jdrock

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by jdrock 17y ago
It's hard. Natural language processing and semantic analysis is a fairly deep field of knowledge. One evidence of its complexity is PowerSet itself. PowerSet launched with just being able to search Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a highly, highl
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Use us. http://www.80legs.com . :)
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Doesn't include data on % of companies in each category that fails.
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Not underestimating at all. But it seems like it could be solved. Maybe a hybrid auto/manual tweaking approach is the answer? Or perhaps users could requests songs be converted by the creative team and/or pay for individual tracks? I'm
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by jdrock 17y ago
A fund that's able to raise $85M has probably shown healthy returns to its investors already. VCs are still incentivized to make good deals due to the carry. The problem happens when the size of the fund gets too large and there aren't enou
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by jdrock 17y ago
I've always felt there is a huge, untapped gold mine waiting in these games: the ability to upload your own songs and have them automatically converted to playable tracks in the game. Of course, this relies on two things: 1. Automatic conve
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by jdrock 17y ago
I've always been intrigued by the P vs. NP problem. If I had to bet, I'd say P != NP, but imagining a world where P = NP is like imagining a world where a Star Trek-like utopia is suddenly achievable. It definitely would make the Internet
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Not there anymore, but got my undergrad in CS at CMU.
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It is Plura, and while you can technically get paid for it, it's not really worth it for an individual. However, if you can bring hundreds or thousands of computers to the grid by embedding it in an application, then the payments can be si
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Disclaimer: I work for the company that develops the grid technology Digsby's using, so I suppose I have some bias. I think Digsby has recognized user's feelings on this issue and their latest update addresses these feelings directly. The
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by jdrock 17y ago
I don't know how much you've distributed this, but it seems like your data will be biased toward companies interested in these programs. There are several (I'm guessing most) companies that don't go to "seed accelerators" for seed money.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Recipes + real pictures of the food after it's made = awesome. I am damn hungry now.
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PayPal should work on improving their documentation for their developer API before they push out new features. We went with Google Checkout just because the documentation was so much better.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Essentially the same idea: http://pluraprocessing.com/ . I reached out to Ray to see if they'd be interested in using us, but if anyone else would like to as well, just drop us a line.
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Wal-Mart to measure pollution and water use of everything(ecogeek.org)
2 points by jdrock 17y ago|0 comments
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Right now we crawl again for each user, but as we scale up we're going to start doing some caching and providing data streams.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Yep - that's exactly it. Setting up the infrastructure to handle large, web-scale content analysis is the real challenge. (Shameless plug alert) That's why we setup 80legs: to help everyone not called Google/Yahoo/Microsoft to have compar
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by jdrock 17y ago
IDEO is actually very famous in the product design world. You've probably used more IDEO-designed products than you realize. They are a case study (literally) in creating a creative-productive work culture.
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I would strongly consider the licensing or acquisition. Couple reasons for this: 1. Compelling products tend to have willing buyers. If you saw a 20x increase in your user base when it became free, it sounds like people really like the pr
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by jdrock 17y ago
I don't think anyone can properly visualize 20 million of anything.
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If that page doesn't exist, then according to specification, they don't and you can crawl any page.
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by jdrock 17y ago
Exact same experience for me. Just-launched sites should have a quick, easy-to-read "what do we do" blurb or graphic.
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by jdrock 17y ago
We looked at both shows, but no-starter on TC50 is that you can't have any public exposure before the event. This seems pretty silly, in my opinion. Most decent startups should have exposure before a singular event. Banking on entry into
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by jdrock 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap#Description The terms are synonymous, apparently.
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A penny saved is a penny earned, no?
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by jdrock 17y ago
A good point to remember, but Google has done and continues to do much more than these companies. Its current financial position puts it in a much more defendable fortress than these past companies. The amount of money Google has put into
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by jdrock 17y ago
lol.. I'll see what I can do :)
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80legs is hiring full-time developers and interns(80legs.com)
24 points by jdrock 17y ago|3 comments
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My girlfriend is a Ph.D. student in industrial organizational psychology. She had this to say: I think this view is unnecessarily extreme. I think the correct way it should have been presented is that performance reviews should be done in
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by jdrock 17y ago
Sure - not sure how to get to your email address, but you can contact us at http://www.80legs.com/contact.html .

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