This is one of the scientists that invented the robot.
I would put smurph up against this guy hands down. Maybe in map emocology
Paul Harvey says..........
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This is one of the scientists that invented the robot.
I would put smurph up against this guy hands down. Maybe in map emocology
Acquisition of Joint Attention based on Learning and Development
We study how a robot can acquire an ability of joint attention which is one of communication mechanisms. The proposed learning model has two kinds of developments: a robot's development and a caregiver's one. The experimental results showed that the proposed model can accelerate the learning and improve the final task performance owing to the developments.
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Research Topics
We are attacking the fundamental problems of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, especially realizing intelligent robots that learn to behave adequately through the interactions with their environment.
Behavior Acquisition by Mobile Robot
Behavior Acquisition by Multi-Layered Reinforcement Learning
We propose multi-layered reinforcement learning by which the hierarchical structure for behavior learning is self-organized. This method enables the behavior learning system to acquire several knowledges/policies, to assign sub-tasks to learning modules by itself, to self-organize its own hierarchical structure, and to simplify the whole system by using only one kind of learning mechanism in all learning modules.
Behavior Acquisition by Teaching
Observation Strategy Based on Information Criterion
We propose a method for a robot, which has a limited view angle camera with panning facility, to make a decision by efficient observation without explicitly localizing itself. With a limited view camera, a robot can widen the angle by panning, but it takes time. The basic idea of our observation strategy is not for self localization but for decision making, that is, to minimize observation as long as decision making is possible.
Cognitive Developmental Robotics
View-Based Imitation Learning
We are engaged in realizing the mechanizm of imitation learning. Proposed method consits of view transformation mechanizm and adaptive visual servoing. View transformation is based on epipolar geometory which is caused by the similarity of body structure between learner and demonstrator. In this method, the learner can reproduce the demonstration without any explicit 3-D reconstruction.
We are attacking the fundamental problems of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, especially realizing intelligent robots that learn to behave adequately through the interactions with their environment.
Behavior Acquisition by Mobile Robot
Behavior Acquisition by Multi-Layered Reinforcement Learning
We propose multi-layered reinforcement learning by which the hierarchical structure for behavior learning is self-organized. This method enables the behavior learning system to acquire several knowledges/policies, to assign sub-tasks to learning modules by itself, to self-organize its own hierarchical structure, and to simplify the whole system by using only one kind of learning mechanism in all learning modules.
Behavior Acquisition by Teaching
Observation Strategy Based on Information Criterion
We propose a method for a robot, which has a limited view angle camera with panning facility, to make a decision by efficient observation without explicitly localizing itself. With a limited view camera, a robot can widen the angle by panning, but it takes time. The basic idea of our observation strategy is not for self localization but for decision making, that is, to minimize observation as long as decision making is possible.
Cognitive Developmental Robotics
View-Based Imitation Learning
We are engaged in realizing the mechanizm of imitation learning. Proposed method consits of view transformation mechanizm and adaptive visual servoing. View transformation is based on epipolar geometory which is caused by the similarity of body structure between learner and demonstrator. In this method, the learner can reproduce the demonstration without any explicit 3-D reconstruction.
great thread KOD
great thread KOD
I saw some of these robots on the HBO Real Sex program after the "basketball" game last night. Three buxom women were assaulting one of the robots. I can't picture them taking over the planet with their mouths hanging open the way they do. It makes them look more dumb than sinister; I don't think Paul harvey would approve.
great thread KOD
I saw some of these robots on the HBO Real Sex program after the "basketball" game last night. Three buxom women were assaulting one of the robots. I can't picture them taking over the planet with their mouths hanging open the way they do. It makes them look more dumb than sinister; I don't think Paul harvey would approve.
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I know you have a strong allegiance with s-murphy, but I have to say that I am quite disappointed with the removal of tupac as the first picture on page 3...and would like some reciprocity pictures.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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my understanding of the word reciprocity is like a tit for a tat.
I hope your not asking me what I think your asking me. :scared
HH - I just figured out something about you..
your a deep thinker.
Chicken Little is lying in the middle of the road with his feet up in the air. Someone stops and says, "What are you doing?"
Chicken Little says, "The sky is about to fall and I am prepared to hold it up."
The passerby says, "How do you think that you are going to hold up the sky with those skinny little chicken legs?"
