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| | In 1974, Ted Nelson self-published a very unusual book. Nelson lectured on sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago to pay the bills, but his true calling was as a technological revolutionary. In the 1960s, he had dreamed up a computer-based writing system which would preserve links among different documents. He called the concept...
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| | Program components must be designed for reusability. There is a set of design techniques that makes object-oriented software more reusable. Many of these techniques are widely used within the object-oriented programming community, but few of them have ever been written down. This article describes and organizes these techniques.
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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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| Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics - sindresorhus/awesome