tgot

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by tgot 2y ago
Lookup the RPLidar family of devices. Cheap 1D, easy to work with. By 1D I mean that it measures ranges in 360degrees around the plane that it is spinning in.
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by tgot 2y ago
I think that your description is almost excellent, but that you're fundamentally misleading in describing what you are doing as a "30-bit" digit. It's a 10^9 digit mathematically, occupying 30 bits of storage. You do br
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by tgot 3y ago
My mother was in the 2nd (? early...) class of AT&T programmers hired. Nobody knew any programming, so the identified pre-requisites to getting hired were: 1) College degree 2) Typing 60 WPM She and basically everyone else had been pus
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by tgot 5y ago
Not widely publicized, but the benchmarking code is in the source. At one point I was running it on my specific target machines to get performance estimates in support of porting some large-ish CPU stuff from Matlab into C++. The max perfo
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by tgot 5y ago
Always specify in order "sudo rm -rf opt /" so that opt is fully deleted before the / deletion causes too many failures?
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by tgot 5y ago
The GPS can easily wobble by 50ns back and forth as the constellation changes. That's a lot! And, it is not random on a short time scale. Folks often think "Oh, +/- 50ns, 20ns RMS, easy to filter...", but that's
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by tgot 6y ago
I was thinking of using the bounding boxes across frames. Maybe I could work with a neighbor, but then things need to be tightly time-synced. Zero chance I could get light pole access. A city endorsed surveillance system? No way.
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by tgot 6y ago
I want this tied to a crude speed estimation algorithm, from a stationary camera. Even with ALPR retention restrictions, I could trigger a video save and send the police a video of the idiots doing 50mph through the residential neighborhood
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by tgot 6y ago
Network transparency meant that when I was doing Finite Element Analysis on the beefiest Sun workstation they sold, running a proprietary application, I could log in from home, run the application on the Sun, and see the results of the prio