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Recent Wines 03/19/2003 10:45 PM

Chateau Lerys 1996
Fitou

Po-faced and a bit snide at first, it picks up slow speed before gallumphing to a springy sunlight-on-hot-chrome apex, then splitting into rusty metal ringlets that roll and roll and gradually wobble off like the discounted hula hoops in The Hudsucker Proxy. Dominant notes of aspirin and cake.

Chateau Tour Boisée 2000
Minervois

Two fingers in the nostrils and a gentle tug, followed by a nuzzle at the nape of the neck and that short-lived tinnitus that seems like it’s going to be a major pain or perhaps the first symptom of a ghastly disease but is always gone by the time you remember it was there. Moonglow and snowfights, more tinnitus, a pronounced barnyard sing-along before everything goes to hell and you’re left with a big creamy mess like a priest mopping up after a wank.

Cuvée Sextant 1998
Corbières

Monolithic, fearless, even rude; it goes to eleven. Pencil shavings and patchouli compete with Mister Kleen and those socks there piled up in the corner. There’s sweetness later on, much flowers and making up, and somewhere mid-swallow there’s a perceptible tong sound which rings on for several minutes. Subtle overtones of toothpaste, orange juice, coffee and bacon.

Moulin de Ciffre Éole 2000
Faugères

Not bad, not bad at all.




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Can't say I'm much different.

I seriously, seriously want one. Like now.

Update: Joi snapped a photo of me, relaxing outside :-)

Update2: I'm now a bit less enthusiastic. IRobot does in addition build the PackBot, which is a military bot. We were shown a cool video in which the PackBot? is thrown in through a window to a building, drives off the roof, and drives directly into a river; surviving all this stuff. It was apparently used during the Afghan war as well. It's just a matter of time before they strap it with guns.


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< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/roomba_discovery.jpg" alt="roomba_discovery.jpg image" width="200" height="200" class="borderyes" border="0" align="right" vspace="5" hspace="15"/>We're going to give this New York Times' Circuits section review of the new Roomba Discovery a passing grade, if only because author William Grimes (oh ho ho) talks about torturing robots. It's good to know that when robots rise up against their fleshy masters, we'll all be able to blame Circuits. The new Discovery does well enough -- it's clearly an improvement over the previous generations -- but its still, ultimately, an expensive distraction to getting real cleaning done. And that's why I love it.

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Swarm Intelligence (SI)
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Such systems are made up by a population of simple agents interacting locally with one other and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralised control dictating the behaviour of the agents, local interactions ong the agents often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, honey bees, bacteria, and many more. Swarm-like algorithms, such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), have already been applied successfully to solve real-world optimization problems in engineering and telecommunication. SI models have many features in common with Evolutionary Algorithms.

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Helicopters Swarm Gas Station in Norway
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Alien Swarm Add-on for UT2004 Showcased


Alien Swarm Add-on for UT2004 Showcased 05/28/2004 08:05 PM

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The Freeze-Tag Problem is a common optimization problem when dealing with swarms of robots. You start out with a swarm of "sleeping" robots in an arbitrary arrangement. One robot has to wake the swarm. To wake a sleeping robot, it must be "tagged" by an active robot. Once a robot is awakened, it can assist in waking other robots. The problem is figuring out how to wake all the robots as early as possible. In a recent paper, The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots (PDF format), Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender and several other researcher do a lot of interesting math that proves the problem is NP-hard; a result confirmed by other studies of the problem.

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