Posts by Riddley Walker
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pod head is right. then let's define intelligence as the capacity for functional adaptation to an environment. would it be that trainability and intelligence are positively correlated?
The difference between cats and dogs?
Dogs are carrion feeders
Cats only eat fresh meatDog lovers need to be loved
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a more persuasive case for not dying your own hair?
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i guess preparing poetry earlier is always good if there's a risk of burning and you have hungry readers arriving.
my grandmother was a Sudetenlaender although cruise ships were more her thing. a champion ski-jumping nana is quite something. she must've been cool. i once visited the olympic jump in Oslo and it was just unbelievabley steep and scary. if you'd slipped at the top and weren't on skis you'd be dead by the time you got to the bottom, even if you didn't go over the jump.
ski jump and biathlon are the only winter sports i like to watch. ski jumping because it's so pretty. biathlon because it is so mean. having done a wee bit of weapons training and cross country skiing, i know how they just so totally don't mix.the brightest will always fall m. they're bright because they will fall. and they fall because they are bright. want to stay up? stay dim.
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certainly no say on brain surgery.
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thanks m. it takes a certain feel to be able to condition a subject quickly, computer sim or no. it's not surprising you possess such a feel.
female black cats are notoriously untrainable though from my experience. which is i presume why you like her.
these guys on the other hand (Bengals) here and here behave like dogs.tell me, do you think 'trainability' is related to intelligence, and if so, how?
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and it's very easy for a hastily drawn zipper to set fire to a groin.
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This really does seem to be the amendment that says whatever you want it to say
true. it's the amendment that lets National de-couple itself from the fundy-right without losing too much face, and which allows National to u-turn despite any changes while making them look like their pretend concerns with the previous (ie. exactly the same) version were justified.
it's the amendment that says what was always so in the first place. -
Well at least you don't get farmed for food anymore
we don't talk about that
I blame the hampsters
buck-toothed tosspots. we certainly don't talk about them either. actually we're pretty big on not talking about stuff. you may have noticed this trait.
And how come you know about persistence my hairless pink friend
the opening the door after letting them go on for ages is in fact a Variable Ratio (VR) schedule, the same schedule that gets humans pulling on the levers of One Armed Bandits til they run out of money and family. it's a mighty powerful one. Alternatively, opening the door as soon as they omit the 'open the door, human' is a Continuous Reinforcement (CRF) schedule, which is highly prone to extinction - which in this case is what you want.
Incidentally, and you might like this m, if you have a subject responding on a VR schedule and then switch it to a Variable Time (VT) schedule, you get superstitious behaviour (ie. behaviour performed in the presence of a stimulus that is not maintained by any causal relationship to reinforcement). And that doesn't extinguish very easily at all. You can train superstitious behaviour in just about any species. Can you tell I'm a refugee from an experimental psych lab yet?
he's a stealth wool-eater my Tonks
he's a fine animal. if you are worried, try getting some sacrificial woolen fabric and rub it liberally with fresh chilli, then leave it around for him to discover. Don't use a sauce because it will smell and his aversion may not generalize to other wool like you want it to. He will probably only do it once. Leave some milk or something cooling for him too.
Why do cats go and stare at things
my mother also thinks her cat can see ghosts. maybe, but i think it's actually because a lot of cats are enlightened and the staring is just when they are in samadhi. when they open and close their paws, like they're kneading thin air, when you scratch their stomachs? that's also samadhi.
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If anybody needed proof that internet polls are a joke, check out the results on the Stuff and Herald websites.
Two differently worded questions, leading to very large majorities, respectively, for and against the amendment.
hehe that is funny
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he Captained a PT boat in the Pacific Theatre too you know
that'd be Pacific Theatre, 142 Chruch St, Onehunga.