This seems to open the door to a whole new way of diagnosing problems... more technical, precise and complete than we have had before. In the way that the development of algebraic proofs changed math, so too will this change medicine.
The cost of postage doesn't stop my physical mailbox from being stuffed with unwanted advertisements. The cost of wages does not stop telemarketers from calling me. A cost on email will not stop spam.
Too many points of failure. Too many places for abuse. Too much uncertainty in the trustworthiness of identity providers. If I use a compromised computer I loose everything at every site that accepts the openID. I don't yet know what the solution is, but this is not it, and I will not use it.
Some that I am most proud of are: I built a DARPA challenge vehicle, a huge wooden sculpture structure, a 20 foot tall metal tripod with a hanging fire-pit, and am working on building a business.
But if you want to see something cool, look at my robot arm here or here
The reason to go for a radio link isn't for the range, it's for the ability to control your servos manualy. You can go through the think/build/play/destroy cycle quickly, and it's fun. There is a place for microcontrolers, but mostly I stay away from them. If I want to program behavior, I'll program it, and if I want to control something, I'll control it. In-between is unsatisfying to me. I don't feel that microcontrollers will help me to answer the questions that I have in robotics.
I wondered the same thing. I started with hobby servos. You can get a model airplane transmitter and 4 servos for around $120. Play around with the servos, tape them together, and experiment. You can find instructions on the net for how to modify a servo for continuous rotation(to make a wheel). Play around.
After that it's easier to see what you want to do with robotics, and it's a LOT less intimidating to go forward to bigger and better things.
heres a short list of some stuff to get you started.
Electronics:
Transmitter & receiver
Servos... at least 4
Batteries
Useful stuff:
Soldering iron
Solder
Electrical tape
Duct tape
Epoxy
Pliers
Exacto knife
Small screwdrivers
Wire strippers
Multimeter
Misc materials:
Extra servo horns
Balsa wood
Wire clothes hangers
bits of plastic
CDs
I went last year when the launch was delayed for a couple of weeks. I found 2 good spots by driving around and looking at google earth.
One was behind Holiday Inn (wi-fi), and the other was one block north of McDonalds (grassy and shady). I slept in my car under a palm tree there overnight and wasn't bothered.
That was last year, but I can't imagine it shouldn't have changed too much.
Advice: Get there early to get a good spot. Getting there the day before the launch will let you look around and pick any spot you want. 12 hours before will let you get a good spot, and 3 hours before launch will make it hard to find a place to park. It wasn't boring for me to get there early as the other people waiting for the launch were fairly interesting to talk to.
Also... I recomend waiting a while for traffic to clear before trying to leave. It's realy bad for an hour or so afterwards, but then it clears right up.
I'm a fan of all of the times I can look at my watch and see only ones and zeros. It happened a lot in 2000/2001, and 11/11/11 is the end of that for the next 89 years. March forever on, you crazy counter.
That company seems to be doing some amazing things in the area of computer vision. Their demo movies showed some scenes from tv and movies that I had seen, and wondered how they were done. I figured the makers of the scenes had had some way of superimposing computer graphics seamlessly over the real world images from a camera. It seems this companys software makes that possible by calculating how the camera moves through a 3d space. It seems that they even have a working realtime version for augmented reality. Truly remarkable stuff.
For the first time, I have become worried about an unbalanced singularity. If one country reaches the singularity first, the power they would gain might allow them to prevent a singularity in other countries. The US should invest in technology to speed and guide the development of singularity technology here at home. We can't afford to let the singularity happen somewhere else first.
...if the Soviet Union was going to launch a nuclear attack on North America, it was likely going to travel over the North Pole. So the Americans had to build radar stations in the Canadian North...
So THAT's why the're so good at tracking Santa. I think Santa is just a nickname for something big, red, and carrying a present. Ask me now if I believe in Santa or not.
I had an Idea like this a few weeks ago and registered SciFind.net and SciFind.org with hopes to put them to this sort of use. The.com has aparently been sitting for 8 years with nothing there.
