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BuT cAn ThEY RuN DoOM?

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    honey the codewitch
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    Rats Learn To Play DOOM In This Automated VR Arena | Hackaday[^]

    Real programmers use butterflies

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      Rats Learn To Play DOOM In This Automated VR Arena | Hackaday[^]

      Real programmers use butterflies

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      First driving goldfish, now rats playing doom? Should we be getting ready to bow to our pea-sized brain overlords? :~

      "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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        First driving goldfish, now rats playing doom? Should we be getting ready to bow to our pea-sized brain overlords? :~

        "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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        Well to be fair, the size of brain doesn't seem to matter much. Rats are probably smarter than cats, and one of the few animals capable of metacognition (thinking about thinking basically - little philosophers, they are!) One of the reasons I'm such a fan of scavenging animals like rats, racoons and crows is they are bloody intelligent. It makes them interesting as animals go.

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          Well to be fair, the size of brain doesn't seem to matter much. Rats are probably smarter than cats, and one of the few animals capable of metacognition (thinking about thinking basically - little philosophers, they are!) One of the reasons I'm such a fan of scavenging animals like rats, racoons and crows is they are bloody intelligent. It makes them interesting as animals go.

          Real programmers use butterflies

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          honey the codewitch wrote:

          little philosophers, they are!

          SocRATes!

          "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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            Rats Learn To Play DOOM In This Automated VR Arena | Hackaday[^]

            Real programmers use butterflies

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            Super Lloyd
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            Wrong section, you should have posted that in the newsletter! And I am ever so happy I navigated on this forum out of boredom! :D

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              Rats Learn To Play DOOM In This Automated VR Arena | Hackaday[^]

              Real programmers use butterflies

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              Super Lloyd
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              Mm quite the Rube Goldberg's contraption. Though I have to say, the rat doesn't seem very invested in the game to me! ;P

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                Wrong section, you should have posted that in the newsletter! And I am ever so happy I navigated on this forum out of boredom! :D

                A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!

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                I thought this qualified as weird at least. =)

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                  Rats Learn To Play DOOM In This Automated VR Arena | Hackaday[^]

                  Real programmers use butterflies

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                  Ron Anders
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                  That's creepy.

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                    Rats Learn To Play DOOM In This Automated VR Arena | Hackaday[^]

                    Real programmers use butterflies

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                    OT: I've seen the randomly capitalized headlines for a while now. Is there a rule for 'randomizing' the capitals? Just trying to make certain I'm up to date on all the important stuff... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Rats playing DOOM seems kinda pointless. After all, it can be played on toasters. Teach them to perform open-heart surgery, though, and I'll be impressed!

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                      OT: I've seen the randomly capitalized headlines for a while now. Is there a rule for 'randomizing' the capitals? Just trying to make certain I'm up to date on all the important stuff... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Rats playing DOOM seems kinda pointless. After all, it can be played on toasters. Teach them to perform open-heart surgery, though, and I'll be impressed!

                      Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

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                      David O'Neil wrote:

                      OT: I've seen the randomly capitalized headlines for a while now. Is there a rule for 'randomizing' the capitals? Just trying to make certain I'm up to date on all the important stuff...

                      Sometimes it can be used to hold a secret message (e.g. just read the uppercase letters or just the lowercase letters), but that doesn't reveal anything obvious in this instance. 'RuN DoOM' is almost RANDOM; perhaps it should have been 'RAts ruN DoOM' The longest alternating consonant/vowel/consonant/vowel country name (like cAnAdA / cUbA) is UnItEd ArAb EmIrAtEs.

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                        First driving goldfish, now rats playing doom? Should we be getting ready to bow to our pea-sized brain overlords? :~

                        "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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                        Well, there is a video in which an orangutan driving a golf cart and even take the turns

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                          Well, there is a video in which an orangutan driving a golf cart and even take the turns

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                          I pretty certain they were in front of me this morning. :)

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                            I pretty certain they were in front of me this morning. :)

                            "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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                            lol

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                              Well, there is a video in which an orangutan driving a golf cart and even take the turns

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                              A couple of years ago we had a TV show where they took a bunch of different pet dogs and whittled them down via various agility and obedience tests etc until they had a dog which they taught to pilot an light aircraft, by using lights to indicate to it what adjustments to make. It didn't just have to fly straight and level, though, they set it a route it had to navigate. They didn't expect it to take off and land, of course. A pilot took it up, then handed the controls over to the dog.

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