#robotics Logs

Sep 28 2012

06:51 rue_house I notice the listing says "new - other"
10:43 Modeuse hello
15:38 tsmeow-afk examines the tobbor, and thinks that for a tobbor, he has mighty few robo-
16:03 katsmeow-afk A new robot with six cameras and two arms, designed to help wine producers maintain their vineyards has been unveiled in France, and counterfeit mobile phones will stop working in Kenya from the start of October.
16:03 katsmeow-afk http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9755640.stm
17:05 rue_house ?
17:05 rue_house home early must sleep
17:07 rue_house kat, I cant see the videos cause I cant get around the offensive IE ads
17:14 katsmeow-afk rue, is changing your mind as simple as "changing your mind" ?
17:18 rue_house no, its all damned proprietory equiptment
17:19 katsmeow-afk ok, is changing your mind as simple as thinking about other things?
17:19 katsmeow-afk and, if you are all concerned and thinking about "x" now, will you be a new person if you are all concerned about "y" and thinking only of it, later?
17:29 katsmeow-afk i ask because if the memory leaks are cleaned up, praps Tiggr can change her mind as fast as 500 times per second
17:30 katsmeow-afk admittedly, it's just changing saying "hello", nothing fancy like making soup in someone else's kitchen in a boat while in Somalia under attack
17:54 rue_house no, I thinkthat changing ones mind is a matter of evolving an oppinion about a specific task, if you switch to task y your oppinion of task x is where you left it pending you dont have a siv for a memory
18:01 katsmeow-afk a siv ?
18:02 katsmeow-afk sieve ?
18:12 katsmeow-afk Tiggr has learned there's interlocutors in a discussion
18:12 katsmeow-afk making use of that new data isn't happening yet
18:15 katsmeow-afk FISH = Frugal Invariant Subword Hierarchies
18:30 rue_house interwhat?
18:32 home ?
18:37 katsmeow-afk it's a real acronym, i did not make that one up
18:37 katsmeow-afk it's about recognising human speech, a fav topic of rue's, so i mentioned it
18:44 home lol
18:46 katsmeow-afk wow, easy google hit, only 5 results, have fun reading :-)
18:54 tsmeow-afk ponders a gf named Sharrie, with a speech lisp, you never know if she is announcing her name or appologi
18:57 katsmeow-afk ...........Street and 2nd Avenue North on Monday.
18:57 katsmeow-afk Hokes Bluff officer arrested for child of a 5-year-old boy
18:57 katsmeow-afk Updated:
18:57 katsmeow-afk According to the Etowah County Sheriff's Office
18:57 katsmeow-afk radical parse error
19:01 Solarnrg Does anybody in here like red dwarf?
19:02 katsmeow-afk i did when i could see it, but cannot watch it after the change to digital tv
19:03 Solarnrg I made a red dwarf game
19:03 Solarnrg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPZ1Kc9NvkQ
19:03 Solarnrg Sory the sounds a bit crackley
19:03 Solarnrg working on a better mike
19:03 katsmeow-afk i have no sound here
19:06 Solarnrg What do you think tho?
19:06 katsmeow-afk i haven't seen it
19:09 Solarnrg If you were going to put a robot on the moon how would you stop the arms flappnig about during take off but make sure they are remote controllable when it lands on other world?
19:09 Solarnrg remember there is nobody there to undo straps for the robot
19:09 Solarnrg Its worth remembering that
19:44 atak anyone like picaxe?
21:48 katsmeow-afk Researchers at Samsung have developed a smart phone that can detect people's emotions. Rather than relying on specialized sensors or cameras, the phone infers a user's emotional state based on how he's using the phone.
21:48 katsmeow-afk For example, it monitors certain inputs, such as the speed at which a user types, how often the "backspace" or "special symbol" buttons are pressed, and how much the device shakes. These measures let the phone postulate whether the user is happy, sad, surprised, fearful, angry, or disgusted, says Hosub Lee, a researcher with Samsung Electronics and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology's Intelligence Group, in South Korea.
21:48 katsmeow-afk Lee led the work on the new system. He says that such inputs may seem to have little to do with emotions, but there are subtle correlations between these behaviors and one's mental state, which the software's machine-learning algorithms can detect with an accuracy of 67.5 percent.
21:48 home katsmeow-afk: that's amazing
21:49 home katsmeow-afk: given how simple some emotions are
21:49 theBear lol, 67.5% accuracy, AMAZING
21:49 katsmeow-afk wag, almost
21:51 katsmeow-afk (caution, 12 tracking bugs on this page) http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/23/evi-arrives-in-town-to-go-toe-to-toe-with-siri/
21:52 katsmeow-afk how to keep research funded by your tax dollars away from you : The MetaNet Project is supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via Department of Defense US Army Research Laboratory contract number W911NF-12-C-0022.
21:53 katsmeow-afk The MetaNet Project is european
22:15 katsmeow-afk ok, so two 5ft tall racks can hold 2^48 bytes on moderate sized hds, and their psu, 6.5kw each rack, or 30A@240vac