Alphonsus Adu-Bredu

"Justify the privilege of your existence"

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

Our work on ZEST is now published in Science Robotics!

[Science Robotics @SciRobotics]

#Humanoid robots can army crawl, breakdance, and do continuous backflips without task-specific training, using a new motion-imitation framework called ZEST. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/h6OVsNekTh

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

Back to writing small, lightweight and (hopefully) useful open-source robotics tools.

Presenting bno055_imu: a lightweight firmware and python tool for working with the low-cost BNO055 IMU

Github: https://t.co/uERhobHxD0

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

@chris_j_paxton @Ryan_Resolution Found the right link! https://t.co/p1qmbHRyW5

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

Indeed

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1

“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy

“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?”
— Marian Tupy

“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
— Thomas Edison

Lies

We are being lied to.

We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.

We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.

We are told to be pessimistic.

The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.

We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.

We are told to be miserable about the future.

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

"My head is bloody, but unbowed"

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

Nothing beats the combo of writing Julia code and listening to Nina Simone https://t.co/0WGdqveepB

[Bambi Brewer @robotbambi]

For the last big demo at #ProMat2023, we are pulling out all the stops! @agilityrobotics

[Fredrik Bagge Carlson @baggepinnen]

Can you compile Julia code to a small binary that can be called from a C program?

It turns out, yes you can!

Here is a small demo that implements a basic Kalman filter in Julia, compiles this to a shared library (15kB) and then calls it from a C program.
https://t.co/qHx3swtjPJ

[Bambi Brewer @robotbambi]

We are ready - come on by and meet me and Digit at Booth S1031! #promat23 @agilityrobotics

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

Chopin has a nocturne for every occasion

https://t.co/3jGHrosYSq

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

Salieri was a genius

https://t.co/CkakEYKu6h

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

@pmarca https://t.co/CkakEYJWgJ

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

QP MPC is functionally LQR with inequality constraints

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

I challenge @BostonDynamics Atlas to a game of corn-hole!

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

Julia package for interfacing with Intel realsense T265 tracking camera. Fast data transmission rate at 34kHz.
https://t.co/2FXvQv5bbz

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

@taylorhowell @DeepMind ☠

[taylor howell @taylorhowell]

my @DeepMind project is out!
MuJoCo MPC (MJPC) is an interactive tool for real-time behavior synthesis with predictive control algorithms.
paper: https://t.co/Pqxn34c3pC
code: https://t.co/YMQrijc7sk
video: https://t.co/3j7CGejCew

[Paul Graham @paulg]

With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good.

[Alphonsus Adu-Bredu @aadubredu]

2022 was a productive year haha. Here's to many more cool Julia packages in 2023🍾