On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many <gmk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > let's imagine a simulation of large childlike legos! > > > > > > > > > > the legos are huge, 1 foot by 2 feet. they're lightweight. they snap > > > > > onto each other in shared 1ft square connection surfaces > > > > > > > > we could consider a robot arm tasked with manipulating these legos > > > > > > in the wild robot movie, the goose that was raised by a robot (which > > > itself learned goose noises which the movie translated) learned to > > > speak like a robot, different from all the other geese. > > > it would wander around going "processing!" "planning motion path for > > > worms!" or whatever > > i took one class on robotics as an undergrad elective. there was a > smart guy in the class but mostly it was a normal class, which is > normal for classes everyone sits and takes notes and then a test > repeat. it had a big thick book but i'm not sure if it really covered > _that_ much it was mostly for factory robots. mostly i remember > solving matrix equations for inverse kinematics. > > when exposed to academics one learns to formalize everything into > linear numeric structures like matrices; things designed for > leveraging simple approaches to problems at large scales in consistent > ways. prior to this i did inverse kinematics with sines and cosines
if taking classes on a topic i recommend one find a quality free course from a highly-respected institution like those from mit opencourseware https://ocw.mit.edu/ . i took a linear algebra class from opencourseware and was quite satisfied that it tought to me think of matrices in all these different equivalent ways so that i could hold and choose among them fairly, and then went on to eigenvectors and stuff . i then took a linear algebra class from a public institution and it only covered maybe an eighth of the material and only in one specific approach, despite being the analogous class. ignore your course materials, go online and find a better class and then pass the tests cause you actually know it > > > > > > > robot arm: "lego is at 39 degrees! turning 39 degrees to the left! > > > raising arm!" > > > > [i guess that movie could have gone deeper into how logic systems > > could evolve caringness and meanings of life and stuff [oops part > > dropped] but it was a big stretch for them already to trick the robot > > into raising a goose