Chicken Little replies, "One does what one can ... one does what one can."
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Got to love the positive vibes on that chicken little.
Hey chicken , forget the sky, what about the fawking robots !
Chicken Little says, "The sky is about to fall and I am prepared to hold it up."
The passerby says, "How do you think that you are going to hold up the sky with those skinny little chicken legs?"
Chicken Little replies, "One does what one can ... one does what one can."
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Got to love the positive vibes on that chicken little.
Hey chicken , forget the sky, what about the fawking robots !
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You are correct, but in this case it is more like a tat for a tit...since we already got the tittie shot.
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In order to appease the females that come into the Paul Harvey thread, I do not want to be called a homo sapien or worse.
I post this picture of RAYMOND in his younger days.
I hope this takes care of the reciprocity issue brought up by Happy Hippo.
If I am anything I am a fair and just interpreter of injustice.
scott....
you know the kid so well !!...:mj07:
he's always expecting me to bail him out.....but not this time....this is the only way for him to learn & be a better person.....
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When the winning ticket was flashed in smurphs face, he snatched it and swallowed it in
one gulp.
If morals had been taught to smurph early on , we may not be here talking about integrity today.
I don't know what to say.
Sincerely,
S-Murphy
PS - Scott, you keep forgetting about all those pennies you owe me. In fact, it far outwieghs the amount I ripped of from you. I WAS going to just call it even. But now that you are flashing these demands around and dragging my parents into it, I think I'll take it to the next level. ...Pops, we need to get in contact with some lawyers of your persuasion. Finste should come along too - it will be a learning experience for the budding legal superstar.
Sincerely,
S-Murphy
PS - Scott, you keep forgetting about all those pennies you owe me. In fact, it far outwieghs the amount I ripped of from you. I WAS going to just call it even. But now that you are flashing these demands around and dragging my parents into it, I think I'll take it to the next level. ...Pops, we need to get in contact with some lawyers of your persuasion. Finste should come along too - it will be a learning experience for the budding legal superstar.
murph...
i forgot about the pennies scott owes you..
so forget the suits....
i will make a call to the "big m", a boyhood friend to take care of everything....
i got your back son....
(of course unless scott buys me off....it's obvious that i can be bought)
Thanks, pardner. I knew you wouldn't forsake me.
Eddie - I'd think twice about representing Scott. He's very manipulative and doesn't divulge all info necessary for a good legal fight. ...And then there's the whole "Big M" connection that nobody wants to be on the wrong side of as well. ...Imagine a meaner version of Raymond.
Eddie - I'd think twice about representing Scott. He's very manipulative and doesn't divulge all info necessary for a good legal fight. ...And then there's the whole "Big M" connection that nobody wants to be on the wrong side of as well. ...Imagine a meaner version of Raymond.
smurph
all this and nothing about the top of page 4 not having a coitus interuptus scene :shrug:
all this and nothing about the top of page 4 not having a coitus interuptus scene :shrug:
Ex-Atlanta official, broken by prison, dies homeless
By BILL TORPY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/24/07
The homeless man's head rested on his backpack, his yellow prescription glasses still on his face.
To the railroad detective, who spotted the rag-tag man loitering in the tree-shaded lot by the tracks the day before, it looked like he was taking a nap.
Robert Sumbry's body was found along these tracks. In the mid-1980s, he ran the city's agency that provided housing for the poor. But his career ended when he was sentenced to five years in prison for fraud. Sumbry's downfall began when, as a landlord in his private life, he victimized tenants ? including the sick and the elderly.
Safehouse counselor David Baird says Sumbry preferred sleeping outside, where he'd end up 'in the park or under a bridge.'
But the man wasn't sleeping. He was dead, covered in ants. Investigators found pennies and denture adhesive in the pockets, insulin and syringes in his backpack and a MARTA card and a Six Flags Over Georgia contract employee ID in his wallet.
Fulton County Medical Examiner's case 07-0989 appeared to be open and shut: Life expectancy is not good for 63-year-old alcoholic diabetics on the street.
But the life and death of the former Atlanta city official, who worked for Mayor Andrew Young in the 1980s and was known by two other future mayors, was anything but simple.
Robert F. Sumbry apparently never recovered from a hard, notorious fall that sent him to federal prison and forever altered his life.
