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by Schwolop 9y ago
Sports. I should probably expand on that somewhat tongue in cheek answer. It's a pretty cynical response, but there's truth in it. Following and/or playing sports provides people with a tribe and a set of shared values and ca
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by Schwolop 9y ago
Ah, understood. Thanks for clarifying that, and apologies for misrepresenting the achievement!
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by Schwolop 9y ago
Sure, but he was the team leader. I was part of a team that built autonomous vehicles too, but the fact that there were others involved doesn't stop me writing "built an autonomous vehicle" on my CV.
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by Schwolop 9y ago
The physical object is in the Smithsonian [1]. There's footage of it falling over in 2005 [2][3]. Is that enough? :-P 1) http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah... 2) http:/&#x
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by Schwolop 9y ago
The guy built a self-driving motorcycle . I laughed at the first DARPA Grand Challenge when it travelled 30cm before falling over. I ate my words the next year when it made it most of the way. By comparison, after a year of learning to rid
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by Schwolop 9y ago
"The secrets to my coin flipping success? Easy - just keep standing."
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by Schwolop 10y ago
So this is evidently the wrong forum in which to ask, but what's it like interviewing in other fields? Do chemists have to perform a titration in front of the panel? Do surgeons have to demonstrate an anatomy lesson on a cadaver? Do br
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by Schwolop 10y ago
Only if the area changing is near the start of the search, not near the goal. (i.e. near the sensors of a mobile robot, rather than near the destination far from the robot). D* can be pathologically slower than repeated A* searches under su
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by Schwolop 10y ago
Pearl, J. (1984), Heuristics, Addison-Wesley. In this text, Pearl proves that for a given heuristic, A* will perform computations on fewer (or the same number of) nodes than any other graph algorithm using the same heuristic. The pre-comput
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by Schwolop 10y ago
Here's a thought web devs. You know how your website has a 'reset my password' flow? How about you just use that on its own, and not have passwords at all? I recall one website I visit does this, but I can't remember whi
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by Schwolop 10y ago
I'm going to respectfully disagree. Part of why I like HN is that meta-discussion of the "why did you downvote me?" and "downvoting because ..." are actively discouraged. Better to silently downvote and move on, whi
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Welcome. You are in the right place(blackmatterfoundation.com)
2 points by Schwolop 10y ago|0 comments
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Getting to gender parity without the awks(rea.tech)
2 points by Schwolop 10y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 10y ago
Actually I feel for the original engineers who loved being in a tiny company making high quality speakers and audio amplifiers, and now find themselves in a wholly world of massive investment and interest.
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by Schwolop 10y ago
Not quite as bad as relying on visual sensing while driving into the sunset as a white truck crosses in front of you...
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by Schwolop 10y ago
It is possible to hire a buyer's agent, but I don't know anyone who has. Everyone is on an equal footing, sellers just want to sell to the highest paying buyer. The most common way of selling is via public auction. Each weekend fo
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by Schwolop 10y ago
This whole system is so bizarre to me. In Australia, standard practice is that a seller pays ~2% to an agent to have them sell their house. They then pay a sales tax to the state government, that scales weirdly, but call it ~0.5 to 0.75%. B
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by Schwolop 10y ago
Once an analyst has manually reviewed something, a software system updates a row in a database to mark it as done. Our marketing team calls this machine learning, because the system "learns" not to give analysts the same work twic
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by Schwolop 10y ago
Totally tongue in cheek, but you're never too old to learn that you should have written "He couldn't care less about how we get there..."
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by Schwolop 10y ago
This is important. Prior to this point most of the chatter about basic income was in-group people talking to other in-group people. Elon is an in-group person who for a variety of reasons has a lot of out-group people listening to him. That
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by Schwolop 10y ago
This is awesome! I have that grinder, but haven't had this issue (yet...). My only issue is that the lowest grind setting isn't quite fine enough for some beans, but with your pictures I think I can actually see where to shove a t
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Deep learning to automatically activate the boss key(ahogrammer.com)
2 points by Schwolop 10y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 10y ago
I tried for a while putting in big letters "Please do not offer me jobs for less than $n" (with n about 80% of my salary at the time) on my LinkedIn profile, but it had absolute zero effect on recruiters. Presumably they don'
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by Schwolop 10y ago
This is bizarre and I couldn't tell if it was satire or not for the most part. FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore
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A Pseudoethnography of Egregores(ribbonfarm.com)
2 points by Schwolop 10y ago|1 comments
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by Schwolop 10y ago
I second this, but would also add that I've started motorcycling instead of driving. Even a commute on a motorbike is a thing of wonder, using parts of my brain and fight-or-flight responses I've left dormant for years. But to the
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by Schwolop 10y ago
How have you found ATPi as an incubator/mentors? For the HN audience, ATP-Innovations has one of the better track records as an incubator in Australia and works mostly with universities to commercialise research projects. This is one o
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by Schwolop 10y ago
In terms of physical connectors, I've always referred to this as polarisation. The connector is polarised so that it can only be inserted in one orientation, generally by use of a slot and key.
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by Schwolop 10y ago
Does anyone know if there's a name for this form of humour? (That is: forcing a split between two things, then describing the second one first in a manner that is ambiguous until the punchline confirms the order.)
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by Schwolop 10y ago
A tiny but memorable role, from a man who played a much bigger role behind the scenes. This is a fun interview.

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