January 2011
Happiness is always a smile away.
Life is a disaster when you keep doing things you need to instead of things you’d love to.
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For robust robots, let them be babies first
This seem to prove the point that any new skill is easier to learn in small increments.Amplify’d from www.labspaces.netAnd why do the generations of robots that progress from slithering to wide legs and, finally, to upright legs, ultimately perform better, getting to the desired behavior faster?“The snake and reptilian robots are, in essence, training wheels,” says Bongard,...
Sooner or later, everything can happen. Sooner or later, everything will unhappen. That’s it.
You won’t learn what your soul is made of, until you toss it to somebody who fails to catch it.
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"...languages must be preserved because of the...
Amplify’d from www.independent.co.ukTomorrow is World Languages Day, and it seems appropriate to announce a happy but increasingly uncommon event: the discovery of a previously unknown language in the foothills of the Himalayas.
At first, Gregory Anderson, K David Harrison and Ganesh Murmu thought they
were hearing a dialect of Aka, but they soon realised it was sufficiently
different to be...
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DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks...
+1Amplify’d from www.salon.comAnd the key question now is this: did other Internet and social network companies (Google, Facebook, etc.) receive similar Orders and then quietly comply?Read more at www.salon.com See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bkym3
“People are always amazed by how much “free time” I have. They’re also amazed...”
– Robert Wenzlaff (via xixidu)
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words...”
– Roland Barthes, literary critic and philosopher (1915-1980)