Doug Dugan
ptoothfish (but beige)my first email address ended in otago.ac.nz and i had to carry a 3.5โ floppy disk around to a lab to access it ๐คทโโ๏ธ #getOffMyLawn
Robotistry@gadgetry It's like none of the people involved even thought to consider that there might be decades of work on multi-agent systems, trust, and collaboration in the autonomous systems research community.
There are thousands of papers on this. Coordination and conflict between independent agents collaborating on tasks or competing for resources have been studied for years. Challenges have been identified, emergent behavior characterized, problems solved.
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.
Tim RuppertSo many journalists and people on social media talking about Artemis II getting a peek at the โdark sideโ of the moon. Surely by now we all know there is NO SUCH THING. Itโs the far side of the moon and it gets just as much light as the rest of the moon.
#GetOffMyLawn #nasa #artemisii
#GetOffMyLawn #nasa #artemisii
Maria Langer | ๐๐ฅ๏ธ๐@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
Jamie GaskinsI 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.
DeadTOm 
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.
Pirate BearIs it me, or is seeing Kylie Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair grating?
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JelloeaterMicrosoft Bob
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Clippy (Microsoft Office Assistant)
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BonziBuddy
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Tamagotchi
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