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160: Position Localization

Programming Throwdown

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The Importance of Eliminating Dimensions

If you have a cell phone antenna, you can do the same thing with cell phone towers. They don't move around a lot, right? Because they're installed on a giant tower. And then when you move inside, it turns out that Wi-Fi antennas all go around and most people don't understand what's going on. So if you're in an apartment or something like that, your satellite receiver will never finish because it doesn't ever get a radio signal that it's just sitting there listening for. It takes a while to sort of receive these messages, do a bunch of disambiguation, and take time to learn new corrections to orbital mechanics.

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