Learning from our mistakes? Flies can do it.
Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t Better
It takes just 15 generations under these conditions for the flies to become genetically programmed to learn better. At the beginning of the experiment, the flies take many hours to learn the difference between the normal and quinine-spiked jellies. The fast-learning strain of flies needs less than an hour.
This guy Allan Snyder, sticks a magnet up to a persons head and turns them into savants, for real.
In addition to co inventing a wearable computer to predict where a roulette ball will land with an accuracy good enough to turn $1 into $1.44, way back in the 70s no less, Doyne Farmer has also done a ton of research on the markets. Also see: The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory
