Topic: Did you make money on your bet, Syntax?
WSD !m2cp3rR5zw started this discussion 10 years ago #56,873
LMAO
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 6 minutes later[^] [v] #732,181
@OP
This thread is a day late and a dollar short wally wally wally.
Go make love to your prepubescent boyfriend and leave us be.
This thread is a day late and a dollar short wally wally wally.
Go make love to your prepubescent boyfriend and leave us be.
WSD !m2cp3rR5zw (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 10 minutes later, 16 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #732,182
@previous (B)
We will be celebrating Trump's victory together on a very gay Veteran's day. POWs are losers.
We will be celebrating Trump's victory together on a very gay Veteran's day. POWs are losers.
Metæ joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 19 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #732,183
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 5 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #732,289
Nb4 syntax cries that the election was rigged...
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 34 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #732,318
I made monies on the election because I believed in MAGA. #HiNRG
WSD !m2cp3rR5zw (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #732,392
Thee thy or eye wuz Crying cuz Trump wot wot wot
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 13 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #732,398
Syntax is crying in his ocean a blue about now...
Anonymous D replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #732,448
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 4 days later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,547
bump
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 6 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,548
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,549
@previous (G)
Don't you have a board to moderate, Scatman? Oh, wait. That's right. Your incompetence sent it under. LMAO
Don't you have a board to moderate, Scatman? Oh, wait. That's right. Your incompetence sent it under. LMAO
Anonymous G replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,551
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 36 seconds later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,552
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Anonymous G replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,553
Syntax joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 7 seconds later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,554
OP I lost just short of $400K
However when averaged with past wins I am still ahead - On paper that is. Nor can I deduct the loss cause one has to be a registered gambler - Not sure what that entails but professional gamblers do register to offset losses.
To cover this kinda loss with my Harvard Med funding issues I just sold a house. Sold it with a handshake and was paid 20% over market price which will be figured by an appraiser 2Morrow. I will manage it as the leased unit it is so there is that new source of income - I do lose the tax write off and that will hurt. I have 5 to 7 years to buy it back and WILL Buy it back. Sale is to an old University Engineering Professor going back to my MIT days in the early 60's. Shocked he made the quick offer to buy - I have been fighting him on his plan that will mess with a park I favor and that means standing up at meetings and opposing his plan multiple times.
I have to pay an attorney to draw up the paper work and get buy life insurance on the person buying it so if he croaks and he is older - I am covered and will not end up with his family over my deal to get it back.
It does hurt but its time to jack up my consulting fees re close to year end and will do it a month early this year
Anonymous G replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,555
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Metæ replied with this 10 years ago, 15 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,564
@733,554 (Syntax)Syntax I heard about this betting strategy called the Martingale System. After each loss, you bet twice as much then you win back all your losses plus the original bet.
Anonymous G replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,565
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Anonymous G replied with this 10 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,567
Syntax replied with this 10 years ago, 28 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,577
@733,555 (G)Varies widely depending on task-project-client and of course how busy I am. When very busy I jack up the rate - Of course long term clients have a price list or history on purchase orders so I cannot jack things up just because I am very busy without lots of drama coming down on me and wasting my time trying to explain why I need to charge more.
It rare I do this but back when I was desperate to find a client any client to let me in on a Robotic project, I offered a flat monthly fee for consulting and advertised my services. Thought I struck GOLD with a quick we want you now request. Rounded off to $125/hr which is wayy below any fee I charged anyone at that time. Fact is I was willing to pay someone to let me have hands on a Robot.
Sounds good right? Wrong - I wrote a bang up resume about my areas of expertise as applied to Robotics. I even have a patent that directly applies - No one even asked me If I had worked on a robot of any kind. I put down all the right buzz words. Robots do use Win computers but they also use a lot and I mean a lot of controllers that are directly programed in Boolean logic. I had experience doing that so I filled that in the resume - but that was also only hobby experience as a teen prior to even Altair computers.
6 month contract to design and make one model and take it to a show in Japan. So there was a hard fixed deadline - I am one hell of a great terrific talented design engineer.
I suck as a Mechanic and Robots need Terrific Mechanics. Mine used Fluids under low and other systems with High Pressure. Air pressure and dry nitrogen - Hydrogen for an internal torch. Hydraulic lines low and high pressure with three systems. A couple of vacuum systems with lots and lots of lines. Stuff I had zero experience with. People I hired for the project of course had those experiences I needed but managing them when I was clueless and unable to make suggestions that showed my brilliance. I had to keep them clueless about my lack of experience.
