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2024

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pantor/ros-control-center: A web-based control center for ROS robots.

One of several ROS Web control panels. These are useful to allow you to monitor your robot from a computer that is not itself running ROS, or a phone or iPad.

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How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles

Great reminders on how and why to use the ancient and ubiquitous “make” tool.

  • Web site excerpt: First contact with make When I was invited for my first job interview in the IT, I’ve been asked such question: How would you typically build a program from sources, what commands will you use? I answered: It’s obvious: ./configure make make install Those times belong to the past now and nowadays not many programmers use GNU Make1. Try asking this question and you will see disgust at best. For many it’s the fist contact with make and often the last one, but not for me 😉

  • Link to site: How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles

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Best Practices for Working with Large Language Models

We’re all doing it now, right? Using LLMs for all kinds of things? Well here are some useful rules of thumb. By the way, as far as employing a team of assistants, take a look at Poe.com. It’s a single front end to all (almost all) the LLMs out there. And in fact it bakes in the question of what would the other LLMs say to the same prompt.

A brave new world!

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Grading for Growth

This article lays out many of the things that worry and bother me about the way we teach, assess and grade.

  • Web site excerpt: Research and ideas about reforming grading practices in higher education and beyond. Click to read Grading for Growth, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

  • Link to site: Grading for Growth