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Boston Dynamics Robots - dancing. Apparently they are also useful. Are you ready to buy your next home assistant?

EarnestEccentric 7 July 31
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That's scary. When these machines take over there will be no need for humans (as if there is for some humans).

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Just keep admiring your replacement!!!

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Totally amazing

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OMG! I love this!
The first line of robots I programmed was for Sony Magnetics on highway 84 near Dothan Alabama in 1987 or 1988. Industrial arms with four or five axis of freedom are about as advanced as I’ve had the privilege to work with.
Mobile units like this with such balance and agility are fantastic.
Maybe I should take a job at Boston Dynamics.
Yes sign me up for a domestic robotic roommate.
We just got to the 21st century, but the flying cars are still behind schedule.

I would love to work there, but my programming skills are not that good.

@dalefvictor I doubt they use standard PID algorithms, more likely neural networking over a distributed control network, probably CAN network due to CANs robustness and higher voltage. Ethernet for example uses the same 5v as TTL logic, CAN is 24 volt networking so it’s practically immune to noise.

@Willow_Wisp If I read this real slow I can understand it. No, I understand it, but I took C++ twenty years ago. My new project is to learn Python or Mathematica, I think Python is easier as the syntax for Mathematica is complicated.

@dalefvictor Try this link for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. It’s free and more useful. By the way they also dictate the standards for web development, so totally worth it.
[w3schools.com]
OMG! They released Node red 2.0!
I’m getting excited.

Highway 84, straight north to the lovely antebellum p3rsonal hellhole of Eufaula, where I lived with first hubby

@Willow_Wisp Just a question. Do you know Lisp?

@dalefvictor Not Lisp, but Autolisp, the original language in AutoCAD.
I haven't used it in years, it's very much about these characters "()" and a line of code may require you to scroll left and right a lot with statements like

@Willow_Wisp I have tried to understand Lisp for years, but I cannot get past all the ()'s. Also seems like one has to know the functions that are built-in, as I have not found a list of them. Of course, I have no kneed for this, just an interest. Would be nine to take a pill and know all this stuff, but then where would the fun of learning it be.

@dalefvictor Just keep in mind there's noting in a computer that isn't arbitrary AF.

@Willow_Wisp Please expand on this.

@dalefvictor Everything in a computer is there because someone decided it would be there and for no other reason in particular. Like before 16 bit ASCII Code where Character Number 65 is the letter "A" we had EBCDIC which was 8 bit and Character Number 193 is the letter "A" there's no particular reason for why these characters are mapped where they are, but someone said it and it became standard.
There's no great reason why Fortran was a column specific language and no reason for Lisp to have so GD many "()" but someone designed it that way and we're stuck.
Some of the most confusing syntax in existence is for system calls, which work with VB, Assembly Code, Cobol, C, C++, C#, and any other language you care to think of but calls system DLL files that allow you to have much better control of your platform if you can find them. Sadly there's no comprehensive index of all Windows System calls, so you have to find them. I use them in Excel VBA macros all the time, and sometimes 75% of the code is just to define how to make the calls.
Arbitrary, there's no real rhyme or reason so it's an exercise in research and lots of experimentation.

@Willow_Wisp Thanks for the info.

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