@ValkStrategy @nicholadrummond I think the example of Roomba is the best: best robot to replace humans in daily tasks is the least humanoid looking
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@nicholadrummond Unless you're trying to replicate a human as a substitute human, why should a robot be humanoid, any more than a Roomba should look like an upright vac? We've constructed a vast environment layer that can be navigated on wheels.
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Like it or not, humanoid robots are about to become a major part of our lives. They'll be used commercially and militarily. Anyone who would like to understand more about the implications, including potential problems, should read Isaac Asimov's brilliant collection of short stories: "The Complete Robot".
Eren Chen@ErenChenAI
The 2nd Robot Marathon has officially begun in Beijing. This year feels different. 1. Around 40% of teams are running fully autonomous, no remote control. 2. Top robots are already hitting ~10s per 100 meter, getting surprisingly close to human sprint limits. 3. You can also see much better safety design upfront. Way more structured than last year’s chaos. 4. Still, failures happen. Marathon distance pushes motors, structure, and control to the limit. What works in short demos breaks down over longer runs. Overall, a big step forward, but also a reminder that real-world robotics is still far from the polished demo videos you get fed from companies.
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Je lis la bio de De Gaulle par Julian Jackson en prévision de la sortie de son adaptation en film en Juin.
La plus grande qualité de cette biographie est qu’elle n’est pas hagiographique. Cela rend De Gaulle compréhensible.
Dans la légende gaullienne, il y a tout un aspect irréel qui empêche de vraiment comprendre comment les choses ont bien pu se passer.
Le second couteau d’un gouvernement décrédibilisé vivant ses dernières heures décide que tous ses collègues sont des traîtres, et que désormais, la France, c’est lui, et lui seul.
Il n’est rien, ne représente rien, personne ne le connaît, et la France n’a jamais été en aussi mauvaise posture depuis au moins le Moyen Âge. Brisée, humiliée, divisée, flétrie, habitée d’une pulsion de mort.
Et pourtant en 25 ans il fait passer la France de ce nadir à son zénith. D’aucuns diraient pas la seule force de sa volonté.
Comment faire face à cette histoire sans sombrer dans le mysticisme - c’était un miracle incompréhensible - ou refuser entièrement la révélation - la geste gaullienne est fausse et ses accomplissement exagérés ?
Jackson nous fait presque toucher du doigt la mécanique à l’œuvre.
Nous voyons toutes les erreurs et les défauts de De Gaulle. Toutes les fois où il a tort, où il doute ou faillit. On voit aussi le mépris et la haine dont il fait l’objet. Et le fait dérangeant que ces réactions violentes sont tout à fait compréhensibles pour peu que l’on fasse l’effort de se mettre dans la peau de ses détracteurs.
On voit surtout à chaque instant ce sursaut de l’âme qui refuse de se coucher. Comme un boxer qui se relève malgré les uppercuts.
Malgré la souffrance, malgré le désespoir, malgré les chances impossibles de succès, malgré un tempérament mélancolique, ne jamais rien lâcher.
Il ne s’agit pas de vaincre une fois. Il s’agit de vaincre toutes les fois, tous les jours. Pendant 25 ans.
Ce que l’on retient du De Gaulle de Jackson, c’est que ce qui sauve, ce n’est ni l’intelligence, ni le courage, ni le talent, mais la foi.
Jusqu’à sa mort De Gaulle était étreint d’angoisse face à la fragilité de la France. Faible et précieuse construction humaine que la médiocrité des hommes peut abattre.
C’est bien sûr la meilleure leçon pour notre époque.
Pour nous aussi, la mélancolie et l’angoisse ne disparaîtront jamais.
Il n’y aura pas de miracle. Mais il n’y a pas de fatalité.
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@1llegalEngineer @chrisschmitz You maybe luckier if you made the effort of writing full sentences.
