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Understandable. I do think knowing how to play paper magic leads to a better understanding of the game but being a spike isn’t everyone’s goal.

You can just use Cockatrice for that. Sure it’s not as pretty or as easy, but it supports every card since you pretty much are playing paper magic and it’s not trying to be the ref…

That to me is one of the most interesting aspects. Somehow, these people who were deeply spiritual, also were adepts of science, and while we can’t say any of them got it exactly r…

Respectfully, Zosimus is one of the earliest Hellenistic writers on alchemy and he speaks of chemistry as a symbol: “There are two sciences and two wisdoms, that of the Egyptians a…

I’d say it goes beyond not being mutually exclusive. They complement each other, sometimes in surprising ways. Sacred geometry, concepts of frequency and vibrational rates, extract…

It was mostly VIO. The drone had 4 cameras, two front facing, two aimed more at the sides. There were two IMUs on the companion computer (and more on the flight controller of cours…

Well, for the drones, we did base things off ground truth captured in a mocap lab, and this helped the models significantly. There always will be a jump from simulation to real wor…

Yes getting timestamped and synchronized ground truth to build/verify your model will be quite challenging for something like this. For the drones we just took them to a mocap lab,…

It was a software competition, whoever developed the best AI was the whole point. And we did NOT give them full course data ahead of time - they had to do this based off VIO only (…

Models for drones are actually pretty simple. The races are indoors, so we can assume 0 wind. It’s really basic physics and aerodynamics. We had some sessions in a mocap lab where …

It is, yes, but also this was done purely by VIO - courses were not mapped ahead of time. Contestants had very limited time on the actual drone, almost all their work had to be don…

I am a consultant who developed the companion computer/autopilot and software environment for DRL drones used at the AIRR race sponsored by Lockheed in 2019. UZH was the team to be…

Ha. I lived in Oxford for a year and the first day I arrived at my flat, there was a giant house spider. To this day it’s the biggest spider I’ve ever seen.

I’m with you. I drive a 24 year old 740iL. It’s a car, it functions well as one. If I want nav or whatever I have a cell phone after all. I even left the sound system original and …

You see this a lot though. It’s because it becomes harder and harder to do something new and different when it’s all sort of been done before. Innovating something that’s been done…

The actual rich are buying $1000 Gucci shoes that wear out just as fast as a $100 fashion sneaker these days. They put in a $100k kitchen and then do another full remodel in 10 yea…

Sort of but less high tech than most think of w that word, it’s a “touchscreen” - red LEDs tell you the level.

I really can’t understand this perspective. Perhaps cheap gas is better than cheap electric cooktops. But my Miele which is radiant, not even induction, heats up VERY fast and prov…

I launched my own matrix server for my company two years ago and I’ve never had to do a thing with it. It gets frequent use by ~10 people, so not huge, but it’s been quite easy to …

I guess you guys have some firmer land up there. Here if it isn't pure swamp, its limestone which water has no problem passing through, hence no basements in most locations.

Not sure about the rest of the state but definitely no basements here in South Florida. I haven’t even seen any houses w a crawl space when I was moving here. Pretty much just conc…

What happens when the company decides to migrate from JIRA to something else? It wouldn’t take any special effort to migrate the TODO but in my experience the old JIRA is going to …

The later posts show binwalk output and there are certs at the top of the binary. He’s never getting his own firmware to run. Fun hobby project for him I’m sure though.

Near 100%. If you look at the binwalk output in his later posts you can clearly see certificates as one of the first things in the binary. I’ll be shocked if this guy ever actually…