Monthly Archives: April 2013

Artificial Intelligence vs. Natural Stupidity

😐       <–>      ;D  

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Neat vs. Scruffy

Neat and scruffy are labels for two different types of artificial intelligence research. Neats consider that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Scruffies believe that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system such neat requirements usually mandate. from Wikipedia

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Run a Batch Job in MATLAB

To offload work from your MATLAB session to another session, you can use the batch command. This example uses the for-loop from the previous example inside a script. To create the script, type: edit mywave In the MATLAB Editor, enter … Continue reading

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Check the Environment Variables in ROS

In order to check the Environment Variables in ROS, open a terminal and enter the following command: $ export | grep ROS To check the variables specifically we can do something like this: check the version of ROS: > rosparam … Continue reading

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Calculating Spatial Distance (Metric) in Python

To do this, you need to install two main libraries of Scientific Python, Numpy and Scipy the provided code is for Python 2.7: After saving and running the code the result would be something like this (duo to random function … Continue reading

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