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cbames89

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About cbames89

Co-Founder BotBuilt, we build homes with robots! Formerly RL and Robotics researcher at Duke University, and NASA.

website: www.cbames.com email: barrett@botbuilt.com

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    This collection is one of my favorite memories from undergrad. Every time I walked past I tried to think of a new way to use one of the mechanisms.

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    Comment #43545491

    Slow game warns other slow game, hey you might get fast.

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    Comment #42563504

    It's ~21% the cost of a home, it's actually the single most costly and labor intense category. That being said it does only take 14-21 days to frame a home.

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    Comment #38500717

    BotBuilt | Full Time Software, Electrical, Mechatronics | ONSITE ( Durham, NC/ Manilla, PH / Sao Paulo, Brazil) We build homes with robots! BotBuilt is at the forefront of revoluti…

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    BotBuilt (YC-W21) | INTERNS | VISA | ONSITE | Durham, NC We build homes with robots! We stick frame homes using traditional American building approaches but we use robots to do it.…

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    Comment #37637875

    I took a ride in May in Austin. It was my first time in an driverless car. I took a bunch of notes and emailed Kyle Vogt my thoughts. In the past he's been quite generous with his …

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    Comment #37040510

    Robots that build houses, check us out, www.botbuilt.com

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    I would definitely be at danger of getting into the habit of just saying no if I was asked everytime it changed, especially early in the dev cycle. However, if it was just at pull …

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    Comment #35005671

    This is awesome! A related problem that currently has no solution I know of is documentation rot. I would definitely pay for a LLM that compared docs and code and told me if they g…

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    Ask HN: What's Your Favorite Tool?

    I'm always amazed at the cool/useful new tools that I find out about when I talk to new people. It can be hardware or software. My current favorite, ferrule crimpers. Probably beca…

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    Comment #31619052

    Using Android, Veri doesn't support Android yet.

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    Comment #31616391

    I was looking into this the other week, I couldn't find a CGM supplier in the US that would sell dtc. I don't need it for any medical reasons. Im just interested in the data. Anyon…

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    Comment #31525398

    BotBuilt (W21) we build robots that build homes. Always looking for software and hardware types that want to take on the massive housing shortage!

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    Comment #31486315

    Any idea why the eastern US is wait listed? I'd love to ditch spectrum and I work in construction so having mobile internet would be huge.

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    Comment #31476712

    Here's a tech companies few I know of: -www.botbuilt.com - (W21) -Canvas -Built -AutoVol - https://www.diamondage3d.com/ -Entekra -Promise Robotics -Icon -Rent my backyard (YC)

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    Comment #27578352

    To your point about there being no innovation to be made. Better risk models would be a tech advantage that would allow one company to offer more accurate premiums.

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    I signed up once for Sunday delivery only. After 3 months I never received a single paper, then I called to cance. I had a much easier time over the phone, but they were surprised …

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    Comment #26000175

    Sounds like you care quite a bit. Although perhaps here you're defining success as monetary as opposed to adding reliable knowledge.

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    Comment #25550976

    In my opinion there's a wide open array of approaches from control that can help with this. Learning for Control is a new conference that looks at this very topic.

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    Comment #25550968

    Technical point: Value functions that are a constant multiples of each other result in the same behavior.

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    Comment #25220391

    I'm reminded of John Medina, neuroscientist, "what's obvious to you, is obvious to you."

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    I've been using spaced repetition via anki for about a year now. Two effects that I've run into: 1.) When there's a deadline looming i tend to drop doing it, and then after the dea…

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    Very different focus in Modern Robotics. I've used Modern Robotics in the past to teach a course on robotics fundamentals. It's fundamental in that it covers problem definitions, a…

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    woah, you're totally right. My bad. I just remembered him talking about manipulation as under-actuated problem. thanks for the catch.