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by Qworg 10y ago
Seriously. All self driving systems currently cannot cope with heavy rain or snow very well at all.
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by Qworg 10y ago
In some ways, I disagree. I've found the expenses of children to be bathtub shaped - very expensive up front, dropping until they start public school, then ramping up slowly until they make the big jump to college.
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by Qworg 10y ago
I have a full time job, side project(s), and a family. There aren't enough hours - so something has to give.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Definitely! It was before my time there - but Deeplocal is great.
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by Qworg 10y ago
And here I thought it was the Nike Chalkbot: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmW-eGCrSxs Still cool though!
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by Qworg 10y ago
Very cool, thanks. There's definitely a marketing bridge to cross here - when Steve Jobs released the iPhone, it wasn't "your iPod as a phone!", it was "here's a magical device that does things you never imagin
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by Qworg 10y ago
I'd point at their part cost needing to be sub $33, but as others have said in quantity 1 we're already at $50, so likely yes.
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by Qworg 10y ago
MSFT has the "phone becomes a computer" with Continuum already: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum (but you need a Lumia... :| ) Having a laptop form factor is very interesting though - it
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by Qworg 10y ago
That is its strength for broad appeal - there's the concept of bazaars and warrens that Reddit hits squarely on the head. I'm not sure how you can have one thing without the other.
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How the New Science of Computational History Is Changing the Study of the Past(technologyreview.com)
1 points by Qworg 10y ago|0 comments
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This Tiny Robot Lets You Play God with Huge AI(gizmodo.com)
3 points by Qworg 10y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 10y ago
I wrote my thesis on mathematical filters for robot localization. A true great has passed. =/ If folks are interested, here's some ancient (and likely awful) code I wrote for it. It has a MH set, a Fuzzy set, a PF and a SPKF as
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by Qworg 10y ago
You can tune the matrices in other ways - I wrote my thesis around fuzzy autotuning - but most do it by hand. Here's some ancient code from those days: https://github.com/Qworg/Robot-Sensor-Fusion
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How to Raise Brilliant Children(npr.org)
101 points by Qworg 10y ago|92 comments
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by Qworg 10y ago
The best hardware in bad situations. They just work, no matter what, and never die. The software is just a part of the success.
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by Qworg 10y ago
He's still driving the scene - illuminating it, if you would.
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by Qworg 10y ago
There ARE sonars that deliver an image. http://blueprintsubsea.com/starfish/images/sonar/452/sf452_s... That's just one example - look for side scan sonars for the earliest stuff ( https:/&#x2F
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by Qworg 10y ago
Interesting. I'll modify to "one of the largest". I had thought that IBM was gutted. Thanks!
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by Qworg 10y ago
A big chunk of it is already. MSR is the one of the largest corporate research organizations.
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by Qworg 10y ago
I think that Morningstar is an even better, non-tech example with lower skilled workers - it shows that self organization works, even in normal firms. http://www.inc.com/audacious-companies/leigh-buchanan/mornin...
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by Qworg 10y ago
The problem with solving the "getting the data" problem is that it has hardware margins, which are slimmer than software. Everyone wants to "be the intelligence" since that scales infinitely and at close to zero marginal
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by Qworg 10y ago
Certainly, but Uber has Uber-controlled protections (however they're determined). It certainly appears as "vehicles that can pick people up off the street with no prior arrangement". I'm not advocating for a return to w
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by Qworg 10y ago
First, I'm speaking of the US. I have no experience in India. I'm certainly not defending all regulation, but unregulated taxis caused all sorts of problems in the past, which is why we regulated them. Background checks, improved
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by Qworg 10y ago
Agreed, but Uber has no reason to support background checks, etc. Any move towards regulation would make their business model fall apart.
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by Qworg 10y ago
It isn't just regulatory capture though - permits for taxis carry all sorts of protections for consumers. Those protections are guaranteed by law and I see no replacement for those protections from either Uber or Lyft. We used to have
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by Qworg 10y ago
Your setup must be near perfect then. There was an unacceptable level of noise and disappearing fingers once you rotated past 30 degrees of level in the original versions. Orion is almost magically better.
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by Qworg 10y ago
They do! It is theorized they detect the electromagnetic fields given off by the cable.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Turns out that it is very hard to deliver any hardware project in a purely Agile environment - it lacks the capability for careful delivery of long lead time/critical path items, as well as failing to neatly fit into a sprint.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Uhm, anecdotes != data. I've heard that most people say the Vive is better than the Oculus by far.
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by Qworg 10y ago
This is just Skype Translator coupled with an earpiece... :) https://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-translator/

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