Technology is not just for humans, suggests this study that uses a dog using Skype to try to make that point, or to make some other point: “A Dog Using Skype,” Alexandre Pongrácz Rossi, Sarah Rodriguez, and Cassia Rabelo Cardoso dos Santos, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction, ACM, 2016, p. 10. […]
Tag: communications
What things might or might not mean, to unknown (maybe unknowable) observers
Stephen Wolfram offers a raft of things that might or might have meanings. Wolfram also offers thoughts on whether those meanings—if they are meanings—were intended to mean what we may think they might mean. This is part of Wolfram meandering down mean streets of thought about whether and how it’s possible to make things that […]
“Roxanne,” plus 5 percent compounded
The song “Roxanne,” by The Police, gets a five-percent speed boost every time the singers sing the word “Roxanne”, in this video: Thanks to Mason Porter for bringing this to our attention. BONUS: Earlier today, we reported a different experiment in data communications: “Data Communications via Wet Sting, or via Hungry Snail.”
Data Communications via Wet String, or via Hungry Snail
A wet string works, for sending information from one computer to another, says a new experiment. This adds to the list of low-tech ways to move data, the most lively method involving a hungry snail. The string experiment is reported on the RevK’s Rants web site, with the headline “It’s official, ADSL works over wet […]
