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Embarrassingly, I was eves dropping on a (loud) woman in a coffee shop who worked on the Apple Car project. She did SLAM work. I was evesdropping because that w
by vineyardmike 3y ago
Embarrassingly, I was eves dropping on a (loud) woman in a coffee shop who worked on the Apple Car project. She did SLAM work. I was evesdropping because that was a core part of my thesis and I was curious. She told her dining partner she was moved to the Vision Pro team to build the inside-out tracking.
Research for the sake of research sometimes pays off. Who knows if this product will recoup the billions spent on R&D but that’s how the game works.
- babyshake 3y agoThere was a recent YC podcast about Vision Pro where SLAM and the overlap with autonomous vehicles was explained.
- tambourine_man 3y agoLink? I didn’t know YC had a podcast and Google didn't help.
- vineyardmike 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/@ycombinator/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ycombinator/videos
- tambourine_man 3y agoMost recent episode? Tangentially, it's funny to me that people link to YouTube for podcasts these days.
- vineyardmike 3y agoIt was at the time of the comment the most recent video on the YouTube channel - "Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform of the future?"
- whycome 3y agoOhhh. I thought the commenter was using some sort of slang about the quality of their work. For others out of loop: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_an...
- bee_rider 3y agoYes, I also don’t work I computer vision but played with it just a tiny bit—I think somebody saying they worked in SLAM and are moving to a Vision Pro project is not a huge leak or anything. It is like a chemist saying they work in lithium ion batteries and are making the same move. A very broad and fundamental concept. Maybe the fact that they were moved away from the car project would have been a leak though, depending on what else they said.
- RealityVoid 3y agoI am incredibly jealous of you guys living in a place where you just bump into random people at coffeeshops that happen to work on incredibly interesting things. The density of talent must be amazing.
- boznz 3y agoAnd I am so happy I live in a place where this doesn't happen.
- epistasis 3y agoInteresting, but I can't understand why that makes you happy. What benefit does it bring you?
- bogota 3y agoSome people like talking about things not related to their job when they aren’t working. The culture out in SV is very much still “work is life”.
- khokhol 3y agoThe benefit of being a part of the actual human world, where real people live. Where not essentially everyone is obsessed with their careers and/or comparative wealth. That sort of thing.
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- tptacek 3y agoIt can be alienating to move through the world in spaces where your work is everywhere you go. It's a thing I appreciated moving from San Francisco back to the midwest. Every once in awhile, I bump into someone with a Github sticker or whatever, and it's a happy surprise, but for the most part the world I inhabit has nothing to do with my work. Everyone has different things to talk about.
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- hn72774 3y agoPeople also do that to get insider info to trade on or for industrial espionage/competitor spying. They'll hang out in the lobby of a building, coffee shops nearby, appearing to work while eavesdropping and taking notes. At my last bigco job, I was advised not to discuss company matters outside of the office.
- JohnFen 3y agoI know a guy whose job it is to eavesdrop for industrial espionage purposes. Coffee shops and the like are haunts of his, as well as taking commuter flights in and out of SV.