The Burj Khalifa is the tallest structure humans have ever built. But that record may fall in the coming years as a new generation of supertall buildings go under construction. The first tallest structure in the world was the Great Pyramid of Giza, which held its record for nearly 4000...
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HH Holmes became known as the Devil in the White City because of the legend that he built a murder castle in Chicago in 1893 with the intent of murdering hundreds of people as they visited the Chicago World Columbian Exposition (which became known as the White City). He built a hotel with...
Many are the stories told about H. H. Holmes. He’s been called “The Devil of Chicago” and that about sums up the sort of man he was. It was probably inevitable that such a monstrous life as he lived would get wrapped up in myth and legend. In Holmes’ case, many of...
The Hubble Space Telescope was just the most recent advancement in telescope technology that opened up the universe to us in ways we could have never imagined. But Hubble’s abilities are soon to be eclipsed by several space and ground-based telescopes with bigger mirrors and data...
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LiDAR vs Computer Vision: Does Waymo Have A Better Strategy Than Tesla?
At Tesla’s Investor Autonomy Day, they laid out their plan for building a self-driving network of robotaxis and made the argument that their computer vision approach is better than LiDAR-based approaches. Here I take a look at the two strategies and see which one could be the first...