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CaffeineSqurron UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

Terveen was always honest about what works and what doesn't work. Its good to see them acknowledge that this is something they need to dive into and fix.

CaffeineSqurron Laser Bear Honeycomb lidar

The blackmore lidar startup that aurora recently acquired was a spinout from an active sensing defense company. Additionally a lot of the precision guided munitions make heavy use of active sensing. For a lot of military applications they are fine with active sensing because there isn't a concern about people knowing where they are the concern is getting the job done and collecting as much data as possible.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/lidar-startup-blackmore-rai...

CaffeineSqurron GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff

It's not getting publicized very much but they did lay off people from the core AV teams (planning, controls, perception, mapping, etc.) in addition to the otherwise cited groups.

CaffeineSqurron The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civilizations

CaffeineSqurron Ask HN: How do World Lenses work without depth sensor?

There's a lot you can do with just a single camera and imu. PTAM is just one example there are other formulations but it tends to work well without using a ton of CPU/GPU resources

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gk/PTAM/

CaffeineSqurron Zynga Now Worth Less Than Its Own Office Building

The halting problem on medium is a satirical blog. Here's another of their posts

https://medium.com/halting-problem/sf-man-stabbed-while-brun...

CaffeineSqurron [dead]

Cruise Automation is definitely looking for ML interns. There's just a general intern job posting but we are looking for interns for every team. https://jobs.lever.co/cruise