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kaik··on My favourite C++ footgun
I kid you not, I spent a full working day debugging this exact same issue (taking a pointer to a vector element, before adding more elements). Very obvious if you understand how C++ and vectors work, yet it took me forever to realize, and it was miserable…
kaik··on SMT Solving on an iPhone (2018)
SMT, SAT, etc are absolutely AI. In fact, Machine Learning is just another field inside AI (albeit a famous and successful one). As someone that got his PhD doing his research in "classical" AI, it's surprising that nowadays most people think that AI is just machine learning.
kaik··on MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
The vast majority of international MIT students are graduate students. Except for business students (i.e. MBA, executive MBA and similar), graduate students in research programs do not pay a dime to MIT. Their tuition + stipend for living expenses is paid by research or TA fellowships. I.e. they either work as either research or teaching assistants to receive this money. MIT receives part of the fellowship money as an "overhead" tax, but this is exactly what happens for domestic graduate students. Notably, in the case of MIT these fellowships are provided to both M.S. and PhD students. I believe that Stanford M.S. students do not get such fellowships and hence need to pay for their tuition.

Source: got my PhD at MIT as an international F1 student.

kaik··on I2C in a Nutshell
This. I would also love to know what connectors I should use for my hobby projects. I’m also designing my first PCB board and something as simple as choosing connectors is daunting...
kaik··on Patient Number One in a new cancer treatment
This is a fantastic story. I'm so happy to hear that it worked for you!! Thanks for sharing!
kaik··on Music Theory: An Education from First Principles
I think this is fantastic. Awesome work. Looking forward to seeing the missing chapters!
kaik··on Kodak Ektra
That's the first thing I noticed and it made me laugh pretty hard. Such nice editing software haha.
kaik··on Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration
This is sooo cool! Thanks for sharing!!
kaik··on Ravens score just as high as big-brained chimps on cognitive tests
For some reason, not being a native English speaker I thought this referred to the Baltimore Ravens, and not to the animal of the same name...
kaik··on GPS Hacking, Part 1
Nice graph! Thanks!
kaik··on GPS Hacking, Part 1
Honest question, I assume playing with this is completely illegal in the US?? I guess you can get in real trouble if you are catched faking GPS signals? Does anyone know what are the regulations for something like this?
kaik··on Chemical equation balancing: An integer programming approach
Is chemical equation balancing NP-complete? hehe
kaik··on Chemical equation balancing: An integer programming approach
Did you enjoy working on those things?

The way you write it it seems like you think that it was stupid for a professor to give you an A for such easy things. However I bet you learned a lot.

kaik··on Drake: robotics planning, control and analysis toolbox
I took this class last Fall at MIT and it's really really good. I would recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.

Also it's great that all their code is open source. It's amazing what they can achieve with trajectory optimization.

I was also impressed that they were able to run MATLAB code live. Although to be fair, they are calling efficient commercial solvers implemented in C++ or other languages under the hood.