davidwihl

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Newton, an Open-Source Physics Engine for Robotics Simulation(developer.nvidia.com)
13 points by davidwihl 1y ago|1 comments
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by davidwihl 1y ago
NVIDIA, Disney Research and Google DeepMind release Newton, an open-source, extensible physics engine to advance robot learning and development. Compatible with MuJoCo Playground or NVIDIA Isaac Lab, it is an open-source, unified framework
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by davidwihl 4y ago
4) They have enormous fines to payout 5) This was mostly backoffice not consultants
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by davidwihl 4y ago
Apparently mostly back office
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by davidwihl 4y ago
Getting that sort of range is not common. Most of it is line of sight. Sat comms work far at sea where VHF is useless. With ARES, you are relying on an inconsistent volunteer network with spotty results by location and time. I'm a lice
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by davidwihl 4y ago
I took their in-person class in Ada, OK back in the day. Highly recommended the training material. https://www.advancedpilot.com/ They have a great test bed for validating their science.
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by davidwihl 4y ago
note that words have special pronunciation such as kehBEC not keeBEC. Pilots also pronounce numbers differently Tree (3) or Fow Er (4) https://skybrary.aero/articles/icao-phonetic-alphabet
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by davidwihl 4y ago
All pilots, private and commercial, have to learn this. I taught it to my kids driving to school when they were in elementary school.
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by davidwihl 5y ago
Your comment belittles the hard work Vint puts in every day. He could easily retire but is still amazingly energetic and engaged. Downvoted.
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by davidwihl 5y ago
AFAIK, Philip is not really retired. He does a lot of expert witness work these days https://philip.greenspun.com/software/expert-witness
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by davidwihl 5y ago
He teaches occasionally at Harvard, usually a short course. This is covered under the subsection "Teaching might be the answer."
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by davidwihl 6y ago
Ham radio transmissions are not allowed to be encrypted per FAR 97.113(4). [1] I suspect this is also a violation of FAR 97.113(3) "Communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest, including co
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by davidwihl 6y ago
I’ve seen Dan Bricklin in the local Whole Foods on several occasions. I want to yell out: “see that guy! He changed the world!” but then I let him pick an avocado in peace.
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by davidwihl 6y ago
So is the only reason to change filters to avoid blockage and reduced airflow but not filtering capacity?
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by davidwihl 6y ago
My comment isn’t about importance to society, it is about innovation for future contributions to society. I believe that ad tech has fueled more recent and greater potential contributions than law has, and therefore is more meritorious as a
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by davidwihl 6y ago
That’s a very cynical comment. I recommend you examine the research and open source contributions Google has made to ML that have nothing to do with ads.
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by davidwihl 6y ago
But ad optimization has led to many other technical innovations in ML and scalability. I don’t think the same can be said about law school. Disclosure: work on ad tech at Google. Opinion my own.
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by davidwihl 6y ago
As of April 29, Google Meet is now free, which is seemingly direct competition to Zoom, especially with the emphasis on security. https://blog.google/products/meet/bringing-google-meet-to-mo... Opinion my own not
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by davidwihl 6y ago
AdWords has a rich API that allows reports to downloaded in CSV format https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/repo... Disclosure: I work on the team that builds the client libraries for
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by davidwihl 6y ago
I’m deeply worried about the US food supply in 4-6 weeks time, not because of availability but because of a lack of healthy people to process, transport and distribute the food. Given the sorry state of migrant farm workers in the US [0], i
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by davidwihl 7y ago
One of the books that most influenced my coding was Software Tools by Brian W. Kernighan, P.J. Plauger [0]. Even though I never used Ratfor, the clear descriptions were immensely useful. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book&#
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by davidwihl 7y ago
Google Cloud has $10b / year of revenue and hardly existed five years ago.
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by davidwihl 7y ago
Marc Lipsitch, a Harvard epidemiologist, estimates that 40-70% of the adult world-wide population will be infected. [0] Assuming a conservative 1% mortality rate, that would mean 30-50M deaths, a tragically huge number. [0] https:/&#x
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by davidwihl 7y ago
Well stated. The author also misses two other critical points: (1) accuracy is a poor measure of quality for non-numeric, classification type problems, (2) increasing model complexity has an asymptote in order to prevent overfitting. You ca
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by davidwihl 7y ago
And CS109 which I used to TF: https://www.extension.harvard.edu/course-catalog/courses/crn... Not sure where you got the $50k? Mine was significantly less like $25k, which is a great value for many of same classes
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by davidwihl 7y ago
As a serial entrepreneur now Google employee, I think the bets have received too much funding. They seem like long term government research projects not scrappy startups trying to scale. Putting more rationality and business expectations is
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by davidwihl 7y ago
See also https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/an-interactive-automated-3...
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by davidwihl 7y ago
You can use the Traffic Estimator Service https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/traffi... Disclosure: I work in Google DevRel on this API
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by davidwihl 7y ago
Agreed. Eat to Live is the single best nutrition book I’ve read. He also continues [1] to be an active medical researcher and clinician. His diet is challenging to strictly follow but the results are very clear. [1] https://schol
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by davidwihl 7y ago
No they are separate corporations. Verily has received two rounds of non-Alphabet funding. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/verily-2

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