bcon

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Feedback loops for organizing hardware development(mechanomy.com)
2 points by bcon 4mo ago|0 comments
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CommuniCam, a camera to build communities (2022)(twitter.com)
1 points by bcon 8mo ago|0 comments
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Funding Open Source(benconrad.net)
2 points by bcon 2y ago|0 comments
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Text to CAD?(mechanomy.substack.com)
4 points by bcon 3y ago|1 comments
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by bcon 3y ago
I've [argued]( https://benconrad.net/posts/230717_fundingOpenSource/ ) that oss developers need to have real world use information in order to ship good software. Contra some here, I think oss developers that d
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by bcon 3y ago
> What limits AI creation is not base creation but creating things that satisfy people. And determining what will satisfy people is much more the domain of influencers than AI, and this sounds like jobs that filter AI outputs for market
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Ask HN: Should CAD be more like video games?
2 points by bcon 3y ago|1 comments
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by bcon 3y ago
There's pretty clearly a law of conserved latency, that users will gladly suffer x latency for y capability, with capability complexifying until things are too slow, requiring then hw/sw stack upgrades to make it all fast again, w
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by bcon 3y ago
Too bad they chose the wrong differentiation, when Neeva launched I wrote: "if I were Neeva, I'd attempt to make search a better experience, by providing better results and context than Google does. I'd classify users accordi
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RapidSlide Adjustable Wrench(mechanomy.com)
60 points by bcon 4y ago|138 comments
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by bcon 5y ago
I wish analytics had an 'audience view' to help communities understand themselves.
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by bcon 13y ago
They were using Eclipse as an interface for task creation and presentation; there's AI in the background ordering the tasks according to, eg, minimal procedure time. While their website is a little sparse, I think an email would prove usef
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by bcon 13y ago
NASA has funded SBIR topics on automating EVA scheduling; TRACLabs (based in Clear Lake) has done some of this work, see http://traclabs.com/research/our-thought-leaders/ and particularly work by Debra Schreckenghost, Pete Bonasso, and Sc