To make up for what I did not no - I worked 18 hours a day 7 days a week. Often working inside the belly of the beast with sweat from my forehead often blocking my eyes while trying to work on various motor/servo driven parts and all the cams and gears - I just sucked as a Robotics Engineer but the company remained clueless and I was just damned ashamed at my personal fail
Robot worked much better than specs said it should - I did design some super high speed eyes (vision systems) 90% of Robots are made with off the shelf system parts - Pick from catalog - Slap in place and hook up and have computers and lots of controllers many many off-the-shelf control boards, analog to digital and digital to analog converters - motors, servos, and position feedback devices - stepping motor controllers, off the shelf position or velocity controllers. Vision sensors 4 pick and place. Maybe 25 kinds of sensors. Needed over 350 fingers aka Vacuum pick up devices.
I sure got that robot bug out of my brain 4ever and am so fucking lucking the day they wanted to extend my consulting contract just DAMN LUCKY I could afford to say no thanks I am moving back to communications for some kinda hand held transmitter and receiver to order pizza with
Anonymous G replied with this 10 years ago, 51 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,587
Syntax replied with this 10 years ago, 19 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,591
@previous (G)
Its late as all fuck and I am finishing instructions for stuff for tomorrow so where did I type Packaging?
With Firefox I can hit Control F and do a find any term on a page search and the only one I see is Yours
Its late as all fuck and I am finishing instructions for stuff for tomorrow so where did I type Packaging?
With Firefox I can hit Control F and do a find any term on a page search and the only one I see is Yours
Anonymous G replied with this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,592
Syntax joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 45 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,596
@previous (G)
Glass. Broken shards of glass. Robotic company is one of the two largest in the biz - They wanted to demo a state of the art imaging system and make the demo conceptual only. So marketing with a small amount of input from me because marketing is usually out of step with Engineering and Physics realities a classic disconnect. So it or we or whatever came down to breaking a sheet of glass - Glass selected to splinter easily. A very large sheet - I forget the dimensions but it was the size of normal house window - no larger than the width of my arms and height perhaps 3 or so feet tall. Of course this took place in a closed container that was lit with 50,000 watts of multiple gasses that had a lot of halogen in it - Had to go with lots of Ultraviolet and filter that from the viewing audience. - Needed the massive source of light to capture the following
Ball peen hammer swings from as light as possible carbon fiber arm of Robot and hits Glass dead center - Arm flys out of the way at almost supersonic speed (I hired a consultant just to get that done right)
Glass then shatters to a panel just under the bottom edge of the glass. Now with glass in shatters the 350 picks ups start rapidly picking up whatever they find in the program to pick up and reassemble the glass as if it were a jig saw puzzle, which it became - Solid Glass now in Chunks and shards - So the crowd stands in front of the Robot and watches the breaking and then moves to the back of the Robot where you can view the re-assemble taking place shard by shard chunk by chunk - So of course the light reflects off of everything and the high speed cameras and there were many many to get the 3D view and C++ coded software that very much used what CDMA uses to identify a tine chunk of information for later re-assembly - Call it tagging and numbering each tiny bit of glass while its in the air falling down and matching its location for assembly and YES a bit of fuzzy math tossed in so there was trial and error just like any other jig saw puzzle - If the bit does not fit hold it and try the next bit that the math and video capture said was a best fit - On later examination with no audience we could see some errors LOL
But from the Audiance perspective they were in WOW as the pick ups picked up and moved the chunks slices shards to the right place and they were all told in advance its not going to be perfect because a faster set of cameras would be available for the final design ( No planned final design but that was the marketing pitch ) Also the light source for viewing the innards of the Robot on re-assembly was not bright on purpose. Testing before shipping to Japan the results were not impressive. The one and only demo we did in Japan was well it impressed me like crazy and made marketing jump for joy. Fucking thing worked just beyond what I thought it could ever do with the critical path limited by camera speeds to capture spinning material as it falls to the bottom. Some of course bounced off the walls but there were cameras just for those angles - Stuff at the edges had a better chance of quick capture and assembly - stuff right at the action point were the hardest to find and put back in place.
