/explore

Click through on any links that interest you or select the planets on the right to continue exploring the Outer Web.
You are here

www.benshoof.org
| | rodneybrooks.com
19.2 parsecs away

Travel
| | [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.
| | nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net
20.9 parsecs away

Travel
| | Summary When returning objects from a method try to use IList, IDictionary, etc instead of List and Dictionary. This is especially important when the method is inside a class library which you distribute.
| | www.catch22.net
4.2 parsecs away

Travel
| | There are so many large and bloated applications around today that most people just assume that this is normal and quite willingly put up with poor performance and having to buy larger harddrives. In this tutorial I will present all of the techniques I know (and use) to reduce the size of executables.
| | hackingcpp.com
42.5 parsecs away

Travel
| A short introduction to pointers in C++. Syntax, semantics, 'const' pointers, 'this' pointer, forward declarations and some guidelines.