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by joshvm 8y ago
I would also recommend Niki Segnit's Lateral Cooking which aims to teach you how recipes associate with one another. So you just remember core ratios and what adjustments have to be made get other dishes. It's a very lazy-hacker
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by joshvm 8y ago
This also happened (and is happening?) in stereo imaging research. For years, Middlebury was what you tested on, and for years that's what got you published. Nowadays Middlebury is viewed as solved by the top algorithms. If you try tho
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by joshvm 8y ago
This is a mean free path computation and everything is spheres (except the skier who is probably a point source). What you've missed out is that a physicist would need to derive a collision cross section for a typical tree-sphere. That
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by joshvm 8y ago
Often these are low cost prints for students in developing countries, for example India. They're not counterfeit as such, but the quality is low to keep the price down. Not sure if that's what you got though, as they're all s
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by joshvm 8y ago
Detecting strawberries is easy, but there are several factors once you've done that. You need to determine the location, the orientation to determine the best cutting angle (and then finding a motion solution for the robot). You need t
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by joshvm 8y ago
Another year, another strawberry harvesting robot. I've worked on agri projects that looked into the feasibility of this, though we never attempted to pick anything. The reason strawberries are always the fruit of choice is because the
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by joshvm 8y ago
Given that other retailers charge upwards of £10 for Saturday courier delivery, Amazon is cheap. They also have fairly no-questions-asked customer service policies which is nice.
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by joshvm 8y ago
Not a textbook, but Freakonomics is in that ballpark. It's (un-) surprisingly hard to find academic information about this on Google because all the results are click bait articles about how to improve sales, rather than peer reviewed
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by joshvm 8y ago
To add to the pile, EdX also has a course from TUM: https://www.edx.org/course/autonomous-navigation-flying-robo...
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by joshvm 8y ago
Robotics is an enormous field. This book is heavily steered towards kinematics (ie how stuff moves). There's another book on their recommended list which details how to drive motors and use sensors. That doesn't begin to cover mac
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by joshvm 8y ago
I just bought one, largely for machine vision. What benchmark would you be interested in?
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by joshvm 8y ago
Yes, I know. My point was that CPU-only deep learning is possible on the Pi if you don't need real-time inference. What I wasn't sure of is whether that specific port does anything on the GPU at all, or if it's only using NEO
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by joshvm 8y ago
It's very hard to beat the traction that the Pi has. I think because it's explicitly targeted towards people without any embedded experience, there's been a lot of pressure to make things work and to make the documentation so
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by joshvm 8y ago
The rock960 boards do look nice, and tick a lot of boxes in terms of peripherals. My only concern is documentation. There's a review here though: https://fossbytes.com/rock960-review-affordable-six-core-arm...
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by joshvm 8y ago
Good find, although they're not out yet by the looks of it? And also pushing the price of a TX2 if you want the dev board plus a vision carrier (though it does have 3 VPUs). I was referring to the Movidius Dev Kit which exists, but see
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by joshvm 8y ago
There are some well optimised libraries, for example a port of darknet that uses nnpack and some other Neon goodies. You can do about 1fps with tiny yolo. Not sure if it used anything on the gpu though.
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by joshvm 8y ago
The risk with crowd funded chips is support and longevity. The reason that the Raspberry Pi wins every time against technically superior competition is that it's well supported and there are reasonable supply guarantees. The same goes
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by joshvm 8y ago
This looks cool. Currently the only real options for amateur off-the-shelf (accelerated) edge ML are the Nvidia boards (but small carrier boards for the TX2 cost more than the module itself) or the Intel NCS which inexplicably blocks every
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by joshvm 8y ago
Steam will at least automatically refund a purchase within 14 days if the play time is less than 2 hours. As far as I know you can't get a refund if you don't like an article, but I may be mistaken. If you had that option, paying
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by joshvm 8y ago
This is strongly hinted at in the movies. Bilbo's first appearance in Fellowship shows him finishing off The Hobbit (in a big red manuscript), and the ending of RoTK shows Frodo finishing off The Lord of The Rings before handing it to
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by joshvm 8y ago
I recommend this channel (Townsends), lots of medieval and olde worlde cooking, usually based on actual recipes https://m.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson
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by joshvm 8y ago
My favourite el cheapo displays are the SSD1306 OLEDs. They're tiny and work over I2C (or SPI). Cost about $3 from eBay from China. It's a fun weekend job writing your own printf and plotting libraries, trying to figure out the va
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by joshvm 8y ago
I work in a university research group that builds and flies conservation drones. My supervisor literally wrote the book on the field. Broadly my job is to build egde-based machine learning systems for conservation (ie on the drone). My grou
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Are all of these publicly funded? There are companies (including Siemens, for example) which build traffic lights and sell the control software and algorithms for eg car and pedestrian detection. See https://www.speedcamerasuk.co
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by joshvm 8y ago
> This page describes pre-Vista, deprecated APIs. Unless you need to target XP, a desktop app should use the known folder mechanism. Actually the current documentation refers you to the CSIDL list if you want to know what any of the GUID
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by joshvm 8y ago
> The problem is that so many apps just straight up ignore all those guidelines. The fact it happens so often suggests that the documentation isn't good enough. > Of course. At least Apple's pages is pretty clear and has som
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Windows also has an app data folder that contains a whole mishmash of stuff. And of course you have the registry. Part of the problem in Windows is that Program Files is write protected for security, so you can't store a local configur
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by joshvm 8y ago
Aside from framing, the reason the footage looks is well-controlled lighting and good camera mounting. Any camera will take a good photo outdoors in sunlight, but indoors it's all about how the scene is lit. SLRs have enormous sensors.
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by joshvm 8y ago
I agree with most of these, except the last point here: > What version of the languages and frameworks are they using? If they're not current versions, why not and when do they plan to update? Certainly knowing what frameworks are u
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by joshvm 8y ago
I've played with a few of the projects. It can be very addictive and often a lot of fun - for example Snapshot Serengeti where you classify camera trap photos. You get lots of nothing and then suddenly an animal. I did try the log tran

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