Computer Scientists Program Robots To Play Soccer, Communicate With Bees

No, I didnt make up this title, this is real news. Article below.

Computer Scientists Program Robots To Play Soccer, Communicate With Bees
July 1, 2008 — Engineers built humanoid robots that can recognize objects by color by processing information from a camera mounted on the robot's head. The robots are programmed to play soccer, with the intention of creating a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots able to compete against a championship human team by 2050. They have also designed tiny robots to mimic the communicative "waggle dance" of bees.

I want to meet the person idiot who decided what the world was really lacking was robots that communicate with bees. As if bees aren't enough of a pain in the ass, now they will be lead by a super robot type of bee. Soon enough we will be begging for the days when killer bees were the biggest bee-related worry.

Keep inventing shit morons.

I don't care about homeless people because they are poor.

Is that a terrible thing to say? I don't think it is. I was told that I had to make this the title of my blog so there it is. Homeless people serve no useful purpost to society, they add nothing of value. The only thing homeless people have over regular poor people is they usually do not breed. The world has more than its fair share of morons and there is no reason they should be allowed to multiply. Watch Idiocracy for clarification.



There are many ways to get unsightly homeless people off the streets. We could mulch them, harvest them for organs for non homeless people, use them for stem cells, medical trials, stunts for movies, target practice, I could go on all night. Hell I'm sure we could make a great alternative energy source out of them.

"That's cruel.. homeless people could just be regular people down on their luck" Ummm...no, they are nothing but a drain on resources that could be better utilized. But I bet you could use them to make candles or lamp oil or something. At the very least if you want to help the situation next time you see a homless person just go ahead and hoist them into the dumpster their sleeping next too, they are probably too drunk on sterno to notice anyway. Its not ideal but at least you can go home and sleep soundly knowing you made a difference.

Working on leavin' the living

In heaven everything is fine
In heaven everything's alright
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven
Working on livin'
I'm working on leaving
I'm working on leaving the living
Love you more than everything
Loved it more than anything
Loved everything more than anything
Working on drinking
I'm working on driving
I'm working on driving my dreams so
Working on living
I'm working on leaving
I'm working on leaving the living
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven everything's alright
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTJy9FMtrc

Modest Mouse > your mom

Watching football...so talk to you tomorrow internet.

Elmo and the NFL

Before we get into the first sunday of football season I want to point out how much I hate it when people refer to themselves in the 3rd person. In fact when I take over the world anyone who does it will face immediate execution, and that includes elmo. I had to listen to that creepy little muppet while my daughter was watching him on the internet this evening. If I was a better parent I would probably not let her watch him for fear of her adopting some of his self absorbed narcissism. Anyway onto football...

Happysad.

The Eagles won but the dolphins lost and its looking like another season of heartbreak as their rebuilding process continues. Tuna if you read this, please either get pennington bionic implants for his arm or bench him and let Henne play. That last ditch wounded duck pass to the corner of the end zone was pathetic. In the fins defense the jets are the only afc east team that the dolphins don't have a winning record againsts, they always seem to have their number.. what was that in like 95 when they blew a 35-7 fourth quarter lead agains the jets.

Tom Brady blew out his knee, which makes me happy because I hate the patriots but he was the best player on my fantasy football team..happysad. Nothing like sitting down with a plate of junk food on Sunday afternoon getting ready to watch your fantasy team kick some ass, and then seeing the tv cut to the new england game and hearing the words "Now watch Tom Brady's knee".... happysad.

Not very many people read my blog and that's probably good, but I do mention that I do it on occasion and people usually ask me what I blog about. "Mostly robots" I say. "..." is the typical response followed by eyes rolling. I keep note of this and these people will not be invited to my heavily fortified compound when the robots take over. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Untitled boring blog

What to blog about today? I have no idea. You got any? Feel free to post up any suggestions or comments on any issues in which you would like to hear my jerk-ass opinion. No new developments in the artificial intelligence world that i've seen (maybe they're reading my blog) so I got nothing to add there.

There is an election going on but for some reason i don't even care. I'm usually quite the political junkie, at least in the past, but I have been paying little attention. I'm not entirely sure why, I'll think about that and let you know. Maybe its because this country has completely lost its way and the founding fathers are rolling over in their graves seeing the socialist, imperialistic nightmare we are slowly but methodically turning into. But seriously I don't feel like talking about politics today so enough about that.(ironically the episode of the simpsons with lisa going to congress is on).

