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by davidhunter 3y ago
Software products have near-zero marginal cost of production and distribution. Physical products have significant marginal cost of production and distribution. Monopoly dynamics for ubiquitous products comes in large degree from the economi
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by davidhunter 3y ago
I hope Tyler Cowen can ask Marc Andreessen how AI works so that we can all learn something from the master
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by davidhunter 4y ago
Randomly/weirdly, I also 1) Have 2 HP12cs on my desk; 2) Used them first in my finance career and now in tech; 3) Have Hunter as a surname. If you used to work in algorithmic trading and you are British then this would be truly weird.
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by davidhunter 4y ago
The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements Nils J. Nilsson This is a good overview of the history of the field (up to SVMs and before deep NNs). I found this useful for putting all the different approaches in
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by davidhunter 4y ago
The marginal costs of production are near zero effectively. The marginal costs of acquiring and retaining a customer are far from zero for a lot of overvalued enterprise saas companies.
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by davidhunter 4y ago
So you will grow on string and do lean and lower? Or use the high lift vehicle to prune and harvest? For vine crops (tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, eggplants), we use a high wire system. The stems are clipped to the wire as the crop gro
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by davidhunter 4y ago
1) Southeastern US. We will announce exact location shortly. 2) Vine crops (Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers) and berries. No cannabis. 3) Greenhouses are supplying the US market from Canada and Mexico today. So they are already price competiti
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by davidhunter 4y ago
Yes your definition of a greenhouse is correct! By "Dutch greenhouse", I meant industrial-scale glass greenhouses [1] that have evolved in the Netherlands over the last 70 years and, more recently, have been built in other countri
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by davidhunter 4y ago
We are deploying Dutch greenhouses in the US and have deep roots in the Netherlands - AMA
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by davidhunter 4y ago
"About Sébastien Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois. I'm an author, founder, and CTO. I write books and articles about personal knowledge management (PKM), personal organization, software development & IT, and productiv
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by davidhunter 4y ago
Some people would say that the VPE has the luxury to care more about inwards topics whilst the CTO tends to focus outwards. Different strokes for different folks.
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by davidhunter 4y ago
How to raise a seed round: 1. Become a professor in CS at Harvard. Achieve big career successes in prestigious technology companies. Build a network of SV founders and VCs. 2. Raise the f*king seed round.
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by davidhunter 4y ago
Very few US VCs will/can invest in non-US companies at the seed stage.
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by davidhunter 4y ago
For anyone reading this advice. The number 1 reason why Matt’s fundraising process went as well as it did is because he has a world-class personal track record. This dwarfs all other reasons by a long way. Quite frankly Matt would have been
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by davidhunter 4y ago
We are deploying autonomously controlled greenhouses in America and then overseas. We need to decide on our ERP strategy. Would love to consult with you on this. If you’re up for it then please ping me on my email: david [at] optimal.ag.
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by davidhunter 4y ago
Have you considered other sources of equity financing other than VC? As you rightly identified, "VCs I've spoken to want to turn up the heat and take the business to the moon, planet-scale growth or self-destruct". This is th
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by davidhunter 4y ago
What is more rewarding? 1. Relocating to an obscure town in Texas to work intensely with ambitious engineers on hard space exploration technology. 2. Building a truly breakthrough software system (eg metaverse/gaming/crypto) with
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by davidhunter 4y ago
Honest question: What must-haves do you need YC for? Sounds like you’ve already learnt the hard lessons and you’re on the right track. If you need cash then go and pitch some investors. Either you’ll get some cash or you’ll get a reality ch
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by davidhunter 4y ago
Move up another level of abstraction. You don’t need to learn how to make a quill to write a book.
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by davidhunter 4y ago
I’m with you. Do you believe it gives you an edge on certain types of tasks?
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Strange - when companies were raising money on highly questionable growth projections which pumped up portfolio value there was no blog post attempting to take the heat out. This is a pretty unsubtle and poor attempt to control the narrativ
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by davidhunter 5y ago
The ‘idea’ that you can separate idea from execution is not an accurate reflection of reality. These are not distinct phases. Ideas are a catalyst for execution. Execution throws up new ideas. So I agree with the conclusion but not the reas
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Out of interest, how are you searching for roles? I ask because we have (what I believe to be) a very interesting engineering problem to solve but a lot of the recruiters out there will plug the hedge fund and fintech jobs because those guy
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by davidhunter 5y ago
We’ll be getting over 100kg/m2/year. Construction varies but typically $450/m2 for a lit greenhouse.
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Yes we use techniques from RL as one of our technologies - its my personal research background
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by davidhunter 5y ago
> Are you optimizing for any experiential aspects of your tomatoes, like taste or texture? Yes - but this mainly comes down to the varieties that you grow. You can grow varieties that are very tasty and are usually sold in the premium ti
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Yep: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9309162/norway-s-nursery-...
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Take everything we know from plant sciences as a starting point and then generate additional data through actually growing the crop and measuring impulse/response with sensors.
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by davidhunter 5y ago
>First time I flew into Amsterdam it was dusk and I was mesmerized by the seemingly endless fields of greenhouses growing weed. Only years later (after telling everyone about it) did I learn they were actually growing produce :D Lol - ye
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Exactly what we're doing (optimal.ag). Interestingly, the cannabis industry has taken all the equipment, knowhow and enthusiasm of the (Dutch) tomato industry and applied it to cannabis - not the other way around.

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