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[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison

I think it may be bordering hysterical that someone not only searched for 'karthik kanagasabapathy' but also spelled his name right...

Well, I decided to duplicate that search, and his white paper was the #1 result. I also found a result on RateMyProfessors.com that says that he is helpful and clear, but very hard and not very hot.

[Ryan M.]

Physics of soccer!?!?!

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by Texan

Physics of soccer!?!?!

That seems like a very likely search that would bring people to this forum... Patrick Dingle has always posted updates regarding the Cornell Robocup Team on these forums (look in the Televised Robotics forum) and has talked about the robots.

Brandon, how is CD able to know that a person is coming from Google? And what they searched for?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Yan Wang

Brandon, how is CD able to know that a person is coming from Google? And what they searched for?

Go search something on Google. When you are at the results page, check the URL. The terms you searched for are contained in the URL. When you click a link in the results (to chiefdelphi.com for instance), that URL is sent to our server as the 'referrer'. The stats programs we use (webalizer, analog, etc) know all of the popular search engines, and how their referrer URL is composed, and they can pull that info out of the URL and make neat stats from it.

Hope that explains it enough. Let me know if not ..

-Brandon

[Elgin Clock]

Is there any way to see a list of what has been searched for most often internally on CD?

From the Search button on the CD menu bar?

[Brandon Martus]

Those stats aren't kept track of in vBulletin. Recent searches are kept, and we could probably do something interesting with that, but the search history only goes back so far (for performance reasons, I think).

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Well, I decided to duplicate that search, and his white paper was the #1 result. I also found a result on RateMyProfessors.com that says that he is helpful and clear, but very hard and not very hot.

I take offence to this Joe. I just checked it out and the only rating I got on that site said I was hot. I even have a hot pepper next to my name. Hmmph.

Posting wrong information about my team or robot, I'll let that go. But when it comes to my good looks, you've got another thing coming...

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Karthik

I take offence to this Joe. I just checked it out and the only rating I got on that site said I was hot. I even have a hot pepper next to my name. Hmmph.

Posting wrong information about my team or robot, I'll let that go. But when it comes to my good looks, you've got another thing coming...

You are correct. I assumed that Hot was on a 1-5 scale like the others, in which case you go a 1. However, Hot is ranked on a hot or not scale (+1 or -1) and since you have a positive hot score you are hot. Now I need to meet you in person to judge your hotness for myself, since I've learned to never trust the online professor evaluation sites.

[Steve W]

Trust me when I say that the only time Karthik is hot is when you are truthful and tell him the many weaknesses of his robot. Steam rises and the verbal abuse begins as he tries, WITHOUT SUCCESS I MIGHT ADD, to defend poor Simbot Simeon.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Steve W

Trust me when I say that the only time Karthik is hot is when you are truthful and tell him the many weaknesses of his robot. Steam rises and the verbal abuse begins as he tries, WITHOUT SUCCESS I MIGHT ADD, to defend poor Simbot Simeon.

I don't usually need to defend Simbot Simon, his accomplishments speak for himself. You come check out the trophy case at GM when it's done. It's kind of big...

//Steve,

I think neither of us can go more than five messages without making fun of each other, on either this board or the Canadian Regional forum...
//

[jonathan lall]

"Simbot Simian." I never thought of it, but 1114's machine is pretty much the 188 definition of a monkeybot, which I'm pretty sure you're familiar with. That's too good. Also, on the subject of your previous claim, might I suggest you not list your Who Am I image on the forum? Either that or replace it with something you'd expect from such a wild claim.

[J Flex 188]

who needs regional wars, geographically divided national competitions or even the leafs and the sens? we've got our own inter-province, down a short stretch of highway, no holds barred rivalary of our own going here.
crazy monkeys and their dancing around >_<.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by jonathan lall

"Simbot Simian." I never thought of it, but 1114's machine is pretty much the 188 definition of a monkeybot, which I'm pretty sure you're familiar with. That's too good.

I read their name as "Simbot Simon", which goes well with "Simbot Sally". I think there's monkey business going on in your head

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

I read their name as "Simbot Simon", which goes well with "Simbot Sally". I think there's monkey business going on in your head

I think Jon was just trying to create a pun out of Steve's earlier typo. "Simbot Simian" is a good name for our initial design, which was a fully capable monkey bot. We gave up on that pretty early on though. I'll upload a white paper at some point.

Simon and Sally are a good pair. Lets see what we come up with next year.

Originally Posted by J Flex 188

who needs regional wars, geographically divided national competitions or even the leafs and the sens? we've got our own inter-province, down a short stretch of highway, no holds barred rivalary of our own going here.
crazy monkeys and their dancing around >_<.

The Simbotics-Woburn rivalry is a good one. It keeps all of us entertained to say the least. What makes it so special is the deep dark secret that we try and hide from the rest of the world...somewhere down there we actually like each other.

Then again, that might not last if we steal more of your team members...

[Steve W]

If you are to steal more of our team, can I pick who you take?