{"id":31375,"date":"2018-02-21T14:12:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31375"},"modified":"2018-02-21T14:12:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:12:29","slug":"too-clever-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31375","title":{"rendered":"Too Clever By Half"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Too Clever By Half<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nThe smartest animals on my farm aren\u2019t my bees (although they possess the genius of the algorithm<\/b><\/a>).\u00a0It\u2019s not the horses<\/a><\/b> or the goats or even the dogs. The barn cat is pretty smart, but only in fairly limited circumstances, and the house cats are useless. Obviously it\u2019s not the sheep<\/a> or the chickens. Nope, the smartest animals on my farm aren\u2019t really on my farm at all. They\u2019re the coyotes who live in the woods.<\/p>\n

My favorite example? We have a really big invisible fence for the dogs \u2026 covers about five acres. Yes, my farm is a great place to be a dog. For those of you who aren\u2019t familiar with the technology of the invisible fence, it\u2019s a buried wire that transmits a signal to a receiver placed on your dog\u2019s collar. When the dog gets close to the wire, the receiver starts to beep, and when the dog gets all the way to the \u201cfence\u201d boundary, the receiver generates a small electric zap. I know, I know \u2026 it\u2019s negative reinforcement and it\u2019s a shock collar and all that. Don\u2019t care. It\u2019s fantastic for us and our dogs. But whether it\u2019s a smart dog like Maggie the German Shepherd or a \u2026 shall we say \u2026 \u201cspecial\u201d dog like Sam the Sheltie, after a few weeks (Maggie) or a few hours (Sam) they will forget where the fence exists if they stop wearing the collar.<\/p>\n

Not so the coyotes.\"\"<\/p>\n

The coyotes know *exactly* where the invisible fence begins and ends, without the benefit of *ever* wearing a shock collar. How do I know? Because they intentionally leave their scat on their side of the invisible fence, creating a demilitarized zone as precise and as well-observed as anything on the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n

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Too Clever By Half The smartest animals on my farm aren\u2019t my bees (although they possess the genius of the algorithm).\u00a0It\u2019s not the horses or the goats or even the dogs. The barn cat is pretty smart, but only in fairly limited circumstances, and the house cats are useless. Obviously it\u2019s not the sheep or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10321,4174,13266,18799,18801,11737,18802,18803,481,18798,7926,18804,18800,18797],"class_list":["post-31375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-ben-hunt","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-coyote","tag-domesticated","tag-epsilon-theory","tag-financial-innovation","tag-gaussian-copula","tag-leverage","tag-meta-game","tag-mortgage-backed-securities","tag-pinky-and-the-brain","tag-raccoon","tag-securitization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31376,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31375\/revisions\/31376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}