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Cessez-le-feu américain en Iran - © Chappatte dans @LeTemps , Genève 👉 chappatte.com/fr/images/cess…
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If your first email ended in @ yahoo, @ hotmail, or @ msn… you have seniority on the internet.
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It’s a remarkable coincidence that the Earth was exactly the same orientation to the moon with exactly the same cloud coverage when these two pictures were taken 68 years apart. Am I now a coincidence theorist ?
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What’s a great song that’s longer than 10 minutes?
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This might improve the planet by a non zero amount. Find out what the correct sodding replacement seal is for your MOKA pot. The manufacturer adopted the hilarious “cup” unit to describe the inner and outer diameter of a ring. Mine is a “9cup” size apparently which is of course not inscribed anywhere on the unit, and which has a capacity of an about two coffee cups volume. Obviously 😑
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You and the author of that book obviously don't know how an attitude indicator works.
1) An attitude indicator does not look outside at the horizon at all. It doesn’t "detect" a flat surface. It uses a gyroscope (or modern solid-state sensors) to maintain a stable reference in space. The display then shows the aircraft’s pitch and roll relative to that internal reference, not relative to a visible or geometric horizon.
2) Gyroscopes work the same on a sphere or a flat plane. The principle behind the instrument is Conservation of Angular Momentum: a spinning rotor resists changes to its orientation. This property works in aircraft and in satellites on a spherical Earth. There is nothing about a gyroscope that requires a flat surface.
3) The "horizon" on the display is symbolic. The line is just a reference line drawn on the instrument to help pilots interpret pitch and roll. It's not a real horizon measurement. Even in complete darkness or clouds (no visible horizon), the instrument still works because it is internal.
4) Modern aircraft use inertial reference systems and AHRS (Attitude and Heading Reference Systems), which continuously compute orientation in 3D space using sensors and math. These systems are used in aviation, missiles, and spacecraft - none of which assume a flat Earth.
5) If it required a flat Earth, long-distance navigation would fail. Commercial flights routinely travel thousands of kilometers following curved paths over a spherical Earth. Their instruments - including the attitude indicator - work consistently across these distances.
rebirthoftheword@rebirthofthewo1
“Every commercial and military aircraft has onboard an instrument that can only work on a flat earth. That instrument is the attitude indicator, which is also known as an artificial horizon. That artificial horizon instrument has a display, that shows the pilot the attitude of the plane to the actual horizon, even if he cannot see the horizon because it is obscured by inclement weather or darkness. The pilot can determine the roll of the aircraft, (i.e., if he is flying level) and the pitch of the aircraft (i.e., if the nose of he aircraft is pointed below or above the horizon). That attitude indicator works by means of a spinning gyroscope mounted on a gimbal.” What I’ve Learned From Reading This Book:
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USAF B-52H taking off on an Iran strike mission last last week, carrying a full load of JASSM cruise missiles.
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@CalumDouglas1 @lapinos An Italian caffè (espresso) is max 25ml !!! Not 50 or God forbid 100 ml. It's not dirty dishwasher water (i.e. americano)...
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@TBrit90 I understand your point, but ops continue, low-volume assets have been lost, and one surprise card has been played.
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Its going to happen.
The US losing two MC-130s for this success is a bargain.
gfodor.id@gfodor
“Devastating loss of two C-130s by the US” - some accounts on here soon, I assume
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@TechSpatiales Je pense qu’on peut parler plus de distance que d’altitude dans un tel contexte
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Nouvelle claque d'Artemis II: la Terre vue depuis 197.400 km d'altitude, baignée dans les reflets du soleil sur la vitre du vaisseau et l'optique de l'appareil.
Photo prise le 4 avril à 01h30 (Paris) par un Nikon Z9, 35mm de focale, ISO 400, 1/26.000s.
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@DrChrisCombs Quite the opposite: it proves that doing gym stuff does not belong to earthly activities
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Welp no excuse to skip the gym when Vic is doing this halfway to the moon
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