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This is an AWESOME paper, and so far out of my wheelhouse - it honestly didn't occur to me "we built this cool robot" papers existed, but ofc they do. I didn't

by bbor 3y ago

This is an AWESOME paper, and so far out of my wheelhouse - it honestly didn't occur to me "we built this cool robot" papers existed, but ofc they do. I didn't find it yet, so here's a quick list of images evocative of the type of Origami it's talking about AFAICT https://www.google.com/search?q=origami+tessellation+circular+expanding&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=origami+tessellation+circula...

PaulHoule 3y ago
See https://www.vinerobots.org/ https://www.vinerobots.org/ which look (and work) like a p3s. National labs are developing things that look like an appendage of a tentacle monster and go into a hole at a nuclear fuel facility and look for stolen plutonium. YOShInOn (my agent) knows that HN readers aren't that likely to upvote arXiv papers about robots but we post them anyway because I think they are cool and YOShInOn models my preferences. That's why you don't see very many on the front page.
- all2 3y ago
  > YOShInOn (my agent) > and YOShInOn models my preferences. I don't know what this means. What does this mean?
  - yorwba 3y ago
    PaulHoule has talked about YOShInOn previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668157
    - PaulHoule 3y ago
      Some people annoy everybody by posting a link to HN to get on some wait list for a product that might never get released. This is how I annoy people. A search for "Yoshinon" on the search box at the bottom of the page will find a lot more, search on Google and you might find a picture of a girl in a strange raincoat (looking close it doesn't look like it would keep out the rain if it was a normal raincoat but that raincoat is magic and stops antitank missiles so I'm sure she stays dry somehow) who has a hand puppet. My YOShInOn is named after that hand puppet. There will be a blog post someday. I made a big change to the ingestion system for that which I have been stressing a long time that might free up my headspace for that... Or maybe give me more opportunities to hack on it. My YOShInOn's main model predicts if I will be interested in article. It has secondary models that predict if an article will get >10 votes on HN and another that predicts the comments/votes ratio.

by bbor 3y ago

PaulHoule 3y ago

See https://www.vinerobots.org/ https://www.vinerobots.org/ which look (and work) like a p3s. National labs are developing things that look like an appendage of a tentacle monster and go into a hole at a nuclear fuel facility and look for stolen plutonium. YOShInOn (my agent) knows that HN readers aren't that likely to upvote arXiv papers about robots but we post them anyway because I think they are cool and YOShInOn models my preferences. That's why you don't see very many on the front page.

all2 3y ago
> YOShInOn (my agent) > and YOShInOn models my preferences. I don't know what this means. What does this mean?
- yorwba 3y ago
  PaulHoule has talked about YOShInOn previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668157
  - PaulHoule 3y ago
    Some people annoy everybody by posting a link to HN to get on some wait list for a product that might never get released. This is how I annoy people. A search for "Yoshinon" on the search box at the bottom of the page will find a lot more, search on Google and you might find a picture of a girl in a strange raincoat (looking close it doesn't look like it would keep out the rain if it was a normal raincoat but that raincoat is magic and stops antitank missiles so I'm sure she stays dry somehow) who has a hand puppet. My YOShInOn is named after that hand puppet. There will be a blog post someday. I made a big change to the ingestion system for that which I have been stressing a long time that might free up my headspace for that... Or maybe give me more opportunities to hack on it. My YOShInOn's main model predicts if I will be interested in article. It has secondary models that predict if an article will get >10 votes on HN and another that predicts the comments/votes ratio.