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Robot Educator - the robots, not humans. Sim Fly LongEZ, Cabri G2, and ICON A5 in MSFS2020 MSFS2024, and XPlane12. Avid birder, biker, and jogger. Obsessed with my 2023 Prius Prime XSE. Amateur Advanced WB0ZJJ South Florida USA

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Forget I mentioned it - sorry - need to only think about computers or my head explodes, my heart races, my palms sweat, and I need a nap.

04.03.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I drive by the ultimate irony everyday in my neighborhood- a green cybertruck.

04.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Red and yellow have developed bad reputations

04.03.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

… LLMs must not be β€œtrusted” for out of domain, and must be warily reviewed when asked about edge cases of the domain. (Knowing we don’t know an answer is one of humans greatest strengths )

27.02.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly the issue. If carefully domain curated training is used in the mainstream of that domain, by a person also trained in the domain to enhance the human’s efforts, with the human’s critical review of the LLM output, the tool is a force multiplier.
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27.02.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

> "With smaller training data sets, training itself becomes more feasible."

Used to design grammars / language models for speech recognition. Grammars: far better in constrained domains. Small language models could not match the needed reliability. Smaller needs much higher quality training.

18.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Therapy is big ATM. Just get your button in therapy, they will teach it strategies to feel ok.

17.02.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

> My theory of mind is that all the other minds are brilliantly corrupted. In fact they make me feel stupid.

16.02.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Paper that might provide some background to the #OpenWorldObjectDomain (recognizing unknowns)

openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR...

13.02.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking a long way down the road, if you apply for a software patent, I would like to get a mention somehow.

12.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Or perhaps if there is a good open source RDF world object DB that could be brought local, the email could ask β€œis this an xyz object, if not what is it?”

12.02.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The next step, β€œtransfer training” the model for each new unknown has two easy solutions: 1) send the image to Google cloud vision (totally not privacy), or a β€œMommy/Daddy, what is this?” Email with a daily question limit.

12.02.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A pattern for this problem is the RTAB-map visual pattern recognition system which discovers artifacts in a pose stamped image, and compares that to known sequences of previously β€œseen” pose stamped images.

12.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A language model trained to only give two answers I know that because…, or I don’t know that with option of β€œbut I do know the unknown has aspects of these things I do know”?

12.02.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œLanguage” models currently hallucinate at their edges of knowledge, rather than β€œknowing” they are at, near that edge, or beyond it. There is the open set real world recognition problem, but knowing that it does not know is slightly different.

12.02.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Survival of the corrupt-est - why didn't they teach me that in school? Everyone was lying to me - "be a good person", "be fair", "care about others", "crime doesn't pay"...

I was such a sucker, believing that "you can't fool all of the people all the time" was stronger than "nice guys finish last"

11.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In a time of β€œWho can you trust?”, today we learn that Trump’s yes-folk lied about the employment status 208% last year. This deception feeds the stock market fallacy, with massive CEO compensation and shareholder β€œreturn on investments”, inflating the prices of all the goods and services.

11.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Three mobile hobby robots shown, two have Minion characters on them, one has the WALL-E robot character in it.  Robot with Minion Carl is 8 years old.  The other two robots have stereo depth cameras for visual simultaneous location and mapping with neural net processing for object recognition.

Three mobile hobby robots shown, two have Minion characters on them, one has the WALL-E robot character in it. Robot with Minion Carl is 8 years old. The other two robots have stereo depth cameras for visual simultaneous location and mapping with neural net processing for object recognition.

This has been my dream for many years, to have my robot wander my house (using vSLAM) taking pictures of β€œunknown interesting object”, (<-hard part), segmenting and learning the object, repeat till nothing unknown found.
#OpenSetObjectRecognition #KnowingDontKnow
(All local processing for privacy)

11.02.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t read it on iPad mini, too small.

11.02.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I follow @msfsofficial.bsky.social and read posts with #msfs tag.

Purposes:
- (Hope to) Hear what is new with MSFS2024 releases
- Waiting to hear MSFS2024 fixed obelisk trees
- Hoping for #IndiaFoxtEcho #F35 Lightning II half-off sale
- Watching for MSFS2024 #LongEZ and #KLNA pilots

09.02.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

While I know four languages, Spanish is not in my brain. I thought the show was wonderful, and the music invigorating, but β€œinclusive” the lyrics were not. Surely subtitles crossed someone’s mind?

09.02.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is no "the People" - only DJT, DOJ, DHS now. It was not a bloodless coup, but it was a coup and "the People" don't have strong enough tools to get the horses back in the barn.

Just pissin up wind.

02.02.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But then when I moved across the room to my other laptop, the same website wanted me to use my phone to scan some QR code.. It wasn’t enough to let Google make up an unintelligible string password, now they are resorting to unintelligible pictures?

18.01.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
My Cat Kept Jumping on the Counter..So I Built a Robot
My Cat Kept Jumping on the Counter..So I Built a Robot YouTube video by The Lab-X

Loshi better mind his manners

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DP...

18.01.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow - sorry to hear of your implied loss.

07.01.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I should add that the Create3 has the most accurate dead-reckoning I've ever seen with wide wheelbase, non-slip wheels, great encoders, IMU, optical flow sensor. It also has great bumper and wall ranging detectors. AND HAD the most wonderfully present support team of any commercial robot.

06.01.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazon Astro - It was expensive, but really really powerful using both edge and cloud processing. The Astro showed me that my dreams for a single board computer home robot were not possible.

My guess is that $1500 was too expensive for a home robot with only security as the primary function.

06.01.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Create3 ROS processor was severely over worked, running at 50% at idle with many publishers turned off, and totally swamped by third party ROS topic traffic. I pushed iRobot to create a segmented DDS "republisher" to isolate the Create3, but some intrinsic action calls could still swamp it.

06.01.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No, I missed out. When they recalled all the business Astro robots, I asked the team to add a ROS 2 interface to the platform. My thinking was that the ROS community needed a new standard robot platform where the TurtleBot4/Create3 failed.

06.01.2026 16:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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nickbearded (@nickbearded@mastodon.social) Attached: 3 images Built a custom #Buildroot system for #RaspberryPi 4 running the brand new #Linux 6.19.0-rc1-v8 with PREEMPT_RT! πŸš€ Real-world stress test: 1M cycles with cyclictest 2x stress-ng ...

Also a real time preempt OS kernel (FreeRTOS) for reliable sensor timing, in addition to using a non-RTOS (Fire OS) for applications not requiring frequent attention.

Here is a guy building RT_PREEMPT Linux images for Raspberry PI:
mastodon.social/@nickbearded...

05.01.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0