{"id":3323,"date":"2008-10-31T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T07:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/psst\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2008-10-31T07:57:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T07:57:31","slug":"3030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/3030\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Dean Kamen Q&#038;A: Robots Can Save America from Britney Spears - Popular Mechanics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/blogs\/science_news\/4289466.html\/\">Dean Kamen on the interesting way they score the FIRST robotics competition<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;We work really hard to &#8216;ambivalence-scale&#8217; our competition, as we call it. We create a competition where there&#8217;s a lot of luck added to it. The rounds are only 2 minutes long; the scoring system isn&#8217;t particularly fair. It favors, throughout each round, the underdog&#8230;We did everything we could to make it fun enough that if your robot didn&#8217;t win, it&#8217;s not a personal thing. &#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Kamen on the interesting way they score the FIRST robotics competition &#8211; &#8220;We work really hard to &#8216;ambivalence-scale&#8217; our competition, as we call it. We create a competition where there&#8217;s a lot of luck added to it. The rounds are only 2 minutes long; the scoring system isn&#8217;t particularly fair. It favors, throughout each&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/3030\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9wjHJ-3030","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}