To semi-automatically compose a non-fiction book, or several hundred thousand of them, one can observe the methods of Professor Philip M. Parker (of INSEAD), of whom we have written (semi-automatically) many times. To semi-automatically compose a work of fiction, one can learn much by reading Michelle Legro’s essay in Brain Pickings. It begins: Plotto: The Master Book […]
Tag: computer
NOAA’s stormy robo-version of “Deck the Halls”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s automated voice sang the song “Deck the Halls”. If you can weather hearing it, you can weather practically anything. [HT @SaraZielinski]
A many-armed-god sort of robot
There are many ways to describe what happens in this video. Karaman and Frazzoli and friends, the scientists and engineers behind it, choose one of the less poetical ways: “The RRT* algorithm is used together with the Ball Trees algorithm and a memoization technique for asymptotically-optimal path planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces for manipulation purposes.” They also […]
Grace Murray Hopper interviewed
Grace Murray Hopper, computer pioneer (and by many accounts the person who coined the term “bug” in relation to computers), interviewed by David Letterman in 1986, not very long after she retired from the US Navy: (Thanks to investigator Anusree Banerjee for bringing this to our attention.) UPDATE: The video has been yanked from YouTube. […]