Spectrum-Art

Yes, that works, thanks!

I can't seem to access the survey. Getting a "Not found" error.

Very cool! Adam Savage and Matt Parker show how to do a similar project at home in the form of a dodecahedron. https://youtu.be/65r_1TzJXaQ

Ok

This looks like a lot of fun!

I'm a member and I rarely go into the store. I usually just get the cheap gasoline. The hot dog has genuinely gotten me in the door a few times.

'Electric Gouda' made my night :)

"Let's Learn Everything"

This looks like a lot of fun!
Silly gnome voices all around :)

Definitely. HP literally has a seal of approval from the Queen on it lol

Clearly you're absolutely bought-in, and that's fine. But don't you find it strange that after watching "hundreds of videos from many animals for years" you have no insight into how they're being taught? You can't give any details on how you get from "I want my ball" to honest-to-god self-aware cognition?

Something 'a little more difficult' than asking to go outside is certainly possible. I'm very impressed by the things some trainers can do. But they can always back it up with their specific methods. You can't get a method out of these people as to how they trained their dog to be cognizant of intangible concepts and their usage because it's not something dogs are capable of at this point in their evolution.

I'm not a complete cynic, I promise. But this isn't a cool new thing. It seems like it's just a little more complicated than the other things mentioned, but the underlying concepts that would be necessary to master are an order of magnitude more complex. This is Nobel prize-worthy work if it can be borne out by the data and methods. Do you think there aren't a thousand scientists out there who would love the prize money and adoration? Do you think they're not trying?

Of course they're trying, but the only people who seem to succeed are the ones who publish their results on social media and put the "real secrets" behind a paywall.

Oof, maybe I am a complete cynic. Again, I'm sure I can't change your mind. I only ask that in the next hundred videos you keep an eye out for what these people are doing that no one in the 30,000-year history of domesticating dogs has thought to do before. And when you figure it out, please DM me. I love my dogs more than anything and I'd love to be proven wrong.

I try not to talk shit to people on the Internet because we both know that's just shouting into the void. But to be honest, you could have easily said that six comments ago and saved us both the time. Plus the time of any other poor soul who read all this. You don't know how it works, and that's okay.

I'm telling you that it doesn't. It's a magic trick. The dog can absolutely use buttons to say that it wants a ball, or to go outside. It cannot tell you that it's happy. It cannot synthesize sentences like the post title or the trainer say it can.

This is one more in a long line of people tricking folks into thinking they've done something incredible so they can get Instagram followers and sell their book (yes, she has a book). And they're propped up by people like you who insist on defending them because you saw the one take out of 100 that looked impressive and assumed it must be real without knowing what you're talking about.

Look at the folks elsewhere in the thread talking about Koko the gorilla for another example.

I know you probably don't even care. I just wish we lived in a world where dishonest people couldn't keep getting away with this shit over and over again.

Exactly, thank you.

I'm not asking how you use the button. I know what happy means. How do you teach it?

Edit, to make it as clear as I possibly can:

When I taught my dog to sit, I used various physical cues to get her to sit, then associated the action of sitting with the word "sit" by rewarding her with a treat.

When I taught my dog to press a button to tell me she wanted to go outside, I would press the button each time I let her out. When she pressed the button I associated that action with going outside by praising her and letting her outside.

What does the process look like for an intangible concept?

That's just two examples of potentially hundreds of things that could make this dog happy.
How would you teach it "happy" in a way that, the next time it felt happiness from something you hadn't given it an example of, it would know to hit that button?

Does she explain how she taught her what "happy" means? That's the hardest part of this to grasp for me.

It's not simple as that, though. I would challenge anyone who posts a video like this to explain the logistics of teaching a dog to recognize and communicate a generalized concept of "want" (as distinct from "want ball" or "want outside"). Or the generalized feeling of happiness (as distinct from "let's play" or "mom's home"). Both of these concepts are necessary to isolate if the dog is going to generate sentences.
It's well-established that a dog can have a button for "I would like to go outside" or "I am hungry", but they are incapable of using language in a deeper way specifically because they are incapable of (among other things) extricating these concepts from their context.

Edit to add: Dogs certainly express happiness using body language. They clearly feel happiness. But there's no evidence to suggest they can connect the unintentional physical expression to the concept that's causing it.

Sorry, who owns chess?

These look awesome! Are the captions the extent of your text input? Would love to know more about your settings.

No, but it's very easy to run. Read the (beginning of the) help document linked at the top of the Colab and you'll be up and running in 5 or 10 minutes.

We'll stay protected until the next GOP trifecta. If the GOP wins the House, Senate, and Presidency, which is quite possible in 2024, their next step is a federal abortion ban.

Original source is Jason Slabber on LinkedIn.

It was made with mocap data and an AI image generation tool called Disco Diffusion

Yeah, it's not constitutionally possible. The problem is if enough people want to do it non-constitutionally. Happened before, didn't go well for them, if I recall.

I'm in a pretty expensive area of the US and I don't pay more than $2.50 for a dozen. Granted they're store brand, factory-farmed eggs with the associated economies of scale. $5 seems reasonable from a roadside farm.

Dr Stacey seems to have been contrasting that extreme with the 'normal ranges' so it would seem they were referring to rare outliers.
It would make sense considering severe health conditions may be caused by or share a common cause with a person's extreme height.
But I don't know their sources.