Peter Mitrano

PhD @UMRobotics in robot learning & deformable object manipulation

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@3Dconnexion please make your space mice devices report their serial numbers via HID! This is critical if you have two connected to the same machine and you need to uniquely identify them, for example for robot teleportation. Thanks!

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I have several colleagues now who are too young to have ever used ROS 1
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I suppose this move! If you don't want to support DEI initiatives that's your right, but I'm glad PSF is sticking to their values.

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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://t.co/laZQCbHWJU
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https://t.co/laZQCbHWJU

[Python Software Foundation @ThePSF]

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://t.co/laZQCbHWJU
🧵
https://t.co/laZQCbHWJU

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@pablovelagomez1 @rerundotio Is RRD an open format? I wouldn't trust putting my datasets into a closed source file format. Obviously rerun is currently open source but I don't know if the file type itself is well documented

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Please share your thoughts in replies or find me and tell me what you think!

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Thought provoking question for everyone at ICRA:

Do we need to achieve dexterity anthropomorphic hands before we can achieve dexterity with other grippers?

By dexterity I mean ~adult human level. Any by other grippers I mean parallel jaw, suction, etc. more in thread!

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On the other hand, suction or parallel jaw are simpler, easier to simulate or model. And the hardware is better so we can gather real world data more cheaply and with less time spent fixing/replacing things.

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I will be at #ICRA2025 with @BerkshireGrey
Excited to see everyone and talk about robots!

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I'm looking for recommendations for an optical flow model that's up to date and easy to use (unlike mmflow), and fast (<40ms, unlike flowformer)!

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@AmtrakNECAlerts if you're going to cancel some services you need to make it easier to switch to other trains. They're not full, but your phone and in-person agents say they can't switch us to the next available trains, and conductors are turning people away.

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@kscottz Maybe a sign to make/improve an official Chinese translation of the docs lol

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Click for the full image.... stupid twitter cropping.

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These arrows are so confusing I hate it

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@esologic So true! Changed the game when I discovered them

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When you hear "the sky is the limit", maybe it's actually "we don't know when it will stop working"

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@pthangeda_ Wow I didn't think that would work but it seems most papers fit and the results are somewhat correct! I've added some trimming but that part is jank because PDFs are totally inconsistent 💀

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I thought it would be a fun easy task to automatically go through all the CoRL papers and find all the papers that propose a method using behavior cloning.... I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find a good method?!? Any suggestions?

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@pthangeda_ I guess the method you're using here isn't using "embedding search" with vector stores, but just grabbing all the pdf text and including it in the prompt? I could see if that's cheaper I suppose... 🤔

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@pthangeda_ Huh very interesting.... I am using gpt assistants and quickly racked up $30 in usage costs (my employer pays for it).