https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:31:32 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311458 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:11:43 +0000
I've never heard GREED referred to as 'A good intention' before. I refer primarily to the "good intentions" that produced the "subprime mortgages" that couldn't be paid back.

There's plenty of greed involved as well, but that has nothing to do with good intentions.]]> Opinions and Polls Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311458 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311456 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:34:08 +0000 Are you working on those sorts of dynamic stability issues? Yes, we are working (really we were, now we are working on another kind of systems). I described the static balance and slightly introduced the dynamic balance. The ZMP (Zero Moment Point) is used for dynamic balance. It changes the equations. Very basically... you leave that the COM (center of masses) goes away the polygon in such a way you know where the robot goes to do the movement, let us say, you use the robot inertia. It is more 'natural'.

And, yes, Raibert was one of the pioneers of legged robots. MIT did a great work around 80s and early 90s on Robotics. They always were the reference site. Currently it seems they are focused on another projects.]]> Opinions and Polls Nuno https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311456 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311453 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:01:08 +0000
I've never heard GREED referred to as 'A good intention' before.

Then again; I've never been referred to as a 'Fundamental' before either :roll:

Ken]]> Opinions and Polls CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311453 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311411 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:14:44 +0000
After those dynamic issues there's also active balance - the consideration of the robot allowing itself to move to an unstable position as part of a move because it's efficient in the larger sense and the force needed to move out of that unstable position is within its capabilities. Humans do both of these all the time.

Some pretty fascinating stuff. Are you working on those sorts of dynamic stability issues? I've done some reading in the area but it was a long time ago and more of a sidelight in my AI coursework in grad school (we were looking more at the planning side of things = i.e. once you are able to go somewhere where do you want to go and why?). There was some fascinating stuff coming out of MIT back then on legged robots- Raibert IIRC - is that still happening?]]> Opinions and Polls Hyperborea https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311411 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311410 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:06:39 +0000
(Well, actually he was a cokehead.) In his day so were a lot of people. It was not illegal. Even Coke (the soft drink) had real coke in it then too. Yep. And lots of people were hooked on cocaine and/or opium. Caused many to behave irresponsibly, and nonaddicts tut-tutted about their shameful ways. The "Temperance" women who busted up saloons and such got the Harrison Narcotics Act passed controlling these drugs in 1914, before they got alcohol prohibition passed. Things have gone downhill ever since. The illegality of drug use didn't stop it, but caused an escalating battle between the crooks making megabucks off of supplying it and the cops fighting it, and a curious deeply entwined interdependence grew between the two even though they're enemies. And the users, who used to be able to buy the stuff cheaply at Mom & Pop stores, had to resort to theft and prostitution to buy their fixes from the crooks. Meanwhile the crooks had a strong motivation for enticing new users, multiplying the problems. Typical unforeseen consequences of well-intended governmental intervention. I'd better stop before I get going on the present economic crisis, which has similar roots in good intentions that paved a path to you know where.]]> Opinions and Polls Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311410 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311409 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:50:07 +0000
:lol:]]> Opinions and Polls Nuno https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311409 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311406 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:47:25 +0000
(Well, actually he was a cokehead.) In his day so were a lot of people. It was not illegal. Even Coke (the soft drink) had real coke in it then too.]]> Opinions and Polls Hyperborea https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311406 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311402 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:21:35 +0000 most of the children on the hockey team that I coach. :lol: Any job openings in Robotic Artificial Intel? Did I mention I play guitar?]]> Opinions and Polls Blueline https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311402 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311394 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:43:17 +0000
KR2 (bonus point for double pun - nuts and cracked)]]> Opinions and Polls KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311394 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311291 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:19:17 +0000
(Well, actually he was a cokehead.) Cokehead ?? Must have been a hard can to open. :lol:]]> Opinions and Polls Rahul https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/music-tastes-link-to-personality/paged/4/#post-311291