Isaac Butt: a Singular Political Path

A Vision-Aided 3D Path Teaching Method before Narrow Butt Joint Welding

For better welding quality, accurate path teaching for actuators must be achieved before welding. Due to machining errors, assembly errors, deformations, etc., the actual groove position may be different from the predetermined path. Therefore, it is significant to recognize the actual groove position using machine vision methods and perform an accurate path teaching process. However, during the...

"That puzleing problem": Isaac Newton and the political physiology of self.

Where religions once demanded the sacrifice of bodies, knowledge now calls for experimentation on ourselves, calls us to the sacrifice of the subject of knowledge.1 In the past few years, historians have developed a series of new techniques for recovering the practices and contexts in which people understood the relations between mind and body. From the recognition that modem compartmentalizati...

What's in a butt? Environmental contamination from airborne cigarette butt emissions.

The Political Imaginary of Care: Generic versus Singular Futures

The impacts of the activities of technological societies extend further into the future than their capacity to predict and control these impacts. Some have argued that the repercussions of this deficiency of knowledge cause fatal difficulties for both consequentialist and deontological accounts of future oriented obligations. Increasingly, international politics encompasses issues where this pr...

Isaac Newton as a Probabilist

In 1693, Isaac Newton answered a query from Samuel Pepys about a problem involving dice. Newton’s analysis is discussed and attention is drawn to an error he made. On November 22, 1693, Samuel Pepys wrote a letter to Isaac Newton posing a problem in probability. Newton responded with three letters, first answering the question briefly, and then offering more information as Pepys pressed for cla...