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Please Use AI 2 months ago

Most people will make the lazy choice. But you can choose to do otherwise

I'd like for it to be a choice. AI is injected into search now, when you install vscode they have a prompt input sitting there and they nudge you to use it. Of course you can opt out of this stuff but it has become the default.

As someone teaching their nephew how to code i really want him to struggle and exercise his problem solving skills instead of having every touchpoint offer him an instant answer.

In a traditional SLAM pipeline you do periodically fix drift by detecting when you've visited an area that you've mapped before this lets you align your sub maps so they are globally consistent.

In the areas you have visited previously you have two estimates of your position one from your frame-to-frame estimates and another from the map you built of the area the first time. You can then solve an optimization problem to bring those two estimates closer together.

In order to find out if you've already visited an area you store a description of the locations in a DB and search through them. The paper says they use a compressed representation of the "maps" and use test time training to optimize the global consistency between their sub maps.

Had this same experience back when I first learned to program a PIC microcontroller. You really shouldn't be driving LEDs directly off IO pins anyways. I think the digitalness of IO pins also lends itself to not thinking about the underlying circuitry and coming at it from a software lens.

but I'd suggest doing some Deep Researches on the topic to get you a good lay of the land

thanks for the resources !. I've been trying to get a wide view by looking at different algorithms, but I was curious what was actually used in production systems especially for consumer products.

RTABMAP and Cartographer came up in my searches, will definitely give these a closer look to understand how they work.

Right now im starting off with filter based approaches like Particle filter and Kalman filter, but i'd also like to understand how the graph based approaches work.

Slightly offtopic but i feel like someone around here might be able to help. I've been learning how to do SLAM with LIDAR data and I was curious what algorithms robot vacuums use. I'm currently implementing a particle filter and will also try out EKF.

I’m building a planner that automatically plans employee shift schedules based on their availabilities and roles.

There’s many different solutions out there but I’m carving out a niche where we deal with complex shift assignment problems.

For example one of our customers has specific union rules that need to be followed when assigning work and we ensure that they are compliant.

Our backend relies on an MIP solver as well as heuristic search to refine plans.

I really like the idea of crowd funding research or the opposite public funding of citizen science.

It would be interesting to also have a space where the community could propose research directions.

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think 12 months ago

Is the problem mainly with tool use ? and are you using it through AI studio or through the API ?.

I've found that it hallucinates tool use for tools that aren't available and then gets very confident about the results.