Karen Pryor died on January 4, 2025. Famed for teaching the world how to use a simple tool to teach skills to animals (very much including humans), she had a long life filled with adventures and animals (very much including humans) of many kinds. The photo you see here shows Karen Pryor at the 2019 […]
“Generally speaking, modeling the developmental trajectory for almost any intelligent task that a 2-year-old child can perform on a robot is a potential research topic for us.” – explains the website of the Developmental Robotics Lab at Iowa State University, US. As an example to help clarify the (somewhat ambiguous) statement above, see the lab’s […]
Investigator Phyllis Stanley writes: “After reviewing every available training video, twice, I recommend this above all other sets of English-language instructions for how to load quad and vertical toilet paper dispensers”: UPDATE: Stanley writes: “Here is the best of the Spanish-language videos on the subject. The sub-optimal sound quality and excessive length are, in my view and […]
In this third and perhaps final episode in our possibly-popular Curing Shyness in Dogs series, to entertain you and your dog, and perhaps cure one or both of you of various ailments, we see a video demo by Steve Snell, featuring a starter pistol and some striped gloves, and also sunglasses. Click on the image […]
