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by cbames89 8y ago
A lot of Robonaut's actuator technology ended up in Baxter. Now Rethink's dead, but it did start the whole cobots sector. In many respects the cobots from UR are closer to the model T then 60s era robotics. 60s era robotics is mor
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by cbames89 8y ago
Grep Beat is a local newsgroup that's keeping track of startups. I looked on Glassdoor not too long ago for AI/ML and there were probably 20-30 postings.
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by cbames89 8y ago
Some Boston University researchers have taken a recent look at structural racism across the US, and while that's not everything, it's at least a portion. They actually found that NC is one of the lesser structurally racist states.
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by cbames89 8y ago
I'd highly recommend the triangle area in North Carolina. In Raleigh, there are a large number of tech companies, RHE, Cisco, IBM, Unreal Engine, just to name a few. It has the second highest % of computer science PhDs, and it's h
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by cbames89 8y ago
As a separate point, I've heard some complain that access to talent is more difficult for tech companies than access to capital. Raleigh-Durham has the second highest number of CS PhDs(1) (1) https://www.citylab.com/life
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by cbames89 8y ago
Aren't large impressive numbers exactly what we expect at the peak?
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by cbames89 8y ago
I'll second deep work by Cal Newport. I didn't realize just how distracted I was until attempting his methods.
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by cbames89 8y ago
Woah, guess I lost track..
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by cbames89 8y ago
NASA's Valkyrie, and Robonaut 2, in addition Fetch, and Baxter,a couple of industrial arms via ROS-i. I know that it's pretty horrid, but it's also the devil I know. This allows for rapid prototyping. In addition, the API has
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by cbames89 8y ago
a process which favors looking good to the general public when there is no consequence of fudging the numbers.
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by cbames89 8y ago
Can anyone point me to article, or provide an argument, as to why we should trust these self-reported numbers?
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by cbames89 8y ago
Can someone eli5 the lindelof hypothesis?
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by cbames89 8y ago
It's a way to take interventions, for example what would happen if we can cigarettes, and model it with observational data. The do-calculus is just a couple of rules which say when we can do this. It essentially boils down to a couple
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by cbames89 8y ago
Shouldn't it be a quintapus?
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by cbames89 9y ago
Is there a precedent in any field? Large, complex projects seem to inherently require delays due to the discovery of new facets of the project.
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by cbames89 9y ago
Totally off topic: I haven't lived in Texas for years but still dream of Nobi's Bahn Mi.
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by cbames89 9y ago
There is atleast one animal that uses gears as part of their locomotion: http://www.npr.org/2013/09/13/219739500/living-gears-help-th...
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by cbames89 9y ago
They make the claim that Americans get ripped off more than other countries, but I didn't see any evidence suggesting it.
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by cbames89 9y ago
One way to label is by expectation. If the outcome is what you expected, then it gets one label. If it didn't it gets another label. Deepmind has had some success with this approach.
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by cbames89 9y ago
The hundreds of thousands of researchers number, is that just a guess? If it isn't I'd love to see the source.
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by cbames89 9y ago
Does anyone else find it telling that at the same time Musk called for regulation, Steve the security robot is raging across the internet? http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/18/537905142
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by cbames89 9y ago
Why is super-human general AI inevitable? Do you have references for this 2040 date? I'd love to see who's making this prediction.
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Probabilistic 3D Shape Representation for Robots(today.duke.edu)
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by cbames89 9y ago
Sorry for the delay. Here's some early work from Pieter Abbeel where a helicopter does aerobatic manuevers better than the demonstrations it received: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=EAE...
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by cbames89 9y ago
I'll make a plug for software I wrote based on sequential quadratic programming. It performs significantly better than inverse Jacobian methods in the presence of high-dof and joint limits. Here's a link to the software and paper:
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by cbames89 9y ago
"Training it to mimic humans means it will always be worse than humans." This is not necessarily true, there is work in learning from demonstration where robots have exceed the "experts" reward. I'll post some paper
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by cbames89 9y ago
As part of my graduate work with George Konidaris we've been exploring the creation of symbols and operators with ML. The goal being symbolic planning for continuous systems, however I see similarities in our approach, and the goals of
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by cbames89 9y ago
I interpreted flow as something that happens, and that you can make a good environment for it to happen , but can't force. However, recently I've found as you've found that I can force it to occur in certain circumstances. Ma
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by cbames89 9y ago
The black hole is a nice way to cover the limits of the Sim
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by cbames89 10y ago
I've been on Dvorak for ~ 3 years now. I kept a small log of typing tests for QWERTY and then for my dvorak adventure. Once performing the complete switch (which took about a month) there was no difference in typing errors or wpm ( I d

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