# next step (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover next step. Page: Feed: --- ## [Waymo’s Next Steps in Europe (and Overseas)](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/08/17/waymos-next-steps-in-europe-and-overseas/) _2026-08-17 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ With offices in nine countries—six of them in Europe—the question now is what Waymo’s next steps will be for launching … More ## [Waymo Opens Office in South Korea](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/08/16/waymo-opens-office-in-south-korea/) _2026-08-17 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ I missed that! That’s what happened with the news from late July that Google’s sister company, Waymo, had opened an … More ## [Tesla Semi Truck with Lidars Spotted in Palo Alto](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/08/14/tesla-semi-truck-with-lidars-spotted-in-palo-alto/) _2026-08-15 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ This Tesla Semi Truck with multiple lidars (at least 6 of them) was spotted on northbound El Camino Real in … More ## [Waymo Receives Commercial License for Massive Expansion of Its Robotaxi Operating Area](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/08/14/waymo-receives-commercial-license-for-massive-expansion-of-its-robotaxi-operating-area/) _2026-08-14 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ Nine months after receiving approval from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), Waymo has now been granted the license … More ## [Kodiak Receives Californian Test Permit for Robot-Trucks](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/08/14/kodiak-receives-californian-test-permit-for-robot-trucks/) _2026-08-14 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ Just under four months after California passed a law allowing the testing of autonomous commercial vehicles weighing more than 10,000 … More ## [Almost a Thousand Waymo Ojais Ready for Robotaxi Deployment](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/08/12/almost-a-thousand-waymo-ojais-ready-for-robotaxi-deployment/) _2026-08-12 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ Waymo is rapidly expanding and upgrading its robotaxi fleet, as Reddit user jjricks\_ demonstrates in his nearly monthly update. In … More ## [Waymo Opens Swiss Office](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/08/09/waymo-opens-swiss-office/) _2026-08-09 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ Just a few days after Swiss President Guy Parmelin and SVP National Council member Franz Grüter took a ride in … More ## [Take the Next Step](https://johnnybgamer.com/2026/08/05/take-the-next-step/) _2026-08-05 · Bryan J. Hall · JohnnyBGamer_ Listening to a podcast at work, one of podcast hosts asked, What is something that Christians need to start doing? The guest responded, Take your next step of obedience no matter how scary. Made me wonder, what does the next step of obedience look like? What is God calling me to do? Regarding Church: Ever Continue reading "Take the Next Step" ## [Tesla FSD Avoids Collisions – A Compilation](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/07/31/tesla-fsd-avoids-collisions-a-compilation/) _2026-07-31 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ A small collection of videos showing how Tesla’s FSD has avoided collisions with pedestrians, cyclists, drivers running red lights, emergency … More ## [Parking Tickets for Waymo: Should We Blame Waymo or the City?](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/07/31/parking-tickets-for-waymo-should-we-blame-waymo-or-the-city/) _2026-07-31 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ As the number of robotaxis operated by Google’s sister company Waymo in what are now 11 metropolitan areas across the … More ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SjukqcH6c3kA) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [Zoox Receives Approval for Commercial Robotaxis Without Human Driver Controls](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/07/30/zoox-receives-approval-for-commercial-robotaxis-without-human-driver-controls/) _2026-07-30 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ Amazon subsidiary Zoox is the first company to receive approval from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to … More ## [Waymo Adds Voice Assistant to Ojai Robotaxi](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/07/29/waymo-adds-voice-assistant-to-ojai-robotaxi/) _2026-07-29 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ With its new robotaxi, the Ojai, Waymo is not only preparing for a public launch but has also announced several … More ## [Yandex Shows New Sensor Rack](https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2026/07/28/yandex-shows-new-sensor-rack/) _2026-07-28 · Mario Herger · The Last Driver License Holder…_ Andrey Kholodnyy, vice president of the Russian search engine giant Yandex, posted a photo showing the new sensor setup on … More ## [My revenge on slow Internet](https://stan.sh/2026/07/26/my-revenge-on-slow-internet/) _2026-07-26 · Stan · Stan Larroque's Blog_ When I lived with my parents in the South of France 15 years ago, I lived a tumultous adolescence. One thing I remember is us living at the very end of a copper line, bringing ADSL at a whopping 800ko/s. I became proficient in computers around that age too, and it taught me patience (put \[…\] ## [Harness Training](https://www.henrypan.com/blog/2026-07-18-harness-training/) _2026-07-19 · Henry's Blog_ Project Repository: https://github.com/workofart/harness-training So I recently wanted to see whether an AI agent could self-improve a harness to solve terminal bench tasks. To align on the definitions, “harness” means the system (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT web interface etc…) wrapping around the model (e.g. GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7 etc…) that... ## [What 1,000+ Harness Experiments Taught Me About Self-Improving Agents](https://www.henrypan.com/blog/2026-05-25-self-improvement-harness/) _2026-05-26 · Henry's Blog_ Project Repository: https://github.com/workofart/harness-experiment Update (July 2026): The follow-up, Training Self-Improving AI Agent Harnesses, turns these lessons into a deterministic training framework that allows for model-agnostic and task-environment-agnostic capability improvements. So I recently wanted to see whether an AI agent could self-improve a harness to solve terminal bench tasks.… ## [A Traffic Jam, a Reading Rut, and a Way Out](https://johnnybgamer.com/2026/04/16/driving-through-life-detours/) _2026-04-16 · Bryan J. Hall · JohnnyBGamer_ Suddenly, I slowed my car to a stop. Up ahead, all I could see were brake lights along with the sharp strobe of emergency vehicle lights. My morning commute had come to a standstill. As the cars in front of me started turning around, I knew that I needed to find an alternate route, a detour. ## [How a Deep Learning Library Enables Learning](https://www.henrypan.com/blog/2026-03-14-how-deep-learning-library-enables-learning/) _2026-03-14 · Henry's Blog_ 1. The Familiar Training Step 2. Why Call loss.backward() At All 3. Why An Update Actually Helps 4. Values Remember Where They Came From 5. What One Operation Does During Backward 6. How loss.backward() Walks the Whole Graph 7. So We Have All the Gradients in the Graph. What’s Next?... ## [Writing Prompt: We should have been more careful…](https://johnnybgamer.com/2026/01/20/writing-prompt-we-should-have-been-more-careful/) _2026-01-21 · Bryan J. Hall · JohnnyBGamer_ Nuclear war, a lone battleship in space, overwhelming odds. Nothing to lose. ## [Let’s Play – Rakuen](https://johnnybgamer.com/2026/01/13/lets-play-rakuen/) _2026-01-14 · Bryan J. Hall · JohnnyBGamer_ What was it about? Down the street, there exists a hospital in which a boy lives. This particular boy has been living here for quite sometime. He spends his days exploring the hospital, checking in on fellow patients, and delving into the dark recesses that no one dares to tread. His mom often comes to Continue reading "Let s Play Rakuen" ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QVt2M9lcsrCh) _2026-01-14 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Hollow Knight: Silksong – Sea of Sorrow Teaser Trailer](https://johnnybgamer.com/2025/12/16/hollow-knight-silksong-sea-of-sorrow-teaser-trailer/) _2025-12-16 · Bryan J. Hall · JohnnyBGamer_ This looks fantastic! ## [Micode Interview](https://stan.sh/2025/11/27/micode-interview/) _2025-11-27 · Stan · Stan Larroque's Blog_ I was recently on the Underscore\_ show, a French channel focused on tech lead by the French tech youtuber Micode (with whom I had the pleasure to do multiple videos over the years). The video is in French, I’ll try to post an English transcript here later on. We’re discussing in this video the state \[…\] ## [Open sourcing Lynx 6DoF](https://stan.sh/2025/08/22/open-sourcing-lynx-6dof/) _2025-08-22 · Stan · Stan Larroque's Blog_ \[From the original article on Lynx Portal website.