jonnycowboy

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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
There are always tradeoffs... airplanes move more or less at a steady speed, and are much more aerodynamic than cars, which spent quite a bit of time stuck in traffic. Thus in many cases planes are more efficient than cars (despite needing
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Also for berries, waves of berries are visually identified and blasts the "bad ones" out of the stream. Very impressive (and fast) to watch.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Really glad to see Boosted survived through YC and the 4 years subsequent. Looks like a great redesign - the waterproofing alone makes it worth it. Good job to the team!
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
The technology does not destroy the attacker but the projectile. Also I assume objects travelling below a certain speed or heat threshold are not "processed" so most children or children-thrown objects would not be targeted.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Not to mention, $/kg for cargo (air freight currently) is quite a bit higher than passenger flying.
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Runway clearance - the wing droop at the tips is low enough to possibly hit the runway lights (usually below 18" high). They remove them for high speed taxi tests, and for the actual flights they temporarily replace the "high&quo
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by jonnycowboy 10y ago
Actually it would just mean only supporting wireless bluetooth headphones from now on...
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SCHAFT Unveils Awesome New Bipedal Robot at Japan Conference(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by jonnycowboy 11y ago|0 comments
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Already successful with Patreon
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
I think you mean backlash-free gearboxes (ie: cable driven gearboxes, harmonic drives or spring-loaded gearboxes that always apply a minimal but constant tension).
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Reinforcement learning (ie: bigger score/reward) the more objects are correctly grasped.
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
I agree with all the points you made but in addition I would add another - with external cameras for positioning and movement feedback, you don't need to have accurate geartrains or encoders nor have a rigid robot. Since the localizat
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Have the code editor report back to the cloud the amount of times a certain snippet was "selected"/used. And just rank the drop-down box/autocomplete options accordingly.
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
In a limited supply environment staples will rise (ie: real estate in certain cities) but with BI you can move anywhere and have a roof over your head. Food prices will not raise meaningfully.
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
A good start would be for Github to host a package that contains the latest versions of each repo. However even they may not have that right (depends on TOS).
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Really looking forward to seeing these things "live" in Augmented Reality (superimposed while in the modern city).
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
14K for materials, 6K for labour was the goal.
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
I think this is impressive but it will see even larger growth when businesses start adopting them in lieu of the standard Dell laptops.
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
email me (profile) if you need a simulated driver ;)
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Easy, you drive in a simulator! (ie: backfeed/simulate LIDAR and camera data using a video game (GTA5 for example)). Then try to simulate lots of near-crashes, reactions to traffic lights, signs, etc. Hotz's code just reacts to
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
H or I class rocket engines are definitely not "park rockets".
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Not really, Uber is using their growth and capital to finance R&D of self-driving cars. They are actively hoping that in 6-10 years they won't have any human drivers.
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
In this case the price is prohibitive. That server has 8 Nvidia K40's, each between 1500-2000$. So you're looking at a 15-20k$ server!
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A Real Live Cricket Steers Toy Car(toyland.gizmodo.com)
1 points by jonnycowboy 11y ago|0 comments
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Too many variables to control and you wouldn't be able to offer free shipping anymore.... you'd have to offer a single bend radius and only 30, 45, 60 and 90 degree angles...
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Agreed, most people default to 3D printing. I think that's OK for brackets or joints but cut steel is so much more appropriate for anything larger. The only thing holding it back is the bending operation, even 1.5mm is difficult to be
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Laser cutting aluminium is quite a bit harder, the cost is higher as the laser needs to work more to cut (due to heat absorption).
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
I mention this because I think I see a revolution coming (laser cut steel sheet) for robotics, 3d printer designs, etc as the manufacturing costs will be so low it does not make sense to buy the raw materials and mill/drill yourself.
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Great work, I've hoped for a website like yours to come out! Like others I've used Big Blue Saw but it's fairly expensive. I recently got parts cut locally (laser cut steel, 16ga) and it's around 20-25$/part (30$&#
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by jonnycowboy 11y ago
Actually this is the same conclusion usually associated with richer kids being more successful. "The best kids to get ahead are often the richest".

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