On: US Marines defeat DARPA robot by hiding under a cardboard box

[closewith]

Interestingly, the basics of concealment in battle are shape, shine, shadow, silhouette, spacing, surface, and speed (or lack thereof) are all the same techniques the marines used to fool the AI.

The boxes and tree changed the silhouette and the somersaults changed the speed of movement.

So I guess we've been training soldiers to defeat Skynet all along.

[ridgeguy → closewith]

Who knew the Marines teach Shakespearean tactics?

"Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane"

Macbeth, Act V, Scene III

[optimalsolver → ridgeguy]

That it turned out to just involve regular men with branches stuck to their heads annoyed JRR Tolkien so much that he created the race of Ents.

[ben_w → optimalsolver]

I heard the same about caesarean ("none of woman born") becoming a human woman and a male hobbit ("No man can kill me!").

[PhasmaFelis → ben_w]

I don't know if that's true, but I want it to be true, because the very same thing pissed me off when I read Macbeth in high school.