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Dec 30 18:32:14 <chanakya-vc> hey m_w
Dec 30 18:33:37 <m_w> hey
Dec 30 18:34:00 <chanakya-vc> Still busy :P
Dec 30 18:35:07 <chanakya-vc>  m_w ?
Dec 30 18:36:20 <m_w> always busy
Dec 30 18:36:26 <m_w> :)
Dec 30 18:36:48 <chanakya-vc> New years time is holiday time :P
Dec 30 18:37:14 <m_w> well I don't really get vacation time
Dec 30 18:38:12 <m_w> one of the joys of being a contractor
Dec 30 18:38:48 <chanakya-vc> ohh..that's something I am never going to do once I am out of college :P
Dec 30 18:39:25 <chanakya-vc> Can't work the amount you do
Dec 30 18:39:58 <m_w> I can take vacation, I just don'tget paid for it
Dec 30 18:40:14 <m_w> every day is a vacation if you do what you love ;)
Dec 30 18:40:32 <nerdboy> lemme know when you're ready to start a kickstarter thing
Dec 30 18:40:54 <m_w> nerdboy: kickstarter for what now?
Dec 30 18:41:05 <chanakya-vc> m_w, Starting a kickstarter campaign?
Dec 30 18:41:05 <nerdboy> we can "incorporate" vacation...
Dec 30 18:41:17 <chanakya-vc> Ohh :p
Dec 30 18:41:37 <nerdboy> i got a few ideas
Dec 30 18:42:16 <chanakya-vc> nerdboy, m_w I just wanted to ask if either of you have worked with ROS for BeagleBone?
Dec 30 18:42:26 <nerdboy> first one shouldn't need much/any custom board spins
Dec 30 18:43:00 <m_w> chanakya-vc: I have never tried ROS on the BBB
Dec 30 18:43:01 <nerdboy> couple hacks on chip variant plus 3d-printed case
Dec 30 18:43:22 <m_w> nerdboy: next thing co chip?
Dec 30 18:43:29 <nerdboy> go with ardupilot/mavlink stuff
Dec 30 18:43:47 <nerdboy> m_w: exactly
Dec 30 18:44:22 <chanakya-vc> m_w, Which platform have you worked on then? I am not too sure if BBB is the right platform for Robotics stuff
Dec 30 18:44:45 <m_w> BBB is good for robotics
Dec 30 18:45:09 <nerdboy> that's why there are rt kernels and prus
Dec 30 18:45:27 <m_w> the blue if it ever comes out will be nice
Dec 30 18:45:42 <chanakya-vc> I thought Blue was out already
Dec 30 18:45:56 <chanakya-vc> rt kernels == RTOS?
Dec 30 18:46:24 <m_w> realtime extensions to the linux kernel
Dec 30 18:46:42 <chanakya-vc> Ohh
Dec 30 18:47:17 <chanakya-vc> I am going to be trying this pretty soon.
Dec 30 18:47:37 <m_w> http://blog.machinekit.io/2015/11/and-winner-is-rt-preempt.html
Dec 30 18:47:57 <m_w> rt-preempt and xenomai
Dec 30 18:48:05 <m_w> are the most common
Dec 30 18:48:31 <m_w> PREEMPT_RT
Dec 30 18:50:29 <chanakya-vc> So I have this startup in my college working on autonomous driving m_w  and they are asking me to do some low level prototyping...so I am working on this 3 level NN to learn. I was hoping to use the BBB to control a scaled down model of a car systems.
Dec 30 18:51:41 <chanakya-vc> So I am looking at the options I have. I mean though ROS is not made for this purpose but it certainly makes handling sensors much easier
Dec 30 18:53:38 <m_w> nueral nets huh?
Dec 30 18:53:51 <m_w> neural
Dec 30 18:54:47 <chanakya-vc> Yup I just learnt basics of  ML online doing Andrew Ng's course on coursera :P
Dec 30 18:55:29 <m_w> it has been a while since I took a NN class
Dec 30 18:56:47 <chanakya-vc> NN is such an intresting topic. Unfortunately it is not taught to us in India at the undergraduate level :(
Dec 30 18:57:26 <chanakya-vc> except for maybe certain select places
Dec 30 18:57:41 <chanakya-vc> You did in college m_w ?
Dec 30 18:57:46 <chanakya-vc> *it in
Dec 30 18:59:56 <m_w> yes
Dec 30 19:00:21 <m_w> I think it was a senior/graduate level class
Dec 30 19:01:32 <m_w> http://engineering.siu.edu/elec/_common/documents/syllabi/2014-summer/ECE572.pdf
Dec 30 19:01:46 <m_w> appears to be grad level
Dec 30 19:02:33 <nerdboy> 500-level courses at CSU schools are good for both
Dec 30 19:02:44 <m_w> most people used matlab for the programming work in the class
Dec 30 19:02:56 <chanakya-vc> Ya the only thing I recognise in the course outline is Backpropagation
Dec 30 19:02:59 <m_w> I used C
Dec 30 19:03:07 <nerdboy> top of the undergrad courses and still good for grad credits
Dec 30 19:03:18 <m_w> yup
Dec 30 19:03:50 <chanakya-vc> You used C for implementing NN? Wow..must have been pretty difficult without all the libraries..
Dec 30 19:04:00 <m_w> chanakya-vc: online learning is the best way to get ahead in your studies these days
Dec 30 19:04:30 <nerdboy> can't beat a real course with a good instructor
Dec 30 19:04:35 <chanakya-vc> I hope to pursue ML at a graduate level
Dec 30 19:04:40 * nerdboy likes being there...
Dec 30 19:04:59 <m_w> but you can learn online to sneak a peak at things you are interested in
Dec 30 19:05:00 <chanakya-vc> nerdboy, Sometimes you might not have a course instructor :P
Dec 30 19:05:15 <chanakya-vc> to teach you all this
Dec 30 19:06:14 * nerdboy doesn't know any of that shit from course-work
Dec 30 19:06:35 <chanakya-vc> Andrew Ng teaches it quite well...
Dec 30 19:06:46 <nerdboy> mostly applied math and geophysics
Dec 30 19:07:08 <m_w> I have probably forgotten 90% of the stuff I learned in school :D
Dec 30 19:07:39 <chanakya-vc> and our profs tell us that college coursework is the most important thing there is :P
Dec 30 19:07:45 * nerdboy in the middle of hacking his phone
Dec 30 19:08:01 <nerdboy> college courses *are* important
Dec 30 19:08:32 <nerdboy> so is actual work experience, mainly so you can see how many ways they screw it up...
Dec 30 19:08:59 <chanakya-vc> I really find a huge disconnect between the theory they teach me and what I did for example for GSOC
Dec 30 19:09:55 <nerdboy> i think your schools have different approach
Dec 30 19:10:03 <chanakya-vc> But then it depends on the college I presume. I mean a college like Stanford obviously teaches stuff better
Dec 30 19:10:11 <chanakya-vc> Exactly
Dec 30 19:11:02 <chanakya-vc> I was really impressed by Andrew Ng's method of teaching. And he is a prof in Stanford so..
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