The lion kingdom rapidly approaches its next acquisition & layoff, probably before June.  It looks like another unknown struggling startup buying an unknown struggling startup.  4 years is a long stint for a lion.  The longest was 7 years & might have been too long.  Pretty sure the stonk options don't vest until 5 years so that's going to be a loss if the lion kingdom can't stay alive for another year.  The last acquisition was in Jan 2010 & the lion got axed in May 2010 after 3 years. 

It might be a standard practice to vest everyone at the time of acquisition & pay out all the stonk options in cash.  We weren't allowed to keep our shares & weren't awarded any new options.  They earned dividends over the next few years which only came to some $5000 before they were dissolved.  If we were allowed to keep our shares, the last parent company was $7 in mid 2009, briefly touched $14 in 2013 after they won an emmy in 2012 & is now worth nothing.  The product would have to be a hit & it would have to keep getting acquired until someday owned by a giant like Tesla or Goog.  

The ages old sight of men stacked on top of each other at small desks with tiny monitors has returned to the gootubes.

The next gig will probably entail commuting again.  The question is whether to max out the commuter benefits before they're gone.  It would save maybe $100 in taxes.  Not commuting again or not having another BARF commute would make it a $300 loss.  They're all stored on the BARF clipper card.  Lions only use them for running in the city on weekends.

A head mounted display would definitely appear for a city job.  That would enable quite a long range in the city.  A 2nd robot might be built.  The robots are some $100 for the motors, $50 for the filament, $100 for the electronicals.

The prospect of the next layoff got lions pondering the rich & the big deal, manely Ego Monger's studmuffin's gootube channel.  What finally won her over was a thick scottish accent, rich, bald, & skinny.  There are a lot of rich bald scotts in Calif* & women seemed to flock to them.  Lions suspect Ego Monger was just financially desperate.

He made his fortune creating an algorithm which solves motion capture data.  1 of his companies is on track to get acquired as part of Zuckerberg's virtual reality portfolio.  He'll be worth billions.

The great task in motion capture is matching the point cloud captured by the vicon cameras with control points on a model.  The points don't have unique ID's.  The cameras just see anonymous points & seem to rely on optical flow to distinguish them.  There is a lot of manual labor in setting up the model, locking degrees of freedom of joints, manually matching the point cloud with a starting position of the model.  Then, there's a lot of manual cleanup of the keypoints generated by the solving algorithm.

Openpose & posenet have supposedly automated most of this process.  They are being used to track facial expressions.

But the rest is still a bunch of reflectors worn by a canadian hottie trophy wife.