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Slime Mold Inspires Autonomous Brainless Undulating Robot

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-03/video-slime-mold-inspires-new-autonomous-undulating-soft-robot

"A creepy new pulsating robot can ooze across a surface and pick its own path autonomously, using feedback from its ooze controls without requiring a smart command center. It’s modeled after slime mold, which can also make decisions without any sort of neural network."

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Of course, the hackers were suffering from acute Alzheimer.
Re:Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much on Saturday April 02, 2011 @06:49PM (#2401191)
Got to love that "Shouldn't you be working?" black out page, means more work will be done in those hours. That said I found ways to circumvate the black out page and stepping away from the screen with a notebook and pen in hand is really key to productivity for me.
Re:Top Gear responds to Tesla on Saturday April 02, 2011 @06:30PM (#2401153)
Not quite sure where Tesla is expecting this to be headed towards? Are they expecting the compensation to cover their sales? Or better sales after the suit? Or do they really want not to have anymore review coverage? Or someone in Tesla really hates Top gear/Stig/Clarkson?
Re:Top Gear responds to Tesla on Saturday April 02, 2011 @06:20PM (#2401134)
Here is the link for the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2MpcIiO6A&feature=youtu...

This is Clarkson we are talking about, not some wuss who kiss up to asses when he gets sued... and seriously imo that is a pretty decent review for the Tesla coming from Clarkson.

Re:Duke Nukem Forever Gets Delayed... again on Thursday March 24, 2011 @02:30PM (#2365278)
Mis-read the title as 'Duke Nukem Gets Forever Delayed'
Re:Why IE9 is a Web Designer’s Nightmare on Friday March 18, 2011 @09:52AM (#2340366)
I am not a fan of IE (6 in particular) but all these bashing of the latest IE 9 seems to not have valid arguments. Modern browsers by whose standards?
Think the article is slightly old, with new events happening to the reactors every hour. I get my updates from here

http://mitnse.com/

Lets just hope it does not get any worse.

Re:You Can Keep Your Stinkin' Tablet on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:15AM (#2287179)
The author should read this > http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/the_chair

I'm not drinking the kool aid but iMovie does seem like a much better fit using touch on the ipad and the jamming capabilities of Garageband looks very appealing to a wannabe musician like myself. Not the finger poking stuff on Garageband though, just the usual practice I should be putting in and putting it on iPad makes it feel really casual and more accessible.

Re:Offer HN: Front-End Web Development. on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @03:45AM (#1837697)
Thank you so much, I have dropped you a mail for some design advice.
Re:I Buy and Sell Domain Names AMA on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @02:22AM (#1837515)
Wow, I am just totally shocked at the response at reddit.

How many domains do you hold at a time and what are sales like?

Re:Ask HN: Rails or Django? on Monday October 25, 2010 @02:13PM (#1830866)
I think he was trying to refer to was Google's Big table integration which app engine uses instead of NoSQL.
Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? on Sunday October 24, 2010 @04:58AM (#1825681)
A lot of water, some oolong/green tea, some coffee(very selective), Single malt whiskies and South American wines.

Oh! And Ice COLD Beer anytime of the day!

Re:Why rebel groups love the Toyota Hilux on Friday October 15, 2010 @12:21PM (#1795127)
The white coloured Hilux are used in Singapore by the Police force.