jvandenbroeck

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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
The DARPA challenge is much more complicated, the Instagram challenge (which is accompanied by a solution!) is child's play.
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Google Prediction API is out of labs [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jvandenbroeck 15y ago|0 comments
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
It should be a rule in every company "don't blame the user"; if they don't contact you with their problems, it's _your_ task to let them contact you. Put a big "contact" button in your app, make it easier to give them direct feedback to you
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Since I've been using Swype on Android, every "normal" keyboard on a touch device seems primitive. Even the iphone/ipod keyboard to type emails, text messages is to slow.
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
So Facebook uses oauth to login with google, I don't get why this is worth 114 points..
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Do I need a technical founder in my team to get started?(thedrawingboard.me)
2 points by jvandenbroeck 15y ago|0 comments
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
I don't know if it's just me, but I think you might need to rethink your market/angle. I've worked with a few startups and the last thing on our mind was "centralized employee authentication" and "infrastructure dashboards".
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Amazing! I'm starting to use it today, most todo/list/project apps suck, this looks really good -- so far =:) The only thing I don't like is that there is instantly a member added to the first board "Trello" - which makes me wonder if someb
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
I think it has more to do with culture than number of vehicles, the countries with high deaths are all in West-Europe. I would be able to predict that without even looking at the graphs, in Italy, Spain,.. they drive like a madman in big ci
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Damn, that sucks. But why don't you try to make money in a different way? When I look at http://notifo.com/pricing I can't see you making (immediatly) money with this strategy. I think you'll have to become really big before services will
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
You might have a look at Monte Carlo Tree Search & improvements they made on it for game playing. It's easy to parallelize and has had amazing results with Go. You might also combine it with a moves/games database and play variations on
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Your computer science class isn't a good representation of the market. + It's not because 90% knows how to use a browser that they know how to use explorer, right click & use CTR/ALT
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
There are many programs around there that can do this automatically for you. But imo it is not a good idea, real people are much more interesting. I don't think you will achieve that much with a bunch of people that are not really intereste
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Of course you shouldn't judge the character or quality of a professional with an A/B test, that would be ridiculous (although I can imagine people doing it). BUT you should do A/B tests, if you do an A/B test with 1000k+ people and one desi
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Idd, I was thinking the same, they want to make it look like they do a really "scientific" test -- but I don't think you can conclude anything with these tasks.
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
It has been a while since I have checked it out, but you give it training data (examples + values) and then it will be able to predict values for unseen examples. Eg. predict if a comment on a blog post is spam. Actually the google predicti
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
One of those articles that just waste your time, catchy title but nothing really interesting or new.
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
It will be far more likely to have some kind of laws as tomjen3 suggests. We can't allow individual countries to jeopardize the Euro. With the worst case that one country will abandon the Euro (although I don't see that happening any time s
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
I might be interested:) If you leave your email I'll send you some references -- although I'll be busy for the next few months. After that I've +-3 months free time & I'll be going to the UK around January. (or you can contact me on twi
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
If you're not able to produce valuable output then there might be something wrong with your schooling. If you have studied already 3-4 years computer science than you can do something useful.
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Totally true; I did an unpaid internship for a startup and didn't learn a thing(actually they where doing a verrrry bad software engineering job). The advantage was that I didn't really had to work much & I got grades for the internship
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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3 (bothsidesofthetable.com)
2 points by jvandenbroeck 15y ago|0 comments
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
damn, pram.com is already registered
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
It's time to buy some IBM shares
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
There's a technique to create forecasts based on this concept. The Delphi method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method If I recall it correctly, it's an iterative process: 1. you create a question list 2. every expert answers the qu
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
So true, these valutations are crazy @DHH really writes things that make sense about this stuff; Also an interesting/funny read: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
I love sports but I don't see why article this relates to entrepreneurs? Just a cheap catching title to get visitors? ;( If I want some casual health tips I wouldn't go to HN.
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Good point, but pushing web standards if it hurts your business case isn't smart. Standards & nice things for developers aren't always in the best interest of companies. Apple doesn't want users to be able to create iOS Apps with Adobe'
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
I don't know if that's a smart move from Google. It would be a good thing for Google to have users frustrated with Flash websites that don't work in iOS. Now they are helping Apple giving users a great experience on iOS?
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by jvandenbroeck 15y ago
Idd, being a startup is no excuse, how hard can it be to make a test case which tests if their authentication works?

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