iliabara

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by iliabara 5mo ago
In practice, for YC or similar Bay area US startups, they are the same. All authorized shares are issued, and then the charter is amended through board action and more shares are authorized and issued at each stage.
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by iliabara 5mo ago
Ya, I'd appreciate pointers if there are errors :)
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by iliabara 5mo ago
This is US centric, it's mentioned on the first page, along with the notes and links. Reinvesting is a minority, edge case. I can't think of a single VC company in the Bay area that can have founders reinvest shares and not cause
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by iliabara 5mo ago
Ya for sure, and even paid account is very cheap, few dollars a month
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by iliabara 5mo ago
Thanks! :)
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by iliabara 5mo ago
Depends on the outcome. If it's a positive outcome, then preference has no role. This game models good outcomes, with warnings for things like down rounds
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by iliabara 5mo ago
Hey thanks! There are a ton of edge cases, but the goal was to serve as an intro, and to get a grasp of the basics. Links in the intro to a more serious look at things.
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Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game(options-game-polymathrobotics.pythonanywhere.com)
36 points by iliabara 5mo ago|25 comments
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Polymath Robotics (YC S22) is hiring a robotics safety engineer – San Francisco(ycombinator.com)
1 points by iliabara 3y ago
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by iliabara 3y ago
Quick honest question: What benefit did Viam bring that isn't brought by ROS for this project?
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by iliabara 4y ago
Hey all, this is from a team member of mine at Polymath Robotics. Ask/comment away!
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State Machines vs. Behavior Trees: decision-making architecture for robotics(polymathrobotics.com)
3 points by iliabara 4y ago|2 comments
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by iliabara 4y ago
Absolutely part of the plan, there will always be strange situations that the vehicle can't adapt to. So it has to stop and phone home. Our current test vehicle uses remote operation a lot!
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by iliabara 4y ago
On a technical level, I'm not sure what sheep shearing robots in the 1980s has to do with automating vehicles... but I'd love to see a video/article if you've got one! :D As with any large opportunity, there are multiple
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by iliabara 4y ago
To answer 2. in some more detail: We generally like to have GPS, cameras and lidar. Optionally, we add in IMU, radar and close in sensors (ie ultrasound). We are approaching the ML problem somewhat differently, we try to give the robot an u
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by iliabara 4y ago
"Shoving sensors on random devices doesn't work that easy, you know that - I dont need a PHD to tell you that. " Definitely, a lot of our work goes into ensuring our Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) works well across vehicle
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by iliabara 4y ago
There's always room for one more simultaneous startup ;)
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by iliabara 4y ago
Thanks, we sure hope so!
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by iliabara 4y ago
This is exactly correct, Caladan from Polymath Robotics is just a cheap and easy way to get a bunch of developers to try out our (fairly basic so far) API, and to start thinking about the business logic and applications that could be built
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by iliabara 4y ago
That's a great way to think about it, you are describing it exactly correctly.
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by iliabara 4y ago
Ah ya, debugging in real environments is a very difficult question, particularly in robotics where the system is complex, and not always with the best internet connectivity. The approach we are taking to this is two fold: 1) Robust self mon
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by iliabara 4y ago
Hello, Great question, I haven't seen enough technical details on their system to be able to answer definitely. However, from what I've read of their approach, it's fairly similar to the way we do things. Perhaps this means t
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by iliabara 4y ago
Hey all, Ilia here. I just did a quick follow up with a demo of our API driving our real tractor, and simulated tractor, simultaneously. The API used is the same, and we are sending the same commands at the same time to each vehicle. Check
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by iliabara 4y ago
Hey, No, we haven't looked into formal tools like that, good suggestion! TBD on if these approaches bode well for real world robotics, (due to model complexity and model/real world fit problems) but at least there seems to be some
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by iliabara 4y ago
Hey! We don't train in simulation (if you are talking about ML training). Our ML training is done purely using real world data. The simulator is to allow developers to "test drive" our autonomy core and API for free. We have
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by iliabara 4y ago
No, sorry, let me be more clear. Users of our API can send high level commands (ex: go to GPS coordinate X), and our software (on vehicle) will ensure it gets done. Our software is built by a team of roboticists, including ML, controls, etc
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by iliabara 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words, and awesome that you were on a DGC team! Absolutely, there is a ton of really interesting controls, ML and general software quality work for us to do.
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by iliabara 4y ago
Hello, You are asking about the FAQs here: https://www.polymathrobotics.com/product We are actually a hardware and real robots company first! Our simulator efforts are for two purposes: 1. Allow more people to try out our a
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by iliabara 4y ago
Hey, Ilia here :) This could be built, but unsure it'd make sense in terms of required compute on each small robot. What would be the use case you are interested in?
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by iliabara 4y ago
Hey, Ilia here :) Not sure if the question is about the simulator Caladan, or about our autonomy core. For Caladan, we don't support playback of data currently. Do you have a use-case need for this? For the autonomy core, the localizat

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