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MadaraUchiha said:
The first time, I got the terminals all messed up and it didn't work. I did get better comparatively, but, I was still 'okay'.
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Still, messing with electronics is fun, especially if you have modern components and boards, and your instructors are good at explaining things. And you speak English so you have all the manuals and other info. Here I often see students who are stuck because they can't read the datasheets, it is a huge slowdown. I was the same too =)
 
Sindar said:
Still, messing with electronics is fun, especially if you have modern components and boards, and your instructors are good at explaining things. And you speak English so you have all the manuals and other info. Here I often see students who are stuck because they can't read the datasheets, it is a huge slowdown. I was the same too =)
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Well, it was certainly a lot of fun, that I agree. I hope you don't mind me asking this, but, your specialisation is something related to rockets, right?
 
MadaraUchiha said:
Well, it was certainly a lot of fun, that I agree. I hope you don't mind me asking this, but, your specialisation is something related to rockets, right?
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No no, I am in normal robotics. I am a huge fan of astronomy and space exploration, but I am not involved in anything like this professionally =)
 
Sindar said:
No no, I am in normal robotics. I am a huge fan of astronomy and space exploration, but I am not involved in anything like this professionally =)
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I see. I don't know if it's you or someone else from NBF, but, I heard from a guy there, that someone was studying stuff related to rockets, and went to NASA and all, and I assumed it was you.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
I see. I don't know if it's you or someone else from NBF, but, I heard from a guy there, that someone was studying stuff related to rockets, and went to NASA and all, and I assumed it was you.
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Oh wow, would be pretty awesome if one of NBF guys is working in NASA now :O Wasn't me for sure.
 
Sindar said:
Aha, mechanics problems are fun =) Yep, I'm teaching robotics courses at a college.

You'll be able to pick up all the state space by yourself if you ever need to, it is easy and fun. Requires some linear algebra, but nothing crazy.
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I knew it. Do you build actual working robots from scratch?
 
Nel said:
I knew it. Do you build actual working robots from scratch?
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We have a whole group of people working on each project, I am only doing simulations and such. Our team does build robots from scratch =)
 
Sindar said:
We have a whole group of people working on each project, I am only doing simulations and such. Our team does build robots from scratch =)
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Nah, everyone can do engineering work after a proper education. Electrical engineering or programming aren't any easier than robotics, I'd say. Physics and pure math are possibly much harder : D
 
Sindar said:
Nah, everyone can do engineering work after a proper education. Electrical engineering or programming aren't any easier than robotics, I'd say. Physics and pure math are possibly much harder : D
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I never knew anyone who can build robots. I know people who modify them but they can't build them from nothing. What is pure math?
 
Nel said:
I never knew anyone who can build robots. I know people who modify them but they can't build them from nothing. What is pure math?
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Working with robots someone else have built for you is not any easier than making your own. If you talk with programmers they would often say that modifying someone else's code is a nightmare; well same is with complicated machines =)

Pure math is the core part of mathematics, that which is not a set of tools for a particular science. It is different from applied maths, such as theoretical physics, mechanics, control theory, optimization, etc. We say "pure math" to indicate the field where professional mathematicians work, basically =)
 
Sindar said:
Working with robots someone else have built for you is not any easier than making your own. If you talk with programmers they would often say that modifying someone else's code is a nightmare; well same is with complicated machines =)

Pure math is the core part of mathematics, that which is not a set of tools for a particular science. It is different from applied maths, such as theoretical physics, mechanics, control theory, optimization, etc. We say "pure math" to indicate the field where professional mathematicians work, basically =)
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I just used to hear this phase a lot when I was a student. Me and my friends were making some poorly organized collab projects and the undocumented code had been a major headache =) I am not a professional programmer, but I do write programs for my work.

You mean, how pure math problems is different from mechanics ones? Well, they aren't different really. All I wanted to say is that, subjectively speaking, some of the hardest problems people solve are the ones that professional mathematician are working on.
 
Sindar said:
I just used to hear this phase a lot when I was a student. Me and my friends were making some poorly organized collab projects and the undocumented code had been a major headache =) I am not a professional programmer, but I do write programs for my work.

You mean, how pure math problems is different from mechanics ones? Well, they aren't different really. All I wanted to say is that, subjectively speaking, some of the hardest problems people solve are the ones that professional mathematician are working on.
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I didn't think anyone other than Clara is a programmer here. What kind be of programs do you work? Do you write them for robots?
 

Sounds tough. They are supposed to be perfect right? Don't you find it difficult to work with robots and programming at the same time?
 
Nel said:
Sounds tough. They are supposed to be perfect right? Don't you find it difficult to work with robots and programming at the same time?
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No, it is all part of the same thing. There is a whole lot of things you need to know how to do to work with robots, but this is the same for any engineering profession or research field.
 
Sindar said:
No, it is all part of the same thing. There is a whole lot of things you need to know how to do to work with robots, but this is the same for any engineering profession or research field.
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I like robots. Do you think they can act like humans after some thousands of years?
 
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