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DTED data is like a fingerprint. This isn’t much of a story.
by dgfitz 3y ago
DTED data is like a fingerprint. This isn’t much of a story.
- cleverwebble 3y agoThe story is that these young engineers built a 500$ drone that consumes this kind of data to do mapping. In 24 hours for a hackathon no less. If the US government didn't already have this kind of tech, they would spend millions just for the same prototype they built. And probably tens or hundreds of millions for a final product. I think that's a story
- thorncorona 3y agoConsidering they didn't actually deploy (the route was simulated), I would be skeptical of this.
- kortilla 3y agoIt’s only a story if it wasn’t known to cost around this range in the first place. People can do weekend hackathon image recognition projects that aren’t story worthy but would have been billion dollar companies 15 years ago
- geor9e 3y agoIt's easy to shallowly dismiss work with a metaphor for how it works. LLM training is like a marble rolling down a valley. But hacking together a working proof of concept warms the heart.