robotresearcher

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by robotresearcher 16y ago
That's not really a clarification, as it's misleading. Every single child inherits traits from its parents with variation, and the frequency of their being passed on to another generation is subject to selection pressure. That's all evoluti
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
This is a weak article. First, it ignores the existence of commodity robots. Something like 4 million Roombas have been sold. They are easy to use commodity robots that sell in volume from Best Buy. Second, many people, going back to the ea
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
you have a declaration without initialization there. Variables should always be initialized - this removes another large potential source of bugs. UINT uFlags = DST_ICON | DSS_NORMAL; or in C++ UINT uFlags( DST_ICON | DSS_NORMAL ); Also, de
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
> Those people are exceedingly rare They are not so rare at this point in history - many people use a laptop as their main/only machine, and the move to SSD shrunk my disk by 3X. Space is going to be tight for a couple of years - I trad
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
If you ignore the hours of data copying or fresh install.
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
You don't need to convince me. I was just pointing out the fallacy in the parent's argument from popularity. I can like meditation without liking bad arguments for it.
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
> It sure seems like if entire cultures practice it, there must be something to it. See also clitoral circumcision, death penalty for apostasy and homosexuality, and other popular cultural practices. There are many things that are widel
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
To be clear, I'm pointing out only the sloppy "journalism". The Kinect was slapped on there as a cheap new sensor for already existing SLAM* software. I'm sure the student would not claim novelty for that, and will be facepalming if he read
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
The article claims this is "the first iRobot to finally use SLAM". See Gerkey's Create+Hokuyo SLAM HOWTO from March 2006, predating this "first" by 4.5 years. http://www.ai.sri.com/~gerkey/roomba/index.html Also, since the Create was desi
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
Some of them do, yes. For reference, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a NASA Lab, administered by Caltech. DARPA is a a funding agency and doesn't actually do any research itself. It generally employs only late-career scientists and enginee
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
> (The formatting is also very unprofessional. No, this is what academic papers usually look like when prepared for submission to journals. After review, if the article is accepted and modifications done, the journal staff takes the tex
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by robotresearcher 16y ago
The article fails to mention the decade-old de facto standard in research robotics: Player. The MS RDS marketing people are very careful never to mention it, but it's disappointing that this IEEE journalist doesn't survey the space properl