In a new study scientists have finally verified what pet owners have known for years, that dogs can
actually talk to their humans.
Sometimes you'll need to
actually talk to a human.
Not exact matches
His worry is
actually about
human testing in the field, but, he says, he's already
talking to WHO about how those studies would be done.
«If you
talk to people who've campaigned around the world for
human rights and religious rights, they would say that where we are starting is
actually on a path that could lead
to the same sort of regimes that are elsewhere in the world, certainly in terms of persecution of Christians,» he said.
People living
to near a 1000 years old, giants, creation stories,
talking snakes, angels making out with women, sea monsters, people being turned into salt,
human sacrifice as a good thing,... Compared
to that some of the Greek myths
actually look realistic.
And in this way each time that repentance comprehends guilt it understands that the eleventh hour has come: that hour which
human indolence knows well enough exists and will come, when it is
talked about in generalities, but not when it
actually applies
to the indolent one himself.
While I agree that the image of parent stooping
to look a child in the eye and
talk to a child on his or her level is helpful when some people think of how God interacts with us, I also think that this image or idea does some damage
to how it is that we
humans actually think of God.
a mentally retarded black man doing everything a
human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep
talk, running water bottles
to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except
actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.
And on a Friday night in a South Carolina town, his encounter with a mentally retarded black man doing everything a
human being could possibly do at a high school football game — greeting the crowd, providing radio commentary, delivering the pregame pep
talk, running water bottles
to the players, cheering with the cheerleaders, leading the halftime marching band and racing across the field with the school flag after touchdowns — everything except
actually playing, and basking in his town's love every mad minute of it.
I recently saw the movie «Her,» and while it isn't the best movie I've ever seen, it is pretty much at the top when it comes
to raising fascinating questions: what it means
to be
human, what we mean when we
talk about love and intimacy, what sex is, and yes, how we can be so connected
to and dependent on technology — especially technology that responds in loving ways and gives us exactly what we want — that we
actually can have a romantic relationship with it.
Steve: Tell you a quick story, I was listening
to Rush Limbaugh once, which I do as an exercise every once in a while, and he was
talking about how, you know, environmentalism is a sham because this is
actually what he said: «How can we believe, how can
humans believe that we could possibly damage something that God made?»
We now understand that
humans are
actually a holobiome: a super organism which Kiran compares
to a «walking,
talking rainforest»
Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in
humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a
Actually meeting the person you are
talking to is one of the most important steps
to online dating.
he
actually talk publicly about how
to kill masses of
humans.
It would be my preference that you would be found
to be simply wrong and all the politicians and economists, their benefactors and the
talking heads in the mass media
actually had an adequate enough understanding of the way the world works and a realistic recognition of the «placement» of the
human species within the natural order of living things.
2) I've
talked to lots of scientists doing simulations of all sorts of things: — automobiles (Computational Fluid Dynamics for streamlining, crash codes for simulating care crashes — for the latter, sometimes simulations tell the designers that removing metal
actually makes a car safer (ex: Ford Taurus, at one point)-- airplanes — bridges, oil platforms, buildings —
human blood vessels and likely effects of surgery
While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years
to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of
human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according
to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist
talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might
actually be a good thing.
Thank god only one living
human has the complete lack of character required
to talk this
talk and
actually think we should all oblige.
We'll skip the
humans and
talk about polar bears in a bit, but let's first
talk about the underlying issue: what science means — and how it's
actually quite easy
to harness your own intelligence
to interests that may want
to try
to confuse you.
The IPCC and AGW hypothesis supporters like
to talk about net CO2 because it looks scary, but compared
to the actual flux of CO2 and the associated uncertainty the
human contribution is
actually pretty small.
All the variables are largely unknown but it's more useful
to the agenda
to guess with confidence than
talk about the fact that
humans emit less than 5 % of co2 compared
to nature (we
actually have a good estimate on that).
Climate «sceptics» accuse climate scientists of exaggerating the evidence for
human - caused climate change in order
to secure their own funding; but
actually I think that any vested interests in
talking up the problem lie elsewhere.
Nevertheless, I did my best
to defend my thesis (expressed in prior
talks and posts) that while Legal A.I. is an unstoppable technological force, the impending «machine learning age» will
actually be a «
human learning age» in disguise, by returning precious time back
to attorneys
to focus on more meaningful and satisfying work.
Before your child has a friend over,
talk to your kid about what activities he'd be interested in doing that
actually involve interacting with another
human, like playing miniature golf or swimming.
The nanorods even respond
to the
human voice, meaning chatty mobile users could
actually power their own phone while they
talk.
Actually, jobseekers need
to focus their primary energy on networking and
talking to human beings, rather than settling for the online «cattle call» with thousands of other candidates and hoping somebody picks them out of the blue.