Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stemsearchgroup/116370623815342121

So much wrong with this and I haven't even clicked through yet.

A) "Feel" is a function of sensors, not AI, and people have been working on tactile sensors with a wide range of properties for years. The TacTip that senses direction of force as well as pressure. The artificial skin. The Festo tentacle gripper. The jamming gripper (coffee grounds in a balloon is makes a surprisingly good gripper!).

B) A robot doesn't "go blind" when it touches something. All its other sensors still work, plus whatever sensors it has specifically for contact and touch (and yes, it needs those).

C) There has been tons of work in this area that doesn't involve "AI" at all. Traditionally, this is both a hardware problem and a software problem. And Gill Pratt said "grasping is solved" at IROS in Portugal in 2012.

D) WTF is "physical AI"? We have had "autonomous robots" "intelligent agents" "cyber-physical systems" - now we have yet another stupid term foisted on us by the "robotics is a subset of CS" crowd? Again? If it's AI, it's software. If it has a body and it's trying to pick things up without destroying them, it's a robot.

#GetOffMyLawn #Robotics #TactileSensing

Tim Ruppert Apr 6

So many journalists and people on social media talking about Artemis II getting a peek at the “dark side” of the moon. Surely by now we all know there is NO SUCH THING. It’s the far side of the moon and it gets just as much light as the rest of the moon.
#GetOffMyLawn #nasa #artemisii

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Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎Apr 4

@User47 I've seen up to 30% in some places. I believe in tipping for good service but I don't believe that tips should form the basis of a server's compensation. I'm pretty sure that in Washington state restaurant servers get minimum wage; to add 30% on top of that is obscene. Restaurants all over should properly pay their employees and roll the cost of that into their prices. Tipping in the US is out of control. #GetOffMyLawn

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Jamie Gaskins Apr 3

I also don't like that everything became all about pull requests instead of commits. Nobody reads the commit messages these days. They might as well not be there.

If I wrote all my commit messages at work by rolling my face across the keyboard, not one person would notice.

#OldManYellsAtCloud #GetOffMyLawn

DeadTOm

Apr 2

This has been irritating me for months. I'm going to sit down with one of my guys and review the number of people whose swipe cards open the door to our office, but regardless, I do not have the vocabulary to properly articulate how fucking irritated I am at having to create a sign to explain door protocol.

I mean, the whole "knock and wait" thing has been a generally accepted point of common courtesy for... as long as there have been doors.

#ShitIShouldntHaveToDo #Doors #GetOffMyLawn

Pirate Bear Mar 30

Is it me, or is seeing Kylie Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair grating?

🏴‍☠️ 🐻

#GetOffMyLawn

Jelloeater Mar 29

Microsoft Bob
- Initial Release: March 10, 1995
Clippy (Microsoft Office Assistant)
- Debut: 1996 (with Microsoft Office 97)
BonziBuddy
- Debut: Circa 1999
Tamagotchi
* Debut: 1996

#ai #getoffmylawn

C.Mar 26

When the hell did "could have seen Star Wars in the theater" become a description of someone being old?

#GetOffMyLawn #OldManYellsAtCloud #StarWars

Robotistry has moved Mar 16

We are in the twitter generation of scientific papers.

Instead of "here are several paragraphs of text explaining the context and framework of our work" I'm reviewing papers that are "I have broken my work up into paragraphs and each paragraph is a subsection with its own heading and contains multiple boldfaced words in case you didn't catch that I was referencing other peoples' work".

I'm not five. I can read long form works without gimmicks.

#GetOffMyLawn #ScientificPublishing

Thomas Beagle Mar 11

Me in the 2000s: Why would anyone want video calling on their phone?

Me in the 2020s: Why would anyone want video calling on their phone?

#GetOffMyLawn