[More from the retired shankar]
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posted by Ramki @ 1:57 PM
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Size does matter!
Awesome visualization
http://www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags/
[From a retired-lazydesi shankar]
[From a retired-lazydesi shankar]
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posted by Ramki @ 1:56 PM
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't. - New York Times
Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't. - New York Times: "Mr. Lyons sees his results as evidence that humans are hard-wired to learn by imitation, even when that is clearly not the best way to learn. If he is right, this represents a big evolutionary change from our ape ancestors. Other primates are bad at imitation. When they watch another primate doing something, they seem to focus on what its goals are and ignore its actions.
As human ancestors began to make complicated tools, figuring out goals might not have been good enough anymore. Hominids needed a way to register automatically what other hominids did, even if they didn't understand the intentions behind them. They needed to imitate.
Not long ago, many psychologists thought that imitation was a simple, primitive action compared with figuring out the intentions of others. But that is changing. 'Maybe imitation is a lot more sophisticated than people thought,' Mr. Lyons said.
We don't appreciate just how automatically we rely on imitation, because usually it serves us so well. 'It is so adaptive that it almost never sticks out this way,' he added. 'You have to create very artificial circumstances to see it.'
In a few years, I plan to explain this experience to Charlotte. I want her to know what I now know. That it's O.K. to lose to the chimps. In fact, it may be what makes us uniquely human"
As human ancestors began to make complicated tools, figuring out goals might not have been good enough anymore. Hominids needed a way to register automatically what other hominids did, even if they didn't understand the intentions behind them. They needed to imitate.
Not long ago, many psychologists thought that imitation was a simple, primitive action compared with figuring out the intentions of others. But that is changing. 'Maybe imitation is a lot more sophisticated than people thought,' Mr. Lyons said.
We don't appreciate just how automatically we rely on imitation, because usually it serves us so well. 'It is so adaptive that it almost never sticks out this way,' he added. 'You have to create very artificial circumstances to see it.'
In a few years, I plan to explain this experience to Charlotte. I want her to know what I now know. That it's O.K. to lose to the chimps. In fact, it may be what makes us uniquely human"
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posted by Rajan @ 5:05 AM
Sunday, December 18, 2005
At least now, plant more trees.
Cruise rocks!
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posted by Ramki @ 8:46 PM
Kung Fu
Saturday, December 03, 2005
When Japanese babies are born!
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posted by Ramki @ 11:17 PM
Indian rap
1. Gujarathi Rap (Video) -- Really good one cheh! ;-)
2. One more Ludakrishna,VikramMC rap
2. Indian Chic (audio)
2. One more Ludakrishna,VikramMC rap
2. Indian Chic (audio)
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posted by Ramki @ 10:49 PM
Indian Help Desk on the Conan O'Brien show
This is a hilarious movie from one of his recent show about the Indian help desk!
http://www.collegedowntime.com//media/files/conanvideoindianhelpdesk.wmv
[Beware of the popups and ads in this webpage. Might turn out to be NSFW]
http://www.collegedowntime.com//media/files/conanvideoindianhelpdesk.wmv
[Beware of the popups and ads in this webpage. Might turn out to be NSFW]
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posted by Ramki @ 10:43 PM
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