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by joshvm 3y ago
One option is to apply for Global Entry/NEXUS for Canada. You will have a single potentially miserable interview with a CBP officer who might bring your denial up because I'm sure they ask if you've been refused entry before.
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Someone else mentioned sims - Mujoco is pretty common and you'll want to learn ROS anyway. Also robotics doesn't mean just arms, you can play with navigation and perception algorithms with a single camera. Good off-the-shelf arms
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by joshvm 3y ago
Thanks for the correction, but please leave snark on a different forum. Mine was not intended.
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Good catch, though the paper says PMT (at least they use the acroynm). I struggle to believe anything from Hamamatsu costs $5-10 ;) The arxiv Paper says they use an R1924A PMT : https://www.hamamatsu.com/us/en/prod
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by joshvm 3y ago
More or less. What do you consider reasonably priced? The sensors aren't particularly special. PMTs are used widely in science for photon counting, but maybe the ones they chose have some specific characteristics. Most of this system i
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Scumm is a good example. There was a port for the original DS that ran well enough. https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Nintendo_DS
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A relevant discussion about the same issue in London caused by over a century of public transport (in deep tunnels though). I'm not sure the argument that surface climate change has no effect is true, using a single heat wave year as a
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Is the non-accelerated model also a quantised version? The EdgeTPU is very efficient, but you can get a significant performance drop unless you take care when converting. Modern CPUs can do classification fast enough that you could do backg
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Every department I've worked in mandates 2 supervisors to mitigate against this, because it's reasonably common for people to move departments, go on sabbatical or just quit. Even with tenure, life happens and people need to leave
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It's about $1 per thousand tweets and access to 0.3% of the total volume. I think the subscription is 50M "new" tweets each month? There are other providers who continually scrape Twitter and sell their back catalogue. https
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The other perspective is traceable cameras, such that you can have some guarantee that an image came from a particular device and wasn't AI-generated (e.g. your camera signs each image after capture). There have been attempts to crypto
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The funny thing is that a lot of the stuff people on Reddit are clamouring for was easily supported by forums, and has been done forever. Admins were free to run their own ads or premium posts, they got sponsorship from companies, organised
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There are some platforms like Discourse which allow you to use OAuth. That's a reasonable setup I think, if you don't care about linking your real identity (or you just make a dummy account).
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Reddit successfully centralised forums and made it convenient because you didn't need 20+ logins. The other half is link sharing/doom scrolling (the addictive stuff), which replaced Digg, Stumbleupon, etc. In the not-so-distant pa
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by joshvm 3y ago
Altium is probably the industry standard, though there are several high-end competitors (OrCAD for example). Similar to how Solidworks is usually considered the standard for CAD, but there are lots of competitors in the $2k/annum range
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A lot of the LLM ML communities have moved to Discord for bleeding edge development, as far as I know.
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> I wrote this article a few weeks ago after discovering that a well known air quality monitor in the market that retails for more than USD 1000 actually uses a PM module that costs less than USD 20. This may be true for off the shelf ai
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by joshvm 3y ago
Salaries generally are comparable to or higher than the rest Europe though, so it seems odd to leave those countries out. https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/norway
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Also Switzerland (or Scandinavia for that matter) which pays similar to the US for tech jobs. Even academic jobs here pay exceptionally well compared to anywhere else in Europe. Starting salary for a good data scientist role (requiring some
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by joshvm 3y ago
Have you tried Segment Anything from Meta? There are a bunch of click guided segmentation models out there. https://segment-anything.com/demo# It worked fine on your example with a couple of clicks.
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This is broadly the ethos behind Home Assistant. It runs on a Pi or similar box and it acts as an abstraction layer on top of a bunch of drivers for smart sensors and actuators. It's totally offline, though if you're really agains
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They certainly did - Habbo Hotel was something of a phenomenon in the early 2000s (and amazingly still exists?)
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University funding varies wildly in the UK and it mostly correlates with ranking, at least the 'higher-up' universities generally have more disposal income to give to researchers. Unfortunately, it's a vicious circle because
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Ah I misspoke - in this case it was our fault. We accidentally ordered a camera with the wrong serial interface and Mouser just shipped the right one.
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Mouser customer service (at least 5 years ago) as a big purchaser (University) was excellent. They would do things like screw up an order and then send the replacement free of charge, even for $300 parts. But then the uni order book was pro
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It's not as good yet, but ChatGPT (et al) has likely benefited a lot from extensive user interaction and feedback (which can be fed back into fine-tuning). I doubt they could get such diverse user responses without opening up to the
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If you're referring to melatonin then the science really isn't that clear. Most light suppresses melatonin production. One of the biggest arguments against blue light (specifically) being disruptive is that the sky spectrum in the
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Hmm from my experience the Software IDD is pretty good, but ultimately it's not designed as a consumer part. (I am the author of flirpy which is aimed at more end user applications but I've not added low level support for the Lept
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If you want a UVC setup then the purethermal carrier is the route to go. You buy FLIR because they're well made, reliable products. Same reason people spend the money on Fluke. I'm not sure you can necessarily say the support is b
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This is not true for all fields. Computer science (specifically machine learning) is possibly the most lucrative area to work in right now and comparatively few people publish in journals. Computer vision has been this way for a long time e

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