Sumbry's nine siblings had not heard from him in at least 15 years, a sister in Florida said. He just faded away after being released from prison.
When family members learned of his death on June 8, they were surprised he was still in Atlanta.
"The phone call ... telling us of his death was finally a sad closure," said Evelyn Henderson of Tampa. "How sad that families must go through this. You could never guess what lives these street people previously lived."
Those who knew Sumbry on the streets usually saw a reserved man with a quiet, sad dignity who existed in the margins, trying to slip by unnoticed. That is, unless he was blithering drunk.
"He really didn't have any friends out on the street," said David Baird, a former homeless man who is a guidance counselor at Safehouse Outreach in downtown Atlanta. "He said he used to have a great job but things happened and he ended up on the street. He kept to himself. He didn't want to cause any trouble."
Juanita Ford, another of Sumbry's sisters, said he got an economics degree from Florida A&M University in the late 1960s. The proud young man was set to seize the opportunity. He moved to New York, then Baltimore ? where he married ? working with the Federal National Mortgage Association before coming to Atlanta.
"He was a go-getter; he had a lot of energy," she said. "He always wanted to be a millionaire by the time he was 40."
In 1985, Mayor Young appointed the dedicated man in a crisp business suit to run the city's agency that provided housing for the poor. In 1987, Young reappointed him, saying, "Mr. Sumbry has done an outstanding job during his brief tenure with the city."
Another boss said he surpassed the agency's yearly goal, making more than 1,500 units habitable for poor families.
But Sumbry had another side. He bought his own houses to rent out to poor people and threatened to evict them if they didn't pay more than Section 8 stipulated. Mary Bennett, an epileptic who could not read, was one such tenant. Her family complained to Atlanta Legal Aid. Dennis Goldstein, a lawyer who took the case, figured Sumbry was doing the same thing to other tenants.
Sumbry's victims were working mothers, the elderly, the sick. Most were too scared to talk to legal aid lawyers.
"I remember him as arrogant," said Goldstein. "He struck me as a guy who tried to hide his lies through bluster. But then we ground him down."
The legal aid case led to a federal investigation. An ambitious U.S. Attorney named Bob Barr, who later became a congressman, took up the case. An equally ambitious city councilman named Bill Campbell publicly tore into Sumbry and the Young administration.
Young's chief administrative officer, Shirley Franklin, initially defended Sumbry, saying removing him from office would slow the momentum in housing improvements he had made.
The sympathetic victims made the case dramatic and put it on the top of the evening news. One victim had her heat cut off and huddled with her children by the fireplace. "When [she] refused to pay any more, he gave her 10 days to get out of her house and threw her furniture after her," Thomas D. Bever, the prosecutor assigned to the case, told the judge as Sumbry was being sentenced after pleading guilty to three fraud counts.
Sumbry, then 44, got five years.
Juanita Ford last talked to her older brother during his prison stint. He said he'd go back to landlording. "He said he'd get in touch when he got out," she said. "But he never did."
The family tried a computer search of their brother, to no avail. "We felt he was alive but embarrassed," Ford said. "We were hoping he was rebuilding his life."
Instead, his life was coming apart.
At least five times after he left prison, he or his wife filed for bankruptcy. One judge called the filings "an abuse of the system." He returned to prison twice after his December 1990 release ? in '92 and '96 on parole violations. In 1996, he tried unsuccessfully to appeal his conviction.
His brothers and sisters never heard what Sumbry did, or tried to do, to make it in the world after his release. Another sister heard that her brother drove a cab for a small Atlanta taxi company in 1992 but he didn't stay there long. His former wife declined to say much, other than she hadn't seen him in years. She filed for divorce against her absentee spouse in 2004.
Police reports show he had bottomed out by then. He was arrested for public urination, intoxication and fare evasion at MARTA.
He had been out on the streets for at least four years before his death, street people and homeless advocates say.
Delores Young knew one of Sumbry's tenants who complained in the 1980s. Bonnie Owens, a nearly blind woman, was threatened with eviction for coming forward, she said.
"I feel bad," said Owens' friend, Delores Young, about how Sumbry had died. "But when you do people wrong in life, bad things happen to you."
Tim Sewell, a homeless man standing by the forbidding brick shelter at Peachtree and Pine streets last week on a hot, sunny afternoon, immediately identified Sumbry from a 20-year-old photo.
