dbcurtis

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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I really do love the idea. But in addition to the moderation risks others have mentioned, are you prepared to issue tax documents to every jurisdiction where you might be rendering payments?
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
How short is short? How fast is your OODA loop? L3 plays into known human factor weaknesses.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I have verrrry limited connectivity RN so can’t watch video. If they really do give 10 seconds, then does the system remain engaged for the “dog/kid darting out between parked cars” scenario? And engage a collision avoidance trajectory
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Yeah, well, the rock that breaks your pick in that scenario is copying all the processor state back and forth to/from the emulation model, including flag register bits, and also correctly handling exceptions and faults. Emulating the i
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
L3 is profoundly unwise. L3 can disengage at any moment. The attention required of the human in order to drive safely exceeds that required in L2, and is much more difficult to maintain.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Yes, Uber, operating in Level 3, and safety driver was watching a movie on phone at the time. Very different circumstances. I don’t think this was a classifier defect. Not that I was ever a fan of Uber’s development program, but in this cas
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
> Is a ball coming from behind a car in a school-zone likely to be chased by a child. Yeah, that kind of agent prediction is a biggie. Agent prediction is something journalists don't talk about much, but is a huge research topic fo
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
> humans can learn to drive in a matter of hours with only two vision sensors You use way more than two vision sensors in your head. But first, lets talk about those vision sensors. They are mounted on an articulated scanning platform
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Not to mention that it might also involve moving away from what little support system that you do have, the cousin that provides child care while you work your second shift janitor job, for instance.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
> Many homeless people do have mental illnesses and/or drug addiction problems (for some, this is the result of their homelessness, for others it's in part the cause). California is very much against involuntarily putting peopl
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Shorting into an irrational bull run is a great way to learn an expensive lesson on the difference in power between logic and emotion.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
I certainly haven’t discovered any virtues in poison oak.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
checks corp github today’s weather: 1.7k open pr’s. Likely 1000’s of topics, I’ve never counted. I am not interested in moving to a single app in a single language at the moment.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
A single multi-threaded app is a toy-sized robot, not a product with a large dev team behind it. The single-app approach doesn’t scale up very well.
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Pub/Sub is a very natural fit for robotics. Companies do write ROS out of their production stacks when they get the resources. But they don’t replace pub/sub architecture. ROS provides a plug-in backplane that allows you to innova
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
Yes, exactly. I just turned 66, and have a technical lead role at an autonomous vehicle company. The technologies and languages that I use on a daily basis did not exist when I was an undergrad. Keeping up is essential if you want to re
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by dbcurtis 3y ago
RG-213 vs something like RG-400 is a big weight difference. Admittedly, also a big price difference. After 50 years of putting on traditional soldered connectors, I finally bought the DXEngineering crimpers and those are great. Mind you, ev
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
But… does it? :) Why would you assume there is only on logic flow :) Testers must be evil-minded white-hats.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
What? No. Please tell me this is not how you test your own code — only cases for “happy path”, ignore exceptions, no corner case coverage. Line coverage goals of 10% or so. Waymo has a lot of miles in quiet suburbs with broad streets and li
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
That’s one definition. I like “study what you want but you must study something.”. I have also seen what I call “raised by wolves” labeled as unschooling. We homeschooled, but it was somewhere between “school at home” and unschooling. It wa
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
No. We homeschooled, and kid went to gymnastics, violin group lessons and orchestra, homeschoolers park day, homeschool coop classes... Sure, you can lock your kid in a box. Most don’t.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
I think the "lab space" requirement is going to drive a lot of the WFH-or-not office space planning among employers that don't fall into the "come in for no reason other than I said so" category. In my case, I work
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
This, pretty much. Ferrous metal fragments knifing through your body. Suboptimal.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Yeah… just don’t get an MRI
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
I used to write software that used the third-party interface into elevator controllers. I am still unclear what “Korean lunch mode 1” and “Korean lunch mode 2” in Otis controllers do.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Looks like you can. I clicked one of the “special populations” links and the content is behind a subscription sign-up. Also site seems to be getting creaky - we may be pounding the server a little hard.
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
You very succinctly put what creativity researchers (yes, that’s a thing) have been saying for decades. 1. Immersion in the problem. Work diligently. 2. Relax 3. Insight
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Didn’t do much for me. But I am an atypical listener — most of my playlists are different recordings of the same jazz standard by different artists or just same artist different era. Probe 1: Birdland. First hit was the canonical Weather Re
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
Good setup and playability are huge. I got my kid a "beach and camping fiddle" -- this is not the instrument you use at recitals, this is the instrument you take for playing tunes around the campfire and isn't going to be ma
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by dbcurtis 4y ago
> One is that instruments are actually designed to sound different from one another, and it's up to the player to decide what they want. So true > And there's no practical way for an individual musician to conduct a blind te

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