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TFortunato

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About TFortunato

I build robots.

Current: Staff Robotics Engineer at Chewy

Prior: Atlas @ Boston Dynamic; Robotics and Embedded Systems Engineering @ Amazon Robotics, Rethink Robotics, iRobot; Automation Engineering @ Ginkgo Bioworks.

Early Career: Electrical Engineer in Semiconductor Industry @ Applied Materials, Analog Devices, Allegro Microsystems

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45550165

    https://m.youtube.com/shorts/nRNKfd35Wqg

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    Comment #45443359

    At Amazon Robotics we built a robot control system that executed state charts (described in an extended version of SCXML) in real-time for managing the core behaviors of the robot.…

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    Comment #45052178

    OK, on reflection, there are a few things, Kace's response is absolutely right that the summaries tend to be a place where there is a big giveaway. There is also something about th…

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    Comment #45052056

    This is probably not going to be a very helpful answer, but I sort of think of it this way: you probably have favorite authors or artist (or maybe some really dislike!), where you …

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    Comment #39781163

    Study was linked in article, but for those who don't want to go digging: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822

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    Comment #39672984

    Related fun fact - On many industrial robots that I've worked with, the teach pendant (the handheld controller you drive it around with), requires you to hold a 3 position spring-l…

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    Comment #39488755

    I don't know his story, but I had a little chuckle at the juxtaposition of "quite good at opsec" with "in federal custody"

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    Comment #39416042

    I think they are stating the odds of the federal government actually allowing secession to go through would be...minimal at best, given these assets in the state.

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    Comment #39031398

    I'm a big fan of approaches like this, that combine deep learning / newer techniques w/ "GOFAI" approaches.

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    Comment #39014255

    Brought back memories of taking french in middle school for me! I remember very little of that class, save the last few letters of the alphabet "w,x,y,z" as something like "double-…

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    Comment #38971540

    Some related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971012

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    Comment #38971527

    Related story: https://futurism.com/amazon-products-ai-generated

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    Comment #38530681

    Looks like that was one of the references cited in this paper.

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    Comment #38083277

    Parent post said "science/health", nothing about preventing crime or jailing more people

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    Comment #37884953

    Hoping I can help you grok the problem a bit more. Typing on phone, so please excuse the lack of decent formatting. A moving average is a good place to start thinking about it. Thi…

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    Comment #37638105

    Video related: https://twitter.com/ColdOnes/status/1705957381870612837?t=MX...

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    Comment #37557789

    > it's not the file system that's the problem here, it's that "everything is a file" is not true for a whole bunch of important stuff that you might want to apply access control to…

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    Comment #36944132

    Sorry if I was unclear in my statement. I assumed, without access to the article, that this release is using "Tobacco" loosely to mean "some sort of Nicotiana", likely Nicotiana Be…

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    Comment #36925111

    Tobacco is one of a handful of plant "model organisms", basically meaning that we have a lot of studies already done and genetic / metabolic information about it available. Scienti…

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    Comment #36869468

    It's just a silly meme used when making a silly argument https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/checkmate-atheists

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    Comment #36827274

    Also Mondragon, with 12 Billion Eur revenue, and ~82,000 employees https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

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    Comment #36495280

    I thought I had this issue, but it turned out I had to remember the "+" at the end, when I put my opponent in check

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    Comment #33667278

    In almost every way, aside from the use of "a drop of blood"? Snark aside, this article is claiming testing for a single blood parameter, clotting time, using purpose built hardwar…

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    Comment #33453051

    Looking at the banner pic on their main page, they seem to have at least one ISP install of multiple racks in the wild. Also, doing a little reading on how "fill" of the devices wo…