The idea that it could be implemented entirely in software also occurred to me. The vision system would be different, of course, with it taking the video from a game (WoW or Q3A) and translating that into a generic 3d engine which the AI can use. Instead of sending it to an AI-to-Robot system, it sends it to a AI-to-HowThisGameWorks layer which sends the info to the game.
I was thinking about robots one day and I was wondering why those who work on computer vision didn't do something like this. Instead of trying to get the machine to understand the analog world, why wouldn't it be better for the machine to have an internal representation of the world by making a 3d map? Quake 3 CoffeeShop, if you will.
The idea I had was that the vision system creates a 3d map with entities, mapped from the vision system as well, inside. The AI works within the 3d representation of the world. If the AI wants to move from A to B, it signals the body controlling subsystem to start walking. When the 3d representation, being informed by the vision system, tells the AI that it is at point B, then the AI signals to stop walking.
Hardware constraints not withstanding, is this model any good?
I'm just a lowly, early middle aged novice C programmer who has never actually done anything with robotics, so if what I said made no sense or is obviously idiotic, I do understand that my ideas are comin' outta my ass.
My memory of the last time I decided to install Windows for some games has stuck with me. I couldn't get audio to work at all. I had to go looking for video drivers amongst other things. A frustrated thought ran through my mind, "Why can't this be simple, like Linux?" A humorous reversal of fortune.
I think my system currently has 3 different audio systems. OSS, ALSA and Pulse. Like I said, previously everything was hunky dory, until I assigned wine to use OSS, since the ALSA bit stopped working with DDO. I'm not sure why that affects audio when I am not using wine. The multiple audio systems running simultaneously does need resolving; it has to be a maintenance problem, so I'm sure it will be. My Ubuntu experience since '06 has been of a few glitches, but overwhelmingly I like the take on the system. Having used Linux before that, I know where to go to fix certain things if there is a goof, audio excepted.
"And I'm also curious about these sound issues. I hear people complaining about general sound under Linux all the time (though it's Just Worked for me since forever)"
I had been in this same camp until yesterday. Now sound is doing some pretty weird stuff. Plays fine, stutters, then disappears. The only thing I've messed with was installing D&D Online under wine and told wine to use OSS, since that is the only thing that works. Now, though, my sound is goofy everywhere. The default response in this case is to blame PulseAudio, so I've decided to do that.
'8,139 threatening phone calls, 3.6 million e-mails, 141 million hits on its website, ten acts of vandalism against its property, 22 bomb threats, and eight death threats against Church leaders.'
With regards to car analogies, I think the OS as gasoline might be a somewhat better fit. The car does require gasoline without it being part of the car itself and there are different brands of it. MicroGas gasoline, which is brand you don't want, adds a thousand dollars to the cost of the car and requires some sort of agreement or the car won't start. If you decline to accept it, you have to drain the gas yourself and pour in new gas of your choosing. Almost no one offers non-MicroGas filled cars, except Orange, though their gas is prettier and will only run in Orange brand cars.
The analogy isn't perfect, of course, but the separation between the hardware and the software is what I was going for.
Vampire romance novels, to specify the particular sub-genre correctly. There is also a book about a girl and her love for her zombie boyfriend and dealing with those evil living people who think that a girl should not date the dead.
Lovecraft did something very odd in creating a pantheon of gods, most of which if not all are aliens, for nihilistic atheists.
You ought to pick up a copy of "Dead but Dreaming", a relatively recent collection of Lovecraftian short stories. Most of them are good and a few are quite excellent, like "Final Draft".
PC gaming has become an afterthought for most game companies. Consoles are locked down computers purposed to play games. The older PS3 could have another operating system installed, though with certain hardware unable to be accessed. The newer ones don't allow any other OS at all. Purchased software can be installed, but you can't do anything on your own unless green lit by the console maker.
Apple ensures that its operating system cannot run on anything that Apple does not sell. The relatively rare hackintosh does not do anything to change this on any large scale. You want to run some Apple software, you must buy Apple.
In Chrome OS, your applications run "on the cloud". Not locally. Not where you have the control.
The trend lines are away from computers being a remarkably versatile, general purpose tool and toward a locked down appliance.
I'm at work so I can't play with it right now, but does it have all the standard UNIX utilities? If it does, then it might be something I would not mind playing with.
I must have the swine flu. Maybe I'm having a psychotic episode. Did I wind up in a holodeck? Or the Twilight Zone? It must be one of these things because I keep having these senseless hallucinations where MicroSoft acts like a decent company.
"The game was supposed to draw parallels to Afghanistan"
If that is the case then it does a piss poor job of it, which isn't too surprising because the plot, as you said, is pretty stupid. It is the leading candidate for my 2009 Most Vastly Overrated Game of the Year.
Not having much luck. It can't find/etc/passwd,/etc/group or/etc/hosts. All of which do exist. I'm inserting fmt.Fprintf statements to attempt to figure out why it is having problems.
A novel idea: make people learn Go by requiring them to modify it in order to install it.
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Noise I had not even thought about. Which goes back to me not having a clue :)
The idea that it could be implemented entirely in software also occurred to me. The vision system would be different, of course, with it taking the video from a game (WoW or Q3A) and translating that into a generic 3d engine which the AI can use. Instead of sending it to an AI-to-Robot system, it sends it to a AI-to-HowThisGameWorks layer which sends the info to the game.
I hope that made sense.
