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semiavrage posted:http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-more-woof Pfft, it's not even voiced by Danny DeVito, what a waste.
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semiavrage posted:http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-more-woof It's a cool idea but come on, they said they've been at it for six months. Like $20,000 is going to speed it up into a working finalized product that quickly.
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If I wanted a pet I could talk to I'd get a parrot or a baby, I mean I guess dogs screech and poo poo less than either of those things but come on. Several Moms Discover One Weird Trick to Making a lovely Children's Book! Everyone Hates Them! It takes 40 dollars just to get a copy of the crappy third-grader-art book. Enjoy the pitch video.
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Noyemi K posted:Another OEL manga project, and man the art is just FANTASTIC in this one. quote:If $60,000 is reached a RPG/visual novel version of Megami Saga: Resurrection will be in production. The game will be based on all the volumes and will include a few extras within the story. The game will employ a Xenogears/Chono Cross like battle system and a hub based world where you select missions to fight demons or progress through t the story. You can play as Reiko, Ai, Hotaru and Hina. When it starts production it won’t be released until after all 28 chapters are released. Reach for the loving stars, buddy.
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Yeah, I'm reminded a bit of Dave Chappelle's bit on Aquaman. While improved animal communications are something I'd like to see, it's not like we're going to learn something profound or uplift our pets to our equals. I doubt dogs or cats have abstract reasoning. The research in two-way communication is probably more helpful since it'll keep a lot of pets from being mistreated.
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, I'm reminded a bit of Dave Chappelle's bit on Aquaman. While improved animal communications are something I'd like to see, it's not like we're going to learn something profound or uplift our pets to our equals. I doubt dogs or cats have abstract reasoning. The research in two-way communication is probably more helpful since it'll keep a lot of pets from being mistreated. Dogs are pretty drat smart (cats too), some guy managed to actually teach his dog some basic English. No, the dog couldn't talk back, but it understood him perfectly. He taught him a vocabulary of several hundred words, and when people said he was just memorizing sounds and nouns, he went and taught the dog some verbs, and you could actually do noun-verb sentences and the dog would interpret them correctly. That's pretty drat smart. That said, we're still talking about like "Touch the ball", "fetch the stick", "drop the frisbee", stuff like that, which isn't too hard to imagine a normal dog doing.
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Zaphod42 posted:Dogs are pretty drat smart (cats too), some guy managed to actually teach his dog some basic English. No, the dog couldn't talk back, but it understood him perfectly. He taught him a vocabulary of several hundred words, and when people said he was just memorizing sounds and nouns, he went and taught the dog some verbs, and you could actually do noun-verb sentences and the dog would interpret them correctly. That's pretty drat smart. Are you sure the dog wasn't just keying off of intonations or parts of the word? Could the dog do the same with other speakers? Animals can pick up on a lot of stuff, but at the same time, it may not actually be language that they're picking up. On the other hand, we have confirmed that some animals do have a sort of language. Those animals being prairie dogs and there's a guy who's figured out part of their language. Birds are also said to have a language, but it's likely to be much more difficult to decode due to its complexity.
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ShutteredIn posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children/posts/759318 I am not reading this mess. Why is he burning books?
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ShutteredIn posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children/posts/759318 that reads like the last will and testament of a mass murderer
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Xelkelvos posted:Are you sure the dog wasn't just keying off of intonations or parts of the word? Could the dog do the same with other speakers? Animals can pick up on a lot of stuff, but at the same time, it may not actually be language that they're picking up. On the other hand, we have confirmed that some animals do have a sort of language. Those animals being prairie dogs and there's a guy who's figured out part of their language. You're right that in most cases that is what happens. There was a horse that could "do math", but he'd just sense the owner tensing up when they reached the proper number and that's when he'd respond. But I think they tested the dog a bit. I dunno, it was awhile ago.
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ShutteredIn posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children/posts/759318 This is the most amazing meltdown in Kickstarter's history. Holy poo poo. He's literally burning the rewards in a huge pile. 
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Zaphod42 posted:You're right that in most cases that is what happens. There was a horse that could "do math", but he'd just sense the owner tensing up when they reached the proper number and that's when he'd respond. Not just his owner, Clever Hans could sense the right time to stop from other people as well. He was a smart horse. He just couldn't do math.
