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Re:Ask HN: Should I publish my research code? on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:43PM (#29940854)
Definitely publish! Check out the Journal of Open Source Software - https://joss.theoj.org/
Re:Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:22PM (#28579435)
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scirobotics.aan2971

This is one of the first papers describing the AMI surgery.

Re:Why Buy America Is Bad Law on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @11:59AM (#27530012)
Do you have a source or a specific reason to comparing to Morocco? I was there in 2015. The trains were in pretty rough shape, on one of the trains the toilet was damaged and you could see the train tracks... I don't remember any other specifics, but overall the transportation was a bit rough. That being said, I don't know much about the quality of transportation in America outside of the east coast.
Re:Jello 3D Printer (2013) on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:11PM (#26498769)
This is so cool! And it's from 2013, thats amazing. A very similar printing method is being explored by MIT's Self Assembly lab, I think they first published in 2017 - https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/rapid-liquid-printing https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/3dp.2017.0037
Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link is not br... on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:42PM (#26017385)
The old MIT leglab website is still live and hosted by csail. Wayback machine has oldest capture back in 1996. I checked a few of the images of the older robots and wayback machine shows the links were unchanged since96. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210126053221/http://www.ai.mit...
Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presiden... on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:47PM (#24944133)
It's hard to tell. In the 2016 primaries Trump had 44% of the vote. That's a lot, and it's more than the other candidates, but its not a majority of the total vote. In the earlier primaries he most of his victories were in the 30's. So now you have to guess where he ranked for the 60-70% of people that voted for other people in early primaries. He might have still won, or other candidates could have emerged with majorities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_Republican...

[edit] I guess that doesn't really answer your question, because you asked about this election...

Re:MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:44PM (#23492637)
Chris Bourg sent the email announcing it.
Re:An Oregon creamery making vodka from milk on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:51AM (#22638550)
I think this is it. https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_o...
Re:Ask HN: How can I 3D print my skeleton for research? on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:47PM (#19586313)
Octave looks really cool, I am not familiar with it. Like I said, gibbon is open source, so you could attempt to port it. I didn't write gibbon, so I have no idea what the dependencies are like. But I imagine it would not be trivial.
Re:Ask HN: How can I 3D print my skeleton for research? on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:46PM (#19575747)
If you get an mri or ct scan you can use this package to segment the bones and the convert the image slices to 3D geometry. https://www.gibboncode.org/ It’s open source, but uses matlab which is not free if you are not at a university. It will also take a while...
Re:The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (2016) on Monday November 26, 2018 @01:35PM (#18535666)
Amusing note, The "what is the common thread" slide literally shows the promised land. It's a picture of Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.
Re:3D Color Print on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:07PM (#16311622)
I order material cartridges for my lab's Stratasys Connex 500. There are a lot of different materials at a lot of different pricepoints... but generally $125 - $250/kg of material. I would expect HP to price in that range.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable? on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:11AM (#15823888)
These guys started from a kickstarter 3 or 4 years ago, and are still in business. I bought one but never had time to use it. https://mbientlab.com/
Re:Ask HN: How Much Alcohol/Coffee Do You Drink? on Friday May 19, 2017 @11:31PM (#14380896)
0-3 cups of coffee per day (with 3 being rare) 3-16 drinks/2 weeks. I just graduated so that number was even higher cause of celebrations, but it was usually pretty low.

I wish there were more comments here, would be a cool survey for HN

Re:Ending the cult of the CEO on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:55PM (#14188220)
I'm sure the majority of the article is valid, but Apple's stock skyrocketed after Job's death. I'm sure it's an outlier but kind of wish that had been acknowledged given the image used.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017) on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:26AM (#14029478)
Hi, Is there a reason this job is not listed on the general jobs page? https://lco.global/jobs
Re:Ask HN: What am I missing about this FCC order? on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:50PM (#13992484)
Not an expert, but one difference I see often mentioned is the ISPs have a monopoly. Don't like google tracking you then use DuckDuckGo. You don't have that choice with ISPs. I'm in Worcester (second "most populous" city in NE) I can pick Charter or Verison DSL
Re:Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (2013) on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:28PM (#13690607)
Article does not present and solutions to picking a good leader and avoiding the issues mentioned in the article. Unless the advice is "only elect female leaders" - which also seems broken.
Re:Google’s self-driving car team prepares to spin out from Alphabet’s X on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:46PM (#13161234)
If I'm not mistaken, this is the presentation that discusses mapping the roads before autonomous travel. They compare the maps to what the car sees as it drives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk

But there are a number of reasons the need pre-mapping are not a huge issue. A) When autonomous cars start to be introduced people will still know how to drive, and can pilot the car through unmapped areas. By the time everyone has an autonomous car, and no one knows how to drive the world will be mapped. B) Google has already shown with Streetview that they can create detailed, up-to-date maps of most roads. C) This problem will likely be solved in time.

Re:Google’s self-driving car team prepares to spin out from Alphabet’s X on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:29PM (#13161073)
Uber's "Otto" is already making autonomous trucks.

You're describing a traveling salesman problem - which there are plenty of working solutions (even if we don't know the best solution yet) And then an autonomous forklift problem - there are a few companies already making them. And packaging + placement can simplify any issues if they exist. Maybe throw in a robotic arm in the back of the truck for good measure.

Autonomously refilling a tank of gas could be a fun problem to solve. But full service stations already exist. Those should be able to stand in until there is a better solution, such as Tesla's battery swap stations but for trucks.

Now, without a human driver the trucks can be working 24/7. No need for sleep. Which might be worth it even if a human accompanies the truck and just sleeps in a back section. Also who wants to pay a person to drive a truck, when the truck can drive itself for free?

Re:Trump’s attorney general pick could restart the encryption fight on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:11PM (#12991389)
A little tired of election news on HN, but I know that encryption and privacy is important to HN community. This article should serve as a heads up to be weary of encryption laws in the next few years.
Re:The Night a Computer Predicted the Next President (2012) on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:36PM (#12902743)
I think I first read about this in the 2nd edition of Computer: A History of the Information Machine[1]. Still fascinating

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-History-Information-Machine-...

Re:MacBook Pro is a lie on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:36AM (#12891850)
Robotics Engineer(ing student). Also annoyed that only the most expensive pro has a real graphics card.

Things that need a lot of RAM:

Solidworks, Fusion360 (I can't even run it on 8bg with and an integrated gpu) And using Solidworks remotely is a bad joke.

Robot Path planning, motion planning

AI Assignments,

ROS + RVIZ + Gazebo + actual robot software

Anything written in python

[EDIT almost forgot] Matlab, VMs

Playing music or having a web browser open while any of the above things are running...

16bg would probably be fine for 2 years. But >$2000 is a lot to pay for only 2 years of use. People seem to think that just because its no longer current_year-1 that their desktop app can use previous_version's_RAM+0.5gb

There are enough people with enough reasons for having only a laptop. The dell precision m5510 is around same price as mbp (depending on setup) and yet it comes with a real graphics card, and the option for 32 gb of RAM.

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