I have entered the DARPA Grand Challenge.
I will use this site to keep others up to date on my entry "Pontifier 1"
April 1st:
faxed application form.
Team name: FutureNowa
sole team member: John Fenley
Description of team and aproach:
The team will be just me to begin with, though perhaps I will recruit more team members as needed.
All boiling down to:
sensors feed to Ai.
Ai forms overview and calls upon subroutines to help direct the actual driving of the vehicle which will be performed by a seperate system capable of bringing the vehicle to a controlled stop in the event of failures.
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April 4th, 2003:
I added a whole bunch of new pages, and linked to them with the list above.
also i talked to a friend who might be able to get me an eye tracker helmet so i can do my own vision research while driving.
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April 5th, 2003:
off the subject of the darpa challenge....
I think i have a way of stopping spam effectively.
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June 20th, 2003:
Many things have happened which may have seriously impacted my ability to compete in march 2004.
After talking with the Anti Spam Research Group about my idea (which happened to simply be Challenge Response) I began working along new lines and came up with choicelist. I also decided to run for president in 2016. I went to the FTC Spam Forum to promote Choicelist, and show my face around DC.
Then when I returned I did quite a bit of refining and finalization on Choicelist.
Then a pressing situation that had been brewing for six months or so began to overwhelm me. The property management company that has been managing my mothers apartments had decided to stop paying the mortgage payments because they did not collect enough rent to cover them... never mind the fact that almost 30% of them were vacant, and that they were responsible for renting them.
I took action... I took over for them, and in under a week I have started to turn that situation arround... only to find that they have now put over $40K in liens against the properties, disrupting the refinancing that we had been working on for months.
side note: I wouldn't be able to pay off all of my debts if I won the challenge.
So i'm sorry i havn't updated this page in a while.
Here are new thoughts on the DARPA Challenge:
My operating system of choice for reliability...QNX
My experiences with gps... Coming soon
Using existing GPS signals to their maximum theoretical potential... coming soon
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I think this will be a fun project (even if I don't actually finish it).
