What if I have bird blindness and I try and teach it to a duck?
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Ducks? That’s quackery.
What's the deal with the parrot?
?Fun? fact: In a steampunk world, birds would serve as CPUs. America experimented with using pigeons for bomb guidance. As it turned out, three birds pecking at an image had pretty good accuracy. They ultimately lost out to silicon, due to the size, maintenance, and training time.
They ultimately lost out to silicon
for now....
Fun speculation: we are CPUs for the information systems we inhabit, like scientific method, political ideologies, etc.
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I want this to be the next reveal in a movie or TV series, in the same fashion as the one of the Navajo "backing up" the Smoking Man's magnetic tape in The X-Files.
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Yep, obviously a government funded drone if it only has 2Mb uplink
How useful would this have been back at the dawn of computation, I wonder?
Pigeon guided missile but instead of pigeon it's a parrot and sings relevant source code in hex and an interpeter assembles it.
(I hate the last 4 words that sentence I made.)
They didn’t have ultrasonic microphones at the dawn of computation
In order to transmit/receive data during the night, a different carrier and modulation should be used: owls and a hoot-based Morse code (e.g. "ho-ho-ho-ho hooo-hooo-hooo hooo-hooo-hooo hooo" safely conveys "hoot" through the night skies).
So a moving target of data you cant reliably recall and might get shot by someone looking for food. At least its neat though.
Average weight for a starling is less than 100g. The whole thing with head and feathers and bones and whatever. You'd have to be very hungry to hunt that. And I suspect if you shoot at it you'd pulverize it completely.
Though cats are going to be a problem.
There will be a lot of cases where the data gets accidentally encapsulated (then fragmented due to incompatible protocols) in a cat.
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