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wbthomason

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About wbthomason

Postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, researcher, and hacker interested primarily in robotics and programming languages.

https://wbthomason.github.io

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    I have similar feelings toward ROS, but I don't have experience with industrial alternatives. Would you be willing to elaborate (insofar as you're allowed to) about what made the "…

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    Comment #30911074

    One small downside of Blaze vs. Eigen for robotics is that Blaze seems to lack the highly convenient geometry types and operations that Eigen ships with. This wouldn't be difficult…

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    Comment #30910680

    Thanks, this looks promising indeed! Especially because it similarly supports custom scalar types: https://bitbucket.org/blaze-lib/blaze/wiki/Vector%20and%20Ma...

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    Comment #30910219

    Huh, interesting - this is news to me, as I use Eigen all the time/see it used all over for robotics. Is there a good replacement for robotics-specific operations/small matrices ge…

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    Comment #27964640

    Totally fair, yep. Thanks again!

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    Comment #27963856

    This is an interesting read, thanks! I'm a bit surprised by https://viralinstruction.com/posts/badjulia/#julia_cant_easi... - I've been considering embedding Julia (as opposed to L…

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    Comment #12056146

    Great, I hope it works for you!

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    Comment #12050673

    There's also Wmail[1], which I've been using for the past few months. It's essentially just an Electron wrapper around the web app, with all that entails. It's worked fairly well f…

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    Comment #8156159

    We're planning on it! We'll be doing a write-up of the whole process and stack, to be posted after the launch. We're actually using an analog transceiver designed for FPV use to tr…

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    Comment #8156109

    What platform/browser are you on?

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    Comment #8155929

    Sorry, we meant for the text beneath the counter and the tweet feed to give details on the event. You'll be able to control where our camera points during the flight.

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    Comment #7011515

    I was one of the students in this course. If you're interested, I would recommend reading the professor's "course wrap-up"( http://rust-class.org/pages/course-wrapup.html ) - it di…