A Sticky Note Hack for Finishing Things
My end-of-PhD sticky note pile.
Nick Walker
Human-centered roboticist.
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I Successfully Defended My PhD
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Keep Untracked Files Handy with a Global .gitignore Pattern
I often find myself in a situation where I have a file that I want to keep around, but don’t want to commit to the repository. Things like notes (todo.txt) or examples (bug_repro.py) or maybe an uncompressed version of an image (banner_xxl.jpg). They could live somewhere outside the source tree, but I like to keep them close to the code they relate to so I don’t forget about them.
Paper on Narrating Robot Experience at CoRL 2024
Our first stab at turning robot experience into a coherent narrative is at CoRL this week. Zihan put up a great overview here and included a ton of detail in the appendices. We hope that others will pick up on similar applications of LLMs as summarizers and narrators for robot experience.
“Cascade Lane” Becomes Opinion of UW Student Body
The ASUW Student Senate passed R-30-20, a “Resolution Calling for the Naming of Cascade Lane” which I sponsored. It
The ACM Digital Library Has a Fake DOI Problem
The ACM Digital Library sometimes presents fake DOIs, and it’s spreading broken links across the web.
Light Rail Relay 2024 Hosts More Than a Hundred Runners
More teams, more batons.
A New Kind of Teleoperation Assistance Interface to Appear at IROS 2024
Both the code and paper on our new pointing-based online teloperation assistance interface are available now, with more material to come before October.
Calculator for DIY Energy Gels and Sports Nutrition
It was harder to check that I was using the right amounts of things before I made this calculator. June 2020.
The Drumheller Marathon: Seattle’s Newest and USA’s Smallest
Four runners became the first Drumheller Marathoners at this year's race, joined by a record 21 half marathoners.