njoubert

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by njoubert 2y ago
Can you say more?
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by njoubert 2y ago
I had the pleasure of meeting Andrew during the height of the 3D Robotics days, and spending time pair-programming with him on a GPS Driver for ArduPilot. It was incredible to see his confidence in moving around the codebase, making edits.
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by njoubert 2y ago
Don't bring the finished product to the site, bring the manufacturing capabilities and raw materials to the site.
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by njoubert 3y ago
You're painting an unfairly one-sided picture here, as so many pro-psychedelic people do. These are highly potent chemicals that also have negative physical and psychological effects. It's not as simple as "these substances c
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by njoubert 3y ago
Great comment! Indeed there is a recent Nature paper that's causing a lot of discussion that is investigating that missing link between the physics of matter and the emergence of the natural selection and evolution processes that give
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by njoubert 3y ago
this is a pretty silly fluff piece.
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by njoubert 4y ago
Thank you for this, this is awesome. You shared a long, challenging, and deeply personal experience with candor and empathy. Well done! I grew up in an agricultural area and everyone had respiratory issues from the massive amounts of pest
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by njoubert 4y ago
Ah, tailsitters. Everyone loves the theory, then the practical realities of the takeoff position exposing the entire wing surface to the prevailing wind quickly kills real-world applications. I remember back during the 3D Robotics heyday wa
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by njoubert 4y ago
Lots of denial and sarcasm in the comments here. A person close to me had many of the experiences described in this, including the psychotic episodes that I had to help them through. Try to imagine how frightening and difficult it is to see
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by njoubert 4y ago
Thanks Mike. Big hugs.
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by njoubert 4y ago
Peter, I'm lucky to have called you a friend. This happened to suddenly and quickly, I'm reeling. You were magic. He exuded love and charm. He would be overjoyed to see me and give the best hugs whenever we ran into each other. He
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by njoubert 4y ago
I grew up in an area like this and it was pretty great!
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by njoubert 4y ago
Wow! Which direction from SF??
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by njoubert 4y ago
I find it hard to believe any article that describes taxi services as "efficient but undercapitalizes". Does the author remember the experience of trying to find a cab if you weren't in a downtown area already?
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by njoubert 5y ago
That's not quite right. There are learned models inside the planning systems of most of the sophisticated self-driving car companies. Here's a public video that gives a few high-level examples: https://vimeo.com/61
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by njoubert 5y ago
$1500/hr to $2000/hr was the going rate for Stanford professors to be expert witnesses on patent law cases when i was consulting at DLA Piper.
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by njoubert 5y ago
There’s a pandemic that forced everyone inside and remote. Computer companies does great. End of story.
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by njoubert 5y ago
Do you have any experience with the stuff you’re making such bold statements about, because I have; and my god did you oversimplify things.
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by njoubert 5y ago
The article title is still misleading. The sensor fusion was the root cause of the malfunction, it was not the advanced control technique that was deployed to survive the anomaly.
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by njoubert 5y ago
I see no mention of "advanced control techniques"? Sounds like there is just a limit on roll/pitch angles and a limit on distance applied. Saying "advanced control techniques [for multirotors]" sets an expectation f
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by njoubert 5y ago
The single benefit of Uber having a global presence likely already outweighs the value of these local coops. You can get off an airplane just about anywhere in the world and get an Uber. That’s huge value.
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by njoubert 6y ago
These are different efforts from ATG, the self-driving car division.
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by njoubert 6y ago
There are two ways to compensate with stock: purchasing stock on the open market with cash, or, hand out stock from a pool of withheld shares. The pool of shares might be periodically increased through creating new shares (and diluting) but
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by njoubert 6y ago
This is out of date and not representative of current Uber business. Keep in mind Slack did not exist for several years after Uber was founded. Also, today all of Uber uses Slack, which gave them a nice stock bump. https://market
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by njoubert 6y ago
Only 3800 are core engineers (people reporting to Thuan) https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/thuan-pham-who-fled-vietna...
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Basic Information Regarding Tin Whiskers (2008)(nepp.nasa.gov)
39 points by njoubert 6y ago|14 comments
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by njoubert 6y ago
What the fuck? “Should not get more than market rate”?
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by njoubert 7y ago
This is very strange. Why is WaPo spending so much energy attempting to discredit self-driving cars?
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by njoubert 7y ago
Not an annoying question whatsoever. Dense urban environments are challenging. The error distribution is more complex there, its hard to definitively say. The numbers I'm quoting is for open sky environments where you have plenty of sa
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by njoubert 7y ago
Modern GNSS can reliably measure altitude at <50cm 2-sigma accuracy using techniques such as RTK and PPP-AR. Modern GNSS is a better source of altitude data than barometers. Likely SpaceX is using a combination of radar altimeters and GN

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