Edit: I take back what I said above about there not being news in the robot front. see below:

"Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same."

I know.. I know..... you're rolling your eyes thinking jason for christ sakes shut the hell up about the robots already. Well I'm not going, so don't ask  This is a cheezey action movie waiting to happen. Killer robot helicoptors..yup definetly going to happen you'll see.

What happens when you die

This came up in coversation today briefly and I figured I would explain here as so many people seem to be unsure.



Im going to divide this into 3 sections one for each.



-what definetly won't happen when you die.

-what most likely will happen.

-what is not out of the realm of possibility.





Part I (faith) What definetly will not happen when you will die:



You will not go to heaven, but don't fret as you will not go to hell either. In fact its 100% fact that any "religion" based account of the afterlife is absolutely false. How do I know this? Well its relatively simple if you think about it. There are several thousand religions in this planet some extinct, some still practiced. All believe their own beliefs are the only path to salvation. Since all of them cannot be true, and there is no emprical evidence to support any of them, its pretty safe to say none of them are. Most of them made up thousands of years ago to explain things that science could not. Many of these things have since been explained, like the Sun, moon etc. And from a christian standpoint "God" certainly would not create all these children in his image only to send the vast majority to hell, remember even competing denominations ofthe christian churches think the others are going to hell. Religion does nothing for us anymore, all of its good points have been absorbed into the secular governments (do not steal, ,kill etc) and all that is left is the faith closing the mind to hope and reason.(but this isnt about religion that's another topic).





Part II (reason)- What will most likely happen when you die - You will die. You will cease to exist. Its a pretty crappy deal, but if you think about it, it makes the most sense. As you have no conscience recollection from the beginning of the universe to now, you most likely will not have any recollection of any of the time that happnes after you die. Even if you continue to exist with no recollection of your memories here on earth, the person you are here is still effectively dead. Our memories make us who we are. People have a starting point (birth), things that are infinite dont have a starting point or an ending point for that matter.



Part III (hope) - What is not out of the realm of possibility - We continue to live on. Its still possible although unlikely that there is a supreme being, or even if there is not there is very very much we don't know about our universe, that it would be completely ignorant not to leave the door open for any possibility(except religion). We are just scratching the surface of our understanding of our universe, the possibility of parallel universes, other dimensions etc. You get the point.


Since we can be 100% sure that god doesnt exist in a chrisitan sense, but only 80% sure that he doenst exist at all, we have no choice but to be agnostic. We hope that this isn't the end even though all we know now points in that direction.



I read a book awhile back by TL Galin called "I'm dead, the hell you say, so now what" which the authors take on death is that we chose the life we live it before we live it, and based on how difficult of life we pick is how much our soul grows during that life. Interesting concept and certainly possible, and just as valid as anything else ever written.



So there you have it, absolute undeniable facts as always :)

Rolled up aces over kings

Its been a slightly busy week, and thats a good as an excuse I can come up with at the moment for not blogging the past week.

Couple of things that happened this week

-I saw both the atlantic ocean and pacific ocean in the same week.
-Drinking once again proved its usefulness as it created the great idea of going down to the Taj for a nice 13 hour session at the tables.
-I actually had a good time DDing for some friends who shared a birthday saturday. I didnt plan on dding it just kind of worked out that way. (I tried to get some cell video of adam telling chris he was going to eat his throat so he didnt have to hear him talk anymore but it didnt save... you had to be there)
-I hate new jersey and their never ending toll roads and so should you.


One day my better half will realize that I am not to be left unsupervised.

The best part was I got to see some jerk wearing american flag pants at the dog on saturday night. American flag pants no lie..apparently he was some redneck who was there to sing songs for "charity"...

On this whole charity thing...

The charity was for the humane league.. you know that place that takes all your unwanted pets, Some lady walked around the bar with a hat asking for donations.. I respectfully declined. Its not just because I'm cheap its more that I guess I find it a bit obsurd that people are out there raising money for animals... Animals are cool and all but If I have a few extra bucks to give to charity I can think of so many more worthwhile causes then a fucking animal shelter. As future ruler of the world I would make it a point to make sure that before we go around saving baby puppies maybe we should make sure all the people are fed, clothed and educated. Who knows maybe we could feed the dogs to the poor people...