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Some simulation platforms that caught my eye this year 🧵

RoboThor from @allen_ai

https://t.co/Ch6GvWHHgP

ThreeDWorld: A Platform for Interactive Multi-Modal Physical Simulation

https://t.co/vEXqGx1ddA

https://t.co/I6UQKTDf41

SAPIEN: A SimulAted Part-based Interactive ENvironment

https://t.co/khJN7xZifp

https://t.co/pc7BeELFsF

TartanAir: A Dataset to Push the Limits of Visual SLAM

https://t.co/18kPS3xSeX

https://t.co/o6YQVWlTji

Interactive Gibson: A Benchmark for Interactive Navigation in Cluttered Environments

https://t.co/iUMCZK1o8c

virtual home (v2)

https://t.co/cvv4G2MN04

AllenAct: A Framework for Embodied AI Research

https://t.co/7d2C2pJR0W

https://t.co/Ch2blo8VC1

robosuite: A Modular Simulation Framework and Benchmark for Robot Learning

https://t.co/pmp5Au2s5A

NeuralSim: Augmenting Differentiable Simulators with Neural Networks

https://t.co/dQhkE9Kx59

SoftGym: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation

https://t.co/Y0fsAOVUzr

Flightmare: A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator

https://t.co/p1NfyJrPHm

TriFinger: An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity

https://t.co/yw4wmY5zII

Eldersim: A Synthetic Data Generation Platform For Human Action Recognition In Eldercare Applications

https://t.co/TD43xqMZZu

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Q: How will I know if I am getting paid?
A: You will get a message from Team Snapchat that looks like the below message 2-3 weeks after the snap has gone live. At this point it important that you verify your email address.

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Q: How do I set up my HyperWallet?
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Q: How long does it take to actually get the money in my account?
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Michael Dearing
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An irony of facebook's situation.

Sheryl got her MBA at Harvard. One of the most famous cases (Extra Strength Tylenol) in one of the most famous classes (Business History) she took: in 1982, someone put cyanide in Extra Strength Tylenol capsules and killed 7 people in Chicago.

What do you do when someone turns your product into a weapon? When they use the system you built to harm? James Burke, CEO of J&J, was shockingly open with the public, he pulled the product and made significant packaging changes to make product safer (but not tamper-proof).

He over-shared every step along the way re investigation, redesign, stood up as both CEO and human. The reintroduction of new Extra Strength Tylenol succeeded. Burke saved the brand.

But four years later it happened again. A killer put cyanide in the capsules, this time a woman in Yonkers died. Same CEO, Burke, pulled the product again, completely changed the form factor from capsule to caplet and relaunched *again*. It worked *again*. How'd they do that?

Burke (CEO) tapped J&Js goodwill bank account w/ the public. Two big withdrawals from that bank account in four years + 8 dead bodies! But his honesty, openness, humanity (choked up about the deaths more than once), humility kept the goodwill bank balance positive the whole time.

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1) Looking back on my "career" with @TheNordicWeb over the last 5 years, in retrospect it's easy for me to join up the dots and make sense of the journey:

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- Join & start community initiatives to meet people
- Learn from these people about how special the Nordic tech scene is
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- Use network to raise a fund

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My lack of vision and goals during this 5 year period was _criminal_

Any movement from one step to the next was never pre-planned and was instinctive, or worse, accidental.

4) While I am embarrassed to think of my headless chicken self, there's also part of me that thinks that none of this would have turned out where it did if I had of been deliberate and strategic about this.

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Ludwig started off with a high energy intro with background music that sounded like an entrance theme to a WWE wrestler (or a Saturday morning TV show).

He then moved onto a segment where he attempted to break a 'world record' for speedrunning Unban Bingo.

(a trending piece of content right now, with in-jokes with the Twitch community and funny content that can be repurposed for YouTube).

Ludwig follows this up with a 20 slide presentation on 'how to make it big as a streamer'.

He engaged viewers into chat by asking them to vote directly in chat temporarily, which perfectly broke up what could have been a 'boring' presentation (spoiler, it wasn't boring).

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Rani Jindan Kaur, wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh had illegitimate relations with Lal Singh (PM of Ranjit Singh). Along with Lal Singh, she attacked Jammu, burnt - https://t.co/EfjAq59AyI

Tomorrow again same thing happens bcoz fudus like you are creating a narrative oh Khalistan. when farmers are asking MSP. (RSS ki tatti khane wale Kerni sena ke kutte).
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YarKhan. (ref was proudly shared by a sikh on twitter)
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Sri Mridanga Saileswari Temple Muzhakkunnu, Kannur KERALA

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Devi will answer all the prayers of her devotees who pray to her with utmost devotion lighting the ghee deepam.

It is the family diety of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja.
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Legend...👇
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