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by drakaal 14y ago
How many Golden Eagles, Perigan Falcons, and Owls Do cats kill?
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by drakaal 14y ago
I write "generic" Natural language processing for a living. Also "nintendo" is a particular domain. When you only have a "language" of 8 directions, A, and B, and only time to deal with in response to a screen that side scrolls in only one
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This AI has access to all of the ram of the game. There are Guitar Hero Bots taht "OCR" (your words) the screen to play the guitar. Not such a hard trick to read a score or see a turtle. (you know we have self driving cars right?)
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by drakaal 14y ago
Having written real AI's this aint one. 4 directions and two buttons. You could point a crappy machine learning algo at it, and it would figure it out. That is far fewer variables to manipulate than what a Quake bot has to deal with. I wou
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by drakaal 14y ago
Author Confuses inspiration and resassurance. We may flock to TED and Hacker News to read about what others are doing, but not for inspiration in the sense that we will be inspired to do things, but rather we seek reassurance that people ar
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by drakaal 14y ago
Considering there are bots to beat you at Call Of Duty, and Quake, this is not such a feat. I can't find a reference but I recall an Emulator for NES that used to be able to be player 2 for something like 40 NES games.
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by drakaal 14y ago
Visit somewhere in California where a pristine mountain side with trees and red rock was just 10 years ago, and not it is nothing but wall of spinning white blades of bird killers. Wind is like water. You can't just slow it down with your t
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by drakaal 14y ago
Why didn't they just say Gigawatt? The author couldn't decide on the capitalization of "of" in the title so maybe they just didn't know 1000 Meg is a Gig.
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by drakaal 14y ago
Author doesn't seem to understand what a meritocracy is. You can't get lost in a meritocracy. Your merit determines your rank. What can happen is that you don't understand how the merit is computed. Or you can misjudge your own merit.
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We will be in the azure data market monday or tuesday. As CTO I am always the last to know that we weren't already there.
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Check us out. We don't use CoreNLP or NLTK. we have our own because everything else sucked. And yes I do better than wolfram alpha.
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NYC, Boston, both great start up communities, but Miami also has some interesting startups.
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That was the idea. If you really want the start up experience a great team on folding tables is better than a place with weekly massages, and a snack room with a yogourt machine that is living on hype.
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by drakaal 14y ago
If you want a great startup to work at you have to find the start up that fits you. And invest. Not dollars directly, dollars in your pocket. Move. Live cheap. Take less salary and more equity. There are startups on both coasts, and a few
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by drakaal 14y ago
Phoenix AZ, http://www.stremor.com Silicon Valley tech team, living in "the middle of nowhere" We don't care if you have a college degree. Just if you have skills. We do rocket science. Which is what is generally missing from startups out
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by drakaal 14y ago
High exchange fees. Little info about what it is built on. Suspect timing (and likely too short of a build time) Likely to have regulation issues in the near future especially if lots of people do it. All adds up to not how I would do it.
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by drakaal 14y ago
Could be Google AppEngine, or the Node.JS on Google chrome Minimum +V8. (not that I know many people using that). Or it runs as a bot net :-) Sound like the kind of line you put on your home page to make it to the top of hacker news.
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by drakaal 14y ago
It is Siri minus a lot of the language processing. I'm glad to see interest in the topic since this is the type of thing I am currently working on a http://www.stremor.com But Wolfram alpha has a lot of things missing, and lots of the thi
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by drakaal 14y ago
At the time it was hard. There wasn't Google Patent search which is really useful for checking these things. Basically I would look at what patents the fledgling startup had filed. Make sure they didn't suck, and that there wasn't lots of p
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Yes a billion dollar fight would skew the average a lot. Several fights between porn companies and streaming media changed the numbers as they were in the hundreds of millions range at that seriously messed with the average. The typical nee
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by drakaal 14y ago
Your lawyer or a consultant does a technology audit. I used to do these on behalf of VCS on young startups to ensure they had not infringed on a patent that would put the investment at risk.
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Large companies patent everything that they use that doesn't have a patent already. Better to have a patent for entry of text in to a form using a keyboard than to pay a troll later. But it is also mutually ensured destruction for fights be
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For obvious things like this, there shouldn't have been a patent issued. If I however invent the first hyperspace engine, You shouldn't be able to buy one, take it a part and make your own. That is what patents are supposed to protect. Cot
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by drakaal 14y ago
Drew is exaggeration. I took on Acacia, it cost me nothing more than the travel, and time away from my primary business. Lawyers cost a lot of money, but for something like "the ability to rotate a mobile screen" that rackspace is fighting
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All that said. RackSpace (who I do use for some of my hosting) has several patents. And it is kind of a Pot/Kettle scenario since they have used those on smaller companies in the past.
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Patent trolls suck. But with out patents there is no incentive for innovation. The issue is not that Patents are bad, it is that you can patent a "unique way to swing on the playground" and be awarded a patent. Patent officer often don't k
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by drakaal 14y ago
Things which are computationally easy to create are possible to brute force. Bit Coin only works because it is computationally hard to create them. At some point (50 years from now) Bit coins will not be as impossible to compute as they are
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That's where knowing if the person is a $100k employee or a $40k employee matters. If you are a manager at a Fortune 500 company and looking to moonlight, yeah you start out as a Manager/Key holder. If you are a peon at a mom and pop shop y
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So you counterfeit the Zero Coin and trade them for Bit Coins and the system breaks. I am not buying that they are impossible to forge. Especially if they are computationally easy to create.
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In order for this scheme to work ZeroCoins would have to have the same computational creation requirements as a bit coin. This would mean that there would always be fewer zero coins than bit coins and those coins would have to be mined. If

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