We continue to explore the way simple roles followed by unintelligent agents — even dumb bugs — can yield complex behavior.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, keep in mind that every termite is doing the same thing.
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Swarm intelligence enables the colony to converge on the shortest and most efficient path to food without any individual being especially smart.
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One unusual feature is that driver attention is monitored and inattentive drivers can have the self-driving mode suspended.
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AI displays very impressive horizontal integration (integrating existing concepts) but not vertical integration (entirely new inventions).
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Last week’s puzzle is also easier to solve if we observe some of the patterns that number theory reveals.
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If organoid computing succeeds, the next generation of computers may need both software updates and daily feedings.
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About last week’s MicroSofty: Think of the probability issue as just a distraction…
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Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.
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Last week’s puzzle, like several others, is easy to solve if we use inclusive thinking about relationships.
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I live in McGregor, Texas, where Elon Musk’s Space X has a testing center, and occasionally, the testing of their rocket engines gently rattles the dishes on the shelves in my home.
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Immediately, without touching anything in the room or a word being spoken, the police office arrested the clergyman. Why?
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The 1876 song My Grandfather’s Clock by Henry Clay Work. was about a clock that stopped, short, never to go again when the old man died.
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Optical illusions and audio illusions have no place in reality, neither do logical illusions even though they are used a lot in math proofs.
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The documentary 2000 Mules, by Dinesh D’Souza, presents a compelling argument that large numbers of ballots were deposited in drop boxes in a coordinated manner, potentially influencing the outcome of the 2020 election.
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You can get to all 72 other Micro Softies and their answers from here. Test your wits against the engineers!
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Sally tells her landlord she will give him one gold bead every day during the 30-day month.
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Great nerds are able to grasp deeper meanings. So here is this week’s Micro Softy about an overheard conversation.
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To show off my electrician skills, this week’s Micro Softy is about the light switch on your stairs.
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Fritz goes in the first day and sees one of the seven switches down and the rest up. He dutifully flips one of the switches.
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