JasonCEC

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by JasonCEC 12y ago
Production practice of Vodka matters less, because the point of vodka is "a flavorless spirit". If you're dealing with flavor vodka, your no longer dealing with a craft/artisan spirit anyway.
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by JasonCEC 12y ago
My company[1] works in this space, building tools for artisan brewers, distillers, and coffee roasters. I know this market quite well! This is a known practice, and one that a lot of people are unhappy about. We suspect that the TTB will be
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by JasonCEC 12y ago
Shiny has a full time team working startup hours on it - it's out of beta and has enterprise support (Shiny server pro). It's come a long way to put it mildly; and we've never had a problem using it in production. We could i
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by JasonCEC 12y ago
We use R and Shiny server pro for our back-end. It's hosted on AWS EB with our static site on S3. We love it - the data scientists can write and push features directly, and everything (including our API's) are easily maintainable
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by JasonCEC 12y ago
For anyone interested in quantitatively measuring the flavor profile of your coffee, and seeing how dosing and other changes effect your perceived quality of your daily (hourly?) ritual.... My startup [0] makes an Android App just for the o
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
All of our API's are built in R using rserve, and we share code and functions through an internal package hosted on bitbucket. You can call R functions on a server from Android and return the results in a list or array - makes for som
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
My startups [1] does flavor profiling and statistical quality control for beer and bourbon producers - it's a fun job! Our entire back-end is built in R, mostly within the Hadly-verse, and we use Shiny [2] as our web framework. Our tea
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
Gotta love China; I had Wasp Larvae when I was living in Yunnan, and loved it! The numbing was probably from Sichuan Pepper Corn [1] not the bees themselves! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
My company[1] did a bit of flavor profiling research for a few Ento farmers and startups. Once you get over your aversion to the idea of eating crickets or mealworms, their actually quite good! The crickets always reminded me of french frie
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
Can you talk a bit about your feature selection or models? I run a statistical quality control company using machine learning, and picking up on flaws with tiny probabilities (one batch in every twenty or thirty million) might benefit from
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
Discretionary spending is different than fixed costs and contractual liabilities. I am saying that you should think of costumer acquisition as an upfront expense that leads to future profits - if the business is growing, and has reasonable
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
A company can be spending more than they make, and still be profitable (a la Amazon) - hence the "plowing money back into the business" comment above. A company in its growth stage believes there is significant profits to be made
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
That is very interesting to me... When this first became a business a few years ago, I had hopped that we could get `laypeople` to review products, and then use a mass of consumer data to sell our services. This has not paned-out in practic
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
Maybe. We've considered lowering prices - but $500 / month is far less than what any company (startup or not) would need to spend on hiring an employee with quality control experience. We do far more than most QA/QC teams e
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
For anyone interested in starting a brewery, my startup [1] does Flavor Profiling and Statistical Quality control for small to medium sized artisan beer, coffee, and spirit producers. We use machine learning and data-science to quantify th
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
We're a beta client for Shiny Pro. The security features and server monitoring are quite good, and well worth it!
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
My company uses R, Shiny, and Rserve for nearly everything . R is a great programing language - if you need to quickly and efficiently develop stat's based features for medium sized data. R excels (get it?) at creating reproducible, f
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
If anyone here is interested in improving their home roasting, check out our services for Quality Control and Flavor Profiling [1]. I'd be happy to set you up a free account as a home roaster, and I think feedback from the HN community
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by JasonCEC 13y ago
My company makes analytics dashboards for Statistical Quality Control and Flavor profiling of artisan products... I think it's pretty good with its filtering options and the like. Link to our first tutorial here: https://w