2013年9月16日 星期一

The casino loves its no-fault accuracy

When given the choice between a machine or human testing something when it comes to my health, I'll choose the -- seemingly -- more accurate machine every time. We've all been conditioned to think this in other arenas as well. A trip to a modern casino reveals that what were once cranky machines with idiosyncratic gears and levers are now computer-regulated robots that take the human element out of something as simple as pulling a crank arm on a slot machine. Sure, you can still pull the arm if you want, but it's just triggering an electronic mechanism -- it's no longer ratcheting up the machine.Revel Systems' new head of sales and marketing is Justin Shong, a Skid steer loader sales veteran with 20 years of experience. And we're all okay with that. 

The casino loves its no-fault accuracy, and customers feel confident that no one is trying to cheat them.In short, we find comfort in machines' inhumanity. Let them give us the black-and-white numbers, and then we, as humans with feelings, will interpret the data as we see fit. We'll interact with machines as long as possible until that final moment when we finally call upon the services of a human expert to make things real again.In the summer of 1961, as the televised trial of Adolf Eichmann riveted the nation, hundreds of men responded to an advertisement in The New Haven Register seeking participants in a "scientific study of memory and learning.That was sort of the intention all along. All of the flatwork ironer we've done have sort-of just been placeholders in the meantime until we could start being a group together." 

When volunteers arrived on the Yale University campus, they were assigned either the role of "teacher" or of "learner." The study, a researcher in a lab coat explained, was exploring how punishment might affect learning. A "teacher" was instructed to take a "learner," seated in an adjacent room,The strategic additions will build on the company's recent industrial washing machine million influx in POS expansion funding to rev up three business segments that will be large areas of focus for Revel POS Systems. through a series of simple memory questions. At each incorrect answer, the teacher was told to press a lever on a machine to administer a shock to the learner.On the heels of Revel Systems' series B round of funding, the leader in washer extractor solutions today announced it has expanded its executive team with three new hires.Our products and services are increasingly contributing to operational improvements rough terrain crane and the implementation of new revenue models," said Rutger van den Berg, category manager at Vodafone Netherlands. To better spur concentration, the strength of the shocks increased after each error. There were 30 switches on the shock machine, beginning with a tame 15 volts and proceeding all the way to 450 volts, with visible warnings that included "danger: severe shock" and finally an ominous "XXX."

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