funny story

pawan sinha, a professor at mit strapped a camera to his baby's head to collect data on what the baby was looking at while his wife was out of town. one thing led to another and one day his wife saw that the kiddie's picture popped out in this NYT article...

so pawan was happily telling this story to a class of cognitive science students.. and my friend manning in the audience raised his hand and said you should meet this other first year. her name is sangyu and she wants to raise her baby in an incubator with rubber hands and computer screen that simulate maternal stimuli. (something i have been tireless pushing for. there are more layers of subtleties to it than just rubber hands and a screen, also involving response actions, but you get the idea. with a little bit of AI should be feasible, eh? )

and i heard pawan's response was "good thing we are not married."

meh, i don't know. the prospect of a baby with a camera on her head in an incubator? could be greatness...