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Aug 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Learning Action-Conditioned World Models for Autonomous Robot Navigation
Can a lightweight Recurrent State-Space Model (RSSM) predict multi-step depth accurately and power closed-loop planning for mobile robots? Here is what 617,000 simulated transitions and 10,800 real-world Unitree Go2 steps taught me about sim-to-real transfer and model-based navigation.
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Feb 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Why Frontier Coding Models Still Outperform Open Source in Iterative Development
Most people assume the difference between frontier models and open source alternatives comes down to parameter count. But the real gap has more to do with how these systems are architected for actual iterative development workflows.
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Nov 30, 2023 · 6 min read
Building an Automated Real-Time Facial Recognition Attendance System
Traditional manual attendance in high-density university lecture halls wastes 10-15 minutes and is prone to proxy marking. Here is how we engineered an automated edge facial recognition pipeline using 128-dimensional deep metric embeddings, sub-50ms OpenCV stream processing, and Firebase real-time sync.
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