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musicpnppl:

 

Azure Santos by Cameron Davis, June 2013

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getmecandy:

phdstudentandhuman:

Think your good at air hockey? 

You will lose. 

Scientists in Japan have developed a robot which is unbeatable at air hockey. The robot utilities a camera to track the movement of the puc at 500 frames per second. This means that even at frighteningly quick air hockey strikes (lets say it moves the 1M table in 0.1 seconds) the robot will see 50 frames of where the puc is travelling. Giving it plenty of time to move to attack, block or stay stationary is the shot is going to be ineffective. 

It would be like playing against someone on ketamine, every action being depicted as super-slow-mo.

Not only does the robot have the ability of foresight, it also utilities a very smart adaptive playing style. It uses Motion Pattern Histogram data, which tracts the movement of the opponents paddle and can tell whether the opponent is playing aggressively or defensive over a period of time and can adjust its relative strategy accordingly. 

So, however good you think you are, it will always be better. 

Next thing to do? 

Let a robot play a robot. It could be a never ending 0-0, or depending on how well they adapt it could be a forever tense infinity-infinity. 

It would be interesting after a very long time to see if there was any difference in score. As to say that one previously identical program has developed itself further, or possibly due to the smallest detail such as assembly optimization. 

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/nobody-stop-air-hockey-robot-090439699.html

Why invent something like this when children are dying of cancer?

Because of course robotic engineers are known for their biomedical expertise…!

thegoddamazon:

logic-and-art:

thatpointlessidiot:

krudman:

I thought to myself when I saw this, “no. This has to be some one being silly. This has to be something some one fabricated to make microsoft look worse and people just aren’t checking the source.”

NOPE. IT’S REAL.

AND IT GOT WORSE:

WHAT.

I want everyone to think long and hard on this information.

This means that you are not buying your games.  You are paying 60+ dollars to rent the games from Microsoft, and they can take their game back whenever they feel like it.

You will not own your game.  You will not own your console.  Essentially, Microsoft is saying “We can disable your games and cut you off from accessing your console whenever we choose to.”  Because a ban that locks your XBox Live account means that you will be locked out from all non-game functionality of the system, and by revoking your ‘licenses’ on all your games associated with your account, they can then disable each and every game you own for the system.  Leaving you with a five hundred dollar cable receiver.  Or, in the case of most users of the console, a five hundred dollar paperweight.

All because you accidentally walked into some online glitch and the rest of the players rage-report you for cheating.

This is unacceptable.  Buy any console but an XBox One.  Do not support Microsoft’s sudden belief that they own everything despite our purchase of it, and we have to prove we’re worthy of being shared with by paying exorbitant fees and jumping through constant hoops and hoping someone doesn’t report us for cheating because we made them mad in an online game.

Tell Microsoft ‘No,’ and do not give them your hard-earned money for what amounts to a video game subscription service with a $500 starting fee and $60+ dollar purchases.

Signal boost

It’s like they love shooting themselves in the dick.

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thelingerielesbian:

Tattoos + AP Sidonie basque = perfect

richburroughs:

Radeo / Rich Burroughs

This girl is awesome. This is from our second shoot, and I think we’ll be shooting more this summer. She’s one of my favorite people I’ve worked with.

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thepopeofmope:

purpleyin:

The most amusing thing is this IS exactly how the BBC report on practically everything.

It’s ALWAYS like this and it makes me furious.

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fuckanimals:

Edinburgh, Scotland, 1958

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Howling.

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ghostmonkey:

40302010:

Franz von Stuck - Lucifer

“so if you meet me, have some courtesy”…