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(...) I think one way to steer it is to split the robot in half, and twist in the middle. However, that will make it hard to keep the front and back wheels in sync. Steve (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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I saw this linked on Slashdot: (URL) Allow me to cut through the inventor's verbosity and translate the concept: The square wheels are mechanically linked and turn in unison, but they're offset from each other. The weight at the top of the vehicle (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Suggestion: Determine where your subscription is coming from. It could be coming from two places, since the list is gatewayed for obscure historical reasons. From the header page, (URL) : Note: The lugnet.robotics newsgroup and the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I had a question from a student the other day (I teach Biophysics at a university) who asked why engineering doesn't follow the same mechanism as evolution (if evoution works so well, why not emulate it?). The brief answer is becuse, for (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (snip) (...) Oooh, thanks, Mat! later, James Mathis (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Most of what you say is very reasonable but that particular argument is one I have difficullty with. It's a seductive idea. It was an AI attitude for thirty years and still is in some quarters. The idea is that you can write elegant algorithms (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) space (...) I think that the whole AI community was chastened by SHRDLU (or, at least, 99.9% of them were). It seemed like a huge success: "Why did you clear off the blue cube?" "To put the red pyramid on top of it." It looked like a real (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Qualcuno sa dirmi che strada conviene fare (arrivando dalla A1) e dove conviene parcheggiare? Ciao Mario (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) Not to mention that it's trivial to bypass it if you did want to use a bot. If we need to do bot protection, we can use a captcha (similar to the way we're protecting the full installer) when votes are actually submitted. But there's no reason (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hello Geoffrey, (...) I'm not sure of the availability of the book via Shop At Home in Australia. I know it's there for the U.S. and Canada, but I can't confirm beyond that. However, I did a couple searches this morning and found several online book (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.books, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Secondo me il problema di questo meccanismo è doppiamente tecnico e "politico". Innanzitutto le immagini da dove le peschiamo? Per poterle pescare da un sito del tipo peeron o brickset bisognerebbe conoscere il meccanismo di pubblicazione (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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Hey all, Just saw (URL) story linked on ILENN>. Jeremiah VanderMark has been chosen to create a large public sculpture of Hans Christian Anderson for a park in Greenville Michigan. Congratulations, Jeremiah. Do you have pictures posted of your (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Travis, You could orthogonalise the matrix before writing it out. It's relatively easy to make a routine that will find a 'best' rotation matrix that is perpendicular and very close to the original. That way you don't have to deal with the up, (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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Mi è venuta un'idea per il nostro sito, è un po' complessa e spero di essere capace di spiegarla chiaramente.... Trovo molto comoda la funzione "Set list" di Lugnet esempio (URL) poi il try-to-build con peeron è semplicemente strepitosa... ...ma non (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) Thank you for these pictures. It's nice to see you visiting us all around the world :) In fact it was surprising to see you in japan a very few days (hours?) after the Portland LEGO store display! Do you have news from Kelly ? :D Didier (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I just wanted to say publicly thanks to the members of EJLTC that so warmly welcomed me in Tokyo this week. I had a great time at the LEGO store and afterwards at a 3 hour dinner and show & tell. We all didn't speak the same language on one level (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Why do everyone want to force me to work sequentially?!? :-( (the SAS booking system has even worse tasking errors) I find it very hard to beleive that there is a real need to prevent me from having multiple windows open on the same site. As (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi All, I've tried everything to unsubscribe from this email service to no avail. Any suggestions? Jeff -----Original Message----- From: dan miller [mailto:danbmil99@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2005 6:38 PM To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Can someone please tell me if or when it will be available from the Australian Shop at Home site? "B542" does not match any products or links that I can find. Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde "Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.books, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Do you care to put forth an alternate definition of intelligence? What Turing did, IMSHO, is simply make the point concrete that intelligence is what intelligence does. Navel-gazing focus on the 'qualia' of the 'personal experience' of intelligence (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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