Interesting excerpt from MIT’s technology reveiw. Bonnefon and co say these issues raise many important questions: “Is it acceptable for an autonomous vehicle to avoid a motorcycle by swerving into a wall, considering that the probability of survival is greater for the passenger of the car, than for the rider of the motorcycle? Should different …
Compiler Optimization
Link to Compiler Optimization article on MSDN This article is about Visual C++ compiler optimizations. I’m going to discuss the most important optimization techniques and the decisions a compiler has to make in order to apply them. The purpose isn’t to tell you how to manually optimize the code, but to show you why you …
QUT Introduction to Robotics by Peter Corke
I cannot wait to start this course! I have had an interest in developing a personal robot as a hobby for the last five years or so and have been searching for a comprehensive introductory course, hopefully, this will prove to be it! UPDATE: This course was fantastic, highly recommend it if you are new …
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My 3D Robotic’s Quad-copter FPV test with Video/OSD kit
Estimating the Energy Cost of (Artificial) Evolution
This short discussion paper sets out to explore the question: what is the energy cost of evolving complex artificial life? The paper takes an unconventional approach by first estimating the energy cost of natural evolution and, in particular, the species Homo Sapiens Sapiens. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/alife14/ch143.html