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Message #12669



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: BUDSCOTT@aol.com
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:32:42 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] G.S.O.A.I.T.


Well, it's bugged me for some time that somebody hasn't develouped a good
'scoring system' for testing phototrophic intelligence, SO, i finally came
up with a descent test, the Goal Seeking Obstacle Avoidance Intelligence Test
(GSOAIT), it's still under construction, but i thought it would be
interesting to see what kind of response i'd get from its early stage, its
under tutorials and then intelligence test! Any and ALL comments are greatly
appreciated, i kinda want to set a standard way to judge general
intelligences of phototrophic and photophobic bots!

-Spencer

<http://www.botic.com/users/beamstop>

not a robot scientist
not a college major
not a grad student
not a professor
not a very organized person
just Spencer (isn't that impressive enough?)



12670 Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:59:35 -0500 [alt-beam] Re: Allmost complete walker. still not working beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Richard Weait At 05:19 PM 3/28/00 -0500, Spencer wrote:
>in all my work with IC's ive put them in backwards, put too much voltage
>through them and i've never ever fried a single chip, but maybe that's just
>dumb luck!

Chips will be fairly robust unless:

- you have a deadline
- it's the 'last' one
- it's expensive
- it's underneath everything else
- you would otherwise be finished

Let's call that "Murphy's Electronic Corollary" :-)

It won't do you any harm to know the officially approved way
to handle static sensitive components. Then you can choose
to follow the guidelines or not.

Cheers,

Richard.

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