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by quantumduck 4y ago
Not the future, it did already happen, albeit on a smaller scale with Cruise: https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-swarm-of-self-driving-cruise... The worst part is they were never really transparent about what the issue wa
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by quantumduck 4y ago
I don't know if VBB used this, but most transit agencies publish their data in two standard formats these days GTFS for static schedules and GTFS-real time for real-time data. Any application you build around these formats would immedi
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by quantumduck 4y ago
It's also a popular meta-learning algorithm: ALPaCA: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08912 Well no one cares unless one of the parties has enough money and interest to hire a lawyer.
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by quantumduck 4y ago
Many vocal users, tiny set of their overall users.
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by quantumduck 4y ago
It's not like 1password is gonna delete your data or block you from accessing your data if payment fails and your account is frozen. It just gets into read-only mode. They have a fairly generous policy is case you'd account is fro
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by quantumduck 4y ago
Oh that wasn't my intention - Shazam was and is groundbreaking, they did it when no one else could. All I meant was that it seems more "doable and I probably understand how it works" when compared to how Google assistant reco
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by quantumduck 4y ago
Shazam used to wow me, but then as others mentioned in the replies it's essentially matching the signature of the sound to the sounds in the database. If it's one of the song, it gets matched fairly quickly. Wow blew my mind was w
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by quantumduck 4y ago
From a quick glance, Notion has the highest valuation per employee (10 Billion USD for 350 employees). Some of the companies are really bloated imo. Canva has 3100 employeee? Seriously? Yardi lists 8000 employees but no valuation? 8000 seem
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Forbes Cloud 100 List for 2022(forbes.com)
3 points by quantumduck 4y ago|3 comments
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by quantumduck 4y ago
What is the basis of your statement that the factories are never inspected or the products are tested? I interned at a pharmaceutical company's factory in India for the summer that used to regularly export medications to it's subs
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by quantumduck 4y ago
And what makes you think Amazon doesn't do that yet? Kiva systems did what Ocado does now a DECADE go. Amazon acquired kiva systems (infact, Amazon robotics was born out of this acquisition) long long ago and I'm sure can do a lot
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by quantumduck 4y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think Applied Intuition and Polymath have the same product or business plan. Applied Intuition has a high-fidelity simulator as the main product, Polymath has actual autonomy stack (hardware and software f
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by quantumduck 4y ago
Congratulations on the launch Stefan and Ilia! I'm a PhD student in robotics and autonomy and I've always wondered why something like this already didn't exist, at least for 90% of the 'doable' field robotics tasks.
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by quantumduck 4y ago
Conda let's you install a specific cuda version directly in a virtual environment with one click though. It's really useful when you have to switch between multiple PyTorch versions and convinient in general imo.
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by quantumduck 4y ago
I don't think Jeff cares about SEO. He was out probably looking for a simple domain and I'm sure algorithms.com, algorithms.org etc. were already taken. If I had to pick between say algorithms.me and algorithms.wtf, I'd defin
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by quantumduck 4y ago
Jeff also owns this domain that redirects to this book: algorithms.wtf
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by quantumduck 4y ago
I was thinking about this the other day: a huge solar storm that can wipe out the power grid in continental United States will also wipe out literally every tech company. Google, Apple, Microsoft, social networking companies, none would exi
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by quantumduck 4y ago
Yeah, vision is indeed used only to localize, not really to recognize the track. Low-key this is what I don't like Waymo/Cruise approach to autonomous driving - they use HD maps to localize themselves and I see that as finding an
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by quantumduck 4y ago
A couple of points: 1. We doesn't have to be another country/military. It could just be another research lab in US, China, or anywhere else in the world. Some people just like pushing tech to the limits, they seek the next hardest
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by quantumduck 4y ago
Pretty much every company that tries to capture the environment around it uses a probabilistic model that takes in the raw sensor data and makes predictions about things in the surroundings. The random blinking you see on the Tesla screen i
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by quantumduck 4y ago
What do you mean? In a flight simulator you have your controls controlling a plane (right body, dynamics are well known) in the sky (simple environment, dynamics are reasonably well known, even with different atmospheric conditions like win
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by quantumduck 4y ago
While DALL-E might seem like something out of the world, what it outputs at the end of the day is pretty basic: a 2D image. To run a high-fidelity simulator of human body that is useful for surgeons, you need a LOT more. And I doubt it can
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by quantumduck 4y ago
It's easy to simulate the robotic manipulators - the dynamics are well known and they are rigid objects. On the other hand, simulating say skin/muscle/blood or anything that closely resembles human body is near impossible. Wi
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by quantumduck 4y ago
I've read reports that say the mouth bacteria develop Xylitol resistance in about 9 months. So I'm not sure how sustainable it is in long term https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22218085/
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by quantumduck 4y ago
I mean correlation doesn't mean causation. Perhaps the very reason the bought a handgun is because they thought they had some threat or were involved in activity that would increase their likely hood of getting killed.
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by quantumduck 4y ago
There is ITAR, and no you can't just get an advanced degree and work in defense and space industry on sensitive projects. The half the article is talking about likely fall into the following categories: (I) they got their advanced degr
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by quantumduck 5y ago
The Mars helicopter Ingenuity also uses a commerical off the shelf snapdragon mobile processor (820 I believe).
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by quantumduck 5y ago
I agree that there are pretty big advantages to start with maximal set of sensors, but that is true only when you are a company with the sole goal of trying to make autonomy stack with shit ton of money and a product that you can modify bec
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by quantumduck 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I think the hardware cannot sustain outside their servers farms without significant investment in the things needed; it's not like the throw away entire server racks at a time, the probably only retire small piece
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by quantumduck 5y ago
I'm fairly certain that PDF was generated using LaTeX, everyone in academia uses it. Besides, it's not fair to complain about formatting in a very early draft.

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