Nicely done AsimoAugust 23, 2009
Robots, they're getting a better."Euphoria" engineJuly 29, 2009
This engine attempts to create more dynamic realistically animated and characters.
VideoImpressive!
Maybe I'm cruel, but I think it would be fun to have a Windows desktop with this little character standing on your taskbar, and you'd be able to run your mouse cursor into him and he's fall over... or you could really ram your cursor into him and he'd go flying across the screen. There would be all sorts of ways to take him down, such as swiping his legs out from underneath him, etc. He could also duck to avoid your cursor, etc.
Grocery shoppingJuly 21, 2009
Today was the first day I had been in a grocery store since spending some time working on some nutrition software.
To give some background, I have written a subroutine so that you can ask "recommend a food", and the software will consider what foods will maximize your nutrition graph for today -- that is, to minimize the amount of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients still required for the current day, given what you've already eaten.
I have noticed that this subroutine often recommends foods such as:
  | GoLean cereal |
| Raisin Bran cereal |
| milk |
| orange juice |
| cranberry juice |
| bananas |
| pears |
| yogourt |
| chicken breast |
| ... |
And so, as I walked along I had it in my head to pick up some GoLean, Raisin Bran, OJ, bananas, pears, etc.
In addition to picking these items up, I was more interested in comparing the nutrition labels on various kinds of bread, as well as orange juice. I chose the bread that minimized sodium while maximizing omega-3... and I picked the orange juice with 30% DV of calcium; I got the PC variety rather than the Tropicana variety since it was $2.99 VS $4.50.
I real breakthrough was finding Miss Vickies unsalted chips. They're just potatoes and sunflower oil, and they taste great! I can't believe it: A potato chip with 0 sodium!
I have also started entering costs into the system so that, while maximizing nutrition, it will also minimize cost. Fun stuff.
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