Trash pandas with wings.
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It is indeed dismaying to watch vehicles go by on US roads now. Everywhere I go, behemoths outnumber regular cars (which I guess may no longer be âregularâ).
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Itâs like people have completely forgotten about $4+/gallon for regular. What sucks is that small, reasonable cars are getting harder and harder to come by. Honda is no longer bringing the Fit here, with the HR-V (basically an overgrown Fit) taking its place. Watch the car companies get caught flat-footed yet again as gas prices creep up and people suddenly realize theyâre lucky if they get 25 mpg with that gigantic SUV.
Small and nimble has saved my bacon more than once. I donât need a lumbering behemoth to get me around.
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One of the strong memories I have is after I spent a year in the UK (my Dad had a sabbatical) coming back to the US in around 86-87 wasâŚ"look at the size of those cars. They werenât high SUV style, but plenty of landboats and huge hunks of steel compared to the UK.
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We have seen that âowning the libsâ is a more powerful motivator than money or even life itself.
Higher gas prices wonât be enough to change those minds.
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I got a 50.2 percentile. Average creativity doesnât seem very creative to me.
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You need to think more creatively about that!
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An Australian Court has decided that an artificial intelligence can be recognised as an inventor in a patent submission.
In a case brought by Stephen Thaler, who has filed and lost similar cases in other jurisdictions, Australiaâs Federal Court last month heard and decided that the nationâs Commissioner of Patents erred when deciding that an AI canât be considered an inventor.
Justice Beach reached that conclusion because nothing in Australia law says the applicant for a patent must be human.
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I found this nifty little tool:
It looks like deep dream with a little more control around the neural network, and fewer psychedelic dogs.
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Was 50.2 your score or was there a separate percentile somewhere? Because if it was the score I have bad news for you - 78 is the average score (I got 77.31).
I would still not feel too bad though because they are only claiming to look at verbal creativity, which letâs face it is one narrow facet of creativity.
I am also not sure that I agree with their methodology, since I think it is more creative to be able to come up with subtle and unexpected connections between words and concepts then it is to come up with a list of things that are as unrelated as possible, which seems like a more mechanical task.
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Yeah, that was the percentile. I scored just over 78. I agree that it isnât exactly creativity that they are testing.
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More creative than me then! 
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Well I scored something like 98 and some change because I thought I had better pick a couple more basic words since I wasnât sure what counted as âdifferentâ to the program so on the off chance it was considering word length or sylable count I went with something simple like âporridgeâ or âwax.â From a glance at the results I see that âdifferentâ is not being measured that way.
Neat test but itâs kind of conflating creativity with vocabulary which⌠Not sure thatâs great.
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Thanks cicadas!
ETA more odd cicada newsâŚ
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Mrs FSogol is suffering from these bites. Luckily they donât have a taste for me.
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