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arjo129
Joined 13 years ago
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Comment · 7 years ago
A Friend of mine and I had attempted something similar but in an indoor setting. The key problem we faced is that the compass will in the phone and positioning system. The way we overcame the orientation was by using the camera to combine the visual odometer data with the compass measurements. We also faced issues with the localisation as being indoor meant we had to rely on wifi location which was not very good. Again, the way we got over this was to use the visual odometry, and rely on users turning.
https://github.com/chelseyong/Android-App-AR-Map-Navigation
Comment · 7 years ago
First launch was aborted due to a helium leak in the cryogenic engine a week ago.
Comment · 7 years ago
I know that my opinion is going to be unpopular but I strongly disagree with this move. I can understand not allowing facial recognition to be run in real time, or for instance to ban corporates from tracking me and using my face for advertisement data, but to ban the police seems extremely dumb. Facial recognition can be used to significantly cut down investigation times and costs and thus reduce the stress on police.
Comment · 8 years ago
Out of curiosity, dynamic class loading seems like one of those things where you would need to embed an interpreter in the application itself. So how does one deal with such cases?
Comment · 8 years ago
We were introduced to version control in our first year. The only problem was that till we started managing large code bases, most people found it very difficult to understand why we used Git in the first place.
Comment · 8 years ago
It can be used to implement capacitive touch.
Comment · 8 years ago
There needs to be a law that protects engineering corporations against security flaws that were previously unknown.
Comment · 9 years ago
I would have liked to have seen a comparison against Song Han s approach....
Comment · 9 years ago
Where I live (not USA) the bus company uses those same buses for other purposes through the day. So recharging them fast is very important.
Comment · 9 years ago
There's nothing stopping you from using hiredis in c++
Comment · 9 years ago
Why is an ampere a fundamental unit but,not a coulomb?
Comment · 9 years ago
Completely unrelated shameless plug: Reminds me of my toy 1 led 3d scanner. I haven't had more time to play with it.
https://arjo129.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/diy-3d-scanner-via-...
Comment · 9 years ago
Not all ayurvedic medicine require heavy metals. There are herbs like boswellia (now also an allopathic drug) that genuinely do what they are supposed to do. Ayurveda, prevented black death in India. Granted there is a lot of bs out there that gets passed of but there are parts that do work. Distilling these parts is important. I think the lack of quality control in eastern medicine is what has given it a bad name. Granted we don't have antibiotics or anti cancer drugs but there were surgical procedures like rhinoplasty that were successfully carried out. Of course any medicine that is 2000 years old is going to be nowhere near what modern medicine is because we have had 2000 years to evolve it. Reason why easterners set store by it is it provided a bit more protection than what the doctors of medieval Europe could do. 1000years is a long time and lots changes, sadly eastern medicine didn't.
Comment · 9 years ago
Last I checked homeopathy was western. i think your bias towards eastern medicine would be better founded if you were to say faith healing rather than eastern. Within eastern medicine one also finds people who used early forms of experimentation to derive working cures. Examples of working medical cures include boswellia used to treat bursitis, artemisin used to treat malaria. Also both Chinese and Indians had developed anaesthetic before Europeans. Similarly the procedure of rhinoplasty was developed in India. When the British came in western surgeons studied the technique and took it back to Europe. In fact hygiene was a critical part of the ayurvedic surgeons life well before Europeans realized the importance of hygiene in surgery. Of course there are a lot bogus stuff in eastern cures as well but in the west you have stuff like homeopathy. I think the key take away is that you cannot divide by east and west. We are after all human and each culture has their own contribution to the face of the earth.