Things I learned recently

"vet" comes from horseracing and veterinarians
vision that perceives and vision for action are two completely different processes (dorsal path and ventral path, experiements with brain damaged persons who could orient an object to a slot or tell you the orientation of a slot but not both
The best language translators (e.g. google) are now created with little or no knowledge of the languages themselves, and are analytic engines that are fed human translations to do pattern matching.

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