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Sunday, January 1st, 2012Well everyone, it’s official. Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law. You can be thrown into prison indefinitely, without a trial, without evidence being brought against you, all at the executive branch’s whim. What a way to start the new year. This is a sad time. Almost pathetic. I’m sure most of you have [...]
Artificial Spatial Cognition
Sunday, December 18th, 2011There’s a reason I fell in love with computer programming at such a young age. Watching a robot drive around the room, building a 3D model of its environment, understanding its position within that space, and properly avoiding the walls and obstacles is just too awesome for words. I spend more time doing physics these [...]
Robotic Chefs
Sunday, December 18th, 2011It won’t be all that long before robots like Asimo here will be in restaurants across the country cooking your food, taking your order, waiting on your table, and washing your dirty dishes. It’ll leave a lot of people unemployed, but I really hope to see the day when robots can manage a restaurant entirely [...]
3D Modeling The World Around You
Monday, December 12th, 2011For a long time now I’ve wanted to write a computer program which can take a film of me roaming around town and automatically produce a 3D model of the area based on the film footage alone. I found a video on Youtube where researchers did just that. Isn’t that awesome? I can write code [...]
America’s A Police State
Thursday, December 8th, 2011Let’s all admit it. Let’s stop the denial and look at what’s really going on. Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, you’ve probably realized that ever since this “War On Terror” began, our civil liberties and freedoms have been rather rapidly eroding away. Probably the single most important provision to a system of [...]
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