Computer wizard. Automotive fanatic. Robotics enthusiast. UBC MTRL

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Stuck with it and got a Materials Engineering degree instead of dropping out and re-enrolling in Electrical/Mechatronics/Robotics. Now my resume can't even get past ATS for robotics jobs. What do I even do.
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How a robot arm is controlled, explained for ML people new to robot learning. First of the explainers from my own speedrun. Next one will be on ACT. Follow me to catch it.
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How robot arms are controlled

If you're an ML practitioner entering robot learning, directly controlling hardware may seem daunting. My hope is that this article can help you cross that hurdle. I'll cover how an SO-100 robot arm

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nice to finally see tech tweets instead of endlessly clicking "not interested" on fight/crime videos
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i had a Finding Nemo toy like this when I was a kid
Researchers built a soft floating robot for indoor interaction. It uses helium and flapping fins instead of propellers. The result is quiet, lightweight, and safe to touch. It can follow people, give reminders, and act as a study buddy. Published at ACM DIS 2026.
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i think I'm gonna stop caring and start doing whatever
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what
🚀We just released Asset Harvester, an image-to-3D model and end-to-end pipeline that extracts real object assets from autonomous driving videos! 🌐 Website: research.nvidia.com/labs/sil… 💻 Code: github.com/nvidia/asset-harv… [1/5] #AssetHarvester #AVSimulation #WorldModel #AutonomousDriving
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Claude referred to me by name at the end of a response and I felt a weird connection before catching myself. I will NOT succumb to the machine slave psychosis
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what if this is an artificial narrative spread on social media by corporations themselves to cause FOMO on the market as a perverted way to make AI profitable
🚨 Are you watching what's happening right now? This morning JPMorgan told Meta to fire 20% of employees to save $5 billion.. literally Tonight Meta did it.. And the stock SURGED. Read that one more time. 14,000 people just lost their jobs nd Wall Street celebrated.. The stock went UP. Your job is not an asset to the company.. It's a cost nd the market just proved it will REWARD companies for deleting you. This is a business model.. Fire humans.. Buy AI. Watch stock go up.. Repeat. Your loss is their gain. Literally. They freed up 14,000 salaries to buy more GPUs from Jensen.
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i love Syncthing. the walls of Apple's walled garden have been nuked
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this shit is ass, why does a website have to look like a fucking Unreal Engine demo. JUST MAKE A NORMAL WEBSITE
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deadfloppy retweeted
Police camera catches 'Cookie Monster' speeding in rare Audi RS2 Avant. bit.ly/3NmGQ5D
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fine, I'll say it people want airpods. android owners buy airpods. everything that doesn't look like airpods defaults to looking like cheap temu shit. Samsung knows this, and they're going to cash out HARD on this one
The Galaxy Buds look like knockoff AirPods, you can’t deny it.
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Porsche: We electrified our 911, used a bigger engine, but it only added 100 lbs. Bugatti: We electrified our supercar, used a bigger engine, but it actually weighs *less* than its predecessor. BMW: We electrified our M5. It now weighs as much as a Model X Plaid electric SUV.

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they're taking everything i love before i get rich i can't take this anymore
Jaguar F-Type production has finished after 11 years and 87,731 cars. Do you have a favourite F-Type memory? buff.ly/4bQDP8d
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Creepers gonna creep. #minecraft
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I'm so glad I wiped all my tweets before they took away the API access
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STOP PUTTING SHIT IN THE CLOUD
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