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xqdr: A Flying Robot That Does Things

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

I’m building a flying robot. More specifically, a friend and I are building an electric quadrocopter which flies autonomously by using the accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS on a smart phone to tell some artificial intelligence algorithms where the robot is and how to go where it wants to go. The robot will also be trained [...]

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Distractions!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Physics Q: Why are quantum physicists so poor at sex? A: Because when they find the position, they can’t find the momentum, and when they have the momentum, they can’t find the position. Heisenberg went for a drive and got stopped by a traffic cop. The cop asked, “Do you know how fast you were [...]

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Science Without Hierarchy

Thursday, September 29, 2011

This is an interesting piece on what science might look like after an anarchist revolution. However, it is depressingly 1980s in its perceptions of developing action within modern scientific theory (specifically the section on Anarchist Epistemology, which states, “Paul Feyerabend is the most prominent philosopher to champion a different philosophy of science. He criticises the [...]

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