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Sebastian Thrun of Stanford Racing gives a great a talk on what it took build an autonomous vehicle to win the DARPA Grand Challenge. There are lots of cool technical details on the use of machine learning to achieve this. You can watch it on Google Video here.

Start your engines, the DARPA Grand Challenge is on again only this time its an urban challenge! The last two competitions were to race an autonomous vehicle through a desert, with the 2005 winner, Standford, taking home a US$2 million prize.
Stanford’s software in action: Input from GPS and many sensors […]

Recently iTunes Music Store launched in Australia, with Apple selling songs for $1.69 each (ouch!). While I haven’t tried the new Music Store, I have downloaded the latest iTunes to test out some of the other features. The podcast integration seems like a good feature, however my initial experience was that it was quite slow […]

Andy acquired a new toy at work: a Segway HT! It was only fitting that I visit and give it a spin! Let me just say, the Segway is one impressive ride — I want one!

Weee!: Me riding the Segway HT.

Cruising: Video of Andy riding the Segway (DivX, 6.6MB)
The Segway website also has a proof-of-concept […]

Google Maps now covers the entire world! Some interesting sites include the Pyramids and the Arc de Triomphe. An interesting comparison can be had between The White House, which has blanked out roof tops, and Parliament House… who is alert and who is alarmed?!
It seems only about half of Melbourne is covered in high […]

Last Monday I purchased a new PC. The specs are pretty spiffy: its a AMD Athlon 64 3000 (2Ghz) system running on an Asus K8N-E Deluxe motherboard (nForce 3 250Gb based motherboard with SATA and onboard LAN & sound). I decided to try Gentoo Linux with has been with mixed success. Here are some notes:

SystemRescueCd […]