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As hinted at earlier, we are going to have a Draft! Okay, so what IS a Draft? It is an event where everyone brings one copy of the same (unopened) set. We open the sets, sort the pieces into piles and take turns Drafting the piles of pieces. The (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Pics Posted including GBC Video
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(...) of the FLL competition on Saturday. Sadly Team Hassenplug did not win :-( Thank you Steve for not having a team cadence. Our goals were different, than in previous years. NONE of them involved a team cadence. This year, it was more about "The (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | NWBrickCon™ 2005 Speed and Master Build Contests
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Due to the tremendous popularity of our Speed and Master Builder Competition last year, We will again be presenting an opportunity for you to compete to become the Fastest Builder, or the Most Masterful Builder, in the Northwest! There will be open (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events) !!
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| | NWBrickCon™ 2005 Pre-Registration Ending Soon!
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There is just over ONE WEEK left for pre-registration! We'll be closing Pre-Registration next week for our Fourth Annual NWBrickCon! This may be your last chance to save money and get exclusive goodies! If you register (and pay) by September 7th - (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Whose angel sculpture was that?
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(...) (URL) NP-complete> is a class of difficult problems in Computer Science. In general it's a problem too difficult to be solved exactly. A well-known example is the (URL) traveling salesman problem>. In my talk I sort of glossed over this. While (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Yes, the (URL) ACM> is the Association for Computing Machinery. It's the organization for computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, etc. professionals. The main publication, Communications of the ACM, is what I was (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Pics Posted including GBC Video
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(...) I found another CF card and uploaded some additional pics as well as a few videos of the FLL competition on Saturday. Sadly Team Hassenplug did not win :-( Thank you Steve for not having a team cadence. MVI_2676.AVI and MVI_2677.AVI are from (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and new Pneumatic Gate Circuits
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(...) Hi Larry, It was great to see you again at BrickFest. I appreciate your interest in my pneumatics creations. I've already had the pleasure of co-authoring with Dr. Soh, and would enjoy it again if it were to take place. I've tested the waters (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Whose angel sculpture was that?
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(...) I was only asking for the technical details and missed the ACM article bit in the original post, but I assume it refers to this ((URL) would seems a suitable home for a technical discussion about the work. That is just a guess though. Tim (21 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) What exactly is an ACM article. Sorry for my ignorance--but I for one have no problem exposing it. Tommy Armstrong (URL) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Whose angel sculpture was that?
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(...) Oh me too! I wanted to ask but figured I might be the only one so I'm so happy you asked. I'd love to see a technical account, I'm particularly interested in the combinatorics of the problem (if any were considered too) but all of it is (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Whose angel sculpture was that?
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(...) I missed your presentation that day. How technical was it? You probably explained NP-complete briefly, and I'm guessing you didn't go into the computer science part of everything except what was necessary. I'm curious if you have a more (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Newport Post Script
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Great (URL) Show>! Paid for my first month's rent in my new Lego Studio. Whooooo Hooooo! That was cool and very satisfying to have Lego bring good things in to your life. I took pics right after I set up. Good thing, because later, you almost could (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: Newport advanced
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(...) BIOMECHANICAL BRICKS SHOW TODAY! ==== One block East of the Newport/Pavoina PATH Station. 5-8pm Eric Sophie Bots-Mecha-Robotics-Moonbase (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.ny, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and new Pneumatic Gate Circuits
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(...) Kevin, And after you write a few articles for Brickjournal it is my hope that you would complete them in a book on pneumatics (maybe along with CS?). I spoke with others at Brickfest and they said they would buy the book and I would probably (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and new Pneumatic Gate Circuits
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote: [SNIP] Hi Mark, (...) I figured that if you're going to write an article for BrickJournal on pneumatic basics up through sequencers, you would probably want to talk about the simplest gates, the single output (...) (21 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest
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(...) "Terrific" is a pretty general response...I would add the following: 1) GBC exceeded all of our expectations as we prepared for Brickfest 2) The room was NOT large enough to accomodate the GBC or the crowd 3) I watched as many kids were simply (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Whose angel sculpture was that?
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(...) Yup. I gave a talk on the software at Brickfest, "Automated Brick Layout" I posted the slides from that talk in my brickshelf folder: (URL) Please feel free to post photos. Thank you! -dw (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and new Pneumatic Gate Circuits
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(...) Kevin, I think "differential output" is what I really meant, though I called it "no leak" because the supply never leaks, one output or the other is always pressurised and there is never a state where both outputs leak. There is also only one (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: LEGO World 2005
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(...) Dear Jean-Louis, We do not have a specific closing date. The facilites however are on a first come first served basis. If you know how many people will come (or if you know an approximate number) let us know such that we can already reserve a (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.legoworld)
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