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by jefft255 7y ago
It’s true, the reason for choosing C++ and Python as first class languages is because of their strength in numerical computing and AI capabilities (for python anyway), which erlang mostly lacks. It would definitely be cool to be able to use
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by jefft255 7y ago
I think he prefers neither open or closed.
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You talk about survival in the long term yet you talk about getting certifications for technologies that can become obsolete after 5 years (although AWS, specifically, will probably be around for a while). Also I’m almost positively certain
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by jefft255 7y ago
Honestly I don’t know; you’re out of my area here I’m really into perception/slam/planning. Greater power to weight ratio is always good. I never really cared about biomimetism for the sake of it. If the way to get better power to
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by jefft255 7y ago
While this is a real mobile robot, this does not really address my concerns: 1) It is not navigating in a open environment, rather a constrained workspace just like other manipulation demos. 2) They're not using any visual information
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by jefft255 7y ago
As a roboticist, it's really clear to me that this sort of transfer in controlled environment is hard but doable. I think it's already been demonstrated many times and I'm not that convinced that there is anything new in ther
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Java is a decent enough programming language and, even if that wasn't true, this guy is not responsible for the "cubicle hells" you talk about. I don't know what kind of reasoning you applied here.
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by jefft255 7y ago
I think your link is more of a flagrant example of sample bias than anything else. I like Visual studio code; but I'd be really curious what the real numbers are! My guess is that Visual Studio actually wins.
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by jefft255 7y ago
Good question, especially any kind of visual sensor
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by jefft255 7y ago
Makes me think about NASA’S idea to send a purely mechanical rover to Venus, because no computer ca resist the heat for any serious amount of time: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6933 I hope this takes
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by jefft255 7y ago
Exactly; I come from robotics which is highly experimental and it is very easy to design a robotics experiment where there will be no way to fit a description of the experiments plus the theory in three pages.
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by jefft255 7y ago
I find it funny that Nature is writing this as their journal require such short papers (usually three pages) that you basically can’t explain anything in real depth. Every AI paper that ends up in Nature, I have to go read something else to
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by jefft255 7y ago
Most papers written by Chinese in good conferences or journals are either written by someone with decent enough English or some university-hired translator (which is totally fine). Not everyone has the privilege of being born in a area whic
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From a quick glance, this and most software doing “constraint programming” deal with discrete problems. Not saying those are useless for mechanical modeling or 3D animation, but those areas typically deal with continuous constraints which r
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By that I mean majors city like Quebec and Montreal. Sure Montreal is expensive but nothing like Toronto.
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Sure but can you buy a nice two floor house for 250k CAD in the US? In most of Quebec you can.
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by jefft255 7y ago
That's terrible, in Quebec median salary is 60K CAD, topping out at 80K at most schools ( https://neuvoo.ca/salaire/?job=Enseignant%20Primaire ), which is plenty to afford a house (of course not if monoparental). I
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by jefft255 7y ago
What I don’t like about planting trees for carbon absorption is that is leads to really boring forests: in Canada they’ll plant mono species stands of white spruce, which typically absorb the most carbon. This is however not the best in ter
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by jefft255 7y ago
These resignation messages are really short (the one from FSF being the other)!! Not much context in there. I get that he said a lot of things which some think are so-so, some think are terrible. Maybe he decided he’s so bad at this he won’
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by jefft255 7y ago
Scientists are human and guidelines dictating acceptable behavior must exists and be enforced; just like any other field of work. A more open peer-review system would help this issue and expose abusers like this, but it's not clear (to
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by jefft255 7y ago
Waset now create conference with the same name as others, confusion people even more. These scam are extremely frustrating. I get spam from predatory conferences/journals everyday now.
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by jefft255 7y ago
They didn’t have a lot of money; 6.5M $ isn’t much to do robotics development. As someone else pointed out, consumer robotics is hard because shitty robots are still expensive for everyday users and are mostly useless toys.
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by jefft255 7y ago
I use rogaine daily, you apply it on your scalp and it’s a foam. You need to wash your hand well because you can get hairier on your hand. As for the rest of the body I am extremely hairy already and I couldn’t possible notice a difference.
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I love how he's constantly dubious about autonomous robots news on twitter. Yesterday he criticized the Berkeley delivery https://twitter.com/rodneyabrooks/status/1165736688141787136... for not being autonomo
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by jefft255 7y ago
I don’t like how they oppose deep learning with « logic based AI ». When Hinton got great results, he wasn’t competing against logic based AI but rather other machine learning approaches like SVMs.
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My guess would also be that it’s small-ish for this kind of scanner.
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Harder than you might think! People in my lab have worked on a system that monitor deforestation in Indonesia with satellite data https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2019.15... and it’s not a
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by jefft255 7y ago
What where you trying to scan that the creaform one couldn't handle? I've worked with them for metrology and they are really good.
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Waymo releases self-driving machine learning dataset(waymo.com)
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For me, if a journal/conférence has a weird format but gives a functional latex template with a bibliography style that matches their needs I’m fine with it. Although I do wish that it was more standardized. In my experience a lot of t

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