My idea is to have keyword and tech searching to help you find a particular Sci-Fi short story with the tech/plot/style/etc.. you are looking for. This would require a good and comprehensive list of technologies in order to work. My plan is to read Sci-Fi, and build the database gradually.
Yes, I see. It would be more complicated, and if the failure rate is so low, then the added expense would be wasted if it wasn't used. Better to not have to recover from failure, or just try again.
Thank you. I had wondered about the costs of a launch. I had no idea insurance was a major cost, but it makes sense. I'm glad the success rate is so high, I guess failures get more attention than sucesses.
I'm not a computer, and exact regurgitation of data is not the area choose to excell in. If you can't understand what I'm saying because I spelled a word incorrectly, then you need to work on your magical thinking skills. words are a means of sharing ideas, and if the words transmit the idea then their job is done. So shut the fuck up unless you are going to talk about something usefull.
Yes, decreasing worry would be the desired outcome of my suggestion.
It seems like every time a rocket blows up or fails to launch the payload is lost. Why? It keeps happening, and the payloads keep being destroyed. Failsafes to prevent this need to be in place. I envision a payload pod with tripple redundant explosive release mechanisms, and capable of re-entering the atmosphere from orbit. I'd love to just once hear: "rocket blows up, payload recovered, re-launch expected after payload is tested and re-certified."
It might, but if you move your arm at all you might as well just have a regular cesium clock on your wrist because you'll be losing any advantage you gain to relativistic effects.
I read the short story a long time ago. It seemed to have some similarity to that book, but it is not what I was thinking of. Looks like a good read though.
This reminds me of a sci-fi short story I read once in which the military had the technology to bring you back to life unless you got a bullet in the head. Soldiers were expected to fight and die a certain number of times before they were allowed to retire. Sorry, I cant remember the authors name. Anyone else read this one?
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This seems to open the door to a whole new way of diagnosing problems... more technical, precise and complete than we have had before. In the way that the development of algebraic proofs changed math, so too will this change medicine.
I find it interesting that the skins are discarded.
The cost of postage doesn't stop my physical mailbox from being stuffed with unwanted advertisements. The cost of wages does not stop telemarketers from calling me. A cost on email will not stop spam.
Too many points of failure. Too many places for abuse. Too much uncertainty in the trustworthiness of identity providers. If I use a compromised computer I loose everything at every site that accepts the openID. I don't yet know what the solution is, but this is not it, and I will not use it.
Some that I am most proud of are: I built a DARPA challenge vehicle, a huge wooden sculpture structure, a 20 foot tall metal tripod with a hanging fire-pit, and am working on building a business.
But if you want to see something cool, look at my robot arm here or here
Thanks for the chance to brag a bit!
Remember to vote for me!
That was just the idea, now they've actualy built one.
The reason to go for a radio link isn't for the range, it's for the ability to control your servos manualy. You can go through the think/build/play/destroy cycle quickly, and it's fun. There is a place for microcontrolers, but mostly I stay away from them. If I want to program behavior, I'll program it, and if I want to control something, I'll control it. In-between is unsatisfying to me. I don't feel that microcontrollers will help me to answer the questions that I have in robotics.
I wondered the same thing. I started with hobby servos. You can get a model airplane transmitter and 4 servos for around $120. Play around with the servos, tape them together, and experiment. You can find instructions on the net for how to modify a servo for continuous rotation(to make a wheel). Play around.
After that it's easier to see what you want to do with robotics, and it's a LOT less intimidating to go forward to bigger and better things.
heres a short list of some stuff to get you started.
Electronics:
Transmitter & receiver
Servos... at least 4
Batteries
Useful stuff:
Soldering iron
Solder
Electrical tape
Duct tape
Epoxy
Pliers
Exacto knife
Small screwdrivers
Wire strippers
Multimeter
Misc materials:
Extra servo horns
Balsa wood
Wire clothes hangers
bits of plastic
CDs
Have fun!
