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by davidhunter 5y ago
We (Optimal Agriculture) have built an autonomous growing system for high-tech greenhouses and have achieved 'superhuman' performance in a recent tomato trial. We collect a bunch of sensory data about the crop and growing environm
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by davidhunter 5y ago
This is an interesting observation and matches with my experience. I'd add: 1) There's a race to the bottom with services in terms of pricing. For example, NHS GPs have strict time limits within which to provide a particular servi
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Optimal Agriculture | Autonomous Sustainable Greenhouses | London - CFO (experience with large infrastructure and/or tech financing) - VP Engineering (experience with software, ML/RL, control systems, robotics) - Product managers
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by davidhunter 5y ago
This is the font used by Roam Research: http://roamresearch.com
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Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2bn discount for lunar contract(ft.com)
1 points by davidhunter 5y ago|2 comments
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Is there an alternative to heavy bureaucracy like this once a company reaches a certain size? What other mechanisms exist for combatting nepotism, feeling too abstracted from the mission etc in a larger company? Does a company like SpaceX w
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by davidhunter 5y ago
You're trivialising planning given a model
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Backend, Frontend, Data - Simulation, Modelling, Optimisation and Control Engineers (all levels) - Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning
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by davidhunter 5y ago
How could you forget Tony's Chocolonely?!
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by davidhunter 5y ago
All models are wrong, but some are useful. I have found the MBTI to be useful despite the empirical inaccuracy of the test itself. Even without taking the test, people can self-identify as one (or more) types. This then serves as a meaningf
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by davidhunter 5y ago
Although questionable as a psychometric test, he is describing the Myers–Briggs INTJ [1] or INTP [2] personality type here. In terms of the Big-Five [3], I would suggest: Moderately-high Openness, High Conscientiousness, Average-to-Low Extr
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Backend, Frontend, Data - Simulation, Modelling, Optimisation and Control Engineers (all levels) - Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Sorry about that. We're using AngelList as our careers page and it's clunky. We're about to change it. In the meantime please reach out to me directly on david@optimal.ag.
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Sundrop Farms [1] built a 40Ha seawater greenhouse facility in Australia with investment from KKR. They managed to get multi-year fixed pricing due to the undersupply of quality tomatoes in the region. This is pretty much unheard of in the
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Backend, Frontend, Data - Simulation, Modelling, Optimisation and Control Engineers (all levels) - Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Backend, Frontend, Data - Simulation, Modelling, Optimisation and Control Engineers (all levels) - Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning
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by davidhunter 6y ago
We're open to remote depending on the role. Naturally some roles can't be remote due to the nature of our work. Please reach out to me at david@optimal.ag.
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Backend, Frontend, Data - Simulation, Modelling, Optimisation and Control Engineers (all levels) - Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning
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Joe White Appointed UK's First Technology Envoy to the USA(gov.uk)
1 points by davidhunter 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Software Engineering Team - Modelling and Control Engineers (all levels) - Advanced Control Team We are a collection of engineers from Pala
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by davidhunter 6y ago
You're assuming that the UK government is a rational actor optimising for the economics of the country...
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Modelling and Control Engineers (all levels) We are a collection of engineers from Palantir, DeepMind, Oxford University and Cambridge Univ
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Software Engineering Team - Modelling and Control Engineers (all levels) - Advanced Control Team We are a collection of engineers from Pala
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Software Engineering Team - Modelling and Control Engineers (all levels) - Advanced Control Team We are a collection of engineers from Pala
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Nice idea. This is a PITA currently.
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by davidhunter 6y ago
AngelList back up: https://angel.co/company/optimal-labs/jobs
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Sorry about this. It seems to be a bug with angel list on mobile.
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by davidhunter 6y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (all levels) - Software Engineering Team - Modelling and Control Engineers (all levels) - Advanced Control Team We are a collection of engineers from Pala
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by davidhunter 7y ago
Optimal | Autonomous Greenhouses | Founders Fund Backed | London - Software Engineers (Lead, Senior, Junior) - Software Engineering Team - Senior Modelling and Control Engineers - Advanced Control Team We are a collection of engineers from
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by davidhunter 7y ago
https://angel.co/company/optimal-labs/jobs This is a better link.

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