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"You have to budget the number of fuzzy rules you use to control a system. It turns out, you can state the optimality principle in three words: 'patch the bumps.'"
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| Tracked Vehicle | ||
| A heavily armored vehicle, typical of those in use, with a remarkable agility. |
This remarkable vehicle apparently required both hands and feet to operate properly. Dosadis were a notoriously violent group; they would plunder an open vehicle without mercy.
| Bahrank put them through a series of dazzling speed changes and turns for no apparent reason. |
| From The Dosadi Experiment,
by Frank Herbert. Published by Berkley Putnam in 1977 Additional resources -
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It also has the capacity to pick its metal treads up and run on rubber wheels when silence (or the road surface) demanded it.
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