TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·Aug 4 · 27 min readThe VIGIA interview companion: learn CS fundamentals by defending a real systemThe VIGIA interview companion: learn CS fundamentals by defending a real system A long-form preparation guide for Android, backend, systems and general software-engineering interviews. It connects dat00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 12 min readRiding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #06I'll start with the confession. My README said the system ran at 10.3 FPS with a real-time parallel pipeline. When I sat down and actually measured it running with the display on, it managed 2–3 FPS, 00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 11 min readRiding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #05Every object detector gives you a confidence score, and the beginner's instinct is to trust it directly: high score means hazard, act on it. On a single image, fine. On a live video stream from a boun00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 14 min readRiding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #04Adding threads to a system is easy. Adding threads without turning it into a minefield of race conditions, priority inversions, and mysterious frame drops is the actual engineering. In Episode 2 I des00
TMTom Mathewinridingbluewaves.hashnode.dev·Aug 3 · 12 min readRiding the Blue Wave: Building Autonomous Intelligence on the Edge #03In the last episode I walked through the system architecture, the asynchronous multi-threaded pipeline that keeps the whole thing real-time. This episode goes one level deeper, into the part everyone 00