There was an aticle in Science News last year about robots that have a more natural gait.
you can find it HERE.
I went last year when the launch was delayed for a couple of weeks. I found 2 good spots by driving around and looking at google earth.
One was behind Holiday Inn (wi-fi), and the other was one block north of McDonalds (grassy and shady). I slept in my car under a palm tree there overnight and wasn't bothered. That was last year, but I can't imagine it shouldn't have changed too much.
Advice: Get there early to get a good spot. Getting there the day before the launch will let you look around and pick any spot you want. 12 hours before will let you get a good spot, and 3 hours before launch will make it hard to find a place to park. It wasn't boring for me to get there early as the other people waiting for the launch were fairly interesting to talk to.
Also... I recomend waiting a while for traffic to clear before trying to leave. It's realy bad for an hour or so afterwards, but then it clears right up.
I'm a fan of all of the times I can look at my watch and see only ones and zeros. It happened a lot in 2000/2001, and 11/11/11 is the end of that for the next 89 years. March forever on, you crazy counter.
That company seems to be doing some amazing things in the area of computer vision. Their demo movies showed some scenes from tv and movies that I had seen, and wondered how they were done. I figured the makers of the scenes had had some way of superimposing computer graphics seamlessly over the real world images from a camera. It seems this companys software makes that possible by calculating how the camera moves through a 3d space. It seems that they even have a working realtime version for augmented reality. Truly remarkable stuff.
For the first time, I have become worried about an unbalanced singularity. If one country reaches the singularity first, the power they would gain might allow them to prevent a singularity in other countries. The US should invest in technology to speed and guide the development of singularity technology here at home. We can't afford to let the singularity happen somewhere else first.
...if the Soviet Union was going to launch a nuclear attack on North America, it was likely going to travel over the North Pole. So the Americans had to build radar stations in the Canadian North...
So THAT's why the're so good at tracking Santa. I think Santa is just a nickname for something big, red, and carrying a present. Ask me now if I believe in Santa or not.
I had an Idea like this a few weeks ago and registered SciFind.net and SciFind.org with hopes to put them to this sort of use. The .com has aparently been sitting for 8 years with nothing there.
My idea is to have keyword and tech searching to help you find a particular Sci-Fi short story with the tech/plot/style/etc.. you are looking for. This would require a good and comprehensive list of technologies in order to work. My plan is to read Sci-Fi, and build the database gradually.
Yes, I see. It would be more complicated, and if the failure rate is so low, then the added expense would be wasted if it wasn't used. Better to not have to recover from failure, or just try again.
Thank you. I had wondered about the costs of a launch. I had no idea insurance was a major cost, but it makes sense. I'm glad the success rate is so high, I guess failures get more attention than sucesses.
I'm not a computer, and exact regurgitation of data is not the area choose to excell in. If you can't understand what I'm saying because I spelled a word incorrectly, then you need to work on your magical thinking skills. words are a means of sharing ideas, and if the words transmit the idea then their job is done. So shut the fuck up unless you are going to talk about something usefull.
Yes, decreasing worry would be the desired outcome of my suggestion.
It seems like every time a rocket blows up or fails to launch the payload is lost. Why? It keeps happening, and the payloads keep being destroyed. Failsafes to prevent this need to be in place. I envision a payload pod with tripple redundant explosive release mechanisms, and capable of re-entering the atmosphere from orbit. I'd love to just once hear: "rocket blows up, payload recovered, re-launch expected after payload is tested and re-certified."
It might, but if you move your arm at all you might as well just have a regular cesium clock on your wrist because you'll be losing any advantage you gain to relativistic effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
If I go for standard shipping does that mean it's a slow news day?
I read the short story a long time ago. It seemed to have some similarity to that book, but it is not what I was thinking of. Looks like a good read though.
This reminds me of a sci-fi short story I read once in which the military had the technology to bring you back to life unless you got a bullet in the head. Soldiers were expected to fight and die a certain number of times before they were allowed to retire. Sorry, I cant remember the authors name. Anyone else read this one?