The history of robotics is littered with the corpses of companies whose plan was to waive their hands until an app ecosystem appeared.

I dove headfirst into rebuilding an engine recently with basically zero practical experience. The amount of possible detail in the project is mind boggling. What's even more amazing though is that I'm able to just keep on chugging through the problems as they come up. I occasionally have bouts of vertigo as I stare into some abyss of minutiae, but then I just shrug my shoulders, wrench on some more bolts and keep going.

I played in a band for years in Los Angeles and I loved being able to fit all of our gear into my truck on the weekends. Everyone was bummed when I finally sold the truck and bought a Prius. The Prius is surprisingly spacious and I could still fit my small drum kit and an amp or two but not our whole setup. Admittedly _much_ better for the weekday commute though.

I'm so happy they finally moved the official documentation to Doxygen (http://docs.opencv.org/master/index.html), which appear to be a huge step up from their old Sphinx docs (http://docs.opencv.org/).

I'm comparing Doxygen and Sphinx for a new project; what things do you like about Doxygen over Sphinx? (also, does anyone know why OpenCV switched?)

I've never heard of Jiddu Krishnamurthi before today. Can you recommend a book of his?

To Be Human: long and comprehensive (not actually written by him, but a collection of his works).

Flight of the Eagle: short and comprehensive.

Freedom from the Known: short and practical.

Network of Thought is a fantastic place to start, and the text is available online: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-tex...

Wow, it's going for $3,115.00 (+ $3.99 shipping & handling) on Amazon. Put this next to Sled Driver on my list of books to buy when I win the lottery.

We all win the lottery.

http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

http://mirror.xwl.me/Sled%20Driver.pdf

Would you happen to have a copy of a similarly priced-out book, "How to Avoid Huge Ships"?

Seems the bots are getting damn creative. Perused the first few pdf links and they were all "spam" pages in PDF form, with embedded download links i don't dear follow.

Isn't algorithmic pricing fun?

Worldcat indicates that the book is available from various libraries: https://www.worldcat.org/title/ignition-an-informal-history-...

I can't help but link to a classic fight between two algorithmic book bots: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

While fun to watch on Amazon, this is a cruder version of what HFT does on the stock market.

Sure, but Amazon pricing is more amusing: the results are visibly and clearly absurd. HFT done right is much subtler.

Check out the AIO Zeus: http://www.zeus.aiorobotics.com/

The way the crow::black_magic::get_parameter_tag works is very impressive. I don't think I ever would have thought to do this with a recursive constexpr like that. I'm a huge fan of providing compiler errors whenever possible, so I'm glad to be able to add this trick to my toolbox.

Why not just make a web site for this? If this really affects 2%-10% of the population, then it should be pretty easy to determine if the source is internal or external with enough data.

Here's a start, just to see if that 2-10% figure looks reasonable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918694

Is the Structure Sensor actually doing all of the SLAM computation on-board, or is it just shipping the RGBD images off to the iPad?

The latter. Vision algorithms run on the iPad.