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The Hacker News hive mind is real!

I was just reading about JSD the other day after reading about KL divergence...seems like a nifty measurement device for things like sim-to-real evaluations in robots (the reason I was going down this rabbit hole.)

I think the appeal over raw KL is that JSD behaves a bit nicer when the simulated and real distributions don't perfectly overlap...which is basically always true in the real world!

if you liked this and the history of the industry, "The Prize" is a fantastic read!

No mention of New Jersey, sacrilege.

same!

I did some river/lake sailing as a kid on the East Coast but now the urge is calling to me! I remember the "righting the boat" test being the scariest/most fun part of the experience -- super glad I went through that and feel confident on a small boat.

Now...I used to remember all the knots we learned but that memory is mostly gone

mold making is also pretty complicated -- anything in the 1,000-1M parts produced will _probably_ be an aluminum mold (cheaper than steel) but they're still heavy and large to keep around.

I haven't met any injection molding shops in the US that do a huge amount of specialty parts like toys. The industry tries to get as many medical device jobs as possible.

This scratches a corner of my brain I didn't know I had. It's the start of the month and I'm writing investor updates, and seeing an author who...wants to treat writing a book like it's a startup and a book advance like a raise...neat!

I fed TRELLIS an image of the left side of my Vespa, and it correctly (mostly) added exhaust on the other side.

Super, super cool to see -- really hyped for what this means for 3D representations!