If I had to do it all over man I sure wood have done a lot differently but 6 months from concept to a demo and that Demo got the company a huge contract with Intel and Fuji and several IC fab houses in fast order. Everyone said hell if it can do that it can deal with what is now 14 nm silicon chips - I cut myself off completely from that company because of how I felt as a massive total personal failure - That program took every bit of energy from my soul - Learned a lesson that I learned as a kid trying to build a small Robot - Simple in concept and all of a sudden your life is stuck with one project that eats all of your time up and I was just starting to date and looked at my first attempt wayyyy back before the first IC's and chose Girls instead of my box of Robot parts but I did have a base that moved by remote control just motors and servos and one hell of a Gyro I stole from a jet fighter put on display in a local park.
Typing this all out to send in mail to a friend in Eu who is about to do his hobby robot with Raspberry Pi. Damn wonderful dirt cheep does so much computer.
Thanks for the question as it solves me being behind for the mail re robot vision system and what it can really do if pressed to the limits
Glass. Broken shards of glass. Robotic company is one of the two largest in the biz - They wanted to demo a state of the art imaging system and make the demo conceptual only. So marketing with a small amount of input from me because marketing is usually out of step with Engineering and Physics realities a classic disconnect. So it or we or whatever came down to breaking a sheet of glass - Glass selected to splinter easily. A very large sheet - I forget the dimensions but it was the size of normal house window - no larger than the width of my arms and height perhaps 3 or so feet tall. Of course this took place in a closed container that was lit with 50,000 watts of multiple gasses that had a lot of halogen in it - Had to go with lots of Ultraviolet and filter that from the viewing audience. - Needed the massive source of light to capture the following
Ball peen hammer swings from as light as possible carbon fiber arm of Robot and hits Glass dead center - Arm flys out of the way at almost supersonic speed (I hired a consultant just to get that done right)
Glass then shatters to a panel just under the bottom edge of the glass. Now with glass in shatters the 350 picks ups start rapidly picking up whatever they find in the program to pick up and reassemble the glass as if it were a jig saw puzzle, which it became - Solid Glass now in Chunks and shards - So the crowd stands in front of the Robot and watches the breaking and then moves to the back of the Robot where you can view the re-assemble taking place shard by shard chunk by chunk - So of course the light reflects off of everything and the high speed cameras and there were many many to get the 3D view and C++ coded software that very much used what CDMA uses to identify a tine chunk of information for later re-assembly - Call it tagging and numbering each tiny bit of glass while its in the air falling down and matching its location for assembly and YES a bit of fuzzy math tossed in so there was trial and error just like any other jig saw puzzle - If the bit does not fit hold it and try the next bit that the math and video capture said was a best fit - On later examination with no audience we could see some errors LOL
But from the Audiance perspective they were in WOW as the pick ups picked up and moved the chunks slices shards to the right place and they were all told in advance its not going to be perfect because a faster set of cameras would be available for the final design ( No planned final design but that was the marketing pitch ) Also the light source for viewing the innards of the Robot on re-assembly was not bright on purpose. Testing before shipping to Japan the results were not impressive. The one and only demo we did in Japan was well it impressed me like crazy and made marketing jump for joy. Fucking thing worked just beyond what I thought it could ever do with the critical path limited by camera speeds to capture spinning material as it falls to the bottom. Some of course bounced off the walls but there were cameras just for those angles - Stuff at the edges had a better chance of quick capture and assembly - stuff right at the action point were the hardest to find and put back in place.
If I had to do it all over man I sure wood have done a lot differently but 6 months from concept to a demo and that Demo got the company a huge contract with Intel and Fuji and several IC fab houses in fast order. Everyone said hell if it can do that it can deal with what is now 14 nm silicon chips - I cut myself off completely from that company because of how I felt as a massive total personal failure - That program took every bit of energy from my soul - Learned a lesson that I learned as a kid trying to build a small Robot - Simple in concept and all of a sudden your life is stuck with one project that eats all of your time up and I was just starting to date and looked at my first attempt wayyyy back before the first IC's and chose Girls instead of my box of Robot parts but I did have a base that moved by remote control just motors and servos and one hell of a Gyro I stole from a jet fighter put on display in a local park.
Typing this all out to send in mail to a friend in Eu who is about to do his hobby robot with Raspberry Pi. Damn wonderful dirt cheep does so much computer.
Thanks for the question as it solves me being behind for the mail re robot vision system and what it can really do if pressed to the limits
brie !kGoudaMCFA joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 day later, 5 days after the original post[^] [v] #733,827
@previous (Syntax)
Do you think your robot has possible applications in espionage?
It could break into buildings and put the window back together like it was never there!
Do you think your robot has possible applications in espionage?
It could break into buildings and put the window back together like it was never there!