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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid.
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Tweet The Dail Mail often has interesting tidbits to amuse. Today Eli brings news of James . James of course is the Joint Action in Multimodal Embodied Systems, in other words, your friendly robot bartender project funded by the EU, but for James to find employment, he has to recognize when the customers want a drink. To better understand this researchers at the Universitaet Bielefeld, a bunker near and dear to Eli’s heart, have studied how people get James’ attention or better put what James has to know to fetch Eli a drink . . .nine out of 10 thirsty customers adopted the subtle approach of deliberately facing the bar, which is the most successful for getting noticed and served, according to the study. By contrast, only one in 15 customers looked at their wallets to signal that they would like to place an order while fewer than one in 25 customers gestured at the bartender
More: Here and there Eli gets into it with the Breakthrough Institute hippy bashers
Tweet And Then There is Physics is taking a break and wondering whether he should unmask. Eli left some advice , which is worth repeating as it is often discussed Keep the handle and don’t worry if some “out†you. The nym provides important space where you don’t feel the need to respond to every last bit of abuse, and to look at the world with fresh eyes
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.