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(...) 1.94 GB, which is the full resolution capture from the video camera. I'm going to edit it slightly when I have time, and that will make it smaller, but probably not by much. (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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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 (19 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) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.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 (...) (19 years ago, 20-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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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 (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Hi Didier, we're glad to hear that you are home and safe. I showed Vangie the picture and she was delighted. We both enjoyed meeting you so much. And thanks for sharing your solution to the slope problem :) See you next year? Cyndi (19 years ago, 20-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Hello, I just came back to France, after my trip to Brickfest. I just like to thank you all (organisator and particpant). Brickfest is really great, and i was very happy to be here this year. I meet some friendly people, and talk face to face to (...) (19 years ago, 20-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) bonjour didier, je suis contente que vous avez retourné en france sains et saufs. c'était pour moi aussi un grand plaisir de connaître le monde de freelug. j'espère que c'est le début d'une grande association entre parlugment et freelug. à la (...) (19 years ago, 20-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Hi guys, Here's a people oriented photo gallery of pictures from BrickFest 2005. (URL) hope you like them. They were from the one day I was in DC for BrickFest. Calum (19 years ago, 20-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Mark, I did a lot of thinking about pneumatics in my long drive home over the last few days, and am going to try to share them here (yah, Steve, there I go giving away my competitive edge ;^). I started thinking about a piston and its ports. (...) (19 years ago, 20-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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