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by atroyn 10y ago
I urge you to look into the history of company towns. What happens when they fire you and kick you out of company housing? What happens when unpaid overtime is the norm because you're not really 'at work' despite being in the
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Data. A kaggle for self driving data would be fantastic. As a computer vision researcher, getting my hands on data 'at scale' is a really tough problem.
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Both good points. I'd also note that it would be very hard if not impossible to legislate for the 'right' kinds of risk arbitrage and against the 'wrong' ones.
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by atroyn 10y ago
This isn't necessarily so clear cut. Some percentage of market activity due to speculation helps to smooth capital flows over time. In an industry like fishing, profitable speculation can keep the industry afloat in tough times (e.g bu
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There is a considerable ongoing research effort in formal verification of learned systems. Once an ML system has been trained, it becomes deterministic and can be tested.
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by atroyn 10y ago
How does he balance the skepticism that comes with an analytical mind, with the optimism necessary to pull off something new? Put another way, how do you build something cool without succumbing to bullshit?
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To whom are you referring ?
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Ask HN: Who's Coming to YC Startup School?
5 points by atroyn 10y ago|3 comments
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I think it's a mistake to see all social interaction through the lens of professions
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I expect to have v0.1 out in October, will post a 'Show HN' then.
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As a side project I'm building a computer vision framework and hardware sensor for mobile robots. The target users are people who want to build applications for vision based autonomy, but don't want to go through the hassle of bui
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by atroyn 10y ago
'The moment government got involved in the Internet' would be from its inception as a government project for a communications network that could withstand nuclear war. Even if you mean the Web, that came out of CERN, another gover
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by atroyn 10y ago
What are your thoughts on Helion?
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by atroyn 10y ago
Most of the fusion companies I've seen founded lately are led by people who have been scientists in this field for decades. To which companies of you refer?
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by atroyn 10y ago
You might be interested in Prof. Marc Pollefeys' work: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11827854
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by atroyn 10y ago
I would hardly say that deep learning has taken over - some of the best results in the last few years have come from 'classical' domains like nonlinear optimization. For example, LSD-SLAM: http://vision.in.tum.de/r
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13, Right Now(washingtonpost.com)
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I'm a big fan of idlewords's contrasting take on tech: http://idlewords.com/
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by atroyn 10y ago
Having lived in Germany for a few years now, most young Germans acknowledge the nazis as part of the history, and see them as a cautionary tale of how easily extremism can derail an otherwise advanced country. Any extreme position is theref
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This is what it's like trying to attract and retain tech talent in Australia(linkedin.com)
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by atroyn 11y ago
"Are there known cities which confronted their past ?" Yes, absolutely - Berlin is the canonical example. The site of the wall isn't paved over or hidden, it's a line of bricks that runs right through the city, with seve
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by atroyn 11y ago
What else could you do to attract readers? How are they hearing about the site now? Is there a particular kind of reader/author you're trying to appeal to first? I would love to see an alternative to 1.) Fiction publishers as midd
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by atroyn 11y ago
I ingest mountains of fiction (and dabble in writing), and have also worked in the (Free-to-play) game industry. - How will you ensure quality from authors? - How will you get your first authors, and first readers? - How will you help autho
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by atroyn 11y ago
Product Hunt currently does books and podcasts, but that part of that community is considerably smaller than the rest of the site. How will you attract the first readers and authors to your platform? How will you ensure a high standard of q
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by atroyn 11y ago
Why would your potential customers choose your platform over others before you have the fancy A.I DNA?
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Suppose that for whatever reasons, automating mechanical design doesn't stick with your customers. What would you do then?
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by atroyn 11y ago
How big is your team and what are their backgrounds? Do you have a specific industry/customer you'll target first? Are they already using engineering services firms for this work, and can you do it cheaper/faster? Are they re
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by atroyn 11y ago
Oh hey Diego, didn't recognise your username! Great to see you applying to the fellowship, you definitely have the right 'hacker' mentality. (Just for the rest of HN's reference, Diego built a rig where you could watch y
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Could you give an example of a process you can optimize using the data you gather?
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How will users trust your results, particularly in safety critical applications? What are the main limitations of your approach? How do you ensure that the parts you generate can actually be fabricated? How do you plan to find your customer

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