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RE: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:20:16 GMT
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> > Ummm, respectfully, yes. If the team took days to rework the code when
> > control data tables change, then they were not using tools and methods
> > appropriate to the task at hand. I'm hoping you weren't "them" :-)
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> I wasn't them... I was involved with the control system algorithm
> development and analysis. This bunch was definitely not using a tool --
> they were doing it all by hand. I'm sure they were not doing it right
> either because sometimes the computations would blow up. It was treated
> like a black art -- which I guess in this case it was. They had
> spent years
> developing then tweaking this code -- all in assembly. I wrote
> it in C for
> a simulation I had in two days.
I've done simulations on spreadsheets and simple scripting languages when
it was too much bother to get the C compiler running properly....
> Well, maybe you should write a book on it. "The Black Art of Fixed Point
> Math: EXPOSED!" -- I'd buy it :-)
Oh Oh, don't tempt me.
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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| (...) When will it be on Amazon? -Luis "anxiously awaiting Ralph's pearls of wisdom" Villa ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) [snip] (...) I wasn't them... I was involved with the control system algorithm development and analysis. This bunch was definitely not using a tool -- they were doing it all by hand. I'm sure they were not doing it right either because (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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