I was thinking about robots one day and I was wondering why those who work on computer vision didn't do something like this. Instead of trying to get the machine to understand the analog world, why wouldn't it be better for the machine to have an internal representation of the world by making a 3d map? Quake 3 CoffeeShop, if you will.
The idea I had was that the vision system creates a 3d map with entities, mapped from the vision system as well, inside. The AI works within the 3d representation of the world. If the AI wants to move from A to B, it signals the body controlling subsystem to start walking. When the 3d representation, being informed by the vision system, tells the AI that it is at point B, then the AI signals to stop walking.
Hardware constraints not withstanding, is this model any good?
I'm just a lowly, early middle aged novice C programmer who has never actually done anything with robotics, so if what I said made no sense or is obviously idiotic, I do understand that my ideas are comin' outta my ass.
My memory of the last time I decided to install Windows for some games has stuck with me. I couldn't get audio to work at all. I had to go looking for video drivers amongst other things. A frustrated thought ran through my mind, "Why can't this be simple, like Linux?" A humorous reversal of fortune.
I think my system currently has 3 different audio systems. OSS, ALSA and Pulse. Like I said, previously everything was hunky dory, until I assigned wine to use OSS, since the ALSA bit stopped working with DDO. I'm not sure why that affects audio when I am not using wine. The multiple audio systems running simultaneously does need resolving; it has to be a maintenance problem, so I'm sure it will be. My Ubuntu experience since '06 has been of a few glitches, but overwhelmingly I like the take on the system. Having used Linux before that, I know where to go to fix certain things if there is a goof, audio excepted.
Because destroying the world should be easy!
"And I'm also curious about these sound issues. I hear people complaining about general sound under Linux all the time (though it's Just Worked for me since forever)"
I had been in this same camp until yesterday. Now sound is doing some pretty weird stuff. Plays fine, stutters, then disappears. The only thing I've messed with was installing D&D Online under wine and told wine to use OSS, since that is the only thing that works. Now, though, my sound is goofy everywhere. The default response in this case is to blame PulseAudio, so I've decided to do that.
'8,139 threatening phone calls, 3.6 million e-mails, 141 million hits on its website, ten acts of vandalism against its property, 22 bomb threats, and eight death threats against Church leaders.'
Well, that's one way to keep busy.
With regards to car analogies, I think the OS as gasoline might be a somewhat better fit. The car does require gasoline without it being part of the car itself and there are different brands of it. MicroGas gasoline, which is brand you don't want, adds a thousand dollars to the cost of the car and requires some sort of agreement or the car won't start. If you decline to accept it, you have to drain the gas yourself and pour in new gas of your choosing. Almost no one offers non-MicroGas filled cars, except Orange, though their gas is prettier and will only run in Orange brand cars.
The analogy isn't perfect, of course, but the separation between the hardware and the software is what I was going for.
Vampire romance novels, to specify the particular sub-genre correctly. There is also a book about a girl and her love for her zombie boyfriend and dealing with those evil living people who think that a girl should not date the dead.
Lovecraft did something very odd in creating a pantheon of gods, most of which if not all are aliens, for nihilistic atheists.
You ought to pick up a copy of "Dead but Dreaming", a relatively recent collection of Lovecraftian short stories. Most of them are good and a few are quite excellent, like "Final Draft".
PC gaming has become an afterthought for most game companies. Consoles are locked down computers purposed to play games. The older PS3 could have another operating system installed, though with certain hardware unable to be accessed. The newer ones don't allow any other OS at all. Purchased software can be installed, but you can't do anything on your own unless green lit by the console maker.
Apple ensures that its operating system cannot run on anything that Apple does not sell. The relatively rare hackintosh does not do anything to change this on any large scale. You want to run some Apple software, you must buy Apple.
In Chrome OS, your applications run "on the cloud". Not locally. Not where you have the control.
The trend lines are away from computers being a remarkably versatile, general purpose tool and toward a locked down appliance.
I don't like this.
I'm at work so I can't play with it right now, but does it have all the standard UNIX utilities? If it does, then it might be something I would not mind playing with.
We don't use it because it is such a pain in the ass to use.
I have no opinion on Photoshop's usability since I've never attempted to use it.
But they didn't remove GIMP from the repositories, just from the install CD.
Enlightenment is not Awesome.
Awesome is awesome.
Could your search BE any more found?
I must have the swine flu. Maybe I'm having a psychotic episode. Did I wind up in a holodeck? Or the Twilight Zone? It must be one of these things because I keep having these senseless hallucinations where MicroSoft acts like a decent company.
"The game was supposed to draw parallels to Afghanistan"
If that is the case then it does a piss poor job of it, which isn't too surprising because the plot, as you said, is pretty stupid. It is the leading candidate for my 2009 Most Vastly Overrated Game of the Year.
"I would suggest that the Russians take a closer look at the plot line"
I wouldn't recommend that. All that will do is to drive them insane as the plot is absolute crap and makes little to no sense.
"have agreed to release the tool's source code under the terms of GPLv2."
Anyone know where I can buy some new eyes? Mine just exploded.
Ubuntu 9.10
It started off as a %20 project. It is now a full time thing, apparently.
You're having that problem too, eh?
According to the go page, it is supposed to be a system language. So the niche it is aiming at is, perhaps, lower level.
Not having much luck. It can't find /etc/passwd, /etc/group or /etc/hosts. All of which do exist. I'm inserting fmt.Fprintf statements to attempt to figure out why it is having problems.
A novel idea: make people learn Go by requiring them to modify it in order to install it.