Hey everybody! Hobbyist here with an update on my cheap rover swarm project. I've been trying out Depth Anything 3 and wanted to share, because the results of such minimal hardware surprised me. The setup: each rover is just a XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense (~$15 board with a tiny onboard camera) in a 3D printed body. The ESP32 is basically a sender, it streams the camera over WiFi and reports temperature/battery/telemetry. All the heavy lifting (DA3 inference, navigation) runs on a PC that acts as the brain. No lidar, no depth sensor, one cheap RGB camera. DA3 gives me a point cloud per frame and can merge multiple frames into a larger cloud. Seeing a $15 camera produce a usable 3D-ish image of the room is still kind of wild to me. Eventually I want to use it for navigation - a kind of "poor man's lidar". It estimates what's near at three heights (eye level, above, below) to give a rough obstacle sense without a dedicated sensor. Secondly for visualization at the moment, but the goal is to stitch frames into an environment map. Positioning is currently handled by ArUco markers around the room (solvePnP). Still early and held together with hope, but it's been fun pushing this hardware further than it wamts to go. :-) submitted by /u/monkeydance26 [link] [Kommentare]

Hi. I need a platform for receiving USDC/USDT from my trading broker, converting/selling it into my local currency, and withdrawing it to my bank account. Pretty much it. I've been using Binance since always, but it looks like I may need to find an alternative very soon... Based on my quick and uninformed research, I've been considering Kraken. Thoughts? Thanks. submitted by /u/_SmartCheetah_ [link] [Kommentare]

Hi everyone, I have a fairly weak undergraduate: a 3.3/5 GPA in Computer Engineering from an average Nigerian university. For my Master's, I studied Artificial Intelligence at an average European university, where I finished with an 8/10 GPA. A condensed version of my Master's thesis was recently accepted at ACL 2026, with a meta-review score of 8/10 and a confidence score of 5/5. It's scheduled for presentation next month. I want to pursue a PhD focused on expanding linguistic resources for low-resource African languages. I know my weak undergrad GPA and the relatively unknown reputation of my previous universities will make it hard to get into top NLP programs (CMU, Edinburgh, ETH, MBZUAI, etc.), though I'm hoping the ACL paper helps offset that somewhat. At the same time, I don't want to end up at a less competitive university just for the sake of getting in somewhere, if it doesn't do meaningful work on low-resource NLP. How should I think about structuring my application strategy here (reach vs. safety schools, how to frame my profile, what to emphasize)? I'd also genuinely appreciate honest feedback on my overall profile. Thanks. submitted by /u/Unlikely_Screen_9287 [link] [Kommentare]

I’m not necessarily looking to make a point, but hopefully to be proven wrong... Traditional stock markets already more of a kludge with exploitation of loopholes and fixation it worked more like a leaky tub where people made holes and the insititution tried to bandage which made a very messy system. I think tokenized stock is a bandage to the system as welll institutions just sugar-coated stocks with fractional ownership and dlt(distributed ledger technology) and marketed them as an on-chain initiative but in real it contradicts with the real idea of crypto itself its more like a bandage rather than a fix which was made to bring in more of the people who believe in blockchain and were against central authority I also think that institution like BlackRock think of decentralization as a threat. The solution should be redesigning the system from scratch not patching submitted by /u/Old-Director-6727 [link] [Kommentare]

TL;DR for anyone who doesn’t click: CoinGecko looked at which chains kept users active from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. Ethereum had the highest retention rate at 26.2%. BNB Chain came second at 20.5%. But by actual users retained, BNB Chain led the whole report with 1.49M users still active a year later. Main takeaway: Ethereum had the best percentage retention, but BNB Chain retained the most users overall. submitted by /u/FTXACCOUNTANT [link] [Kommentare]

Just got the email that I have been accepted in DL4C @ICML 2026 , as the email did not contain any details on logistics can someone help here ​ - is it mandatory to visit the workshop ? - what's the usual expense apart from flights, can someone add details like fees and all ? - in the email there's no mention of whether its poster or what ? - How will the overall process works from here it's my first time, any input will be very valuable. ​ Thanks in advance ​ submitted by /u/shifuThePandaGod [link] [Kommentare]

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