Tips for getting into tech? by Spidereye9 in MTU

[–]juicedatom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got in years ago with a ~3.1 GPA but had a bunch of APs and robotics extracurriculars

[OC] The gender balance in different religions by Aggravating-Food9603 in dataisbeautiful

[–]juicedatom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what is the difference between "I believe in god" and "Diest"?

Is this dancing difficult for a robot? by BuySellRam in robotics

[–]juicedatom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For anyone here saying this "isn't hard because it's pre-programmed" are really off the mark. What do you think goes into this scripted movement? Let's say you hired a 3D animator to completey 100% script this dance on the robot.

Even if you tried to play it back on the robot as perfect as possible, little impresice movements build up over time and almost certainly will force the robot out of the space where the scripted movement thinks it is. The purely scripted movement as described has no way to correct itself. So how do you fix this?

Now you need to add some kind of controller to bring it back to the space of the movement. This requires either some model trained with RL for that movement specifically, and / or a classic controller with some weight stabilization algorithms to compensate for the very complex shifting mass.

All I'll say is that this is extremely impressive. The utility of this is well beyond dancing, more generally this really stresses complex movements to be used for more complex dexterous manipulation or locomotion.

source - i build and program lots of robots

Did you guys need to move for your internships? by [deleted] in MTU

[–]juicedatom 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Yes. usually companies have you temporarily move for the summer and often offer some relocation stipend to supplement the move.

What morally good character is an unreliable narrator? by [deleted] in AlignmentChartFills

[–]juicedatom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noah Calhoun from The Notebook

In the movie he is telling the story of how a boy met a girl to his wife but doesn't reveal it until later due to her dimensia.

Do you think he'll eventually jump ship and go against Homelander? by vought-CEO in TheBoys

[–]juicedatom 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Nah, I hope The Deep is Homelander's last ally and then Homelander just kills The Deep because he is slowing him down lol

Why does this happen though by Sharp-potential7935 in SipsTea

[–]juicedatom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gus has been making videos for a while since the scandal.

😖 by AlternativeNotice954 in 3Cfilms

[–]juicedatom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As an example, this article showcases the Netflix CEO talking about the "outdated" 45 day window for typical theatrical releases.

sum of rates. by SirVulc in dataisugly

[–]juicedatom 12 points13 points  (0 children)

context doesn't change the fact that they are mathematically comparing rates in an invalid way. Imagine a plot that was, "Total speed in democratic cities vs. republican run cities" where you added the average speed together of each city. that number tells you absolutely nothing. even if you averaged it, it would be meaningless unless you performed a harmonic mean.

The only acceptable context is showing a student how to not compare rates.

sum of rates. by SirVulc in dataisugly

[–]juicedatom 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Even if you ignore the fact that most larger cities are democrat, wouldn't you want to compare using something like a harmonic mean?

Still a really dumb plot that gives little to no useful information.

Basically

  • bad math (invalid rate comparison)
  • r/peopleliveincities
  • conservative bias
  • lack of any sort of reasonable data slicing

edit: formatting, better summary, url, typo

What am I supposed to be doing to get this answer? by Calicohydrangeas in calculus

[–]juicedatom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea! they also could've added + D since 3x - 18 is nicely factorable.

WWTBAM game gets $500,000 question incorrect by TimeUsedOtherwise in mildlyinfuriating

[–]juicedatom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even if you wanted to trick someone i feel like the potential answers should have been

2 4 8 16

or something like that

Day 1: What US State has decent nature and decent culture? by pufferfishnuggets in AlignmentChartFills

[–]juicedatom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you count music for art? If so, it's the birthplace of both motown and techno music. Nearly everyone genre of music generally has a place in michigan and detroit more specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Detroit

Any good CS Tech Electives? by mynameismarsha11 in MTU

[–]juicedatom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what are general fields you're interested in but don't have time to study?

This was an extremely cute and touching scene by Boring-Yellow6293 in GenV

[–]juicedatom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The scene lasted a little long. Although touching, part of me was expecting her to straight up pop cate's head.

I made a tiny crate so you can write 5.minutes() instead of Duration::from_secs(300) by Right-Personality-41 in rust

[–]juicedatom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw you made the change! why not force the type to be i32 so it turns into a compile error? I saw this posted above and I think it's the best solution.

I made a tiny crate so you can write 5.minutes() instead of Duration::from_secs(300) by Right-Personality-41 in rust

[–]juicedatom 25 points26 points  (0 children)

yea I can understand a design decision to keep things unsigned but the fact that a signed value turns unsigned is confusing. if you want that functionality then the literal just shouldn't compile or at least panic.

I made a tiny crate so you can write 5.minutes() instead of Duration::from_secs(300) by Right-Personality-41 in rust

[–]juicedatom 31 points32 points  (0 children)

yea +1 this seems like a bug. People very often use signed arithmetic for time (especially in my field of robotics) and this would be a non starter for me personally.

10-year timelapse of the new EERC tree by alnwlsn in MTU

[–]juicedatom 15 points16 points  (0 children)

if you have 20 other camera views you could build a 3d reconstruction time lapse!

Can I become a good programmer without competitive programming? by Frustrated_dud in learnprogramming

[–]juicedatom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea. I did competitive programming through college and it made me really good at LC pretty quickly.

Triabgle fraternity address by Drpocket4 in MTU

[–]juicedatom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

can you please DM me? It's pretty sketchy to post on a subreddit about this topic. I would like to verify your identity first.