David Lu!!
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In a funny way, it reminds me of this reel.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXxEn92RMtS/"The only thing that will beat AI is The Muppets...It's to be kind, intentional, loving, patient. Efficiency is not the edge that it used to be. Empathy is."
#Muppets -
A great piece by Ky Decker about the state of the tech industry, including
A) Very concise reasons why not to use AI
B) Mourning the idealistic version of tech of yesteryear
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More David Lu News: David Lu named to the #TIME100 Climate 2025.
https://time.com/collections/time-100-climate-2025/7326598/david-lu/
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And now we "get" to have a conversation about Asian leading roles on Broadway?
https://playbill.com/article/tony-winning-advocacy-organization-aapac-decries-maybe-happy-ending-casting-decision
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I made a video about everything I've learned about ROS Interfaces (messages/services/actions) in my fifteen years of working with ROS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOTif0DWBfE
Text Version: https://tinyurl.com/rosinterfaceprimer (Google Doc)
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Getting "un peu" better at French
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Wait, three of the Technical Oscars went to different denoising algorithms? That seems like a lot. Maybe this should be a new category.
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In an effort to apply more of my coding skills in a civic minded way, I've been starting to analyze and improve the OpenElections project's data: https://github.com/openelections/specs/issues/8
#OpenElections #OpenElex #CivicHacking -
So excited to have more Weird Al in my life, but it seems crazy that A) it's been 10 years since his last album B) that all these songs came out since then.
Shake It Off and Uptown Funk came out just after his last album and holy cow, they're also ten years old.
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Personal Gaming Achievement of Mid-2024:
100% on Princess Peach Showtime, which delightfully uses theatre as a way for Peach to explore lots of different heroic roles. Also, can we just appreciate the sentiment in the cut-scene in the latter screenshot? 😚🤌 #PrincessPeachShowtime #nintendo -
I have entered the mod scene and it has unlocked something more magical than I ever expected. #trombonechamp
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Personal Gaming Achievements of Early 2024:
* Became Trombone Champ of Legend -
Personal Gaming Achievements of Late 2023:
* 100% Completion of Yoshi's Crafted World (September)
* Dressing as Hamilton for Halloween in Animal Crossing
* 100% Completion of Super Mario Wonder (Today)Both of those games are quite unrelenting to 100%. Definitely felt like Edge of Tomorrow trying to finish them.
#nintendoswitch #yoshiscraftedworld #animalcrossing #hamilton #supermariowonder
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It took 90 minutes, but I managed to solve a remote desktop problem remotely which required forwarding ports on two routers. #brag
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My basic response to the Intrinsic Product Keynote:
https://mcelroymerch.com/products/cure-alls-cure-nothing-shirt -
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors."
Here's a (partial?) list of unforced naming crusades undertaken by the keepers of ROS:
* It's not OSRF anymore, it's Open Robotics.
* It's not Gazebo, it's Ignition.
* Ha, it's not Ignition, just kidding.
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Are you trying to translate your #ROS1 launch files to #ROS2 launch files?
Check out "ROSetta Launch," a collection of side-by-side ROS 1 and ROS 2 launch files.
https://discourse.ros.org/t/rosetta-launch-everything-i-know-about-ros-1-and-ros-2-launch-files/29648
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I think award shows are silly. I think too often they recognize established artists over fresh new talents. Giving someone an award for a movie to make up for other snubs is nonsensical.
But give John Williams another Oscar already. He hasn't won since 1994. 29 years! Think of all the amazing work he's done since then. He's a national treasure! He's working with Spielberg on a movie about movies! You like that, right?
#oscars #bestscore #awardsseason #johnwilliams #TheFabelmans