Excited to back @makanikai and @FRDMROBOTICS. They're building advanced tooling for robotics teams (medium.com/initialized-ca…). I'd like to elaborate on a more technical level why this tooling is super important for the next generation of robotics products. To learn about this space, I looked into the tools that a lot of roboticists use. Many use ROS (ros.org). It's a pretty powerful platform that allows composition of different sensors (LIDAR, cameras, etc..) with software (SLAM, ML, visualization)

Linear algebra is one of the most useful subjects I've ever learned. And not just because it's practical (though it is enormously so, showing up all branches of science and engineering) but for a surprisingly mundane abstract observation: an arbitrarily complex object (a "vector") can be described in terms of a simpler set of objects ("the basis set"). This simple abstraction shows up almost everywhere. Want to compress images? Describe it in terms of a smaller set of Fourier components.