never trust math?

The BBC has a recent article that claims that robots aren't the problem, it's those pesky theorists that design algorithms. Read more about the problems that arise when algorithms control the world. On this note, I wish to notify my loyal reader(s) that I will likely not be continuing this blog, so that I may focus on algorithms during my sabbatical. Besides, as the blog is not well advertised, read, edited, or updated, I don't feel terribly bad about letting it rust out there with the rest of the machines done in by algorithms.

One robot I like

Loyal readers of the blog might know that I have a less than enthusiastic regard for robots, but sometimes I can be persuaded to potentially up my opinion of the mechanical killers to "slightly dissatisfied". A NY Times post on Steelers coach Mike Tomlin describes him as a man who...

chooses words carefully, thinks before he talks and rarely blurts out an uncensored thought.

but when

Asked to describe his emotions in such a pressure-packed spot, Tomlin said: “I’m a robot. I’m just going to ride the wave.”

I don't know if I should be mortified at the fact that the Rooney family rarely changes coaches, and a robot could potentially live a long time. Alternatively, despite the Steelers loss, I can be comforted in fact that the machines have failed. Also, even though it isn't a robot, I hoping Watson does not crush the contestants on Jeopardy

I don't know why scientists make these things

NPR has an article with videos on Meat eating furniture. I for one, do not approve and that chair can bite my ass. Before the day comes when robots enslave us and build human farms as crops to sustain their appetite for destruction, I might embrace robotics just enough to design a robot to eat roboticists and other robots for fuel. After all, planned introduction of predators to eliminate vermin has never failed in the past.