The Thirsty Robot

 Here's some of what you missed at The Thirsty Robot: Technical Musings  - CBIR Content-Based Image Retrieval is not a new idea. Various researchers over the years have looked at the concept of using the images themselves as a way of finding images in an image database, and there's also the 'Law' that says that: 'Every 'New' technology is an Old technology that someone new has just (re-)discovered. Interestingly, Wikipedia puts the 'first seen' data for CBIR in 1993, which presumably means that the CAM (Content Addressable Memory) systems that at least one of the attendees saw back in the 1970s never existed. This may be a manifestation of the 'Nothing existed before the Internet' phenomenon, which limits available sources to those online sources using HTML.  The Internet has always existed! Everything is online! Life before the Internet The Internet in 1991... Photo by Adi Goldstein on Unsplash But since things keep getting re-invented, and...

 Here's some of what you missed at The Thirsty Robot: Technical Musings  - Prisoner's Dilemma How do people behave in a situation when they gain by co-operating, but gain more by not co-operating? This is the basic scenario of a mind game that is known as the 'Prisoner's Dilemma' where individual betrayal is rewarded higher than mutual co-operation. If you thought that altruism would win over selfish self-interest, then unfortunately, it seems that you would be wrong most of the time. There are many sources of this, and other similar 'Social Psychology' / Philosophical /  'mind games (thought experiments...) that reveal how people behave - but usually not why!' activities on the InterWeb. it is also used in MANY TV game shows... Prisoner's Dilemma Splitting money equitably? For a VERY deep rabbit hole - try this:  Dilemma or Dilemna?   Or this...    Or...   What seems to be happening is that a lot of people are convinced they were taught that ...