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mappingbabeljc··on A Peek Inside Google’s Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
It's handy knowing they're fiddling with ROS, and the research papers show use of DNN&RL for robotics via simulated tasks with actions keying off of raw pixel inputs (paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.02971v1.pdf), and grasp paper shows ambitions on dexterous manipulation. I think valuable to have some idea of the research areas. I'm biased because I wrote the article, though! Aiming to produce a more granular article as soon as I can report it out.
mappingbabeljc··on Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software
Hiya. I wrote the article (for verification see Twitter handle @mappingbabel). In poll of 20 $1bn> startups vast majority used MySQL, though I saw a few mentions of Cassandra and MongoDB. Additionally (though not really DBMS) tons of ElasticSearch and Redis. We pull out Cassandra DB specifically because we were able to find a reasonable price comparison example for it (most people I spoke to were just rolling their own MySQL rather than going to a vendor).
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