Friday Squid Blogging: Researchers Investigating Using Squid Propulsion for Underwater Robots

Interesting article and paper.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Tags: academic papers, robotics, squid

Posted on October 25, 2019 at 4:04 PM • 63 Comments

You Are There (50 Years Ex Post Facto) • October 29, 2019 2:48 PM

ARPANET started 50 years ago today … late in the evening, as I recall.

It was hard to get an account ; as a student, I had to do a Personal Interview
with a Campus Computing Network Administrator. ( Various Biggus Dickus faculty
members had been kicked off already because they caused PROBLEMS for all System
Operators and Administrators concerned with managing this new Experiment. )

And you had to have a REAL GOOD REASON to be on it, and get time on it
( measuring in MUS : machine-unit-seconds plus other accessories like Line
Printer Output Paper, etc. ) to do Constructive Projects. My reason was The
Theory of Computation … could a Big Mainframe calculate algorithms and
special functions accurately in Double Precision using Floating Point and
with Assembly Language Compilers of the Day ?

I was a Good Boy and a responsible End-User … I was given a small amount of
time and my ToC Projects were Managed by CS and CCN people who were interesting
and interested …

A Good Time to Be Alive!