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by Schwolop 11y ago
For context - I'm building autonomous Escape Rooms that react to the player's actions. We currently have several long tracks that fit various sections of the games, and we switch between them at story junctures, by playing loud so
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by Schwolop 11y ago
On a tangentially related note, I'm having the same trouble with the phrase "escape room" - I'm building a game that I want people to experience, not escape from!
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Ah yes - the ol' "facing west near sunset" bug... I lost a few nights sleep to that one. :-)
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Bottom video on this page is my favourite example of this - one 800kg autonomous vehicle carefully avoiding stepping on the grass... http://www.drtomallen.com/publications--videos.html
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by Schwolop 11y ago
I spent six-months pair programming with their CTO (prior to meanpath existing) and learnt more software engineering than my previous courses and career combined. They're not kidding about the Haskell either... :-)
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by Schwolop 11y ago
"Normally, component A completes then sends a message to B, who blocks while a file operation occurs, and then sends a confirmation to C which updates the UI. When configuration option D is enabled, B must make the write twice because
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by Schwolop 11y ago
If you wait a few more years for the industry to develop its narrative legs, I think you'll really enjoy playing Escape Room Games (ERGs). Very few have any semblance of story at this point, but it's absolutely a topic of discussi
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, we can now present conclusive evidence that the internet has officially achieved peak-hubris.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
It was an odd anecdote. You should set it on fire then quickly blow it out and wolf it down. Done is better than perfect.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
When I worked at Bigcommerce that's about the size and space we had too, so subconsciously Mitch has probably just picked a stock image that meshes with his idea of what works.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Well said. Thanks!
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by Schwolop 11y ago
At the risk of derailing the post, I have a relevant question for the Hacker News hivemind: how would someone like me get this job? (i.e. Andy Rubin's former position) I've got a Ph.D. in autonomous robotics from the best place in
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by Schwolop 11y ago
I had assumed they'd all failed, but don't remember seeing any discussion of it from sama. Was there ever a public post (other than this playbook) that announced the failure of that experiment, and any take-aways beyond the obviou
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by Schwolop 11y ago
You sound extraordinarily like me. I work in the same field, am writing a SAD for a client right now, and have been thinking of breaking off from my employer to promote myself as that guy you get in for concept development phase and establi
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Found you on linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/veltronix , but www.veltronix.com.au doesn't resolve for me. Is that expected, or has something gone wrong?
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The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2007)(mattmahoney.net)
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by Schwolop 11y ago
FWIW I've had this same question in an interview years ago in Australia. Don't recall seeing the second part (which is more interesting, mathematically), but it just goes to show how many questions end up re-used by different comp
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right...
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by Schwolop 11y ago
At one point in time[1], I hired a helicopter to act as a surrogate remote sensor doing data fusion with a ground robot. I flew as a passenger and told the pilot where to fly based on the ground robot's need for data. Since we had to p
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by Schwolop 11y ago
As I keep chiming in whenever YC and location come up - please seriously consider Australia's East Coast. Like the valley, there is a big supply of world class universities and their graduates, and there's also great weather and q
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Sure - but the OP said they had a top-of-the-line espresso machine, so I took that as a given. Similarly, fresh beans are vital, but the OP said he/she had just bought them.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
I've worked/studied in four engineering firms, with academics and engineers who understand trade-offs and know the meaning of the word "satisficing". Independently, six of us ended up buying the same Breville espresso ma
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Grind, pressure, volume. Keep two of those constant and you can tune the third. It's really not as hard as coffee snobs pretend it is.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Right, so now we need to look for people who've recently deleted posts, and recently followed you, and ... :-)
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by Schwolop 11y ago
As far as I was aware, in none of the 12 accidents Google's autonomous vehicles have been involved in has the autonomous system been in control. They've all been manually operated at the time of collision. Do you have any other in
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A barcode scanner that builds your e-commerce store for you(pointy.com)
1 points by Schwolop 11y ago|1 comments
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by Schwolop 11y ago
This article is way more important than the web crawler example used to motivate it. It's easily the single best thing I've ever read on asyncio, and I've been using it in anger for a year now. I've passed it around my t
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by Schwolop 11y ago
The best part of this article is the two comments at the end. The first is by the person who posted the Reddit question that prompted the entire rant, describing how asking them question made them rethink everything, and how they ultimately
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by Schwolop 11y ago
I've been using this sheet once or twice a year for over a decade now, as it does one simple job really well - it takes expenses and income with differing frequencies, and converts them all to the same monthly rate so they're more
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Show HN: Where does our money go?(docs.google.com)
1 points by Schwolop 11y ago|1 comments

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