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Russian Afghanistan War vet fulfills childhood dream by building all-terrain vehicle using parts from 12 different cars (VIDEO)
A 50-year-old veteran from Russia’s Kursk Region has built his own amphibious all-terrain vehicle by taking parts from twelve different domestically made cars, including a Lada Niva and 1980s hatchback Moskvich 2141.
After losing his leg in Afghanistan, Yury Sukhorukov has struggled to move around. This has been exacerbated by the poor roads in his small village. In particular, the difficulty of getting to the nearby river inspired him to make his own vehicle, which he spent four and a half months building.
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So one of the advantages of living in the 2nd/3d world is that you can do stuff like this, in most of Europe you wouldn't be allowed to leave your yard with such vehicle.

Related older article:
Man builds tank replica from scratch
 
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Bear Ribs said:
This has happened with multiple AIs and it appears that given the option, AIs find falling over to be the easiest way to travel.
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This makes sense actually? Strictly speaking, human walking and running is actually a form of "controlled falling". The simple fact is it takes less energy to use a falling motion to move things from point a to b than to use other forms of locomotion...
 
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S'task said:
This makes sense actually? Strictly speaking, human walking and running is actually a form of "controlled falling". The simple fact is it takes less energy to use a falling motion to move things from point a to b than to use other forms of locomotion...
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It's still not that practical in the long term. If the AI understood they had to create a method of locomotion that required them to fall over again and again, they would probably pick a similiar method. But one that allowed them to continue falling.

Jay-sus Christ, the AI would skip walking to try and fly.
 
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S'task said:
This makes sense actually? Strictly speaking, human walking and running is actually a form of "controlled falling". The simple fact is it takes less energy to use a falling motion to move things from point a to b than to use other forms of locomotion...
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Yeah, the issue is that the AI will only try to meet the goal set before it and does not consider any other possible issue. If the goal set is just "get from point a to point b" falling over to point b is a viable method because it makes no consideration of what happens after it gets to point b. The fact that it's tower of legs can never get up again doesn't matter, it got to point b.

In some ways they act like a videogame speedrunner who thinks it's perfectly fine to die if it means completing the level a tenth of a second faster.
 
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Its a wiki entry but its surreal, amusing and kinda sad thinking how complicated trademarka are and how its affected tue Transformers franchise. Theres literally a couple dozen cases of peculiar trademark entanglements relating to various Transformers characters that they oftentimes they end up being forced to use their Transformers as robots in disguise.
 
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Story of how Tetris came to West
» A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 1: Calculators and Cybernetics The Digital Antiquarian

It gets wild in chapter five.

A self-satisfied Kevin Maxwell walked out of ELORG, on the same day he had first arrived, like Neville Chamberlain leaving Munich, having signed away a whole pile of publication rights and tacitly admitted that Mirrorsoft’s contract to publish Tetris applied only to computer games — and all in return for a promise from the Russians to listen to future proposals.
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The mysterious 'suicide' of Nikolai Zorya, the Soviet Unions Assistant Prosecutor in the Nuremburg Trials. Zorya's death was ruled a suicide in Moscow, because he apparently was cleaning his own gun and had it aimed at his own forehead when it discharged. Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (and later Justice of the Supreme Court) quietly investigated the story including why a Soviet General would be cleaning his own gun. Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Dodd of the US assumed he was killed by the NKVD for getting too friendly with US and British Prosecutors as it occurring in the wake of the revelation of secret protocols in the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact.
 
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Kind of inspirational, I must say

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