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Science You Cannot Possibly Comprehend, Monday, Period 5

"You have had a full day to reacclimate to your light school week, so you should be able to get right into work," Doom said, the second class started. "Before break, you were instructed to program robots to do certain basic tasks. Now you will refer to your robots' logs, as well as the half-melted husks of any robots that made nuisances of themselves."

"Now!" Time to get to work, everyone!
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[identity profile] allhopeliesinme.livejournal.com 2013-10-21 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Back and ready to work!
solarhippie: ([neu] Attentively.)

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[personal profile] solarhippie 2013-10-21 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Karolina Dean
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[personal profile] tigerundercover 2013-10-22 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Raven Darkholme

Listen to the Lecture

[identity profile] allhopeliesinme.livejournal.com 2013-10-21 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's not very long, so there's not much time to readjust to Doom.

Check In On Your Robot

[identity profile] allhopeliesinme.livejournal.com 2013-10-21 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Remember who if anyone you worked with last class? Get back with them at your computer terminal and find out through modding your robot NPC how it handled the following basic tasks.

*Saluting the Doombot in a non-profane way. Profane salutes will be considered a malfunction and the robot will be destroyed (on video).
*Lift a box and move it to the other side of the lab.
*Choose their own name.
*Do basic multiplication tables from 1 to 12.
*Shake hands with their fellow robots.

Is it still intact? Did it malfunction? Did it inspire the Doombot to destroy it?
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[personal profile] voiceoverdue 2013-10-21 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Cecil had opted for the simpler choice of just using his brainwaves; he wasn't exactly a programmer. He'd still had to call Carlos once or twice during the week for help in figuring out how the silly thing thought.

Of course, he'd still been a bit out of sorts after the weekend, and talking to Carlos hadn't exactly helped. He'd ended up with a perfectly functional and somewhat depressed robot.

It saluted by raising its hand and howling, as was proper in Night Vale. It moved the box, but sighed the whole time. It picked the name Dierdre. It shook hands as limply as a metal creature could manage. And it gave up halfway through the multiplication tables, threw up its hands, declared, "What's the point, anyway?", sat on the box and moped for the rest of the week.
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[personal profile] ultron_junior 2013-10-21 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Victor was glad for this class today; he still needed distractions from the week's events back in L.A., and whatever else Doom was, he was certainly distracting.

He turned on the terminal and started putting the robot through its paces. Not that he was too worried about it hitting its benchmarks; he knew he and Topher had done a good job.
solarhippie: ([neu] And the plan is what?)

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[personal profile] solarhippie 2013-10-21 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently Karolina and Jim's robot had not malfunctioned! That was a relief, not that she had expected things to go awry. At least in any drastic way.

Although why it had decided its name was Jacques Töppönen was anyone's guess. That had been some minor glitch somewhere in the programming, but it appeared to be the only one.

... And was probably the result of Karolina accidentally leaning on something during the programming process.
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Destroy Your Robot

[identity profile] allhopeliesinme.livejournal.com 2013-10-21 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Now that you have done your work, it is time for you to destroy these robots. Do not pretend there would have been another option. I will not allow you to keep my technology, and you do not want Doom to keep your work, which may have copies of your brainwaves," Doom explained.

"If you wish to keep a copy of the artificial intelligence you birthed, you may use the high capacity memory sticks at your workstations. That is your work. Do with it what you will. Once you have done that, wipe the robot's memory and activate the safe self-destruct sequence as instructed on your terminals. When you activate the destruct sequence, the robots will melt from the inside. If you choose not to do this yourself, I will do it at the end of class."

If anyone tried smuggling their robot out of the lab, they would find this happening as soon as it was out of the room.

Doom planned well.

Speak to Loki

[identity profile] allhopeliesinme.livejournal.com 2013-10-21 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
If he chooses to allow you to do so.

Speak to Doom

[identity profile] allhopeliesinme.livejournal.com 2013-10-21 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Save your AI rights speeches. He's allowing you to keep the AI for your own use if you so choose. That is a kindness from Doom.

And he's not even keeping your brainwaves!

OOC

[identity profile] allhopeliesinme.livejournal.com 2013-10-21 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Well, Fall was nice for a week. Now we dive into the 40s and possible snow this week! WHEEEEE!
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