It is a shame that the senator, as an MD, fails to realize the scientific and technological challenges and benefits behind the apparently ridiculous research. Folding laundry is far more complicated than the drilling and sampling done by the robots on Mars. It requires robotic vision to recognize irregular shapes, computational geometry to untangle a balled up piece of clothes and fine mechanical control with feedback loops based on image processing. With the level of sophistication developed in the laundry experiment, robots can be made to do a lot of complex tasks. And folding laundry is perhaps one of the cheapest experiments to develop the sophisticated technologies. It only shows that scientists need to do a MUCH better job educating the public. But then, Fox News is there for the sensationalization, not the truth.
【在 P****d 的大作中提到】 : It is a shame that the senator, as an MD, fails to realize the scientific : and technological challenges and benefits behind the apparently ridiculous : research. Folding laundry is far more complicated than the drilling and : sampling done by the robots on Mars. It requires robotic vision to : recognize irregular shapes, computational geometry to untangle a balled up : piece of clothes and fine mechanical control with feedback loops based : on image processing. With the level of sophistication developed in the : laundry experiment, robots can be made to do a lot of complex tasks. And : folding laundry is perhaps one of the cheapest experiments to develop the : sophisticated technologies.
我说的不是这件事情,而是另外一件事件: 整个事件的背景是,右派要砍断对NPR的公立资金来源。然后NPR 的人对此 非常不满。然后某右派组织就派两个人装成穆斯林的人去给NPR 捐款,并把 过程偷拍了下来放到网上去。在对话中中NPR的一个高层告诉对方说他觉得 tea party 的人是scary, racist,另外他还说(估计是气话)NPR拿不到联邦的 钱弄不好在长期上反而更好。 然后这个事情被爆出来之后,茶党的人就攻击他说他搞人身攻击,结果他就被 迫辞职了。 当时我就想,美国的左派太软弱,经常被人push over. 说对方是racist 有什么 不对的?茶党的人大部分本质上都是racist。而茶党的人还搞这种肮脏的手段, 居然还派人假扮成“穆斯林捐款者”去偷录对方,也没有人指出其中的不对? http://cornellsun.com/node/46321 Mrs. Schiller, resigned approximately 24 hours after the video’s initial release. The 11-minute clip shows Mr. Schiller telling two men passing as Muslim donors that “Tea Party people” are “racist” and NPR “would be better off in the long run without federal funding.”