Endy0816

Sure. In Darwinbots, there was vision, touch, collision, hunger, etc. Saw some neat stuff. The evolution of family recognition was probably most interesting. At first general avoidance, then eventually evolving avoidance based on an identifying trait possessed only by close relatives. Was basically a pond simulation with program fed 'plants' and evolving critters that fed on them(and one another). Primary focus was on the evolution of behaviors. Number of simulators out there though with different foci. Evolution of the body, Core War style pure program competition, etc. Somewhat dubious on whether those could develop intelligence, but interesting at any rate. World is getting weirder with the increasing usage of neural nets. Realistically where we are likely to see something develop as companies have a logical incentive to throw ever more resources their way and enable them able to write their own programs.

There are alife simulators, but there are a number of problems with development into something more robust. Any one program on a computer can impact every other program on the computer. You cannot have the same level of impact in our wider Universe. Most of our code will break, if altered to any degree, rather than result in something with a novel function. Alife simulators have made some progress in this area, but still lag behind coding methods developed via evolution(to be fair it had a large head start). Probably the most glaring problem is hardware. Like asking us to simulate reality on an abacus. Can only dumb things down so much before it stops showing the complex behavior we desire. I'm convinced it is possible, but will take time to overcome the issues. Some of the trading algo's have shown weak signs, so maybe down the line we'll have something.

We have some here in busier stores and no minimum wage change.

Commercial operations are likely to be using destemmers. Cut the time and cost down considerably.

Yes

That is a large part of the problem though. You have a concentrated source of energy and one whose drawbacks can be easily externalized. They are looking at utilizing brine for CO2 capture though. Byproduct of desalinization and somewhat ironically drilling operations. Not a complete solution, but would help mitigate the damage while being agreeable to market forces.

They are talking about the galaxy count in the Observable Universe.

I'm thinking a body similar to Europa. Still chemosynthesis but push back the 'start' time.

Topology is sometimes referred to as 'rubber sheet geometry'. Might have been picked up from there.

Glad you made it through okay, though. I have to admit I actually feel positive about hurricanes as they always meant I got the day off from school. Our version of a Snow Day. Now as an adult having to batten down the hatches and clean up afterwards...

Wind, rain, fallen trees and some blown transformers. At least one truck overturned. Most everyone stayed off the roads though.

Well lookup tables are also used but Adders are how the computer does math without one.

Yeah, this one was pretty intense. Stay safe.

My guess is that nobody is sure on the secular criteria. People look at the thread, don't have an answer and move on. Normally I would say Red Cross. Probably going to be a slew of different campaigns though.

Still dealing with it here. Check the news for which agencies are doing disaster relief. Where money will do the most good. Islands were hit pretty badly.

Yeah, I'm not sure metaphor vs allegory vs reality, but makes conceptualizing it easier. You can see mile markers. Less obvious that the flipping of an hourglass can be considered equivalent You can use an odometer as a clock, but don't have to use an odometer as a clock. Though hoisting up a car and keeping the speed at 60mph would make for a pretty awesome clock. Do you happen to have any links you can provide for better understanding the workings of atomic clocks? Wiki doesn't go very in-depth on some of it.

If you go down the road and count mile markers you can figure out how far you've gone. How we tell time is like that. What it measures is the time between markers, what appears on the clock face is the count. Imagine a little imp flipping over an hourglass and moving the hands of the clock. We used to have people whose job this was, now we've advanced to having Swansont monitor the imps. Science! You don't like the 24 hour format, make up your own. We use different systems depending on the situation. They went at first, but after he refused to serve drinks to the AI's, they retroactively decided not to.

May come as a shock, but not the first time we've heard that claim. Please cite some evidence.

We are mostly concerned about the dogs fighting and one or both ending up injured/infected. Any size dog needs their owners to teach it how to behave. We're presently going after the owners via eviction, so at least not risking calling animal control. Would love a better option right now though.

Still bite and worse everyone babies them. Presently having trouble with neighbors letting their chihuahua wander and getting into fights with our larger dog. Poor dog is neither being disciplined nor restrained :/

Plot twist: He is God and doesn't want the job anymore.

Can someone provide an explanation of light cones? Seems to be the issue.

Yes. Many deities have unusual forms. What if you do believe in His Noodliness?

Pandora, they are also known for their music and jewelry selections.