"Welcome to the real world, it's not all rainbows and songbirds."
Well, that's only because the rainbows were killed during cruel refraction experiments and the loss of abundant rainbows caused the songbirds to commit suicide.
"Another interesting question: is it possible to design artificial intelegence smarter then yourself? If so, said intelegence could then create an intelegence greater then themselves ad infintium, meaning that relitive intelegence of the original species is irrelivent."
Perhaps humans were intelegently designed by monkeys
They blew a tire and were somewhere around 60 feet off course when they were eliminated, if I remember correctly.
I know that a good number of the teams were actually still moving when they were eliminated; they had generally just wandered far enough off course that it was determined that they would be unable to finish.
There were a number of reasons why people did so much better this year than last year.
The biggest reason I think is that people knew a little better what to expect this year, and focused development on more important items for the race. For instance, for the first race I had done work on using a terrain database for path planning, but it turned out that the waypoints are so close together that it ends up just being a waste of CPU cycles for the most part.
Another important reason is there was a rather large jump in the quality of the software running on the bots, and a moderate jump in the quality of the hardware. The integration was much more refined.
Finally, the course was easier overall this year and the difficult part was put near the end. There was nothing in the course really comparable to Daggett ridge from the first race. Also, pretty much the entire course was graded along with the edges of the road often had banks. We had cliff detection that pretty much went unused this year due to this.
Overall, it was a pretty good race this year. Stanford did an awesome job and really deserved the win. Not that you guys have that much interest, but we (Axion) ended up in 7th place (right after Ensco) with about 66 miles. We ended up getting stuck in some sand. The current candidate for the cause is a broken sway arm bracket that caused us to pull to the right a bit. Further analysis will be required to determine if that's actually the case.
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Absolutely. They are hiring 11 million lawyers at $149,998 each for this case.
So perhaps all legalese needs to be comprehendable is proper indenting (and maybe some syntax highlighting).
"Welcome to the real world, it's not all rainbows and songbirds."
Well, that's only because the rainbows were killed during cruel refraction experiments and the loss of abundant rainbows caused the songbirds to commit suicide.
This is just the trailer for the actual article. Coming soon to a website near you!
"Another interesting question: is it possible to design artificial intelegence smarter then yourself? If so, said intelegence could then create an intelegence greater then themselves ad infintium, meaning that relitive intelegence of the original species is irrelivent."
Perhaps humans were intelegently designed by monkeys
It seems to think that my blog has a 94% chance of being "a human-written authentic scientific document" ...
Wow, you must drive a really cruddy car! :)
Dead or alive?
Imagine an unplugged beowulf cluster of these...
My first computer was probably my brain.
More of an other-creative act, really.
Doesn't discussing it along with vi count?
Try plutonium.
*Puts surrounding nodes on the queue to explore*
Oh wait, **AA, not A*.
*Puts customers on the queue to sue*
They blew a tire and were somewhere around 60 feet off course when they were eliminated, if I remember correctly.
I know that a good number of the teams were actually still moving when they were eliminated; they had generally just wandered far enough off course that it was determined that they would be unable to finish.
There were a number of reasons why people did so much better this year than last year.
The biggest reason I think is that people knew a little better what to expect this year, and focused development on more important items for the race. For instance, for the first race I had done work on using a terrain database for path planning, but it turned out that the waypoints are so close together that it ends up just being a waste of CPU cycles for the most part.
Another important reason is there was a rather large jump in the quality of the software running on the bots, and a moderate jump in the quality of the hardware. The integration was much more refined.
Finally, the course was easier overall this year and the difficult part was put near the end. There was nothing in the course really comparable to Daggett ridge from the first race. Also, pretty much the entire course was graded along with the edges of the road often had banks. We had cliff detection that pretty much went unused this year due to this.
Overall, it was a pretty good race this year. Stanford did an awesome job and really deserved the win. Not that you guys have that much interest, but we (Axion) ended up in 7th place (right after Ensco) with about 66 miles. We ended up getting stuck in some sand. The current candidate for the cause is a broken sway arm bracket that caused us to pull to the right a bit. Further analysis will be required to determine if that's actually the case.
I'm the Axion team. (One of the teams that qualified) Our vehicle is street legal.
"much-maligned 'e' prefix and several other vowels."
I don't know about you, but I absolutely love my andsometimesypod.
"What's next? People called Richard being unable to use their abbreviated name?"
:)
I sure hope so.
-Richard
Great... now I have visions of platters going at each other with Batleths...
Hmm. Given that training simulation, I think I'm going to go stock up on duct tape now.
24 years, huh? Well, now we know how long grad students can stay in school.
On the BMW compatibility chart from BMW's page it says (with an *) you can disconnect the CD changer.
If both plugs connect in the glove compartment, switching them out would be a pretty simple matter. I don't know if this is the case.
I was *this* close to changing my threshold and modding you down, then waking you up.
I guess Microsoft isn't just their name, but a reminder of their duty to the company.
"To me, this is nowhere as serious and imminent a threat, as Mad Cow can't be transmitted from person to person (last I remember). "
Well... Unless you eat the person's brain.
Those poor, poor zombies.