Monthly Archives: August 2009

ASIMO Avoiding Moving Objects

Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 by Peter

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have given Honda’s humanoid robot, ASIMO, the ability to walk towards a goal position while avoiding stationary and moving obstacles. This could be the coolest, most expensive game of Frogger ever played!

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Why I got into Artificial Intelligence

Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 by Peter

While I was away people were often interested to learn that I studied AI, but there were a couple of times when (otherwise very intelligent) people told me they were convinced that sufficiently advanced systems could only be used to … Continue reading →

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Fantasy Football is a Strange Game

Posted on Saturday, August 15, 2009 by Peter

My fantasy NFL league held its draft this afternoon. I think I came out of it with a pretty good team for once, but mostly due to some really strange moves in the first couple of rounds! For those unfamiliar … Continue reading →

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Fixing K2

Posted on Sunday, August 9, 2009 by Peter

I installed K2 a while ago, I quite like it. Unfortunately a WordPress update seems to have broken something somewhere. I’ve just installed K2 RC 8, which appears to have fixed things but the nice boring, blue theme I was … Continue reading →

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Ben Goldacre on The Now Show

Posted on Saturday, August 8, 2009 by Peter

Dr Ben Goldacre writes the Bad Science blog, which manages to be both funny and depressing (In a how-can-people-be-so-stupid sort of way) at the same time. He is/was on the Radio 4′s The Now Show this week, which is also … Continue reading →

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