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by dbcurtis 6y ago
It strikes me that by reserving “grana” for branch of a tree, and “branch” for source code branch, you have created a more precise language than English for these concepts.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
At least in robotics a lot of good current research is being published in German.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Do you know how to study? No, I mean really? Was high school easy? CS won't be. Your math classes will force you to think in a new way, unless you had a very proof-oriented math education, which is exceedingly rare in the US. A sign
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Indeed. Or other sports applications. I have a friend that is an elite-level track coach. She has an iPad app that helps analyze running form from video. This tech could be used to improve apps like that. My own little pet thought exper
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> You seem to point out the restrictive license (for non-commercial research purposes only) as if it's a negative, Two word statement of fact: "Restrictive license." From those two words, you create a straw man. I have sa
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Restrictive license. The have a nice comparison to T-HMR, but I did not see a comparison to OpenPose. If that exists somewhere, please give me a pointer. [edit] OK, so I read a little further. Answered my own questions a bit, so here is wh
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Well, there are two supply chain disruptions in play. One, restaurant demand is switching over to consumer demand, and the packaging and distribution is very different -- you don't buy 50lb sacks of pancake mix, half a pallet at a time
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Yes, I think the lack of prep problem is underrated. As a freelancer, I almost don't notice lock-down other than the cabin fever effects, because my home office is well-established. But, wow, that would have been different if I had be
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
That is an overly simplistic analysis. The American colonies had strategic resources and positioning available to fight. Poland at the time did not. Examine Hong Kong’s strategic resources at the moment and tell us how you would deploy them
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Fair enough. 6.832 is an advanced course. Building simple kits is always a good way to get going. You learn by seeing how someone else solved the problem, and add that to your bag of tricks. The Pololu Romi chassis is not a terrible plac
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Simulation has its benefits. My advice to all newbies at the robot club is: "Your first robot should be low enough mass that a missing semi-colon does not punch a hole in your living room wall."
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
If you want to try this at home, check out MIT 6.832 Underactuated Robotics, taught by Russ Tedrake. Lectures available on Youtube. Sumulating systems similar to the acrobat robot are homeworks. I think all tbe tools are available open sou
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Use Quart in place of Flask
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
But doctrine of first sale does not extend to you fraudulently masquerading as the first-party seller.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> >Is the DoD not subject to FCC regulation? > That is complex, but most likely no. Like the FAA they largely respect the civilian agencies but ultimately they exist outside of that civilian regulation Indeed, the DOD can do pretty
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
We are pretty far away. Perception-based manipulation is a very active area of research. It will help a lot of underfed grad students get their PhD's over the next decade.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
David MacKay did some good stuff, and source code is available: http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/CodesFiles.html I find MacKay's explanations very clear. Sadly, he passed away far too young.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
> The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning ... I never fail to suppress a chuckle when I read
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Concur. That is a good read.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
You have my sympathy. Two things are working against you: 1. You are being asked to do something you did not sign up for, and 2. You were blind-sided and did not have time to prepare. We home schooled our child from the time we noticed pr
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
I have not looked at it in many years, but Intel's VTune tool was designed to help coders analyze and hand-tune code.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Hello from Kendallville.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
I grew up just a short distance north of Spillville, Iowa. Even in those days, the town was very Czech. In Dvorak's time, it was as Czech as San Francisco's China Town was Chinese. In Dvorak's day, the brewer delivered a bu
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Are you saying that qbe does not generate any debug information, or just not DWARF format?
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
> and the only drivers were for IBM printers. It's all about the drivers. No OS will get seats without drivers. People always say that no OS will get seats without applications, which is also true. But because people see that p
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
It has to do with how to hit a consumer price point with a receiver for a complex modulation scheme using only a couple dozen active devices and cheap-to-manufacture filters. Original NTSC monochrome television is a 6 MHz wide channel, the
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
It is a great movie, but it is intentionally shot to evoke feelings of claustrophobia -- it may be great art, but I would not recommend it to a true claustrophobe.
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Oh yeah. Quite some years ago my wife and I went on a tour through a WW II era submarine. Luckily for us, the docent leading the tour had served on an identical subs in the Pacific theater. Anyway, about 1/2 way through the tour, my
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
Well, I can guess at a few reasons. 1. As mentioned elsewhere, the radio signal path loss through salt water is astoundingly high -- I did the math once. 2. WW II era radio technology was bulky, and did not work well on batteries -- vacuum
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by dbcurtis 7y ago
That's a good idea. I suspect you are a little early, I don't think the forced selling is happening too much yet, but it is good to be watching the trends so that you are first in line when that day comes.

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