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There’s a significant efficiency difference between high-tech greenhouses (glasshouses) and warehouse (aka vertical) farms. High-tech greenhouses will not compete with field farms for staple crops, but they are already profitably supplying
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7y ago
Thanks - will sort
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7y ago
Good question. Growing cannabis does not align directly with our mission. However the production methods for cannabis are fairly similar to crops such as tomatoes and so it may be something we consider doing. I want to be clearer on the hea
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High-tech Dutch greenhouses are our base class. We are working very closely with operators in The Netherlands currently.
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I am the founder of Optimal: http://optimal.ag . We are a team of engineers and scientists from DeepMind, Palantir, Oxford and MIT. Our mission is to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside ev
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"utility room" - hello from a fellow Brit :)
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Optimal | Founders Fund Backed | https://angel.co/optimal-labs/jobs | Onsite, London and Netherlands, Visa - Optimal | Senior Modelling and Control Engineers - Optimal | Senior Software Engineers - Optimal | Senior Con
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Optimal | Founders Fund Backed | https://angel.co/optimal-labs/jobs | Onsite, London and Netherlands, Visa - Optimal | Senior Modelling and Control Engineers - Optimal | Senior Software Engineers - Optimal | Senior Con
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In glasshouses a reasonably wide variety of crops can be grown hydroponically including tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, lettuce, cannabis, peppers. This Nat Geo article [1] has some interesting data/analysis on greenhouse growing in the
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Optimal | Founders Fund Backed | Onsite, Netherlands, Visa - Model Based Reinforcement Learning Engineers - Senior Control System Engineers - Senior Modelling and Control Engineers - Senior Software Engineers We are a collection of engineer
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Optimal | Netherlands | Visas provided for non-EU citizens * Reinforcement Learning engineers/scientists * Control engineers/scientists * Data engineers * Operations associate/Chief of Staff We have research backgrounds in ML
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Reinforcement Learning and Control Engineers | Optimal | Netherlands | Visas provided for non-EU citizens Our mission is to grow healthier, safer food by deploying AI-controlled indoor farms outside every city on Earth. We are backed by wor
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Reinforcement Learning and Control Engineers | Optimal | Netherlands | Visas provided for non-EU citizens We are deploying AI-controlled indoor farms outside every city on Earth to increase the availability of safer, healthier food. We are
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The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements by Nils Nilsson Gives a great run through of the history of AI research. Understanding the approaches that have been tried before gives you a sense of why the state
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> Ask Coca-Cola for its secret recipe and listen to a whole corporation laugh Coca-Cola is a highly vertically-integrated company with huge economies of scale, giving it a near monopolistic position. Even if you had the 'secret'
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10y ago
You are right about the mobile apps... I am hoping that competition from dynalist will force them to up their game.
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Workflowy. It's the lowest-friction tool I have used for notes and ideas. Using tags, it can be used as a great hierarchical project/task management system. I still use Evernote for quick storage and access of images, pdfs and lon
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11y ago
Great way to spend a Sunday morning! http://sampulator.com/davehunteruk/tribal-beats
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I was on the University of London Air Squadron (for students of London universities who were sponsored by the RAF) and this game was a huge deal. It was played exclusively in the crew room - a room where you sat, ate pot noodles and 'b
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You have complete freedom over who you work with and what you work on. They fund you unconditionally for the first three months and you can walk away at any time if you want to. Their website is actually pretty informative: http:/
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EF solves a real problem in the UK. Our universities don't exhibit anywhere near the same 'entrepreneurial culture' vs the US equivalents (although this is slowly improving - thankfully). We also don't have the big tech
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'Hang on their every word. And flatter their self-image as “the best of the best” and the most jet-lagged of the jet-lagged.' No thanks.
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Why Barclays lied: Thoughts from a dark pool operator
(dave-hunter.com)
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Some thoughts on this as the former head of electronic trading product management at Deutsche Bank http://dave-hunter.com/why-barclays-lied
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Chief Executive Eric Shmidt ? I thought he was no longer CEO.