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Comment · 3 months ago
How hard was it to source your open arm robot? Curious how much it cost all in?
Comment · 1 year ago
I find your second sentence very difficult to pull off in practice, if you have any sort of responsibility (e.g. kids). Modern interviews seem to assume you have a lot of time to dedicate to prep.

In the old days, one could prep while on severance. But those seem to be becoming. Less generous and in some cases being skimped on through shenanigans.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think a huge part of the challenge is we all suck as a field.

Why does something new have to be invented or api need to be deprecated? Do we take into consideration all the things that will break? The docs, the online examples, do we give sufficient context as to why something is a solution or works-for-me and move on? Tech like docker and Java were supposed to simplify but did they actually fulfill their mission? I think I will write a book on this one day.

I moved to management but my heart is still in the code. And it weeps.

Comment · 1 year ago
B.s. parent literally gave an example of someone that got access to MAID a week after their doc visit. I’ve changed my mind on things after a month. Not saying MAID is bad or should be banned. I’m saying people will 100 percent abuse the system. My concern is healthcare system practiioners. I am dealing with a ton of people whose job it is to press our family into a decision we don’t want to make. This includes an md, a social worker and a care coordinator. Canadas health care for old people and folks with dementia is a disgrace. Maid should not have to be the only option with dignity.
Comment · 2 years ago
My kids mixed up about 20-300 sets, some big ones, and it feels quite hopeless sorting them through. Any tips on how to untangle, or is it a hopeless cause? I do vision research and am mulling an AI based approach too.
Comment · 2 years ago
Hey! Those were the last two times I invested in the market, saw my investment diminish and stopped paying attention. For what it's worth, I am putting money in again, so let's see.. lol.

Edit. Oh .. I also invested just before the dot com crash. I looked at the historical charts and can't believe my timing.

Comment · 2 years ago
Very cool! How did you get the collage layout? I noticed images in each column don’t have the same size. I assume images get Centre cropped?
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m an old person now but I miss coding. With lil kids and stressful management work, I just don’t get blocks of time as I used to as a younger person. Can you share how you were able to code in breaks? As it takes time to get into a state of flow, I don’t even bother with short intervals under 2 hours. That is likely my mistake. Open to tips to wake up the code monk inside.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am totally guessing but this seems like proof of concept chip that can likely just do some specific cnn. The benchmarks quoted seemed weird .. who does fashionmnist outside of teaching? What the heck is 3 class imagenets?? Not even sure what time lapse video recognition is.

There is an advance here which is cool scientifically .. just overblown headline as usual I think.

Comment · 3 years ago
Also work in deep learning for the last many years. We pay people well but the hype about truckloads of cash to researchers is overblown. Unless you happen to be exactly the skill set someone needs, there is a lot of talent.

I post this to say there is nothing wrong with you. You hear of the crazy successful few but not the majority of cases.

Comment · 3 years ago
Terrible pop up on that site. Designed by an a hole.
Comment · 3 years ago
Programming team of the future … 9 lawyers and 1 programmer. I think we are getting there.
Comment · 3 years ago
Piggybacking in case parent answers. I am confused why it works on a limited set of devices. Doesn’t it just need a video source? Can u plug it into a rPI?
Comment · 3 years ago
Disagree. HoloLens and oculus went with internal SDKs too complicated for most devs, and had official docs recommending Unity and unreal for development. This seemed stupid as those environments were not purpose built for this class of device (mixed reality). I think Apple has shown some serious wisdom here and am excited to explore their frameworks.

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