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I managed to avoid Covid-19 all this time, but on Monday afternoon I started to come down with what I thought was a bad cold. Monday night test. No photos of the positive tests on Wednesday. The first few hours on Monday evening were the worst, with a dull headache, shakes, coughing, fever and tiredness
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[AI summary] The text provides an extensive overview of the history and development of robotic arms, focusing on early innovations and key figures such as Richard Paul, Heinrich Ernst, and others. It discusses the transition from mechanical and analog control systems to digital and computer-controlled robotic arms, highlighting the use of programming languages like WAVE, AL, and VAL. The text also touches on the concept of impedance matching between computation and the real world, as well as the significance of early robotic systems like the Stanford Arms and the TX-0 computer. Additionally, it references the work of Claude Shannon and Marvin Minsky in the origins of AI and robotics.
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There is an awesome new retro computer called the Commander X161. The X16 is Commodore 64-esque, though the assembly language stuff isn't compatible because the X16 has a special graphics board. It does have BASIC v2 (with some additions) so BASIC programming is pretty similar to C64 BASIC. The neat thing about the X16 is...
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