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If you just type "Salem" for the city, it just picks one and goes with it. If you type "Salem, Oregon" vs "Salem, MA", it gives the desired result (at least for the cases I've tried), and then uses your input text as the caption.

there is also a salem in tamil nadu india

I noticed my local wal mart doing this, not on every product, but more than one. I had hoped it was an honest mistake until it happened on my next visit. I told an associate about it, left my groceries, and I haven't been back. It's wild to think that a few decades ago they accepted returns of any product based on trust, no questions asked, regardless of whether you had a receipt.


A lazy error [0] in the abstract suggests that the paper may have been written by a domestic cat (Felis catus). Given that male experimenters tend to stress out mice [1], it is plausible that the opposite effect occurs in cats. Mostly, it would be fun to know whether cat greetings reflect different motivational or emotional states, since reasonable people might believe that they don't.

[0] "We also tested whether demographic factors such as the influenced the amount of greeting behavior expressed by household cats."

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15106


It's a graduate student writing a journal club article about the Lewicki 2002 paper, which is very good, and whose abstract states the idea more precisely: "The form of the code depends on sound class, resembling a Fourier transformation when optimized for animal vocalizations and a wavelet transformation when optimized for non-biological environmental sounds"


TFA doesn't even mention the human habit of stealing food from mice, for example

https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/1605...


Same reason there are still 5 senses, because it's easier to teach than the truth


Dark Sky


I cannot believe they didn’t replicate the Dark Sky functionality 1:1 in the Weather app.


the math version of this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566446


It was widely used on slashdot, I just assume that people who use this Three Letter Acronym (TLA) are also /. refugees


Adm Greenert nicely describes the attitude toward early 90s sub movies (Hunt for Red October vs Crimson Tide). For this audience, in addition to driving maneuvers, he might have added that the main premise of Red October (a clipped message) never could have happened under the existing communication protocol.


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