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by alexirobbins 8y ago
Natgeo recently published this great data visualization / article on the ocean’s plastic and where it comes from: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/the-jour...
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Show HN: Tamber.js – Put ML Personalization in your app, just by tracking events(github.com)
3 points by alexirobbins 9y ago|0 comments
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by alexirobbins 9y ago
Hi all! I'm Alexi, founder of Tamber. We built Tamber to help developers put fast, effective recommendations into their apps. After trying a few open source libraries for a music app I was building, I found that they were surprisingly
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Show HN: Tamber – put real time, high-accuracy recommendations in your app(tamber.com)
9 points by alexirobbins 9y ago|2 comments
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by alexirobbins 9y ago
Tamber is the phonetic spelling of the musical term timbre, which desribes the "tonal" quality that distinguishes one person's voice from another. Everyone has their own timbre, and now everyone will have their own, unique ex
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by alexirobbins 9y ago
this sounds a lot like my local government
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by alexirobbins 11y ago
20% is the standard for lithium batteries, but sooner is always better.
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As SpaceX rises, NASA is sinking into Florida(medium.com)
1 points by alexirobbins 11y ago|0 comments
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
I think it could be really cool to make a physical representation of addressed memory, and then have a few op codes that can be used to solve basic problems. The op codes could be introduced as needed, and problems can grow in difficulty un
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
Prediction.io is just an interface on top of Apache Mahout. The results appear to be the same: mediocre.
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
Feels like watching a super-human intelligence program.
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
Enterprise software you say? interesting...
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
Apple bundles payments together to avoid this. It's complicated af.
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
I imagine the tax comparison is part of why they wouldn't want to do it. As your app is more successful, you have to pay Apple more and suddenly this favor to indie developers feels like a tax on the successful. Rebates would be a good
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
I do not mean to imply that pure capitalism is more efficient for scientific progress, just that massive waste is common when the government funds programs, and too often heart-wrenchingly so. Hopefully we can decrease it with better policy
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
This is just generally what happens when the government funds long term science experiments. My favorite example is the $1 Billion (inflation adjusted) MFTF-B fusion experiment at LLNL, which was completed the same day the gov't cancel
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
I too would like to read this. Also worth taking a look at this article from last year, Sci-Fi Will Save the Liberal Arts: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113670/sci-fi-will-save-l...
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
This might be the perfect antithesis of the Steve Jobs keynote. I hope they do some sort of an onstage reveal – and refine their process. This was as bad as it was awesome.
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
It's probably also counting the width of the page, which would make the positioning formula trickier. Still, get your shit together apple!
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
Simple, explains almost everything. Dangling question: why were the lights red?
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by alexirobbins 12y ago
The english language strikes again!
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Manifest Digital: Why The Web Is 'Becoming' Political(medium.com)
1 points by alexirobbins 13y ago|0 comments
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
Better?
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Engie - A new Suggestion Engine for your data, seeking beta testers(engie.org)
3 points by alexirobbins 13y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Where's the Good UX Research?
1 points by alexirobbins 13y ago|2 comments
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by alexirobbins 13y ago
Not sarcastic question: where is the good research? I'm a college student doing an independent study and would love more great sources!
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Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go(tamber.com)
145 points by alexirobbins 13y ago|41 comments
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Show HN: Tamber | Always Have An Awesome Concert To Go See(youtube.com)
2 points by alexirobbins 13y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: The first concert suggestion engine ever - Tamber for iPhone(youtube.com)
1 points by alexirobbins 13y ago|1 comments
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Why Kinect and Twitter are only half-invented(medium.com)
3 points by alexirobbins 13y ago|0 comments

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