vhartman

Re:Typst 0.14 on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:20AM (#45769199)

Not OP, but likely overleaf.

Re:Typst 0.14 on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:01PM (#45696598)

How did you deal with the usually supplied templates that you get for TeX? Did you just try to imitate as best as possible?

(I wanted to look at this at some point for replacing latex for submissions to IEEE confs/corl etc)

GeneralistAI – Research Preview of Dextrous Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

Posted by vhartman on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:49AM
from the generalistai.com dept.

https://generalistai.com/blog.html

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Re:π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @05:12PM (#43766356)

These models typically predict actions directly, there is no motion planning going on here.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023) on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:47AM (#35437225)

  Location: looking to go back to Switzerland
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C++, Python, Everything in a typical robotics stack
  Résumé/CV: upon request
  Email: [email protected]

Currently finishing my PhD in robotics on task and motion planning (with a heavy focus on motion planning), expecting graduation towards the end of the year. I contributed to boost and OMPL, and I have experience in controls and estimation as well. Previously wrote real-time capable MPC-contollers, high-performance numerical integration methods, and developed novel path planning methods during my PhD.

Looking for robotics jobs (controls/navigation), or interesting general software engineering.

Re:How to smooth and spread A* paths for an RTS on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:50AM (#34596633)

The path simplification technique in the post is called "shortcutting" in robotics. Here [1] is some approachable explanation, the original paper [2] is relatively digestible read as well, and has some other techniques in there (amongs thm, partial shortcutting, which I found extremely helpful in robotics path planning).

Regarding general multi agent path finding: There is a lot of literature around with respect to time optimal planning in MAPF both in robotics, and in adjacent fields.

[1] http://www.osrobotics.org/osr/planning/post_processing.html

[2] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:10PM (#23086571)

Zurich does definitely not top out at 100k. Depending on your negotiation skills, you'll start at about 120-140k in the big tech companies, around 120k in data science consulting, 120k for data science in banks, 80-100k at the smaller software companies.

Re:The first two years of my PhD on Sunday April 12, 2020 @12:30PM (#22849262)

I am currently doing a PhD in Europe. The duration of 3 or 4 years is only really true for hard sciences/engineering, and can be much longer in other fields.

The self-support part is not true for the UK at least - I got admitted to the program but did not get funding, so I could have taken a loan. In Germany, I am employed as a 'research assistant' during my PhD, and while underpaid compared to FAANG (or other tech firms), my salary is around the median wage.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018) on Friday November 02, 2018 @06:35AM (#18361948)

Hey! I saw that you are not currently taking summer interns. Do you do off cycle internships by any chance?

Re:With lax oversight, the FAA has enabled secrecy in the skies on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @05:46PM (#15352630)

It's not only that. I was unable to read any text even after the facebook-popup since scrolling did only sometimes lead to scrolling, and arrows did not do anything either.

How was I supposed to view this website?

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017) on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:54AM (#14467996)

Hey, I applied ~2 weeks ago and did not hear anything back yet. Is that a "no", or does it just take longer?