cetera
13. just broke the vase
14. from a distance look like flies

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Glass Animals 1.0

Glass Animals 1.0 05/17/2004 10:32 AM
Cute and shiny animal icons.

Tool Use in Animals

Tool Use in Animals 05/03/2004 06:43 AM
“Tool Use In Animals”, a tidy little informative set of pages from Dr. Robert Cook's much larger “Animal Cognition & Learning Website” at Tufts University. See also (worth repeating because it’s the coolest thing ever) the previously featured “Betty the Crow”.   ◊via milovoo in Ask MetaFilter◊

Weightless Animals

Weightless Animals 05/06/2004 11:07 PM
Weightless Animals: soundtrack to space.

"the animals we face"

"the animals we face" 05/12/2004 05:27 PM

When All The Humans Are Gone From
Customer Support

When All The Humans Are Gone From
Customer Support 12/29/2004 10:35 PM
The NY Times is running an article similar to ones that others have run before, noting how incredibly difficult it is to actually get a human on the phone these days when you need customer support from a company. While many people know the "tricks" such as hitting 0 to get around the painful menus, it looks like some companies are spending more time making it harder for customers to reach humans (rather than, say, actually figuring out ways to help their customers). This means that the "0" trick won't always work -- though, sometimes hitting it three or four times in a row will get you through. Other tricks include hitting the * key in the hopes of getting a company directory. What's still not clear is why companies do this. Most of these automated systems simply keep people on these phone calls for a longer period of time and tend to piss them off. My favorite system so far was a Comcast system that required me to go through twelve menus before I could speak to a human, whose first question to me was "what phone number are you calling from" when in step two or three I had specifically punched in my phone number.

Humans vs Robots on Mars

Humans vs Robots on Mars 01/11/2004 08:15 PM
The Washington Post has an editorial on manned vs robotic Mars exploration by Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society. The erroneous idea that robots will eliminate human space travel seems to come up whenever a space mission is in the news and we've covered it before. Zubrin points out that while robots are useful, fun, and cheap ways of exploring, many of the tasks involved in looking for life would be much easier for a human explorer. And, regardless of how many robots are sent to Mars for exploration, humans will still go themselves eventually in order to live there.

A worthy aspiration for most humans: To
be like your own dog

A worthy aspiration for most humans: To
be like your own dog 05/11/2004 12:38 AM
A worthy aspiration for most humans: To be like your own dog .. this to say .. more»

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Robots to put humans to work

Robots to put humans to work 07/23/2004 06:35 PM
Firm with Carnegie Mellon roots, plans to hire 100 people to help make and sell 'bots that fix sewer pipes.

Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's
Help for Our Side

Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's
Help for Our Side 04/17/2004 07:25 PM
New York Times Apr 17 2004 10:53PM GMT
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