joshvm

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by joshvm 6y ago
I was trying to allude to this a bit, but maybe it didn't come across clearly. I was thinking more about how you approach getting help to achieve a goal. And probably a good way forward is a mixture of occasional 1-on-1 sessions with e
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by joshvm 6y ago
You probably need to be more specific about your end goal. Is it to lift a particular amount, run a marathon, climb a certain route etc? There are usually specific trainers for certain skills, just like in video games :) If I wanted to get
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by joshvm 6y ago
I'm with you on the appetite suppression. I got into making decent coffee recently, probably from being stuck at home, and it's interesting how strong the effect is. Especially when coupled with a walk round the local park (e.g. 5
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by joshvm 6y ago
On the whole I agree about darknet being readable, it seemed well written and I've found it useful to grok how training libraries are written. I think they've moved to other backends now for the main computation though. But.. it w
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by joshvm 6y ago
AlexeyAB is the primary author on YOLOv4, and the darknet maintainer, so yes. This is pretty much the official word on the matter: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/issues/5920#issuecomment... Despite that,
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by joshvm 6y ago
Also a slight edit, I wrote name initially. Of course in the books it's "face of his father", but it still sounds similar [1]. To admit to forgetting the face of one's father is to be deeply shameful, to accuse someone o
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by joshvm 6y ago
On Windows with the old Zune software (nowadays I think you need to use phone stuff, or maybe Groove?), on Mac with the Windows Phone software.
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by joshvm 6y ago
I work mostly with RGB/Thermal, if that counts. My PhD was in stereo/lidar fusion, so I've always been into mixing sensors :) I've also done some work on satellite imaging which is 13-band (Sentinel 2). Lots of people in
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by joshvm 6y ago
> who forget their last name I've not heard that one before either. Is it a reference to the Dark Tower? ("[he] has forgotten the face of his father") or did Stephen King borrow it from somewhere else?
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by joshvm 6y ago
In theory you could also do this with visual-inertial odometry eg monocular SLAM. But this is definitely something we're looking at in my group (I do CV for ecology), especially for object detection where geometry (absolute size) is a
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by joshvm 6y ago
RGB-D based semantic segmentation is certainly a thing. I'm sure it's also been done with video sequences as well.
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by joshvm 6y ago
I somewhat agree on the naming issue. I don't think yolov5 is semantically very informative. But by the way, if you read the issues from a while back you'll see that AlexeyAB's fork basically scooped them, hence the version b
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by joshvm 6y ago
Not sure about the benchmark, but the code includes the option for mixed precision training via Apex/AMP.
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by joshvm 6y ago
Honestly, I think most institutions would be accommodating to your requests - particularly for mature students who have lives outside the university. Most places aren't going to kick you out if you don't turn up to the weekly semi
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by joshvm 6y ago
> Now people are interested in my research and inviting me to come back and do a PhD, but I’m not sure I can ever go back to having to wake up early in the morning, sit in a boring seminar, be pressured to take on teaching duties, and no
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by joshvm 6y ago
Mission/emergency critical buttons on dragon are physical (things like chute release) - there is a row of switches underneath the panel. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2..
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by joshvm 6y ago
Good luck finding a comparison page of just about anything that isn't SEO spam these days. And I would bet money if you search for DIY mattress, a good fraction of the results will be Pinterest.
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by joshvm 6y ago
During an abort they would dump the service module, which is where the unpressurised cargo is stored.
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by joshvm 6y ago
Bear in mind that companies at the scale of Space X doing safety critical work tend to parcel up tasks fairly minutely. Everything is compartmentalised, tested separately and there are whole teams devoted to the large scale architecture and
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by joshvm 6y ago
It's a shame that Zemax recently went down the subscription route, but I suppose most users were already getting updates every year anyway. I have a friend who is developing an optical train simulator in Python, but that's for a f
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by joshvm 6y ago
Any virtual environment will take precedence over either the system or homebrew Python. Since you want to deal with multiple versions (or Python? Or Django/Flask? Both?) you'll definitely be wanting some kind of isolated environme
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by joshvm 6y ago
Edinburgh has always had a reputation for being a good HPC/computational institute, so no surprises there. It's also nice to see that you are forced to take options from pretty much any other subject, which is quite rare in UK deg
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by joshvm 6y ago
Physicist's perspective. Logically an undergraduate degree is 3 years: the first year is catch up and baseline, everyone gets to the same standard. The second year is actually learning the bulk of the core material. The third year is s
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by joshvm 6y ago
This isn't an issue on Spotify. You can't heart/star a podcast in the same way you can add music to your library. Podcasts have a separate library tab. The playback interface actually changes as well, instead of shuffle/
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by joshvm 6y ago
From the sibling comment seems like I had the right idea. The main restriction I was thinking of is what technology was used at the time. The SR 71 used film for imaging, and the CCD array was developed later on and probably wouldn't h
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by joshvm 6y ago
This is the best reference I've found so far on the SR-71 system (the NAS-14V2): https://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/collections/full/NAS-14... That's some kind of flight/operational manual fo
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by joshvm 6y ago
We've had this for years with Waitrose, who just give you a scanner that you can take round the store. I think more recently they let you do it on the phone. Then you just pay at a special checkout and leave. They also have no-scale ch
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by joshvm 6y ago
In some contexts, yes it can be. If that involves, for example, unwanted physical contact. A broader term is harassment, but either is bad. IANAL, and the legal definition may vary by location and situation. See: https://theconve
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by joshvm 6y ago
Thinking about this more, I'm surprised this couldn't be caught when the items got delivered to Amazon. I find it extremely unlikely that a picking robot accidentally found an item with the same barcode if they weren't alread
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by joshvm 6y ago
Sure, this does happen, but it's very rare. Anecdotally the most common issue is non-violent sexual assault - e.g. guys hitting on girls. That's largely a risk for solo female travelers unfortunately. If you travel as a couple, fo

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