I’m planning my directed reading class this coming semester. So, basically I have/get to come up with an entire semester’s worth of material. I might be able to make a class out of it by the time I’m done 🙂 haha. My subjects are focusing on the areas I want to explore with the bounty hunting… Continue reading Directed Reading
Paper citations
I wonder why we only count the number of citations our papers get. We should also count the citations of all of the papers that cite you, since they were somehow related. Maybe as the degree of separation increases the weight of each citation in that layer changes. Would be interesting. Also, maybe included in… Continue reading Paper citations
Petri net ideas and Bounty Hunting
I had a rather random idea. Music seems like it could be modeled by a petri net. A petri net can model distributed systems, such as the instruments in a band, mathematically. I googled it and it seems like that I’m not the first to think of this. I think one of the first papers to… Continue reading Petri net ideas and Bounty Hunting
Gamification of Gate Creation :)
David just connected a wii-remote to one of the darwins and is using the gyro info from the remote to adjust the hip pitch and roll to keep the robot from falling on the astroturf! Basically doing LFD. The plan is to create a function that will appropriately set the hip pitch/roll based off of… Continue reading Gamification of Gate Creation 🙂
gait creation for humanoid robots.
EMG for robot gait creation.
french toast
Challah bread for french toast. Should try and get some.
N-Puzzle thoughts
Some n-puzzle ideas: Create an n-dimensional n-puzzle. This is different from a rubiks cube because it is a sliding puzzle not a sequential move puzzle. It is sort of like the last puzzle here called the Inside out puzzle by Vadász Kocka, it is of course only 3D not nD. Figure out how to reduce nD n-puzzle… Continue reading N-Puzzle thoughts
First Authentic Chinese in America food
So, I had a ton of new food today! David and I went to a Chinese restaurant with Ermo and his wife. We ate off of the special “Chinese menu” and had tea and everything. The food came on dishes which we all shared. The style was from a province that prepares the food hot… Continue reading First Authentic Chinese in America food
Vagrant
Might want to checkout Vagrant (a tool that lets you define, and re-use system environments). https://www.vagrantup.com/ Especially for the robots…
Exercise and eat healthy
Well I was working out every-other-day and really eating healthy for about two weeks. As a result I had a lot of energy and felt good, other than the muscle soreness. This past week I couldn’t go to the gym at all and I started eating pretty bad. By the end of the week (today)… Continue reading Exercise and eat healthy