\] Lynx is a high-tech company focusing on delivering Mixed Reality headsets for AR & VR. We develop hardware for a living, but our software team is bigger than the hardware team as we have to take care of our AOSP-based OS running on Lynx-R1, firmware, drivers etc \[…\] [Listen](https://stan.sh/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/lynx-slam720.mp4) ## [BFMTV interview 09/07/2025](https://stan.sh/2025/07/10/bfmtv-interview-09-07-2025/) _2025-07-10 · Stan · Stan Larroque's Blog_ This 10 min interview (in French) gives a good picture of Lynx current ambitions and how we were able to overcome the 2023-2024 hardships. [Listen](https://stan.sh/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/BFM2.mp4) ## [Building an Org-mode Workflow: Timestamped Notes](//jeffbradberry.com/posts/2025/05/orgmode-timestamped-notes/) _2025-05-22 · Jeff Bradberry · Jeff Bradberry_ I love having logs for things that can be checked later on if need be, and so I enabled logging state changes and rescheduling into the LOGBOOK drawer way back in Scheduling and Deadlines . But since I have this nifty logbook, why not use it to capture yet more information? I wanted to be able to add my own custom timestamped notes. Fortunately, Org mode makes this easy. My first known uses of… ## [Building an Org-mode Workflow: Priority Cookies](//jeffbradberry.com/posts/2025/05/orgmode-priority-cookies/) _2025-05-21 · Jeff Bradberry · Jeff Bradberry_ As I came to track more and more items using Org mode, I realized that I needed to have a way of raising up items or filtering down to the things I should be concentrating on. I needed prioritization . My first known use of this feature dates to 4 Jan 2023. Usage Settings Key Bindings Learned Next Steps Usage Priority cookies are just a bit of extra text that goes between the TODO or other tag at… ## [Prototyping any stereo camera with StereoCam](https://stan.sh/2025/04/13/prototyping-any-stereo-camera-with-stereocam/) _2025-04-13 · Stan · Stan Larroque's Blog_ This post is for any person in AR/VR/drones and beyond who want to quickly prototype with stereo cameras. At Lynx, we are big on passthrough for Mixed Reality and thus we always had a need to test various setup of stereo cameras. We even built a passthrough MR headset with 140dB+ HDR cameras (probably not \[…\] ## [How I Built a Deep Learning Library from Scratch Using Only Python, NumPy & Math](https://www.henrypan.com/blog/2025-02-06-ml-by-hand/) _2025-02-06 · Henry's Blog_ Motivation and Goals Abstraction layers of Machine Learning Libraries Comparing this project to PyTorch for the same functionality Efficiency vs Learning Technical Design Tensor Class Tensor-level Operations Function class Computational Graph Tensor.backward() NN Module Functional Module Optimizer Additional Thoughts Project link: https://github.com/workofart/ml-by-hand I recently started working… ## [The Next Step (2/2)](https://stan.sh/2024/12/20/the-next-step-2-2/) _2024-12-20 · Stan · Stan Larroque's Blog_ Finally, Google went public with Android XR, after years of working on this new paradigm for the Android ecosystem. All standalone XR headsets on the market are running currently with their own customized version of AOSP, the open-source part of what people know as “Android”. On top of that, Google just released developer tools, optimizations, \[…\] [Listen](https://stan.sh/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/bfmtv_androixr.mp4) ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/oDYC3kUmxxfx) _2024-12-20 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [The Next Step (1/2)](https://stan.sh/2024/12/11/the-next-step/) _2024-12-11 · Stan · Stan Larroque's Blog_ Tomorrow, exciting news will occur for everyone in the AR/VR (still small) world. Lynx is involved and some pieces of something we’ve been working on for a few months will be revealed. I can’t talk about anything that will occur tomorrow or the partners involved, but I expect a round of tech news to cover \[…\]