A pick-me-up

Pick up sticks

Break a ruler of length n inches with indentations at each inchmark into n sticks of length one by repeatedly picking up all the fragments which are still of length greater than one and throwing them down all at once until all the sticks are of length one. Assume that each stick breaks into exactly two sticks uniformly at the inchmarks. What is the expected number of throws needed to complete t...

Learning To Pick Up a Novel Object

1. Abstract In order for an autonomous robot to successfully function in a natural environment it needs to be able to able to interact with objects it has never seen before. Specifically it needs to be able to manipulate objects in the environment that it has no prior knowledge of. The robot must not only be able to cope with uncertainty in the shape of the object, but also with uncertainty in ...

"Don't give up on me".

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Bringing up robot : Fundamental me

Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: Inhibiting RNA Polymerase

Mechanistic understanding of antibiotic action can yield crucial insights that aid in the design of new antibiotics. In this issue, Mukhopadhyay et al. (2008) uncover the mechanism by which the antibiotic myxopyronin inhibits bacterial RNA polymerase, suggesting a new target region in RNA polymerase for inhibitor design.