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semiavrage posted:http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-more-woof I love their "Prototype Version 3.0."  It is literally two cheap mic headsets (with an extra pair of microphone arms glued on) stuck together with what appear to be one of those passive horn iPhone docks and some other piece of whatever with a red LED stuck through one of its holes. Brilliant. Xelkelvos posted:On the other hand, we have confirmed that some animals do have a sort of language. Those animals being prairie dogs and there's a guy who's figured out part of their language.  A lot of marine behavioral ecologists are pretty confident that orca have the capacity for auditory/physical language in a manner eerily similar to humans and there's work being done at Cornell right now that seems to be finding possible similarities with elephants too (turns out that they make a ton of vocalizations that are just below the human range of hearing that we literally never knew about until maybe a decade ago). There's also been a lot of famous work done with African grey parrots, but I don't know what sorts of recent developments or consensus have come out of it. The idea that you could turn a dog's barks into anything more than a collection of maybe 10 general "feelings" is pretty hilarious though, and even then anybody who's spent more than 10 minutes around dogs could probably figure them out without some stupid device."Hmmm...my dog sounds scared/aggressive/hungry/hurt/like it's playing. Better go get the EEG to make sure..." trilobite terror has a new favorite as of 22:57 on Feb 27, 2014 |
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Paladinus posted:I am not reading this mess. Why is he burning books? Could be a troll. If you take it at face value: he's an art-eeeeeest, and trying to make a statement about his view of the world. The statement, in this case, is: * I have stopped taking my medication, and have gone completely batshit insane crazy.  * My solution to my emotional imbalance, as I see it, is to find an artist commune and live an ascetic lifestyle.  * I'm going spend the leftovers of the KS funds on funding that lifestyle. * I am canceling the remaining production runs of the Kickstarter product (a comic book). * For every angry email I get, I'm going to burn an asset of mine, to show how serious I am. (Specifically, I have a big stack of comic books that I produced but haven't mailed out yet; I'm gonna burn those.) * You're all consumerist sheeple who don't see how money is the source of all evil, gently caress you all, I'm out It's equal parts retarded and hilarious. He took down his website as well, and has a bunch of equally nutty posts on his tumblar, so if it's a troll, he's going pretty far with it, and I approve. If it's not a troll, I also approve, because holy poo poo that's hilarious. And at the same time, it probably means he needs professional help badly before he does something life-ending. ullerrm has a new favorite as of 03:09 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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When you have gone to the effort to write almost 4,500 words of complete word salad nonsense the line between "troll" and "mentally unbalanced" no longer exists.
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On one hand, it is always sad and worrying to see someone have the mother of all nervous breakdowns; on the other, this is why Kickstarter should have stricter regulations: Campbell is loving his customers and blaming them for it. e. Now that I know more about Campbell long history with mental illness, I apologize for making such a stupid argument. DoctorPresident has a new favorite as of 05:42 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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DoctorPresident posted:On one hand, it is always sad and worrying to see someone have the mother of all nervous breakdowns; on the other, this is why Kickstarter should have stricter regulations: Campbell is loving his customers and blaming them for it. 3/4 of the people who ordered the books got them. That's actually substantially more than a lot of Kickstarters end up turning out. 
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Install Windows posted:The or they're not really the books and it's another stunt again. Yeah, didn't he do some weird kickstarter stunt before?
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DoctorPresident posted:On one hand, it is always sad and worrying to see someone have the mother of all nervous breakdowns; on the other, this is why Kickstarter should have stricter regulations: Campbell is loving his customers and blaming them for it. According to one of the earlier updates, they quit a regimen of max-safe-dose Celexa + Wellbutrin, cold turkey. If so, yeah, they're screwed mentally. The customers have a right to be angry, but it's also hard to hold someone responsible for financial issues when they're pretty much certifiable.
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The Wisdom of Wall Street: An Empty Book. Yes, this biting social commentary is worth nearly five thousand US dollars.
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Honestly the best part of that is his previously published booksquote:I've written, designed and published real books (ones with text..!) before, and will be working with the same printer in the UK that published both of my earlier titles (Orchid Essence Healing, and also A Compendium of Flower Essences), so the printing on this side of the Atlantic will be pretty straight-forward. I will be working with a new printer if we also go ahead and do a print run in the USA, in order to save on the high airmail postage costs from the UK to there. But they come well recommended, and are set up for smallish runs of books, so this suits us well.
