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Sep 05, 2010
Rocket Robin Hood - Review
When I was a kid, I used to get up at 6 am or so to watch Rocket Robin Hood on CityTV. This had to have been in the mid 70s or so.
Its clear that the episodes had enough of a following and demand that people sought them for years on VHS and Teletoon and Teletoon Retro replay some episodes, and more recently episodes can be viewed on many video websites.
But there's nothing like having them all preserved imperishable on DVD, sci-fi / fantasy cartoons which are from a more idealized and optimistic view of the future; a future of magic and adventure, time travel and alternate universes, where thought and reality are one. Its all here in Rocket Robin Hood Volumes 1 and 2.
In today's cynical movie era of dystopian futures, morally ambiguious antiheroes and general mistrust of everything, Rocket Robin Hood is a welcome reprieve from all of this depressing stuff.
If you're willing to put aside your mantle of adult cares and concerns and so on, if only for a little while, you can enjoy a variety of episodes that range from the fantastic and light-hearted to the dark and surreal, but always be assured of a happy ending, with laughter to close out each episode.
Rocket Robin Hood combines elements of past civilizations and rituals, everything from ancient Egypt to Rome, and involves characters easily recognizable from history's real and imaginary despots, plus fantastic beings from Irish legend to name just a few, plus lots of new character without precedent most of whom seem to all be titled "Dr. Something" with immense power over some kind of technology or forces.
Juxtaposing them with Rocket Robin Hood's MacGyver like ability to improvise in most any situation, along with Little John's amazing strength, Will Scarlett's enthusiasm and loyalty, Friar Tuck's strategic engineering knowledge, and Alan Adale's tactical smarts, results in lots of neat adventures that have kept Rocket Robin Hood interesting to many of Generation X and Y.
Rocket Robin Hood is idealized and optimistic 60's style sci-fi / fantasy that many people would enjoy, provided you get in touch with your inner kid again.
I'm hoping at some point for someone to eventually make up some kind of "New Adventures of Rocket Robin Hood" which builds on the rather fertile imagination of the Rocket Robin Hood universe and expands it in new directions for the continued enjoyment of people both young and old. Kids can yet learn that moral codes and honor still have relevance even in an age where just about anything is possible.
And who knows, maybe some software genius could come up with a Rocket Robin Hood game where the observer can become part of the adventure, and play a role in its outcome. In this day and age with todays computers it would certainly be possible to match or exceed the visuals of the cartoons, so maybe someone will produce something with a cartoon like look such as Team Fortress 2 has, but within a much richer framework for as yet unimagined real-time adventures.
Nov 30, 2024
Excellent explanations of knowledge and reasoning and CLIPS expert system shell
Some people might not like this book because it is older and does not discuss in great detail the deep learning that everyone is so enamored with these days. People may not realize this but there is a lot of life left in symbolic rule-based AI, which this book is about. But it is demanding to think about the nature of knowledge and reasoning such that one can model it with formal programming languages and this is a barrier to entry that kept many people out of the field.
But for those who are coming at AI from a computer science or mathematical logic base, this is one of the very best books in terms of introducing both the history and philosophical aspects of AI topics like knowledge representation and reasoning and inference. The first chapters by the late Professor Giarratano is written in an informal, friendly and intuitive style that allows even people who are coming to AI for the first time able to become stronger in the the crafting of expert systems. All of the major aspects of AI are explored and made accessible. They also have examples in LISP and Prolog which are earlier languages used for symbolic AI but still relevant since they are advanced declarative programming languages.
The other thing to keep in mind is that this book also introduced CLIPS which is the premier expert system shell to create expert systems that embody the knowledge and reasoning of a human expert. CLIPS combines aspects from both LISP and Prolog to facilitate easy creation of expert systems. CLIPS is now free and available and was used at NASA for many years before that for various projects.
The combination of these qualities makes this an excellent book, in any edition you can find it.
Apr 16, 2022
Praise for VHDL Made Easy!
This is a very comprehensive book for learning VHDL. David Pellerin is a top-notch technical writer and has a rich history of writing excellent books on this subject. I have at least one other written by him.
Every major VHDL concept is explained in the proper order, starting from the history of VHDL To advanced usage. It is written very well for those that have some previous exposure to software development or hardware design. If you go through this book, you will have a very solid foundation for designing and simulating electronic systems with VHDL. I especially like the in-depth explanation of VHDL configurations which tends to confuse many people. Also how they explain concurrency in VHDL as well as sequential code within processes, which I know from teaching others is a key pitfall for those coming to VHDL from a software background, but they do try to bridge the gap between how VHDL models hardware and how software languages model algorithms.
Because the book was published some time ago, the included CD is probably best left alone unless you have an older computer or virtualized environment and want to run the software for interest. There are freely available VHDL simulators that will run the code examples just fine without using the CD.
I've wanted to have this book as a reference on my bookshelf and now if I need to explain a concept to a younger person, I have a book I can use to get the terminology straight to teach it solidly and correctly, along with my own experiences and metaphors.