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While I am working mainly in the domain of software engineering for automotive software, I try to keep up with general development in IT to see which technologies can be relevant for the toolchains and...
View ArticleUsing AspectJ to analyze exceptions in production systems
For several automotive customers, we are building (Eclipse-based) systems that process engineering data – not only interactively, but in nightly jobs. From time to time, there might be a problem in...
View ArticleRamping Up for the Udacity Self-Driving Car Nanodegree
I was having great fun with the first exercise / graded project of Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Nanodegree (https://de.udacity.com/drive/). The first exercise is the implementation of a (simple) lane...
View ArticleOctave cheat sheet for Coursera Machine Learning course
Switching from / to Octave when working with the Coursera machine learning course can be a bit of a hassle, since some of the Octave syntax is special. Here is my own cheat sheet to remember the most...
View ArticleSetting up Tensorflow w/ GPU for the SDCND on Windows with Nvidia GPU
The Udacity Self-Driving-Car Nano Degree’s second project is an implementation of a traffic sign classifier with Tensorflow. Installation can be a bit confusing, because you could use your PC, an AWS...
View ArticleUdacity Self Driving Car Nano-Degree – is it worth the money?
The Udacity Self Driving Car Nano-Degree currently has a lot of visibility both within the automotive industry as well as with software developers who are interested to move into the industry. Udacity...
View ArticleAn Integrated Development Environment for the SDCND
The self-driving car nanodegree from Udacity includes a number of different projects in Python and C++ in different environments (local PC, AWS if you don’t have an GPU). A common discussion topic on...
View ArticleUsing Eclipse CDT for the Udacity Self Driving Cars Nanodegree C++ projects
There are a number of C/C++ IDEs that can be used for working on the Udacity SDCND C++ projects. This blog post contains a few tips for using Eclipse CDT to solve the Extended Kalman Filter project....
View ArticleSolving the Udacity SDCND exercises with the Windows Subsystem for Linux...
Some of the projects in the SDCND nano-degree are C/C++ projects base on cmake. Though there is some support for using direct Windows development, to some, developing on Linux is more comfortable and...
View ArticlePatching the Udacity Self-Driving Car Nanodegree Simulator
For several of its projects in the self-driving car nanodegree course, Udacity provides an Unity based simulator that is used for projects like lane detection and following waypoints on a track. It is...
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