"That's Bob," he said.
"He was a supervisor for the city, or something. He said he knew Andy Young personally. And Shirley Franklin. Nobody believed him.
"He talked about the opportunities he had and was proud of that. He wanted his life back. It was eating at him every day."
He sometimes drank cheap liquor, causing him to forget his insulin and go into diabetic shock, Sewell said.
The two men hung out at downtown parks or made the rounds to a half-dozen or so missions and shelters around downtown, hearing religious services to get a free meal.
Sometimes, Sumbry went to the library downtown to peruse the Internet. He liked to keep up with politics, keeping an eye on Franklin's rise to mayor and Campbell's fall from mayor to convicted tax cheat and federal prisoner.
Reminiscing was a temporary respite from a grim reality. Street life is a test even for a young man. Sumbry sometimes slept at shelters like the one Peachtree and Pine, which can accommodate 500 men. But he preferred not to.
"He'd end up outside in the park or under a bridge," said Baird. "If it's nice weather, most guys like to stay outside because when you get a bunch of guys in a building all together, it's not a healthy atmosphere. You're dealing with so many situations. People are drunk, bipolar. The hotter it gets, the worse it gets."
But outside, "you get extremely wore out because you're always in the elements," said Baird.
"You want to rest, to become invisible. But it's hard to do."
And likely, that's what Sumbry was trying to do when he laid down in the shady, secluded lot that offered a panoramic view of Atlanta, the city he came to years ago to make his mark.
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By BILL TORPY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/24/07
The homeless man's head rested on his backpack, his yellow prescription glasses still on his face.
To the railroad detective, who spotted the rag-tag man loitering in the tree-shaded lot by the tracks the day before, it looked like he was taking a nap.
Robert Sumbry's body was found along these tracks. In the mid-1980s, he ran the city's agency that provided housing for the poor. But his career ended when he was sentenced to five years in prison for fraud. Sumbry's downfall began when, as a landlord in his private life, he victimized tenants ? including the sick and the elderly.
Safehouse counselor David Baird says Sumbry preferred sleeping outside, where he'd end up 'in the park or under a bridge.'
But the man wasn't sleeping. He was dead, covered in ants. Investigators found pennies and denture adhesive in the pockets, insulin and syringes in his backpack and a MARTA card and a Six Flags Over Georgia contract employee ID in his wallet.
Fulton County Medical Examiner's case 07-0989 appeared to be open and shut: Life expectancy is not good for 63-year-old alcoholic diabetics on the street.
But the life and death of the former Atlanta city official, who worked for Mayor Andrew Young in the 1980s and was known by two other future mayors, was anything but simple.
Robert F. Sumbry apparently never recovered from a hard, notorious fall that sent him to federal prison and forever altered his life.
Sumbry's nine siblings had not heard from him in at least 15 years, a sister in Florida said. He just faded away after being released from prison.
When family members learned of his death on June 8, they were surprised he was still in Atlanta.
"The phone call ... telling us of his death was finally a sad closure," said Evelyn Henderson of Tampa. "How sad that families must go through this. You could never guess what lives these street people previously lived."
Those who knew Sumbry on the streets usually saw a reserved man with a quiet, sad dignity who existed in the margins, trying to slip by unnoticed. That is, unless he was blithering drunk.
"He really didn't have any friends out on the street," said David Baird, a former homeless man who is a guidance counselor at Safehouse Outreach in downtown Atlanta. "He said he used to have a great job but things happened and he ended up on the street. He kept to himself. He didn't want to cause any trouble."
Juanita Ford, another of Sumbry's sisters, said he got an economics degree from Florida A&M University in the late 1960s. The proud young man was set to seize the opportunity. He moved to New York, then Baltimore ? where he married ? working with the Federal National Mortgage Association before coming to Atlanta.
"He was a go-getter; he had a lot of energy," she said. "He always wanted to be a millionaire by the time he was 40."
In 1985, Mayor Young appointed the dedicated man in a crisp business suit to run the city's agency that provided housing for the poor. In 1987, Young reappointed him, saying, "Mr. Sumbry has done an outstanding job during his brief tenure with the city."
Another boss said he surpassed the agency's yearly goal, making more than 1,500 units habitable for poor families.
