60: Disregard the Physical

Spinnerproof

• Follow Up
  • Battlebots Bingo
    • It’s over, but its also not over
      • Potential future ticks
        • Khajit has wares: does Monsoon using a piece of Bombshell count?
        • Elephantastic: Nelly still has a fight to be released
    • Thrilling statistical analysis
      • 9 of Roasting Robots’ 16 predictions scored points
        • 4 of these went to Robocast, 3 to Spinnerproof, and 2 back to RR
      • 8 of Robocast’s 16 predictions scored points
        • 5 of these went to RR, 2 to Spinnerproof, and 1 back to Robocast
      • 5 of Spinnerproof’s 16 predictions scored points
        • 3 of these went back to Spinnerproof, while RR and Robocast each received 1
• Front Matter
  • FRA Beetleweight Champs
    • Event recap/report thing
      • This video’s thumbnail is possibly one of my favourite things I’ve ever made and that genuinely scares me - Ryan
    • Playlist of our fights
    • Full event video
• Battlebots
  • The robots we missed
    • Bloodsport
      • Unfortunate to come up against 2 verts in its play-in
    • Skorpios
      • Suffering from its similarity to Sawblaze: a robot which Battlebots has definitely fallen in love with
      • Matched up against a lot of tanky machines
      • Most of the original team from 2016 are still on the team, but the team has doubled in size since 2016
        • The captaincy has changed, but the previous captain (Orion Beach) is still on the team
    • Sidewinder
      • The weird idea which kinda worked, right up until it didn’t
    • Tantrum
      • Not-Tantrum working extremely well in China
      • The additional brutality of a spinner you have to fire
• Battleboats
  • Battlebots, but on water
  • The meme which didn’t actually spark this conversation
  • Model warship combat
    • Projectile weapons on replica boats
  • Wetbots at RoboNerd
    • Normal robot combat weapons on…whatever you would call that
  • What weapons can be effective?
    • Multiple weapons?
  • Submarines? Hovercrafts? Hydrofoils? Ekranoplans? Crabs?
  • Weapon restrictions
    • Mythbusters on how bubbles affect buoyancy
    • Bubbles sinking a ship
  • ‘Arena’ hazards
• Robot naming conventions
  • Semantic Versioning
  • Year-based versioning
    • What if an event takes place over the new year?
• Aftershow: Roborace
  • Tom Scott’s video
    • The project has been going for at least 3 years but good info seems hard to find
      • 2019 was the first time they brought in external teams to turn this into a competitive sporting environment
  • How ‘deeply’ can teams alter the car’s software?
  • No active overtaking in races, overtakes are limited to straights and uncontested
  • How programmers make software work better
    • Fast inverse square root
    • RAM management on PS1
    • (Not mentioned in the podcast, but still interesting): Game Saving
  • Writing an operating system