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James Polk posted:This is the most amazing meltdown in Kickstarter's history. Holy poo poo. He's literally burning the rewards in a huge pile. Wow, someone close to him should probably look at getting him involuntarily committed before he hurts himself or others.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/296234269/building-gravitator-electrokinetic-apparatus?ref=discovery Here's an antigravity device that someone claimed to have invented in the 1930s. I'm going to recreate it and make it scalable. Here is my drawing of the device, in loving crayon, on construction paper. The irony is, this device actually does work; it operates on the Biefield-Brown effect, and it basically jumpstarted the modern study of electrohydrodynamics. We use EHD devices today to maneuver satellites in space, and it's pretty common to build little tiny floating platforms called hexalifters for science fairs. It has a really terrible power density, though, and nasty safety issues. I predict that he's going to build an absolutely massive ionolifter and end up killing himself by becoming a ground for a corona wire.
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ullerrm posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/296234269/building-gravitator-electrokinetic-apparatus?ref=discovery I want to also point out that he uses the word "electrogravitics" which was made up by pseudoscientists who think that the Biefeld–Brown effect is actually altering gravity somehow. No, it has nothing to do with affecting gravity somehow. It's "anti-gravity" in the same way a rocket is, by using Newton's third law to push against it. The difference is that with an ion lifter or whatever motion of the working mass isn't as obvious as with a rocket. The sad thing is is that people actually did experiments to show that ion lifters don't work in a vacuum in an attempt to shut these people up but in typical conspiracy theorist fashion their excuse is that it was faked because "they" don't want you to know about UFO technology
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ullerrm posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/296234269/building-gravitator-electrokinetic-apparatus?ref=discovery Didn't the Soviets try to build some kind of vehicle with that technology, and find out that it simply can't scale up to human size with modern technology?
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That sad pictures for children meltdown gets even better when you read the 2nd update he made to his project page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children/posts/311890 quote:I'VE BEEN PRETENDING TO BE DEPRESSED FOR PROFIT AND I'M SORRY
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Frozen-Solid posted:That sad pictures for children meltdown gets even better when you read the 2nd update he made to his project page: It's supposed to be a sarcastic retort to some people who suspected him of faking it.
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Waffleman_ posted:The Wisdom of Wall Street: An Empty Book. And it already exists, but with a different joke http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Men-Know-About-Women/dp/1460993780
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BattleMaster posted:Fetishists are such a gold mine god drat. Remora posted:If you have ever wondered "How can I combine a cat tree and a spanking bench?" then this bipolar man (and probable messy fetishist) has your back! See. That's why cat tree/spanking bench guy isn't getting any bankers. His kickstarter is too general. He should have set up a kickstarter for the cat tree and a separate one for the spanking bench.
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BattleMaster posted:I want to also point out that he uses the word "electrogravitics" which was made up by pseudoscientists who think that the Biefeld–Brown effect is actually altering gravity somehow. I love when these lifters things show up. Back in university I worked in a lab that published some papers on modelling the thrust produced by ion lifters (the actual mechanism is called electrohydrodynamic flow), and surprise, the downward force generated by the EHD is enough to lift the device!
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Zaphod42 posted:I don't think this has been posted yet: Four score and twenty pages ago, it was called. Supertoy is now dead! The founder has made a run to some well established toy company, made the toy much simpler ( AFAIK it just reads Wikipedia and uses Siri or something worse, along with a probably very simple blanket ban on anything that uses "adult words") and given the backers a great choice : botched alpha version of the promised toy or beta version of the lesser new toy (or refund)... Oh, there is also some drama about the team breaking up and the fact that not only were the backers not kept in the loop, but the "creator" purposely mislead them into thinking that the project was going fine -photos of the production runs, shipping dates...- and only coming forwards with the truth of selling the idea to a toy company once backers had noticed this slightly too similar competition.
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So this AI is smart enough to hold a conversation and can dictate the internet to you, while filtering out inappropriate content for children? And it can tell the difference between kids and adults, and can not only fool kids, but can pass the loving Turing Test with adults? No way in hell.
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Feb 13 2014 The Long and Winding Road 29 comments 22 likes Hi Everyone, I am so very pleased to tell you on the 19th this month February ALL your Supertoys will have been manufactured at the factory. Feb 24 2014 WikiBear 217 comments 13 likes I will honour ALL my obligations even though Supertoy is sadly no more.
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