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by Schwolop 14y ago
Aren't you conflating two issues? Getting visual sensing to the same level as radar/lidar is a great aim. Having redundant multi-modal sensing is a great aim. Switching over to visual- only isn't. There are too many situations where one ty
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by Schwolop 14y ago
This the best article with a number in its title that I've read this year. :-) (Although you clearly know the HN audience, having culled the number from the title here!)
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Forbes has an arrangement with Quora[1]. AFAIK TechCrunch does not. [1] http://www.quora.com/How-does-Forbes-decide-which-Quora-answ...
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Don't anthropomorphise design. Computers are better at processing huge quantities of data in structured form. Humans are better at pattern recognition and adaption. Trying to design an autonomous robot by emulating the way humans or animals
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Radar can handle that problem. To be fair, probably not the automative radars they're already using, but something in the tens of GHz range could do it.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Yeah, in hindsight, the safe/dropbox idea is much more viable and likely to happen.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Since a lot of the discussions here are about the benefits of autonomous cars compared to other solutions, I'd like to point out an excellent Quora question on the matter: http://www.quora.com/Transportation/Why-do-we-want-self-driv... I
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by Schwolop 14y ago
It's on its way already to an extent. Apologies for linking to Fox News, but it was the only one with video: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/03/29/vw-stanford-build-...
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Delivery men could be automated too. A robot with package safe and some kind of pre-determined passcode could be sufficient. Insurance or onboard sensing to surveil would-be thieves would cover some of the safety issues. And to avoid even m
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Yeah, I suppose that's true. And the dungeon finder thingy (after my time) seems like it works well for casual players.
551.
by Schwolop 14y ago
Use twilio to cache the calls. Charge for urgency of response.
552.
by Schwolop 14y ago
Actually, I always thought it was good of Blizzard to have as one of the in-game tips "Invite your friends to Azeroth, but make sure to spend time with them in the real world too!" The cynic would retort that they said this and then did
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by Schwolop 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3800926 I'm doing customer discovery/development at the moment before going too far into the actual prototyping. My current business model has changed a bit so the first product might end up being aimed
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Yes, but I think you'll agree that getting them over the air is better . However, this would be adequate, just not as good.
555.
by Schwolop 14y ago
Not without a pan/tilt mirror or reducing the available resolution.
556.
by Schwolop 14y ago
As a budding robot maker, I'd much rather they build a focus-less laser projector that's higher power and daylight visible. I don't give a rat's arse about handheld projection, but projectors on mobile robots are the future, and changing th
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I'd agree with this if it wasn't for wanting my contacts synchronised. That's enough of a reason to have a data plan on the phone for me. (I guess if someone did bite off this market, they could find a way around that.)
558.
by Schwolop 14y ago
It's a laser projector. The beams are non-divergent so it's "focus-less".
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Google open sources 'Ceres', a non-linear least squares solver(google-opensource.blogspot.com.au)
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by Schwolop 15y ago
I haven't yet read the white paper (but will do so), however I question why this needed to be a new operating system rather than just software to run on an existing computer or even in the cloud? Is there anything here that can't be handled
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Phil says the only valid reason to do a startup is to "change the world." Phew. I'm doing it for the right reasons after all.
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by Schwolop 15y ago
To illustrate with arbitrary numbers, if HFT’s currently focus on 50% strategy (i.e., price competition and liquidity improvements) and 50% latency, a more optimal scenario would be 50% fewer HFT’s focusing 100% of their efforts on str
563.
by Schwolop 15y ago
Make sure you keep the emphasis on "may" - I think it's important to note that this is not a hard and fast rule, it's just a theory.
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Yep, I get your point too. But I feel that we can't pressure people into altruism so if they aren't going to give anyway, then it doesn't matter whether they fail to do so in one lump sum or fail to do so continuously.
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Thanks, this is very interesting.
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by Schwolop 15y ago
To an extent this was my point too - if a decent number of people do this, then the few who get mega-rich and become philanthropic will make up for the many who fail to get mega-rich, and also the few who get mega-rich but don't become ph
567.
by Schwolop 15y ago
Yeah, it was intentional. I noticed a while ago that I almost always used masculine pronouns when the gender was really irrelevant so I've been forcing myself to switch it up a bit. I think I first noticed after reading a comment on an arti
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by Schwolop 15y ago
I'm a fan of taking the simplest, reasonable route to wealth, then investing in something of greater importance, something that critics would agree improves humanity. I agree with this, and have been talking to people about it under
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by Schwolop 15y ago
This comment is gold. Are you sure you don't want to move to Sydney and build robots with me?
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by Schwolop 15y ago
Is this only true for US visitors? It still doesn't work for me.

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