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by dbcurtis 6y ago
that is a sign of a crap conductor. Soloist leads.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Absolutely! Before the holiday shutdown, I Slacked myself a huge reminder list of things to jump on as soon as we started up again, so that I could hit the ground running in the new year. Oh, wait....
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Are humans better adapted to cold? Well, modern humans are descended from the few that survived the ice age, so I think there may be something to that. But as a former Minnesotan.... I can say there is plenty to complain about with respect
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
A trajectory is a series of time-stamped poses, specified in world coordinates. As to where they come from, yes you need tooling to keep from going crazy. At Anki, they used animation industry tools, so I am told. The solver handles the bal
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Now that I think about it, all the robots have synchronized trajectories. There has to be some kind of time sync among the robots also.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
They would have specified target trajectories. Then a solver tries to make that happen.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Exactly right. SOTA is to continuously solve a trajectory optimization problem in realtime. Probably at a rate of a fews 10’s of milliseconds per solution.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
It shows that they can fuse IMU and other sensor data and feed it to a trajectory-optimization system and get actuation torques meeting realtime contraints sufficiently quickly to not fall over. Bonus points for smooth motion. Check out MIT
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
yes. the printers had 132 columns. you sent a buffer of 133 chars, the first being carriage control. blank was line feed, i forget what was page-eject/form-feed (1?? memory fuzzy). + was overprint. As a student, I had a part-time job a
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Doesn’t the LLVM API go through breaking changes fairly often? How do you track all that and keep your sanity?
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
IMO as a practical matter the way to manage this is to have an a active pipeline and manage your callendar to pull the B-grade opportunities earlier and push out the A-grade opportunities. Telling a recruiter “I am actively talking to a cou
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
One way to think of it is to split the "compiler" problem into three big pieces. 1) Front-end, 2) back-end, 3) tooling. Front end is lexing, parsing, building the AST (in whole or just keeping pieces of it around), semantic analys
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Exactly. It's the feudal system implemented with different accounting methods. Landowners are turned into sharecroppers working for the government.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Not so much. Insurers don't insure land. The insure property built on land, crops grown on land, and they insure against various kinds of liability. None of my dirt is insured.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
It’s a matter of practice. My kid takes lecture notes live using LaTeX. Of course that reflects a ton of practice on PSets and papers over the years.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Drug use amd drug-related crime also increased during the 60’s. That is a confounding factor in the crime argument.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
I have been using that analogy to explain why Tesla is many years away from a self driving car. Several others are building something that is fundamentally different.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> Plus if you’re awake you can actually watch the scope going, it’s cool! Not painful at all. For sure! My first colonoscopy I was sedated and enjoyed watching the screen. In fact, I remember I was making HILARIOUS jokes the entire time.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> By design this driver may be looking down frequently at their controls Actually not, for hand controls. No more than you look at the pedals. It goes into muscle memory just as much. I have been a passenger with two different hand-contr
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
I mainly follow civil rights cases.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Unfortunately that does not protect us from the 9th circus. For cases that I follow, just going by whether they were appointed by an R or a D president is 97% accurate at predicting how a judge will vote. If I can predict their vote without
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Please take an economics course at the earliest opportunity. Rental housing is a business. If the marginal return to capital of providing rental housing goes up relative to other investments, then more capital will be invested in providing
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Beat me to it. I was just going to post that link. Worth noting, Jim recently was given a technical service award by the ARRL for his work. http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-technical-service-award-confer...
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
that is an understatement. AX.25 is a guaranteed-delivery packet-forwarding protocol with indeterminate latency. For audio streaming you need a low, predictable latency and accept drop-out to achieve that.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> Indians have a culture of going the extra mile at work. No more or less than any other group. I’ve seen, and promoted, hard working Indians. I had to fire an Indian that thought his freshly minted MS degree made him too good for any a
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
This seems like a great credit card benefit. CC's offer all sorts of "cash back", "insured against loss/damage", "miles", and other things to attract customers. How about a "no hassle cancellat
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
I can’t speak to GA functions, but GA antenna synthesis has been very successful. Probably because the number of decision variables can be tightly constrained.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
What does that even mean? It has an integer add instruction, surely, and integer add can overflow. Do you mean you get no exception? or no status flag to check?
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
An old office mate had been a systems programmer back in the days of mainframes. He once put a local-site patch into the mainframe boot code where the question about wiping and restoring the on-line storage required operators to type in, c
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
wat? so if you are out of cell phone coverage the ap won’t start? ?

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