El Espagnol reports “The rocambolesque story of the psychiatrist who ‘scammed’ the US and was sentenced to play the piano“. The news article begins [here machine-translated from Spanish to English]: An American psychiatrist has recently been reprimanded by the US Government Office of Integrity in Research, after having already been convicted. His crime: steal several […]
Tag: scissors
Rock/Paper/Scissors/Equations
If you like equations, here’s just part of the fun you’ll find in the newly published paper “Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game” (arXiv:1404.5199): (Thanks to Florian Gallwitz for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Rock, paper, scissors, robot, monkey BONUS: Rock, scissors, monkey
Rock, paper, scissors, robot, monkey
“In this research we develop a janken (rock-paper-scissors) robot with 100% winning rate as one example of human-machine cooperation systems. Human being plays one of rock, paper and scissors at the timing of one, two, three. According to the timing, the robot hand plays one of three kinds so as to beat the human being. Recognition […]
Conrad’s cutting remarks: Scissors (and WiFi & testicles?)
The organization called CONRAD, together with Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva, Córdoba, Argentina, supplied the researchers who did the research that resulted in the study “Use of laptop computers connected to internet through Wi-Fi decreases human sperm motility and increases sperm DNA fragmentation,” which we mentioned not so long ago. Investigator Julio Ernst commends this song, about Conrad, by […]