{"id":8939,"date":"2026-06-12T08:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:27:14","slug":"twenty-twenty-six-day-one-six-one-home-again-home-again-jiggity-jig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/12\/twenty-twenty-six-day-one-six-one-home-again-home-again-jiggity-jig\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty six day one six one]: home again home again jiggity jig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Back from the Embodied AI Workshop! And TIL (today I learned, though not the today of the blogging every day post) that “home again, home again, jiggity jig” isn’t originally just a throw-away line from J.F. Sebastian’s autonomous creations in Blade Runner<\/em>, but actually is a centuries-old nursery rhyme called “To Market, To Market”: https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/market-market<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To market,
To market,
<\/em>To buy a fat pig.
Home again,
Home again,
Jiggity jig.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I may be a carnivore, but I find the treatment of animals in a lot of older literature … disturbing. Regardless, I’m home again, and since another year has passed, that means there’s a different car from the Clemson autonomous driving team on display in the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the theme of dubious autonomous creatures, I’ve said it before, but now I’ll say it here: an autonomous vehicle without a physical steering wheel is a bug, just waiting to turn your car into a one-ton paperweight when the software inevitably bricks. Send an engineer out with a gamepad controller all you want: sooner or later you’ll need a tow in an awkward situation (say, for example, an underground parking garage in Palo Alto which is too windy for a tow truck to get into … yes, I do have personal experience with this, why do you ask?) requiring your new paperweight to be serviced in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pull up your pants, turn your ballcap forward, and install a steering wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: A fountain in the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport, and the aforementioned self-driving car. I don’t think it had a steering wheel, front or back, but perhaps that was just the angle I could see in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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