But Sumbry had another side. He bought his own houses to rent out to poor people and threatened to evict them if they didn't pay more than Section 8 stipulated. Mary Bennett, an epileptic who could not read, was one such tenant. Her family complained to Atlanta Legal Aid. Dennis Goldstein, a lawyer who took the case, figured Sumbry was doing the same thing to other tenants.
Sumbry's victims were working mothers, the elderly, the sick. Most were too scared to talk to legal aid lawyers.
"I remember him as arrogant," said Goldstein. "He struck me as a guy who tried to hide his lies through bluster. But then we ground him down."
The legal aid case led to a federal investigation. An ambitious U.S. Attorney named Bob Barr, who later became a congressman, took up the case. An equally ambitious city councilman named Bill Campbell publicly tore into Sumbry and the Young administration.
Young's chief administrative officer, Shirley Franklin, initially defended Sumbry, saying removing him from office would slow the momentum in housing improvements he had made.
The sympathetic victims made the case dramatic and put it on the top of the evening news. One victim had her heat cut off and huddled with her children by the fireplace. "When [she] refused to pay any more, he gave her 10 days to get out of her house and threw her furniture after her," Thomas D. Bever, the prosecutor assigned to the case, told the judge as Sumbry was being sentenced after pleading guilty to three fraud counts.
Sumbry, then 44, got five years.
Juanita Ford last talked to her older brother during his prison stint. He said he'd go back to landlording. "He said he'd get in touch when he got out," she said. "But he never did."
The family tried a computer search of their brother, to no avail. "We felt he was alive but embarrassed," Ford said. "We were hoping he was rebuilding his life."
Instead, his life was coming apart.
At least five times after he left prison, he or his wife filed for bankruptcy. One judge called the filings "an abuse of the system." He returned to prison twice after his December 1990 release ? in '92 and '96 on parole violations. In 1996, he tried unsuccessfully to appeal his conviction.
His brothers and sisters never heard what Sumbry did, or tried to do, to make it in the world after his release. Another sister heard that her brother drove a cab for a small Atlanta taxi company in 1992 but he didn't stay there long. His former wife declined to say much, other than she hadn't seen him in years. She filed for divorce against her absentee spouse in 2004.
Police reports show he had bottomed out by then. He was arrested for public urination, intoxication and fare evasion at MARTA.
He had been out on the streets for at least four years before his death, street people and homeless advocates say.
Delores Young knew one of Sumbry's tenants who complained in the 1980s. Bonnie Owens, a nearly blind woman, was threatened with eviction for coming forward, she said.
"I feel bad," said Owens' friend, Delores Young, about how Sumbry had died. "But when you do people wrong in life, bad things happen to you."
Tim Sewell, a homeless man standing by the forbidding brick shelter at Peachtree and Pine streets last week on a hot, sunny afternoon, immediately identified Sumbry from a 20-year-old photo.
"That's Bob," he said.
"He was a supervisor for the city, or something. He said he knew Andy Young personally. And Shirley Franklin. Nobody believed him.
"He talked about the opportunities he had and was proud of that. He wanted his life back. It was eating at him every day."
He sometimes drank cheap liquor, causing him to forget his insulin and go into diabetic shock, Sewell said.
The two men hung out at downtown parks or made the rounds to a half-dozen or so missions and shelters around downtown, hearing religious services to get a free meal.
Sometimes, Sumbry went to the library downtown to peruse the Internet. He liked to keep up with politics, keeping an eye on Franklin's rise to mayor and Campbell's fall from mayor to convicted tax cheat and federal prisoner.
Reminiscing was a temporary respite from a grim reality. Street life is a test even for a young man. Sumbry sometimes slept at shelters like the one Peachtree and Pine, which can accommodate 500 men. But he preferred not to.
"He'd end up outside in the park or under a bridge," said Baird. "If it's nice weather, most guys like to stay outside because when you get a bunch of guys in a building all together, it's not a healthy atmosphere. You're dealing with so many situations. People are drunk, bipolar. The hotter it gets, the worse it gets."
But outside, "you get extremely wore out because you're always in the elements," said Baird.
"You want to rest, to become invisible. But it's hard to do."
And likely, that's what Sumbry was trying to do when he laid down in the shady, secluded lot that offered a panoramic view of Atlanta, the city he came to years ago to make his mark.
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