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by Torkel 7y ago
Interesting, frogs boiling etc, but... What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new?
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by Torkel 7y ago
Pre not post (”Production Status: Pre-production”)
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by Torkel 8y ago
I have a similar memory! I read about the problem in the book and worked on it for days, trying to solve it. I was in junior high at the time, and my math teacher spotted what I was doing. The teacher figured out quite quickly that it was i
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by Torkel 8y ago
Main work seems to be two years old from the github time stamps? The generation of images using GANs has improved a lot since then. It would be interesting to see what the latest and greatest methods can do given this data set.
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by Torkel 8y ago
Wonderful story :) From date in mail list ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407 ) seems like [2014] should be appended.
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by Torkel 8y ago
Given strength and size and other properties that carbon nanotube ropes would need have... Wouldn't a carbon nanotube shoelace be like the worst idea ever? ...strong as a steel cable, but so thin as to be hard to see and handle. And br
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by Torkel 8y ago
Yes! :D Oh, ten at night, time to scream out the window!
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by Torkel 8y ago
When I lived in a dorm in Uppsala there was a girl there, an exchange student from China, and she purchased surströmming for cooking, thinking it was regular fish. So she opens up the can and, boom, smell. Still thinking it is fish (”Sweden
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by Torkel 9y ago
nit: an abstract should describe the obtained result
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by Torkel 9y ago
Here's some additional information on Edeva's first export order: https://www.highways.today/2017/09/08/dynamic-speed-bumps-cr... David saw a surge in web-traffic and traced it back to this HN threa
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by Torkel 9y ago
Speaking to a founder to a competing company ( https://www.edeva.se/en/ ) I found out that there has been many attempts at solving the problems of speed bumps: - Everybody gets bumped, not only high speed vehicles - Emer
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by Torkel 10y ago
iPhone was released 10 years ago. We have insanely more capable screens, cpu:s, gpu:s, sensors. Find what's next and you will make a dent in the universe.
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by Torkel 10y ago
Link to full paper via sci-hub: http://twin.sci-hub.cc/ac1a63745360991b7b9a42390ab3faa8/krig... (Sorry if this is a dupe and hope this link is persistent, I scanned the thread and saw some people lacking access and did
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by Torkel 10y ago
Yet another really impressive deep-learning result. From scanning the paper, the data-sets seems to be rather limited though (that's why the sentences are so contrived), so hard to use in real life situations at this stage. To me this
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by Torkel 10y ago
This is an interesting topic - I've read some good articles on it. It turns out that lithium ion batteries contains only quite little lithium. 1-2% of the weight _and_ value of the battery only. And there are multiple alternative sourc
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by Torkel 10y ago
I guess that's the reasoning... But factor in cheaper EV cost of driving, and posit: taxis, delivery vehicles - changes fast to cheapest (EV) Private and corporate leases - 2-3 years between replacements. Will move to cheapest option (
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by Torkel 10y ago
I find it strange that articles such as this one states these two things at the same time: 1. Battery cost is falling and EVs will be as affordable as their gasoline counterparts in six years 2. It will take until 2030-2040 until the demand
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by Torkel 10y ago
It's the magnets too - the NIB rare earth magnets enable permanent magnet motors that are much more efficient than before. I wish someone would make some linear ones...
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by Torkel 10y ago
Yes. From what I heard when working at Saab (which makes sytems like this), it is a very... memorable... experience sitting in the second seat of a fighter aircraft when the pilot demonstrates this capability.
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by Torkel 10y ago
There are a few different things going on with a shaking camera that makes the video bad: A: Movement between frames B: Slow intra-frame movement C: Fast intra-frame movement As I'm reading this announcement they have a nice solution f
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by Torkel 10y ago
There is a good episode of the podcast 'Econtalk' on this subject. My take-away from listening to that is that supply and demand and setting the price according to the supply would solve most of the world's water problem. Exc
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by Torkel 10y ago
When I read this article and also when I see quadcopter endurance tests (just over two hours) I come to the same conclusion as you do. Electric jets aren't happening. So it is so strange and fascinating that Elon Must seems to think th
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by Torkel 10y ago
Yeah, I know it's hard to see the slides, and I haven't put them up online, sorry... The plan was to split the hdmi signal and put slides etc on a virtual screen in the 360 video. ...but the hdmi splitter didn't work. It turn
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by Torkel 10y ago
Interesting and fun to read about experiments like these! Seems very well funded. As I read it the conclusion is that by combining multiple cameras (and possible dedicated depth cameras) a depth map / 3D model can be created, and that
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by Torkel 10y ago
I agree - SpaceX is incredible! They capture the imagination and hopes of our time. They stand for making our dreams come true. I used to watch the live-blogs and then livestreams of Steve Jobs when he delivered his keynotes. It felt like s
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by Torkel 11y ago
3D on the forward view - not really needed elsewhere!
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by Torkel 11y ago
Thanks :) On the robot we're using RTP and usually stream the individual cameras separately at about 4Mb each (1440x1080). That is a bitrate where we see little improvement in image quality from going higher. We can go lower, 1-2Mb&#x2
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by Torkel 11y ago
The VR system actually gives a wider field of view than what a person in a cabin can see, so the situational awareness is improved. But it's also an ideal first application - forestry cranes usually operate where there are no people ar
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by Torkel 11y ago
Super excited about this finally being revealed - my small startup Voysys makes the OdenVR Render Engine that powers this product :) I think there are so many telepresence and remote-operation use cases for VR. It's not yet widely know
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HiVision: Crane Operation with Virtual Reality Goggles(hiab.com)
20 points by Torkel 11y ago|11 comments

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