<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Reminds me that Zelensky recently ordered the creation of a separate military force for drones. Drones have changed warfare.</div><div dir="auto">https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-orders-creation-separate-military-force-drones-2024-02-06/</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Roger Critchlow <rec@elf.org> </div><div>Date: 2/10/24 1:29 AM (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] Teach a quadrotor to fly with 18 seconds of simulation on a MacBook Pro </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">This article probably deserves more critical attention than I've given it, but it's published in IEEE Spectrum:<div> <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/drone-quadrotor">https://spectrum.ieee.org/drone-quadrotor</a></div><div>they have videos on Youtube:</div><div> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRD43ZA1D-4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRD43ZA1D-4</a></div><div> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtPG_HmBd8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtPG_HmBd8</a></div><div>source code on github:</div><div> <a href="https://github.com/arplaboratory/learning-to-fly">https://github.com/arplaboratory/learning-to-fly</a></div><div>and a preprint on arxiv:</div><div> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13081">https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13081</a></div><div><br></div><div>Via hackernews.</div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div>
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