Got an offer.
Should I just accept my fate as a code hamster?

My family didn't support me become a dev. In fact, they sent my brother to a programming course and me to play tennis (gender tracking at its finest). Luckily, both me and my brother didn't give up our true calling. Today, I'm a developer and he is a gym instructor/personal trainer.

I seriously just got invited to a second interview 😂

I just had to.

I should add to my list of skills "managing to keep the interviewers entertained for 90 minutes, even though I couldn't answer like 90% of their questions".

I am going to be interviewed for an embedded programmer position next week. What topics should I review? Can you share your experience from such interviews?
(I still hope to get a phd position, but no harm in checking other options).

I love how German lecturers teaching in English still insist on mentioning how terms are called in German. My favorite so far are:
Relativegenauigkeit
Ruamlicher vorwartsschnitt
Bundelausgleichung

Me, shooting myself in the leg while trying to apply for phd.

A prof. in the lab I collaborated with will give a lecture in Facebook research lab that would also be broadcast to all FB research world-wide. And my work (+ picture) will be on the presentation.
Not sure how to handle the fame 😂

"The assumption was that there were subtle differences between the cameras such as quantum efficiency. While shot noise is a Poisson process, for large number of photons, it is almost
indistinguishable from Gaussian noise."

I'm reading my thesis to make sure it makes sense before I submit it, and I'm like - did I write this verbal diarrhea?

Phd candidates working on robotics and computer vision?
I think about continuing to PhD and I would like to hear from students about recommended labs, and what PhD life is like :)

OpenACC - Execution by a Gang.
Sounds like rap from the mid 90's 😂

I am participating in an online HPC summer school. I feel like such a terrible programmer for devoting about 70% of my concentration to following Johnny Depp's trial live on Twitter.

So my thesis is coming to its end. The new pipeline seems to be working. We get higher fps (~20) on bigger input images. In addition for control, camera capture and inference, we can now also stream the images from the drone's camera. So we made a video from the nano-drone's point of view. The weird thing on my forehead is the marker we use for the tracking system so we can compare the inference to the GT.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

Cycle counters. Because having a fucking clock is a privilege.

So the HR person who made my life hell about 2 years ago, got fired immediately before the Corona-madness started. And they are still unemployed. Karma is such a glorious bitch.

When my most hated ex tried to contact me in LinkedIn, since he works as a recruiter for some lame, generic HR company.
I was trying to tell myself so hard this relationship never happened, and that it was a bad dream that lasted 3 years. Oh well.

2 AM thoughts - How do you compile a compiler?

When I got positive feedback from senior and lead software engineers in PS4. They were in Namco before, and developed the games I played when I was like 8-9. Real life heroes.
It was a technically complex collaboration, tight deadlines and 0 documentation in places where it was crucial. I was the only one they mentioned specifically for good work, and the only one who got a gift from them when they came to visit :)

They changed "Trash" to "Bin" in the Catalina update. I need to know who is the snowflake who was offended by trash??

There are numerous horror stories about Windows updates, but Mac updates aren't better. Yesterday I updated to Catalina (reluctantly), and when the computer restarted I was silently praying "Please don't fuck up my VMs".
Naturally, it fucked up VMware...

Another chapter of my nano-drone love-hate story. Deployment using the old pipeline, but with new augmentations. Next week hopefully, we will deploy a better version with the new pipeline :)

https://youtube.com/watch/...

As a project for our computational fabrication course, I implemented a paper with a peer. We did it in python because I didn't want him to suffer with lower level stuff, but then it runs sooo slow.
And I'm just itching, dying to OpenCL/CUDA the shit out of this code, because it's so parallelizable it's a sin not to do it.
But it's really out of the scope for the course, not worth the effort, and I have tons of other stuff to do now.
I miss being paid to make these sort of algorithms efficient 😭
https://youtube.com/watch/...

My life is a failed checksum test :(
(The L3 allocation is not the issue)

A guy that I know from uni (used to be my TA), asked me to help him with data collection for his thesis.
The thing is, there are plenty of other people that he is better acquainted with (and are my friends), and he did not ask them.
So I was wondering, DS/DL/ML people, is this how you make a move on a girl? Ask her to collect data with you?

My heart tells me to continue to phd, but my shopping habits say I need to finish the master ASAP and get a well-paying job.

Beauty (crazyflie) and the beast (me).
A continuation of the vision based control for nano-drones project I posted a while ago.
I am super grateful for my advisors for investing in me more than I thought I deserve.

Real camera simulation:
I know how to simulate the optics part given the camera calibration model and parameters.
I would like to know how to characterize the grey level values given X amount of light, which I assume is more the CCD part.
Suggestions?

After an extremely stressful exam period, I find myself logging in to the grading website and just looking at my results with almost erotic pleasure. A few times a day. I guess it's a form of mental masturbation.

#pragma omp parallel for