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by afar 6y ago
Agree. Intent is to kill the product once this is all over and use the infrastructure to design better cities.
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by afar 6y ago
In an ideal world, we just give this stuff away and the applications on the platform become the primary value. Some people are open to that others are less used to having a widget and not owning it. Will take time.
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by afar 6y ago
It's definitely going to take a village of tools and methods. Don't think it will make it more dangerous, though.
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by afar 6y ago
Skepticism on this stuff is valid. If we're going to distribute large scale infrastructure that measures human movement we ought to be critical of it. So many systems purport to work but don't. Others are way over engineered. And
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by afar 6y ago
It's a custom sensor in the lidar family. Uses infrared lasers as illumination and generates depth data. Essentially millions of height values. When depth is rendered to be human legible it look looks like greyscale silhouettes (dark g
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by afar 6y ago
The bet is that by giving data back to people to let them make their own decisions about safety, they'll self moderate.
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by afar 6y ago
Def. We call that the OB1 problem (off-by-one). If either event detection (did something happen) or event classification (entry or entrance) is wrong, you can be off the whole day. To solve that, we have a different approach / non-thre
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by afar 6y ago
More difficult with multiple doors when you have radio between to reconcile count.
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by afar 6y ago
Accuracy is fundamental. When installed properly, a 99%+ f1 score is achievable.
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by afar 6y ago
Yeah. Should have been "Safe by reducing Density"
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by afar 6y ago
Nets out to ~$85/mo. For a small place, that's substantially less expensive than staffing it full time. disclosure: co-founder here.
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by afar 10y ago
What do you think is the biggest blind spot or most limiting aspect of YC Group and how do you plan to fix it? Asked another way, what are YC's weaknesses, in your opinion?
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by afar 11y ago
No worries. I totally earned that one.
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by afar 11y ago
You're right. It was an unprofessional comment. I was flippant and insulting. You are also certainly right to be disappointed, off-put, and impressed with how PM responded. Product of tiredness and being trigger-happy with the reply bu
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by afar 11y ago
Sorry. If you can email team AT density.io with a bug report or something that shows the latency that would be really helpful.
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by afar 11y ago
[Density founder here] Hey Animats, sorry it took me all day to get to your list of questions. > which implies they're selling data to someone else. Who? Typically our customers are startups who sell to SMBs (coffee shops, bars, res
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by afar 11y ago
[a Density founder here] Okay... > Why does this need to connect to your servers? Because that's where the signal gets processed. We store all signal data ever captured and do all the math on an analyze server. The benefit of this i
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by afar 11y ago
Hardware's intentionally simple. We've even considered open sourcing it :).. [Density founder here]
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by afar 11y ago
I really like you, for some reason. I think it's your green handle.
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by afar 11y ago
That's really interesting. Given a certain level of granularity, would it be possible for a person to have a unique object signature? I guess at that point, you'd just use a face. Just curious. No wifi pinging. After Apple almost
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by afar 11y ago
I am curious. Particularly with your new sensor. It sounded like much of the video processing happens on the unit itself, meaning faces never reach Placemeter servers. Is it accurate to say that you're only getting counts and movement
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by afar 11y ago
I agree. But I think there should be a distinction between being on someone's property and being recorded for security and being in a cafe, having your face recognized as someone that frequented a sex shop last week, pairing that with
53.
by afar 11y ago
We agree. That was not by design. Updating.
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by afar 11y ago
Yeah. We could and will clear that up.
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by afar 11y ago
Yeah... I mean I appreciate that people pay lip-service to privacy but a surveillance camera that counts you as a distinct individual without your consent is an invasion of privacy. The cost is higher than the price tag, homie. Edit I am
56.
by afar 11y ago
Cheap and anonymous by design. Also, we're not after big retail. We're after everyone else.
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by afar 11y ago
At one point we went as far as to quiz our moms. "Mom, what does Density do? What does it cost? Do we sell surveillance cameras?" After she got 9/10 correct (she's 58)... she looks at me and says, "Ship it, Andrew.
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by afar 11y ago
Yeah... we're secretly hoping for some version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat
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by afar 11y ago
So that's a really novel idea. It would be incredible to tell a first responder how many people we think are inside... accurately. We just do installs at each entrance and then normalize.
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by afar 11y ago
Thanks. Took a long time to get the right balance of imagery, icons, and copy.

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