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I am considering a random map generator for just this reason.

*not a white man

:) see you on there

That's the point. Francis has the good ideas, I'm just supporting them!

Here is how you can interact with it: https://github.com/frnsys/hosny

Lol'ing at the downvotes, don't care.

Because it is not so focused on people as much as it is with "people in cities." Cities are the future of low carbon emissions. So specifically simulating and visualizing the happiness of people within cities is huge. There is great potential for this work.

This is breakthrough. I'm telling you, it is a game changer, and it was coded by women -- which is also significant.

Simulation of human life combined with reality capture and BIM software are going to change the game. So-much-so that the market price of commodities like copper and aluminum are going to become of GLOBAL interest.

This could not have come at a better time than when scientists are freaking out about the Great Barrier Reef being almost completely dead.

Yo man, everyone's got their brew. It's just how much of it you can remember and copy into the next batch each time.

Hi, I just finished revising my cover letter and applying to the intern position. Looking forward to your reply!

I have met a lot of companies doing natural language processing, who are looking for BS and MS.

I imagine someone at Western Union had the foresight to see this risk and save enough cash to pay the bill when it came.

Hey there, I am interested. Is there an email I can reach you at?

I've been using 4 for production. Pretty much the same thing.

I think it got cancelled because it is a real startup now.

Let me explain! Put yourself in CEO's shoes: you have employees who love working for you but you need to get them a paycheck. From that perspective, it is easy to see that it is kind of crazy to enter into these lengthy government discussions that could possibly ruin your business and delay the entire industry! No thanks!!

If they're all really engineers who just love doin' the work, they will be a valuable contracting outfit doin' the exact same work for a steadier paycheck.

> Another idea: some progress has been made on optical character recognition, so if he can write well enough, it may be possible that you may be able to scan his written programs, and convert them to source file easily, without having to transcribe them. So the process could be smooth enough.

I was going to ask if he has access to a smartphone to take and send photos of paper?

Set up a server for it. Hell turn it into a business.

Going Robo-Naruto up in here!

Can you make the application autosave?

Hey guys. So you do consulting for drone companies looking to solve a particular problem, by adapting your previously made software system?

This is a much easier problem to solve. There are certainly different ways in which objects can collide though, so that would make the problem more interesting and complex.

What is the payback period YC looks for? i.e. How many years does it take for a home-run to become a home-run?

Both.

What do I do if I need to use another company's patent in my product? How do I approach the situation/negotiation?

What are the pros and cons of crowdfunding, vs. self-funding, vs. VC-funding for a hardware startup?

When should I be using which sort of funding?

Depth/stereo cameras are the future, I agree. But the conclusion of this paper says that you can cascade the results of this algorithm with the stereo algorithm fairly easily.

Academics aren't always concerned with making your job easy, they have lives too. They may have struggled a lot for their results and their code is still a living document, or they sell it to a company. Maybe their grant ran out and they got pulled into something else. Maybe they died.

There's a lot of factors.

Look at OpenRave. It's the result of an academic open sourcing his research.

I just think at the end of the day, a research paper exists to validate human understanding of nature - not give you a boilerplate for implementing it.

Thanks!

I see where you're coming from. I think the truth is actually dependent on the particular institution and particular academic.

For example, OpenRave is the result of academics open sourcing their research.

Update: Someone posted a link to the code.

Science = Nature.

Code = Applying Nature.

I love open source, but there is a very good reason why academics generally don't release their code.

They are scientists: they are best at testing, explaining, and documenting nature.

Code is an engineer's job: making it as fast and robust as possible for the given application or with the latest tools.

They want to make you work for it :)

tl:dr; Can combine monocular NN CV techniques with stereo techniques for good, cheap results. AKA: The future of SLAM.