Hey, don't knock it! Fully half of my parrots (14 at present) are *way* smarter than I am.
I'm not embarrassed by this, it is simply one of life's many humbling facts. Further, I contend that one cannot fully appreciate alien intelligence until you've had an African Grey calmly look you in the eye, then casually reach down and BITE THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR THUMB and then (still) calmly look you in the eye again and say, "Ow, Butthead." --Doug On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:47 PM, glen e. p. ropella < [email protected]> wrote: > Thus spake Jochen Fromm circa 09-09-23 12:55 PM: > > Maybe his parrot farm is just a > > nickname for a huge subterranean data center which dwarfs Google's > > latest and biggest versions? I am impressed. > > I figured it was named parrot-farm to indicate that it's a huge server > farm with each machine (parrot) running an eddington typewriter ... > perhaps the parrots even compete to find the best gobbledygook to fit > the query? > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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