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by kozikow 8y ago
Pick a problem that interests you and involves lots of physics and math. This worked for me.
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by kozikow 8y ago
I am curious where did the Uber get the 3d map of the world. Edit: It's mentioned at the footnote of the article: "constructed from publicly available aerial LiDAR data". That poses an additional problem - Aerial lidar data g
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by kozikow 8y ago
Another way to solve the same core problem, but approaching it from a different angle would be an ability to choose the Uber pick-up location using 3d or something like dropping the mascot in google street view or augmented reality view on
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by kozikow 8y ago
We used Sloth for segmentation labelling (polygons instead of pixels). Direct pixel labelling is very expensive, so usually you can save lots of time by simplifying the problem - one of them being polygon labelling. Although Sloth is a gtk
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by kozikow 8y ago
> Good investors on demo day IMO investors ability to invest in startups have improved. If top investors are not able to find you on your own, you are not likely to get the check from them anyway. I speak it from position of not going to
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by kozikow 8y ago
It's now overrated anyway. You can hear it from many people unaffiliated with YC, but even some recent YC founders. It's now mostly "YC stamp of approval" that increases your brand and access to good investors on demo da
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by kozikow 9y ago
Shameless plug: At my company, tensorflight.com, we use computer vision on satellite/aerial/street view imagery to extract factors used for predicting the earthquake damage. For example, construction type or the number of stories
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by kozikow 9y ago
I got a random idea: what if sites like HN, Reddit, RSS readers, etc. would have netflix-like subscription for articles? I don't care about WSJ or other paywall publishers. Especially not enough to subscribe. I however do care about oc
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by kozikow 9y ago
Not saying Google is a saint, but it's orders of magnitude better at privacy than Facebook: - Malicious actors can't access most Google data has on you. Especially not by releasing psychological quiz app. - Google is not tracking
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by kozikow 9y ago
I would like to see the data broken down by startup profile. I suspect that the ideal age differs between B2B and B2C startups. B2C have smaller chance of success, but the success is bigger. Ideal B2C founder is young. Most of enormous tech
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by kozikow 9y ago
MI - machine intelligence. Actually, it sounds like the article actually means MI when it says AI. John Giannandrea mentioned in the article used to be a head of "search & MI". So it makes sense that Jeff Dean would become a h
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by kozikow 9y ago
Brain, DeepMind and MI are mostly researchy. I know some people working on applied deep learning that got shuffled multiple times between PAs in the last year - it seems to be the solution for this exact problem.
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by kozikow 9y ago
Although car rental user experience is not perfect, it gets the job done well enough. Not every type of business in the world needs VC funding, react.js SPA, chatbot and "sharing economy".
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by kozikow 9y ago
How does it help the company in question? In the scenario, you propose Facebook mail is selflessly helping to fend off antitrust regulators off Gmail.
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by kozikow 9y ago
There should be a way of increasing safety driver attentiveness. E.g. make drivers labelers. E.g. driver have to label any pedestrians they see on a special HUD. Add financial incentives for labeling pedestrians quickly. Some variation of t
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by kozikow 9y ago
Potentially interesting sidenote: Automatic landfill detection is possible from satellites - I was exploring a potential project working on this problem some time ago, but ultimately decided to not do it.
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by kozikow 9y ago
The way I see it is that this fatality was a calculated risk for Uber. Uber realizes how much Waymo is ahead of them and decides to drop too many safety restraints in development of the self-driving technology. Any safety regulations based
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by kozikow 9y ago
The way I see it is that this fatality was a calculated risk for Uber. Uber realizes how much Waymo is ahead of them and decides to drop too many safety restraints in development of the self-driving technology. The fatality is likely not ca
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by kozikow 9y ago
Is there any repository of lidar data for US? Especially coastal states like Florida, Texas and California?
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by kozikow 9y ago
Airbus became a big user of Google cloud some time ago. Airbus made a presentation on last Google Cloud Next how they migrated core technology systems for satellite imagery storage and analytics to Google Cloud. Google Apps are a logical ex
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by kozikow 9y ago
You need the connection anyway. If you start considering large-scale drone applications it's hard to do anything without the internet connection. If you are operating on a scale that allows for swapping sd cards, you don't really
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by kozikow 9y ago
My previous post might have been confusing - it was a problem with too many PAs relative to number of people, not with the office space size.
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by kozikow 9y ago
Our startup is split between Silicon Valley and Poland. I would say the biggest problem with the current government are taxes. Desperate to fund the socialist policy of "500+", the government changes the "interpretation"
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by kozikow 9y ago
> Google was unable to scale up in Poland for a decade. AFAIK, the problem with Krakow was not with lack of good programmers, but organizational setup - too many PAs in too small office.
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by kozikow 9y ago
I know that "why not blockchain" has become a cliche and I agree that majority of proposed use-cases seem like hammer desperately looking for the nail, but maybe this is an area where it could be indeed useful? - Create a special
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by kozikow 9y ago
Looking at it from different angle than policy and surveillance other comments are focusing on: - I can't find any concrete data, but it feels like at least 50% of publications on conferences like NIPS or CVPR are made by Chinese natio
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by kozikow 9y ago
I would pay for just this article, but I don't want 12. Why does every newspaper only offers subscription option?
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by kozikow 9y ago
What stops Russia from buying Facebook stocks to prevent activist investors from sending a message?
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by kozikow 9y ago
Not if too many people participating in the stock market are speculators rather than long-term investors.
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by kozikow 9y ago
> future survival of the species As this is the discussion about taxes - notice that all currently available methods capable of blowing human species off the earth were funded by taxes. > recent nuclear threats made by the US presiden

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