http://www.deadbadger.net in a state of advanced decomposition Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:53:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.deadbadger.net/2007/03/robots-suck/ http://www.deadbadger.net/2007/03/robots-suck/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:03:11 +0000 Dead Badger http://www.deadbadger.net/?p=12 Robots suck. You can take my word for it; I’m a roboticist. That sucks, too. The very word roboticist derives from the Sanskrit phrase “rhob dh’syss”, lit. “tilter at windmills”. A roboticist’s life oscillates continually between fervid imaginings of what some idealised, data-rich robot might conceivably do, and despair at the seemingly ineluctable difficulty of Continue reading →

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