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by gauravjain13 7y ago
Essentially, construct a straw man (modern smart watches with oh-so-many-functions), and then attack it revealing the beautiful simplicity of a device that just tells the time. Why not take it all the way back to sundials? Why even add burd
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by gauravjain13 7y ago
This is an entitled view. Pursuing a PhD is a choice; privilege even. How we value (or should value) pushing the frontiers of knowledge is a separate debate. Ideally, nothing should be detrimental to your health.
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by gauravjain13 8y ago
Source? And why would they decelerate? Extrapolating from your last sentence – fatigue? Would be interesting to compare acceleration at 80m in a 100m sprint vs. a 200m sprint.
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by gauravjain13 8y ago
The wiggles are interesting. But they also open up a can of worms - how precise is the measuring instrument, and which part of Bolt is it measuring? His feet, knees, torso, forehead? In engineering parlance, what’s the metrology design? Thi
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by gauravjain13 8y ago
Byte, you mean?
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by gauravjain13 8y ago
This makes sense to me. I think the word "robot" has some historical/cultural connotations that lead us down this rabbit hole of defining what a robot is. Rosie from the Jetson’s? R2D2? FANUC industrial robots? It’s tempting
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by gauravjain13 8y ago
Isn’t it very hard to build _any_ profitable company? Or are robot companies appreciably/an order of magnitude harder to make profitable?
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by gauravjain13 8y ago
I don’t even read articles posted on HN anymore; just the comments. That’s where the action is.