tchadwick

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Building autonomous robots in Canada.

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Comment · 7 years ago

The company I work for is hiring. https://seedotrun.com. We are a start-up working on autonomous agriculture. Lots of benefits to our design compared to a traditional tractor in regards to GHG, efficiency, farmer well-being, and food security.

There are a number of companies like us popping up. Bear Flag Robotics in California is another example.

thomas at seedotrun.com if interested.

Comment · 7 years ago

But he sure did try. I was also a Canadian living LA, but am back in Canada now. Definitely miss it.

Comment · 8 years ago

Dot Technology Corp. | Data Scientist/Deep Learning Engineer | Regina, Canada | Full-Time

We're building an autonomous tractor. Check it out at https://seedotrun.com. It needs to not run into things, so that's where you come in.

DOT: We successfully developed and manufactured an alpha prototype in 2017. Currently, we are manufacturing 6 beta machines to work the fields this summer.

Tech: LIDAR, radar, cameras, caffe, CV, CNTK, python, c++, tensorflow, aws

Duties: - Manage, train, and tune state-of-the-art deep neural networks - Evaluate and test sensors and sensor fusion - Test the product in controlled and real situations - Collect, process, and manage training data, including training and testing pipelines

If you're interested, email me at thomas (at) seedotrun (dot) com.

Comment · 8 years ago

I'm Canadian. I moved to LA for a bit and then moved back to my home in Saskatchewan. I took a bit of a pay cut to come back, but I work for an autonomous vehicle company now. I enjoy it much more than my job in LA. We're looking for a Deep Learning/Data Scientist right now ;) $70-150k CAD is what to expect for salary range.

It definitely is harder to find interesting companies in Canada, which is why I originally left. They do exist though! Most decently sized cities are actively building startup & tech communities.

Comment · 9 years ago

I've heard Canada was affected as well. As a Canadian living in the US, I'm doubly fucked.

Comment · 9 years ago

I'm the creater of codeposters.io (https://codeposters.io). It's cool seeing everyone's take on this. I have a python script that consumes an image and text file of code and produces an output text file. Then I bring that output text into Illustrator and fine tune it.

Comment · 10 years ago

This is a cool way to learn about flexbox.

Comment · 10 years ago

Are the links from the emails they send out? Might be a token in those links. I don't have any quora emails right now to check.

Comment · 10 years ago

I assume they are using the theory/algorithm from the MIT video magnification work: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/

Comment · 10 years ago

I sub to these three:

computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/computerphile

leveluptuts: https://www.youtube.com/user/leveluptuts

google chrome developers: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChromeDevelopers

Comment · 10 years ago

My side project is http://codeposters.io. Revenue is hit or miss. I'll occasionally get big bumps in traffic. Conversion rate sits at almost exactly 1%.

Comment · 10 years ago

I made some art out of it (http://codeposters.io) and have it on my walls now.

Comment · 10 years ago

The landing page looks really good! Including the pastry hat in the kit is awesome too. If I lived in the US, I'd probably get this as a gift for someone. Maybe targeting it to the parents of children/teenagers that like to bake would work out?

Comment · 10 years ago

So, have a way for you to enter a github repository (for example), and have the image created using that repository?

Comment · 10 years ago

It's assembly code from here: https://code.google.com/p/virtualagc/source/browse/?r=258#sv...

The posters start with the code from BURN_BABY_BURN--MASTER_IGNITION_ROUTINE.s

I concatenated a number of files together and removed new lines, and runs of certain characters (space, #, and * for example). I felt that runs of the same character distracted the eye too much to keep. Those NASA engineers liked to make huge blocks of # characters.