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Ask HN: How do I find a freelance graphic designer?
2 points by 0xfaded 9y ago|4 comments
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Honest question. I'm curious what a the OPs motivation is. Are you looking to turn these side projects into profitable businesses, or are you hoping to use your network to flip them to a more interested party that would otherwise not h
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Honestly I did a fair few days of research and whenever the UK is listed as an option, the figure 200,000 gbp also shows up. Looking more into this, looks like there is a special 50k gbp if the money is coming from local VC's or govern
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Countries in Europe now offering start-up visas (without major capital requirements): - Denmark - France - Italy - Netherlands - Spain - Portugal - Lithuania - Estonia - Austria - Sweden I'm currently applying
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
I recently put a readme, not even the code, up for a github project. I just never got around to tidying up the code. It's an extremely niche, very fast ARM SIMD implementation of a particular feature descriptor (ORB). Anyway, someone,
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Show HN: Fast ORB feature detection for RaspberryPi(github.com)
1 points by 0xfaded 9y ago|0 comments
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
There are certainly multiple ways of doing it. I'm curious, do you remember if the specific quartic had a nice "trick" to the formulation? I played with it a little and couldn't see anything that would cancel in a nice w
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Totally agree. I had a problem which required finding the minimum distance between an ellipse and a point. If that had been my day job I would have settled for Newton's method and hacked around the regions of bad convergence. Instead I
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
ALICE | Software Engineer | Menlo Park | Onsite | Fulltime http://alicetechnologies.com/ ALICE stands for Artificial Intelligence Construction Engineering and we believe in helping advance the efficiency of the construction
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
I think there's two factors here 1. The relative risk is reduced only when your risk pool size becomes huge, and it would be difficult for a start-up charity to weather the initial storm. 2. The execution of such a charity would be non
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
I think if one really wanted to put effort into a Care Bear style NPO, one possible solution is to buy up a fleet of used toyota corollas and finance them to poorer buyers using similar style methods (e.g. keep the immobilizer and repossess
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Although I didn't implement this myself, the plot accompanying the answer shows that if correctly implemented, this method is unstable in some regions inside the ellipse.
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Update: Blog post has been published http://wet-robots.ghost.io/simple-method-for-distance-to-ell... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15114026
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
OP here This blog post was subject of yesterday's Ask HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15110162 ) I haven't written something like this up in a long time, so feedback appreciated. Thank you
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Simple method for computing distance between point and an ellipse(wet-robots.ghost.io)
20 points by 0xfaded 9y ago|4 comments
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OP here, I just woke up to some exceptional advice, thank you all. I agree most with the "blog and litter stack overflow with references approach". This accomplishes the goals of making what I have useful and discoverable by other
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
They would, however the implementation is now reduced to something you'd happily copy and paste into a code base. Part of what's novel is how the iterative step size is chosen. The Distance function can be very shallow in some cas
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Good points. I'm not particularly interested in monetizing the algorithm. I think I'd like to be able to point to it the next time I go for job interviews. Another possible goal would be to try publish something formally to help w
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Ask HN: I just discovered a new algorithm. What should I do?
80 points by 0xfaded 9y ago|54 comments
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
I'm leaving after 3 years working for SV start ups. It's time for me to do my own thing, and there's just no viable way for me to stay here during the "figuring it out phase". Spain, France and the Netherlands have
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
I log in whenever I need to use messenger, about once every three months. Was greeted with a notification telling me it had been 258 weeks since I last updated my profile. :)
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
I want to point out this passage: "But I was accepted, while all of my friends weren’t. I just thought that it was because I prepped a lot for the interviews and my preparation paid off." It's likely that the preparation did
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
As other comments point out, performance mostly depends on correct implementation. Once the scripting overhead is under control, you're now measuring the performance of your blas library. A much more useful comparison, although 2.5 yea
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Hi Peter, I'm an Australian planning to set up an Australian LLC equivalent for one of my side projects. In the near term I'm not planning to raise investment or hire employees, I just want to start working on this project full ti
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. After much sifting I finally found modern numbers. Gen -> NEON 6 cycles NEON -> Gen 8 cycles So yes, definitely much closer. http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.uan
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
The NEON coprocessor runs at the same CPU clock, but 20 cycles behind the main CPU. It has its own instruction queue, and as long as the queue isn't full the main CPU will simply forward instructions to it. If you want to read from the
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Want to second the drinking/bar/club/happy hour comment. It turns out that drinking is a surprisingly cheap hobby, but as mentioned it has little return. At about 24 I consciously ended that period of my life. At 27 I have my
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
Thank you, scatter-gather was the google term I was looking for, though I couldn't immediately find any architectures that implement a vector scatter-gather. Are you aware of any?
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
I was stumped as to how this was possible, until I saw that it relied on memory access relative to a computed offset, for which as far as I know there are no SIMD instructions. I guess it could be argued that a texture in a shader would pro
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by 0xfaded 9y ago
ALICE | Software Engineer | Menlo Park | Onsite | Fulltime ALICE is bringing AI and Optimization to construction engineering, management and scheduling. We are a well funded ($2.5M) company founded out of Stanford looking to scale as we mak

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