{
  "id": 246971,
  "title": "Building Intuition around Iterative Trilateration",
  "url": "/competitions/google-smartphone-decimeter-challenge/discussion/246971",
  "author_name": "yfMayes",
  "post_date": "2021-06-17T15:45:54.692000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>Like some of you, I have often struggled with the intuition when it comes to linear algebra concepts. I can use the tools, but building and improving upon them does not come easily.</p>\n<p>Given that we are tasked with somehow improving the miracle that is GPS location, I decided to take a little time to build some intuition around how the system works.  In the notebook below, I create a toy example in 2D with way too verbose a notebook to breakdown what is happening. It has helped me and hopefully it can do the same for you if you have the same struggle with linear algebra that I sometimes do.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/jmayes/gps-iterative-trilateration-intuition-building\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/jmayes/gps-iterative-trilateration-intuition-building</a></p>",
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      "postDate": "2021-06-17T15:45:54.693Z",
      "content": "<p>Like some of you, I have often struggled with the intuition when it comes to linear algebra concepts. I can use the tools, but building and improving upon them does not come easily.</p>\n<p>Given that we are tasked with somehow improving the miracle that is GPS location, I decided to take a little time to build some intuition around how the system works.  In the notebook below, I create a toy example in 2D with way too verbose a notebook to breakdown what is happening. It has helped me and hopefully it can do the same for you if you have the same struggle with linear algebra that I sometimes do.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/jmayes/gps-iterative-trilateration-intuition-building\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/jmayes/gps-iterative-trilateration-intuition-building</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Like some of you, I have often struggled with the intuition when it comes to linear algebra concepts. I can use the tools, but building and improving upon them does not come easily.\n\nGiven that we are tasked with somehow improving the miracle that is GPS location, I decided to take a little time to build some intuition around how the system works.  In the notebook below, I create a toy example in 2D with way too verbose a notebook to breakdown what is happening. It has helped me and hopefully it can do the same for you if you have the same struggle with linear algebra that I sometimes do.\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/jmayes/gps-iterative-trilateration-intuition-building",
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    "1354443": "Like some of you, I have often struggled with the intuition when it comes to linear algebra concepts. I can use the tools, but building and improving upon them does not come easily.\n\nGiven that we are tasked with somehow improving the miracle that is GPS location, I decided to take a little time to build some intuition around how the system works.  In the notebook below, I create a toy example in 2D with way too verbose a notebook to breakdown what is happening. It has helped me and hopefully it can do the same for you if you have the same struggle with linear algebra that I sometimes do.\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/jmayes/gps-iterative-trilateration-intuition-building"
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