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Google researchers developed algorithms that the robot used to walk independtly They just kept playing that Aerosmith song until it had to leave
Alternating with the Run DMC cover
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They just kept playing that Aerosmith song until it had to leaveAlternating with the Run DMC cover
It was threathened with a Eurovision songfestival.
It's what makes those rocks move too.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I've lost track of what's what, with all the ham-fisted (as usual) time-travel Bologna, and the article doesn't say, so does anyone know the model name of the robot?
Is it T1 or Rev-1?
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T-800
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Nah, this is only the initial prototype.
It will take google at least three weeks to get to a T-800 beta version.
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But did it take a year to 'teach' the robot why it should walk in the first place?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Rising languages in RedMonk's latest ranking include Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, and Dart. Unless you count the actual number of programmers or programs
'While the company's ranking of programming languages is influential among developers, O'Grady notes that numerical rankings should be "taken with a grain of salt".' Yeah. Kinda.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: O'Grady notes that numerical rankings should be "taken with a grain of salt".' Yeah. Kinda.
He's counting the salt wrong. It's a mountain.
(And the expression is "a pinch of salt", anyway, so he's not only wasting his life on useless "research", but he's only semi-literate, to boot.)
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And the expression is "a pinch of salt"
Not in the US.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Quote: Not in the US
No one else cares.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: No one else cares.
I wish that were true.
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I can believe that.
Cooks the US don't add a pinch of salt to flavour food, they add a kilo of sugar.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: kilo
What’s that? 😄
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It's the way of the future!
(But not a microsoft f***-up)
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Perhaps languages are more popular on StackExchange because they are too difficult and therefore generate a lot of questions.
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Quote: they are too difficult and therefore generate a lot of questions
It's an interesting problem in statistics - identifying the *real* reason for some correlations.
Recently a research paper showed that drinking lots of coffee made people live longer (statistically). However, I would be interested in the fact the people who drink lots (and lots, and lots) of coffee tend to drink less hard liquor and beer, have a higher IQ and eat slightly more healthy foods and not to excess - which could have a statistically significant effect on longevity - so how accurate is the "drink more coffee and live longer" theory? ...or how popular is Python really?
btw: I once ate a python, or some of it anyway; it was delicious (it tasted like chicken - no, really!).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Reminds me of my semester paper for statistics class - I proved (conclusively, no less) that the rise in sales of vacuum tubes correlated closely with the rise in the suicide rate. (and there you have a clue to when I was taking college classes  )
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Python is not that language. It's basically psudeocode with a conditionally forgiving interpreter, provided that you don't try to use white space to format...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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As a former naval architect and a current marketing consultant to startups, I found that the same principle that lets a 13-person crew navigate the world’s largest container ship to a port halfway around the world without breaking down also applies to startups working towards aggressive growth goals "I just want your extra time and your KISS"
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I kind of agree with him. I have faced a couple of overcomplicated things in my life. But the worst is not that, it is the "never change a running system" mentality used to the limit.
If you already find the problem (or I find it for you), please try to solve it (or let my try it if I think I can really solve it) before it explodes in (y)our face. 
Side note: The "Redundancy" picture  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. "Proficiency takes less time", "Troubleshooting takes less time", etc.
Let's not dwell on the fact that designing a simple system takes either (and sometimes both):
• Ten times as long
• A large wealth of experience
Neither of which is readily available to most start-ups.
He might as well tell them that all they need is five billion euros (real billions, not the tiny US ones).
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For NASA, redundancy is all-important. (Why send a single server beyond the stratosphere when you can send five?) Because sometimes it *is* rocket surgery
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because sometimes it *is* rocket surgery
Rocket-science is a nice hobby; I haven't sent a Pi up because most of it explodes.
Rocket-surgery, how would that work?
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Now if we could come up with redundant Operating Systems and Software....
I really hate it when my satellites go up in smoke because the rocket "ran out of time", or my jet engines turn off because they have been running to long.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150505-the-numbers-that-lead-to-disaster
How many cars will suddenly turn off in 2038?
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