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by edshiro 9y ago
Really surprised this ended so quickly. Did Waymo and Uber reach a settlement that early because: - the former felt this was the "best" it could get in such a situation as their case was not as strong as they initially thought - t
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by edshiro 9y ago
$75M... for what??! Call me sceptic but I just don't understand how they can raise that kind of money. There is just nothing special about Asana. Is it purely fuelled by amazing growth? And What is the exit strategy here? An acquisiti
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by edshiro 9y ago
This kind of news is the reason why people should seriously consider buying a hardware crypto wallet if they plan to put significant sums at risk. I've started trading in this space with a modest amount, but as I plan to increase some
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by edshiro 9y ago
Yes good point. Pre-loading the full distance matrix is the right thing to do here. That's what we were doing at a startup as I was at a few years ago. GraphHopper is quite expandable so it is nice to work with once you understand how
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by edshiro 9y ago
I presume to handle the roads you just have to change the distance function to use an API like Google Maps, TomTom, GraphHopper. This would significantly impact performance though.
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China Has Banned Hip-Hop Culture and Tattoos from TV Shows(time.com)
3 points by edshiro 9y ago|0 comments
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by edshiro 9y ago
Very interesting! I recently finished reading the paper on Mask R-CNN and find it's a very neat addition to the R-CNN family. What are some of the issues that you encountered with the implementation of Mask R-CNN or the training phase
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Ex-Soccer Star George Weah to Become Liberia President(theguardian.com)
3 points by edshiro 9y ago|0 comments
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by edshiro 9y ago
I am building a B2B platform for logistics and taxi companies to store dash cam footage and easily retrieve and annotate them (for accidents, training, etc.). We already have one interested customer, so trying to finish the MVP by January!
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by edshiro 9y ago
I also identify with the author. Tried the startup game on two occasions and got burned 2 times (one as senior engineer the other as CTO) - somehow both companies managed to sell but not at a price that made my shares worth it. I then swore
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Paris threatens to sue Airbnb over illegal apartment rentals(qz.com)
2 points by edshiro 9y ago|0 comments
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by edshiro 9y ago
I am learning Python right now and want to build a website using this programming language. Django and Flask seem to be the best frameworks for this purpose. I understand that Django has steeper learning curve and comes with "everythin
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by edshiro 9y ago
Great stuff! I was working on a project where we needed a database of all airports around the world. I used http://ourairports.com/data/ IIRC. Out of curiosity, what's different in your project? Also, would be goo
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Waymo’s autonomous cars have driven 4M miles(techcrunch.com)
1 points by edshiro 9y ago|0 comments
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by edshiro 9y ago
Author here! First many thanks for upvoting my post. I only recently started delving into how object detection using deep learning worked and was overwhelmed by the amount of prior information (including knowledge about past papers and deep
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by edshiro 9y ago
The original YOLO is faster (especially the "Fast YOLO" variant), but is a lot less accurate in its detections: Fast YOLO has 52.7 mean Average Precision @155 FPS vs SSD-300 with 74.3 mAP @59 FPS. But the new YOLO9000[1] architect
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An intuitive explanation of the SSD MultiBox object detection technique(towardsdatascience.com)
33 points by edshiro 9y ago|4 comments
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Low entry barrier is destroying deep learning reputation(reddit.com)
5 points by edshiro 9y ago|0 comments
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by edshiro 9y ago
There are quite a few papers that discuss the application R-CNN (Region-based Convolutional Neural Network) for object detection and classification [1-3]. On websites such as Medium, you can find lots of blog posts on object detection usin
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by edshiro 9y ago
They've historically played it very safe so it feels like a bold announcement coming from them. We don't know whether they have more advanced tech; there is too much opacity in this space. The best proxy we may have are the Califo
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by edshiro 9y ago
If Waymo's tech is years ahead of the competition (say 18-24 months ahead minimum) then I think a lot of the self-driving companies and car manufacturers in the US will be having cold sweats. This may not be a winner-take-all market (I
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Waymo is finally taking the driver out of some of its driverless cars(recode.net)
1 points by edshiro 9y ago|0 comments
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by edshiro 9y ago
I am thinking of getting Cozmo. What's your review on it? I'd also be interested in knowing how much we can tweak Cozmo (e.g. can we implement new features using computer vision, does it have its own programming language, etc,)
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by edshiro 9y ago
Good work! I did this project as well about a week ago. I will shamelessly also share my writings on this project: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/teaching-cars-to-see... . The HOG + SVM method is quite slow an
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by edshiro 9y ago
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems - basically things like Lane Departure, etc. Sorry should have clarified this point; more info on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_driver-assistance_sys...
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by edshiro 9y ago
Thanks for your insights. I also believe that we are much further on the L4/L5 front than what most automakers proclaim. I was quite "disappointed" with the $400M acquisition price tag when companies like Cruise sold for $1
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Delphi buys self-driving car startup Nutonomy for $400M(techcrunch.com)
78 points by edshiro 9y ago|44 comments
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by edshiro 9y ago
I wonder what is Alphabet's intent behind this massive investment? Are they planning to use Lyft as a ridesharing platform for their autononous vehicles, since Lyft already has a sizeable market share in the US? For Alphabet, Lyft woul
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Simulate iPhone X's bump on your Android screen, no 999$ needed(github.com)
1 points by edshiro 9y ago|0 comments
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by edshiro 9y ago
Money can't buy human decency, but it can help you get Ferraris and penthouses. My question is thus: was he raised this way or did he become this horrible person once he struck it rich?

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