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In the Spirit of Deep Climate
June 4, 2014 0

In the Spirit of Deep Climate

By News Desk

Tweet In the spirit of Deep Climate , Anonymous, as he wrote to Eli , has penned an analysis of how Richard Tol cooked and indeed, it is McIntyre class, although from the nature of the mistake, it may very well have been hubris and not malice.  Dickie’s misbegotten analysis starts from Cook et al’s description of their procedure, and just to show that Eli is an honest card shark, why not start with Tol’s description first of what he did, and then of what Cook et al did.  At the end of this it should become clear that, well, Eli will leave that to the bunnies.  From Tol’s blog According to Cook et al. , each abstract was assessed by at least 2 and at most 3 raters

James
April 28, 2014 0

James

By News Desk

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