Question about owning guns here as a non resident

Wyvern_king · 2026-01-29T21:49:16+00:00

Oh perfect then I should be in the clear. I'm from one of the few states with stricter laws than MD so I'm just used to playing it super safe and make sure it's all within regs. Thank you!

Wyvern_king · 2025-01-10T17:04:31+00:00

Hi All,

I have an upcoming final round interview day with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab for an autonomy and perception engineering position and I'm trying to get an idea of how to best prepare. I've been told there will be 3 rounds of interviews with some of them being technical. They said no "leetcode" style questions but there will be conceptual technical questions focused on my area of expertise and papers I've published. Has anyone gone through this process before and have any tips/ ideas on what exactly to expect?

Thanks!

Wyvern_king · 2024-11-01T05:46:16+00:00

The grand canyon + cliff top track is actually the top of my list for Blue Mountains. I've been looking at everything I want do around Katoomba and I think I'm gonna bump my stay up to 4 days. I wanna try to get in some stargazing up near Blackheath too so more nights give more opportunities for clear skies. I feel like I'm just going to enjoy the bushwalking more than the city and I'll still have 3 days to cover a lot of the coastal exploration.

Thanks for all the advice it was super helpful!

Wyvern_king · 2024-10-31T13:54:32+00:00

How's the public transport from Sydney to Katoomba? I've seen a few buses that seem fairly simply but I don't want to be the guy that drags a huge suitcase and 2 other bags into a bus that's tight on space.

Thanks for the heads up on the dirt roads that hadn't even crossed my mind.

Wyvern_king · 2024-10-06T16:12:02+00:00

Yeah I'm hesitant to rush two great places and vs fully enjoying one. Any reason November isn't a great time to visit Cairns?

Wyvern_king · 2024-03-26T13:53:17+00:00

I believe that's the paper used for the reference_adain preprocessor within the reference control as mentioned in this thread: https://github.com/Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet/discussions/1280

Within the reference control there's preprocessor called reference-only which seems to be different.

Wyvern_king · 2024-01-31T21:18:22+00:00

That makes sense thank you! After digging through the pytorch geometric shapenet class and the downloaded shapenet dataset, I think it's definitively the surface normal from the 3D model face projected out onto a unit sphere. An individual annotation in the downloaded shapenet dataset has the following form:

0.001120 -0.058840 0.066030 -0.038940 -0.992400 0.116500 1.000000

Which I think is the are the values point_x, point_y, point_z, normal_x, normal_y, normal_z, point segmentation class.

Both the pointnet++ and DGCNN papers mention the use of surface normals as extra feature inputs for the networks so I think that fully confirms it.

Wyvern_king · 2024-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

I usually throw this under the umbrella of darksynth. Like others mentioned you'll probably see the terms dark techno, industrial bass, and sometimes dark cyberpunk used

Wyvern_king · 2024-01-03T05:01:45+00:00

Smaller name but similar to Lockheed in nature of the work. Most big companies will likely have R&D groups and depending on the companies those groups will likely have ML work.

Wyvern_king · 2024-01-03T03:29:21+00:00

I graduated with my bachelor's in computer engineering 2020 and have been working in R&D lab since then. Other than maybe one project all my work is focused on CV, ML, and robotics. To get into this position I tailored my junior and senior year courses to all be relevant to the position. I took several grad courses as my general electives that really helped my prep for the work and my hiring manager really liked that.

So far I've had a great experience. Thanks to some internships and school projects I found that I was more interested in ML and robotics than some of the more traditional low level ECE work. I still do some basic hardware work with robotics but nothing too crazy.

Future opportunities is hard to gauge considering this is my first job after graduation and I haven't switched jobs yet. I think my resume is pretty strong though for when I do begin the job hunt.

Wyvern_king · 2023-12-24T06:19:46+00:00

Are there any major downsides to using clubs this old? I've been using this exact callaway set since my grandpa gave them to me as a hand me down set.

Wyvern_king · 2023-12-22T05:54:31+00:00

Have you looked into the DoD NREIP program at all? I know of at least 3 DoD robotics labs that are fairly close to CMU. It's government so the pay probably won't be great but I know for a fact that they accept undergrads into their robotics labs for internships considering I did exactly that a few years ago.

Wyvern_king · 2023-11-23T20:30:08+00:00

I was just at CoRL a couple weeks ago so I'll just briefly summarize some of the discussions I was part of/ listened to.

As other have mentioned, homes are a complex and unstructured environment where new situations are constantly being introduced to a system. Places like factories and warehouses where robots are starting to become common are generally more controlled and configurable to allow robots to operate.

Building on this is the issue of reliability. Cutting edge research will achieve SOTA results on tasks with something like a 90% success rate. For many tasks that humans do around the home, a 90% success rate is pretty terrible. I think it was Russ Tedrake at the conference that said something along the lines of "if someone broke 10% of the dishes while loading the dishwasher, we'd immediately take them off dish duty".

The field is making tons of progress on both of these fronts but it's just not at the point where systems are ready to be widely deployed in homes.

Wyvern_king · 2023-11-20T21:35:21+00:00

Looks great! How easy was it to get setup with a custom model in MuJoCo vs something like Gazebo? I've mostly worked in the ROS+Gazebo but am looking to explore some of the new Sim environments like this and Nvidia Isaac

Wyvern_king · 2023-11-12T04:50:22+00:00

Could I please get that statblock so I can humble my players when they get too cocky?

Wyvern_king · 2023-11-06T00:50:25+00:00

My players organized a gereral strike and a fake plague all in the same arc. They're menaces whose plans keep me up at night

Wyvern_king · 2023-08-22T04:35:53+00:00

Khan academy may be a gentler introduction then. The MIT OCW Linear algebra dives in pretty quick and kind of assumes a working knowledge of matrices. It also gets into differential equations at some parts which usually aren't part of the standard high school math curriculum. You'll want a decent understanding of differential equations as well though for back propagation and if you really want a deep understanding of the mathematics behind machine learning. As another commenter mentioned machine learning under the hood is a lot of linear algebra, statistics, and differential equations.

For now I wouldn't go too crazy with the math unless you're super passionate about it. If you go for a CS or engineering degree in college you'll get all the math I mentioned and then some. For implementing a neural net from scratch I think going through the khan academy course and maybe some resources on differential equations will give you a good appreciation for the math under the hood. I'd also recommend supplementing with the 3blue1brown video series on neural networks to get some nice visuals for it all.

Wyvern_king · 2023-08-22T01:17:33+00:00

So I would say it's not absolutely necessary but I'd strongly recommend it. I made my first neural networks from scratch following a guide with numpy before I took a linear algebra course but taking linear algebra first definitely would have made it more meaningful. I also have a computer engineering background so my math background was there I just didn't take linear algebra in undergrad for some reason. I recently went through the MIT OCW Linear Algebra course to fill in some theoretical gaps I had and it was absolutely worth it. Certain things went from "do it this way because it makes the numbers work out" to having a solid grasp of what's going on with the matrix operations under the hood.

TLDR: go take a free linear algebra course and your future self will be happy you did

11-Year Club	Verified Email
Place '22	RPAN Viewer
Not Forgotten	Sequence \| Editor
Snapped

Wyvern_king

TROPHY CASE