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by benjismith 10y ago
To me, the interesting thing about this is that the "biometric data" is actually the collection of photos that the users uploaded. The data-structures used for facial recognition are just metadata, extracted from the original imag
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by benjismith 10y ago
Very interesting! I've done a lot of work with higher-dimensional spaces in NLP and Machine Learning (creating feature vectors with tens of thousands of dimensions, and then calculating cosines between vectors to estimate document simi
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by benjismith 10y ago
Awesome. I'd love to use a VR headset to explore the visualizations at http://cosmicweb.barabasilab.com , and fly around through the superstructure of the universe!
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by benjismith 10y ago
You gotta love the genius of a guy whose rocket company gets to practice for their Mars launch by sending up a bunch of satellites (powered by the solar panels he makes) to assemble a new worldwide wireless internet company, in order to pro
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by benjismith 10y ago
I always wanted to be a full-time fiction author. Eventually, a few years ago, I started a company to make software for fiction authors. Best of both worlds!
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by benjismith 10y ago
Nice. I'm super excited about this! I've hand-rolled something a lot like this already for the Shaxpir backend, but it would be really nice to have a well-engineered database that already supports this kind of model, out of the bo
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by benjismith 10y ago
That's the best thing I've heard all day!
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by benjismith 10y ago
Awesome! I've been a big fan of Patrick since the days of the old Joel on Software forums, and I've always admired his plucky optimism. Atlas is an incredibly cool, potentially game-changing project, and Stripe was already a game-
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by benjismith 10y ago
It's worth mentioning, we're new on Product Hunt today :) https://www.producthunt.com/tech/shaxpir-2
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by benjismith 11y ago
Awesome. I've been avidly following the CRISPR/Cas9 developments over the past five years or so, and the possibilities seem astonishing. I can't wait to see where this all leads!
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by benjismith 11y ago
There's a really excellent course on starting a startup, from Sam Altman (President of YCombinator). http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ It was delivered as a live lecture at Stanford, with presentations by Sam Altman h
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by benjismith 11y ago
Oops. Looks like I was wrong... This is a youtube video of a pre-baked "realtime" render. Still impressive though...
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by benjismith 11y ago
on your hardware!
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by benjismith 11y ago
One other important reason: We're a brand-new startup, and we're iterating the product fast . It's better for the customers, and for us, if we offer frequent updates to all subscribers, rather than releasing one big new vers
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by benjismith 11y ago
All the data is stored in the cloud and synchronized between multiple devices, with version histories of everything you write. As we flesh out the software, we'll also be building realtime collaboration, writing groups, etc... So in th
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by benjismith 11y ago
I make a word-processor for fiction authors: http://www.shaxpir.com There's a quick walkthrough video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFG8fpYkDxA Every project includes a notebook alongside your manus
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by benjismith 11y ago
I use Siri a few times a week for setting timers and alarms, looking up various trivia while in conversation with friends, and identifying background music in restaurants/bars.
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by benjismith 11y ago
I had a similar idea as you originally with my startup: build a functional MVP, launch with beta testers, recruit co-founders, raise seed capital, and then (finally) start to focus on growth. I wasted probably six months going down blind al
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by benjismith 11y ago
This is the most kickass thing I've read all day.
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by benjismith 11y ago
Nice! I haven't used rust yet, but I'm really excited about it. I think Mozilla Research is doing some of the most groundbreaking work in CS lately. The best part about rust is seeing the equally incredible work being done by the
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by benjismith 11y ago
Just curious what you mean by "if you look at what it does, it's all vanilla stuff". What would "non-vanilla stuff" look like? It's all just code, right?
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by benjismith 11y ago
Top notch. This is really lovely.
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by benjismith 11y ago
Mine was not watched.
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by benjismith 11y ago
Have you ever read a book? Seen a movie? Bought a comic book? It's a big market.
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by benjismith 11y ago
I'm the founder of Shaxpir, a word-processor in the cloud for fiction authors. I have a software engineering background, so I build the MVP myself. After two years of prototyping, I just launched the beta 2 months ago, and by now there
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by benjismith 12y ago
I've been using node-webkit for the past 18 months or so, and it's been absolutely delightful. One thing this article gets slightly wrong is this sentence: "This means that Node.js modules must exclusively use functions and c
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Geospatial Search Adds Location to Your Applications(orchestrate.io)
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Bring Order to Search Results with Field Sorting(orchestrate.io)
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Schemalessness Gone Wrong: How We Improved Elasticsearch Indexing(orchestrate.io)
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Server Generated Keys: Unique IDs for Distributed Databases(orchestrate.io)
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