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by llebttam 3y ago
So I'm not a morning person. As a new parent of a 1-year-old, I realized I can get an extra 45 minutes of sleep in the morning by leaving books in our baby's crib for her to look through when she wakes up. One night I left Compu
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by llebttam 5y ago
Commercial products in the space have been around for several years but can only screen for a small number of genetic diseases at a time. For example, Natera's Spectrum screens for chromosomal abnormalities (eg Down Syndrome) plus one
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by llebttam 6y ago
Glad you like it! Matterport's camera uses a mixture of structured light, deep learning, and other techniques to build a 3D point cloud from each capture. Then, the app aligns the different captures together to produce a 3D mesh. It&#
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by llebttam 7y ago
FWIW, I don't think he's creating a monocrop forest -- he's planting a range of species that form an interdependent web. This is also being done in locations that were forests a few hundred years ago before humans cut them do
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by llebttam 7y ago
The world has a lot of land, though. Before humans came along, there were roughly 6 trillion trees in the world. Now there are about 3 trillion, mainly due to forests being cut down for agriculture, wood, etc. Getting back the other 3 tr
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by llebttam 7y ago
A friend of mine who's studied climate change in detail recommended the following company for voluntary carbon offsets: https://carbonfund.org/product-category/plant-trees/
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by llebttam 7y ago
Yeah, it's definitely a lot. I think the actual costs will be a lot lower as this will take many years of experimentation before scaling, and by then the cost of the solar panels (which I think is the vast majority of the cost) will li
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by llebttam 7y ago
I agree, but I still think of this as a useful part of a complete solution. It's something that buys us time to shift away from fossil fuels. With current tech, we could drastically reduce emissions by moving to a mix of nuclear (the
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by llebttam 7y ago
I'm not an expert in this area, but from what I can tell: Young rapidly growing forests sequester carbon more quickly than mature forests, but mature forests still sequester some carbon, possibly into the soil. (One source https:&#x2
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by llebttam 7y ago
Some thoughts on finite CO2-absorbing capacity: - If these forests are sustainably logged, we can take some of the carbon out and sequester it in buildings (or even just bury it), allowing the forest to regrow and absorb more carbon. - I ha
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TensorFlow Mask R-CNN code for pixelwise object detection and segmentation(github.com)
159 points by llebttam 9y ago|40 comments
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by llebttam 9y ago
If you didn't see the link to the paper, it's here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.06158.pdf A wide range of usecases are discussed there.
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by llebttam 9y ago
Lots of things! Since 3D convolutional networks are very limited in their maximum resolution, most of the interesting things you can do involve learning on RGB+D images via a 2D CNN. A lot of tasks on images (segmentation, identification
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Announcing the Matterport3D Dataset of Labeled 3D Spaces for Machine Learning(medium.com)
13 points by llebttam 9y ago|3 comments
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Matterport (YC W12) Is Looking for More Senior Back End Engineers
1 points by llebttam 9y ago
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Explore a WebGL 3D model of YC made with the Matterport (YC W12) 3D camera(matterport.com)
17 points by llebttam 12y ago|1 comments
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Matterport (YC W12) enables you to make online 3D copies of physical places
1 points by llebttam 13y ago
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Love computer vision? Come reconstruct the world in 3D at Matterport (YC W12)
1 points by llebttam 13y ago
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Matterport (YC W12) automatically makes online 3D copies of physical places
1 points by llebttam 14y ago
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Scan the world in 3D - MatterPort is hiring its first full-stack web developer
1 points by llebttam 14y ago
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MatterPort - Software Engineer (Vision & Algorithms focus) - 3D Scanning Company
1 points by llebttam 15y ago
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by llebttam 15y ago
just got one (or rather, we got a "come in for an interview" email)
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by llebttam 15y ago
I've done a lot of work in this area, and I can say that this is significantly faster and higher quality than the other Kinect-based 3D reconstruction techniques out there such as RGBDemo ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cldf7UdFq1k ). It