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George Hotz | Programming | Livecoding SLAM | twitchslam | Part1

george hotz archive · 2M views · 2018-05-28 · 10:50:05

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Overview

A long livestream of George Hotz live-coding a toy SLAM implementation, twitchslam, over two days in May 2018. It is an unedited session of Python programming with computer vision and visualization.

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Recommended as informal, long-form live coding to watch, though some commenters criticize his style.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2022

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pingeroo · 2022-05 · Strong recommendation

I love occassionaly putting on George Hotz's streams while programming. Here's an 11 hour stream of him implementing SLAM from a closet: [VIDEO] The guy's a certified legend. Sadly he 'quit' streaming but the hundreds of hours in the archive should suffice.

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viraptor · 2020-10 · Recommendation

It's a different kind of watching, but you can find saved streams from geohotz / comma.ai. Those contain things like learning about blockchain contracts and finding a security bug in one of them in a very informal 8h live stream. Or building a toy computer vision project from scratch for a recorded dashboard footage. [VIDEO] It's an experience... Try watching at higher speed when it gets boring.

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donquichotte · 2020-10 · Reference

I am working at a company that is tracking vehicles using GNSS antennas. When designing the vehicle dynamics model for the Kalman Filters, I found it useful to have a graphical representation (including error ellipses, velocity vectors etc). Turns out that pygame was a great fit for that type of visualization. Fast forward to two days ago, when I was idly watching George Hotz design a monocular visual SLAM prototype in 11h. Much to my surprise, one of the first things he fires up is pygame for visualization [1]! [1] [VIDEO]

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