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p-morais | 6 years ago | on: The State of Machine Learning Frameworks

Pytorch has a C++ API now.

p-morais | 6 years ago | on: Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids

"As a minor who caved into marketing pressure and became addicted to nicotine, I think we should make tobacco products more accessible to people like me"

This is not at all a cogent argument. Don't blame the nanny state for problems you brought upon yourself.

p-morais | 6 years ago | on: Robots 'to replace up to 20M factory jobs' by 2030

Onshoring of manufacturing sounds like a catastrophe for the developing world to me. What you're describing doesn't sound like a service to the developing world at all, but rather a way for the developed world to continue hoarding wealth while also righteously patting themselves on the back for ending "exploitation".

Do you think substandard living conditions will cease to exist the moment we remove relatively high paying factory jobs and external revenue from impoverished countries?

p-morais | 7 years ago | on: Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]

BD's machines actually have terrible energetics. They use very heavy and inefficient hydraulic actuation. I can't find a source for it, but IIRC Atlas has a specific resistance of around ~40, compared to a human which is around 0.2. I don't know an RC Car is at, but direct drive motors are quite efficient.

Whatever BD's angle is, it's not efficiency.

p-morais | 7 years ago | on: Boston Dynamics’ new robot stacks boxes [video]

IK + PID is not how these robots work. These robots use MPC and trajectory optimization, which should absorb minor disturbances just fine.