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Breadth vs. Depth. Alg4Opt covers more topics, providing the motivation behind the algorithm, sometimes a basic derivation, and a concrete implementation. It has citations in the m…

To be clear, both are fiction, it’s just that one is fantasy and the other is set in modern reality.

The video doesn’t show how the car got into this situation

Rust has a method for enforcing better memory safety. That is great for deployed applications, but can be annoying when you’re still exploring / mutating your code to figure out th…

The article says it: “We determined that due to the persistent orientation mismatch of the towed pickup truck and tow truck combination, the Waymo AV incorrectly predicted the futu…

My mom was hit by a driver when she was biking and fell with her arm in front of the wheel. The driver then decided to pull forward and drove over her arm. So humans don’t really s…

NHTSA standing general order crash rates are a mandated and publicly available data source. That’s what the study is based on.

Another very good blog overview here (not mine): https://ianthehenry.com/posts/delaunay/ I love DCELs and have been tinkering with them in my own side projects lately. Very cool da…

Isn’t Waymo already operating a full service in Phoenix? Haven’t heard of many issues from there.

I highly recommend the course “Computer, Enhance!” by Casey Muratori on substack for those interested in how CPUs / assembly work. You get to decode byte code, simulate instruction…

I recently started the new class by Casey Muratori, “computer enhance”, that teaches performance-aware programming. I also try to complete a small personal project every month and …

“As of 2020, South Korea was the only country among the OECD members to have a rate below 1, giving it a shrinking population.” Being below 2 gives you a shrinking population, beca…

You still run A*, it’s just on the nav mesh rather than on a grid.

The title is complete clickbait. It should say “no one’s short intuitive explanations of why planes stay in the air are fully correct”

A blog post in which the classic cart-pole swingup problem is solved with a hierarchical control method that breaks the problem down into a high-level search problem on top of low-…

Chesterson’s Fence comes to mind. If you think you have an obvious solution, you’re almost surely missing something. Killing people obviously has repercussions. Building more housi…

the prompt wasn’t questioning why there aren’t more - it was asking where they hang out online.

My next door neighbor would scream at people passing by. I’d routinely be woken at 7am due to his swearing. Things started getting worse. He verbally threatened to kill people. He …

This is astounding! I’ve looked into papers on this topic before and found them indescipherable. I love the clean visualizations, the implementations, and the clear progression.

The Chinese room argument is claimed to show how consciousness cannot be based on computation. I totally disagree - it merely shows that as an external observer we cannot verify co…

I absolutely love doing this. I often write in LaTeX, where new lines don’t effect the typeset output. It is so much easier to see git diffs, comment sentences out, move sentences,…

“Proofs from the Book” is a great (and IMO fun) book. The 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel is amazing as well.

I very much enjoyed this blog post! Thank you for the thorough overview