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by gregcoombe 3y ago
He'll probably be relegated to some minor role like "Husband of Board Member #6"
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by gregcoombe 3y ago
"It's one flag, Michael. How much could it cost, $44B?"
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by gregcoombe 4y ago
Side story: the haptic feedback for the NanoManipulator was through a hydraulic system (kinda like this? https://www.sarcos.com/wp-content/uploads/history_5-339x280.... ). There were hydraulic lines that were piped
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by gregcoombe 4y ago
Tolstoy also has a lot to share about programming. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is a clear recommendation to use status codes as return values instead of boolean success/fail.
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It’s a Unix system I know this(elaine-cao-93.medium.com)
207 points by gregcoombe 4y ago|61 comments
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by gregcoombe 5y ago
H3 has the significant downside that children nodes do not fit within parent nodes. So one needs to be very careful working within any sort of multi-resolution algorithm (the most effective uses I've seen are with a fixed resolution).
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A New US/Japan Variant to Watch(forbes.com)
11 points by gregcoombe 5y ago|6 comments
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Self-driving startup Aurora will raise $2B in SPAC merger(theverge.com)
3 points by gregcoombe 5y ago|0 comments
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by gregcoombe 5y ago
It's the office of the future! https://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/ . The challenge in 2000 was that bandwidth and 3d reconstruction needed several leaps forward in quality.
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
The Wikipedia page dedicates an entire section to explaining that comment, under "Appointment to CEO, controversy and resignation". He was forced out of the CEO position for this political view. It was a pretty significant news st
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Uber exits self-driving car sector, sells business to Aurora(cnet.com)
2 points by gregcoombe 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
Yeah, it was a significant infrastructure cost. I heard at one time that the single largest computer at Google was the Perforce server. They ended up completely re-writing it (called "Piper") for scaling. This is sort of what I wa
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
Google posted a paper detailing their reasons for choosing monorepo: https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/ Caveat: your company probably isn't Google, so your challenges may be different.
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
You can get a saliva test today, it's just a bit expensive: https://www.vaulthealth.com/covid We did this this morning, and it was not bad. They ship the tubes to your house, and you get in a Zoom call to verify ID and
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
"Hey, should I put this on my personal card?" "No, just Brex-it!"
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
Talented jerks can absolutely destroy a team. In my experience, the actual degree of coding prowess turns out to be significantly less important than the ability to collaborate.
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FMCW Lidar: The Self-Driving Game-Changer(medium.com)
2 points by gregcoombe 6y ago|0 comments
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
They observed keys being transmitted to Chinese servers, which makes them to suspect that Zoom is distributing keys via these servers. They have worded this very carefully to avoid claiming something that they cannot confirm (distribution t
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
It's possible it comes from a corporate culture that is focused on ease-of-use over security. This is not the first time that they've done some questionable things to reduce friction. See for example https://www.theverg
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
This is exactly the opening argument of the article, and the writer's response (in part) is, "Nevertheless the Nobel continues to exceed the Booker, the Pulitzer, and all other literary awards in its prestige, global impact, and a
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
From the article: "[White Noise]... represents better than any other literary text just how apocalyptic dread has become the inescapable ground note of everyday life."
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by gregcoombe 6y ago
Aurora Innovation | Software and Hardware Engineering, Machine Learning, Perception, Robotics, EE | ONSITE (WFH for now) | Full-time, Interns | https://aurora.tech/careers | SF, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Bozeman If you're
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Niantic Acquires Spatial Mapping Startup 6d.ai(forbes.com)
1 points by gregcoombe 6y ago|0 comments
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Starsky Robotics Failed. Does That Mean Automated Trucking Is Dead?(forbes.com)
1 points by gregcoombe 6y ago|0 comments
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Driver in 2018 fatal Mountain View Tesla crash was playing video game, NTSB says(abc7news.com)
2 points by gregcoombe 7y ago|1 comments
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by gregcoombe 7y ago
To add to this: it's not just computational complexity, but it's also about safety. There is a human review process for every element of the map, which enforces a level of quality and safety that is extremely difficult to ensure f
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by gregcoombe 7y ago
I think that there is grey-area between data that is sufficiently static to represent in a map (buildings, lane lines) and data that is dynamic and must be handled by on-board perception systems (pedestrians, road debris). A good way to thi
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by gregcoombe 7y ago
I think you've hit upon one of the most challenging aspects of mapping, which is that the real world is incredibly dynamic. And it's not just the things that we think of as dynamic (bicyclists, pedestrians, other vehicles), it&#x2
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by gregcoombe 7y ago
Hi all! I'm Greg and I work on the Mapping Team at Aurora. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the article and mapping for self-driving.
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by gregcoombe 8y ago
It's been my experience that engineers are quite poor at judging the "patentability" of ideas. I'm not saying that you're wrong, just that the patent field is quite opaque and difficult to understand, which is why p

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