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Revisiting Programming Fonts(codinghorror.com)
6 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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by axiom 19y ago
My personal favorite winner: PEACE: The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research & development on a chemical weapon -- the so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistibl
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by axiom 19y ago
I completely agree with you there.
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by axiom 19y ago
I'm not claiming that autonomous driving won't happen or won't be a massive industry in the near future (30-40 years.) My feeling is just that it won't happen there first. Here's a couple of reasons: 1. It's a very complicated problem compa
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by axiom 19y ago
Maybe someone with a background in sociology can answer this, but looking at the trends we see that the paper is talking about a change of "happiness" of just one or two percent over 35 years. Is this really significant? Just looking at the
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by axiom 19y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that. I think the potential is definitely there, but the regulatory burden is just too massive. The potential impact of robotics on manufacturing and transportation is absolutely staggering, and could probably be m
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Programming Language Video Lectures(freescienceonline.blogspot.com)
6 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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Freakonomics: The law of unintended consequences(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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by axiom 19y ago
Question 1: how do you like working with Rodney? :)
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Motoman introduces impressive two-armed industrial robot(mobilerobot.org)
2 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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iRobot introduces gutter-cleaning robot(informationweek.com)
11 points by axiom 19y ago|7 comments
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by axiom 19y ago
Well, the project took 1 month by two guys, so we can assume it was non-trivial. As a personal note, I've got a couple of years in manufacturing, with much of that in automotive. The amount of stupidity that goes on in that industry is shoc
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by axiom 19y ago
Ok, well then your question is even easier to answer if you know that data tracking is serious business in manufacturing. From the article: "Did you know that there is an IT breakthrough hidden inside of Chrysler that in the right hands cou
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by axiom 19y ago
Tracking down-time means knowing where your bottlenecks are. If you know your bottlenecks are you can improve cycle time. Improving cycle time by just a few seconds mean massive increases in output. $50 billion might be a stretch, but it's
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by axiom 19y ago
He's talking about SCADA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA ) Sounds really impressive. If anyone has ever worked with PLCs you know what a nightmare it is to interface with them and deal with their primitve data types. Not to mention pro
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by axiom 19y ago
As a general interface this probably isn't the way to go, but I think this idea could be applied to more specific areas like presentations and product demos. In any case it would be a lot of fun to play with.
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New desktop concept BumpTop, TED talk(ted.com)
6 points by axiom 19y ago|2 comments
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Virtual robots duped by illusions help to explain human vision(ucl.ac.uk)
1 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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by axiom 19y ago
"Bill Gates has now gotten old and to the point where he isn't too concerned about tinkering with phones and computers and sees that as being secondary to solving real problems on this world." This is bizarre in the extreme. The reason Bill
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by axiom 19y ago
Bill Gates' Harvard graduation speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXCVYtYWVyU&NR=1 It's hilarious, he's like the anti-Steve Jobs. Corporate, insincere, forced humor.
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TED talks: Flying on solar wings(ted.com)
1 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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by axiom 19y ago
I'm curious if there is any path planning/intelligence to this or if it's mainly an exercise in building something mechanically similar to a frog. Either way it's pretty impressive.
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The ajaxWindows experience(arstechnica.com)
4 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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Interview with Rudolf Bannasch, founder of EvoLogics, bio-robotics pioneer(lis.epfl.ch)
1 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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by axiom 19y ago
Here is a link to the report: http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,2340,en_2649_201185_340162... The statistics speak for themselves, but his reasoning is totally out of touch with reality. Math teachers in Canada don't make any more than te
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Corners(powerseductionandwar.com)
1 points by axiom 19y ago|0 comments
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MIT researchers develop motorless exoskeleton(technologyreview.com)
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by axiom 19y ago
This is interesting. What stops people from just lying about their caste? or is it something that's actually recorded right on their birth certificate? Also, I wonder what it is that makes black-white marriages taboo, while asian-white marr
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by axiom 19y ago
Thank you for your response. One more question, is there a movement in India to counter this trend? kind of like the civil-rights movement in the US 50 years ago? Also, a related question, how prevalent is the caste system? are people discr
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by axiom 19y ago
I'm sorry to say, but it really seems like many people here are talking right out of their ass. For people who actually lived in India for an extended period of time: 1. what is the driving force behind this market? is it purely aesthetics

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