Real, unhacked, unadulterated footage of Microsoft Excel screwing up division. Speaking of
Real, unhacked, unadulterated footage of Microsoft Excel screwing up division. Speaking of which: Information about my latest book, which is on the future of artificial intelligence, can be obtained at http://TheTuringTest.net. (By the way, I eventually figured out that the problem here is that when new columns were inserted into my spreadsheet, Excel failed to assign them a format. It's not really dividing inaccurately; it's actually rounding down to 0 or up to 1 automatically, just because it doesn't know what cell format to use. Formatting the column to "general" or "number" solves the problem, but what kind of idiotic programmer would allow new columns in a spreadsheet to handle data so sloppily?)
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"I started my professional activity as a neurologist, trying to bring relief to my neuroti
"I started my professional activity as a neurologist, trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an old friend, and by my own efforts, I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges, and so on. Out of these findings grew a new science, psychoanalysis, a part of psychology, and a new method of treatment of the neurosis. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavory. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end, I succeeded in acquiring pupils and building up an international psychoanalytic association. But the struggle is not yet over. Sigmund Freud."
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Real laboratory footage showing a pigeon solving Wolfgang Kohler's famous box-and-banana p
Real laboratory footage showing a pigeon solving Wolfgang Kohler's famous box-and-banana problem, which he studied with chimpanzees in the early 1900s. Dr. Robert Epstein and his colleagues used operant conditioning techniques to get pigeons to solve this problem "spontaneously" in the 1980s. A report of their research was published in the prestigious British journal Nature in 1984 ("Insight" in the pigeon, Nature, 1984, v. 308, pp. 61-62). Depending on their previous experience, pigeons could solve this problem in a human-like fashion in as little as a minute. This pigeon has learned to push boxes and to climb, and it has been rewarded with grain for pecking at a small toy banana. In this situation, the banana is out of reach and the box is not beneath it. At first the pigeon looks confused, then it begins pushing the box - sighting the toy banana as it pushes - and then stops pushing when the box is beneath the banana, then climbs and pecks. This and related studies were summarized in Dr. Epstein's 1996 book, Cognition, Creativity, & Behavior. See http://DrEpstein.com for details.
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BUY the CDs at http://DrEpstein.com . This is one of 15 new relaxation exercises from CDs
BUY the CDs at http://DrEpstein.com . This is one of 15 new relaxation exercises from CDs recently released by Dr. Robert Epstein, former Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today magazine, based on two books he wrote on stress management. Each CD includes more than 45 minutes of imagery, muscle-relaxation, and thought-management exercises. You can test your stress management skills free of charge at http://MyStressManagementSkills.com .
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A meeting in Japan between psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein and Repliee Q1, a beautiful and
A meeting in Japan between psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein and Repliee Q1, a beautiful and lifelike android. See "My Date With a Robot," Scientific American Mind, June/July 2006, available at http://drrobertepstein.com.
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