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by lowglow 10y ago
Facebook does feel like it is dying though. 1. A lot of my friends are leaving facebook 2. A lot of my dev friends no longer build on facebook's platform 3. Most of the young kids I know have moved to Snapchat. 4. Most of the older kid
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by lowglow 10y ago
My hunch is they're going to go to a subscription/patreon model.
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by lowglow 10y ago
A lot of non-tech-savvy people use it for pirating stuff. I've seen some people coordinate larger files across it. But for the most part, I haven't seen it out in the wild for a few. That might be because it's use is low, OR
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by lowglow 10y ago
Asteria | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | REMOTE/ONSITE | https://getasteria.com/ We're working on applied AI products. Machine Learning, Statistical modeling, whatever your approach, come over and help lay down t
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by lowglow 10y ago
This is what we're working on over at Asteria. It's been fun and challenging. It's still early days, but we're running HITL feedback for model building as well.
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by lowglow 10y ago
It is. It's called adaptive learning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_learning
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by lowglow 10y ago
If you're interested in building voice based personalization models, we're going to be tackling this problem. I'd be interested to chat with anyone with experience in this area. Hit me up. :)
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by lowglow 10y ago
How to construct a model of AGI. :)
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by lowglow 10y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is a signal that Amazon's core business has peaked and it is now desperately exploring any new opportunity to grow their revenue? Literally no business is safe. If a business cannot grow up, it grows o
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by lowglow 10y ago
We use python for all of our local and back-end ML processing pipeline. It's actually the reason our OS/Architecture intermediary was written in Python as well.
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by lowglow 10y ago
Interesting observation! Perhaps its a bidirectional graph. I was thinking in terms of the development like this: 1. Observation made 2. Idea created 3. Software/Hardware made 4. Revenue achieved 5. Business parameters tuned using insi
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by lowglow 10y ago
We hire applied ML/AI specialists. For me it's not just an understanding of mathematical concepts, but also being able to apply new ideas to new problems. This depends quite a bit on critical thinking, a good fundamental ability t
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by lowglow 10y ago
I use my ipad v1 constantly. I have about ~100+ great engineering and mathematics books that I couldn't carry and consume otherwise. The only draw back for me is that I haven't found a solid journaling app that I trust, so I still
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by lowglow 10y ago
I was also in a Qualcomm commercial about the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Evn4phoM00
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by lowglow 10y ago
I worked in venture capital, wrote an article about what VCs look for[0], it could help shape your pitch/approach. [0] http://www.techendo.com/posts/what-venture-capital-companies...
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by lowglow 10y ago
But what have you learned from your poop data?
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by lowglow 10y ago
I've launched: Baqqer (Community for makers), Pule (Bots Platform), and Asteria (AI Companion Device). I've built my first mobile device architecture for running apps, data processing, behavior modeling, and synchronization for a
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by lowglow 10y ago
Legitimately helped me launch 3 products in a year.
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by lowglow 10y ago
The relationship between YC/HN and TC goes back pretty far as part of a collusory pipeline for media attention around startup launch and funding announcements. Not sure how that's changed since TC's decline over recent years
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by lowglow 10y ago
Just from an outsider's perspective: The entire Oculus acquisition has been one fumble after another, I dare call it a debacle. They traded their community trust online to participate and get the resources of a bigger company (probably
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by lowglow 10y ago
lazy link: http://i.imgur.com/A6rvZBs.png
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by lowglow 10y ago
But they don't. Which is also why you can't comment on the YC jobs that get posted here. YC has an image to uphold, because that image is part of their cachet.
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by lowglow 10y ago
Wow. I can't believe an Uber employee would come out and make this argument. It feels like the kool-aid is spilling over.
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by lowglow 10y ago
Critical thinking above all, ability to solve new problems, ability to deliver applied theories, and ability to ship. Beyond that, we're looking for hardware experience, statistics experience, heavy math skills, digital signal processi
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by lowglow 10y ago
Founder here. We've been using this code as an in-house tool for a while to alert us to things happening around the 'net via email/SMS and thought we'd share with everyone here. If you have requests, feedback, or just ne
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Show HN: Pule – A personal Bot for keeping an eye on the web(gopule.com)
14 points by lowglow 10y ago|1 comments
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by lowglow 10y ago
We're building forum software and experience over at Baqqer. If you're into building, sharing, and collaborating with other makers, it might be your cup of tea.
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by lowglow 10y ago
Hey word on the street is Fitbit didn't take many of the hardware people from Pebble. (Not sure why?) But if you're a hardware person from pebble reading this then reach out to me, I'd love to take you out for coffee and have
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by lowglow 10y ago
Glad it can help you :)
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Show HN: HN-Startups a community maintained GitHub list of HN startups(github.com)
2 points by lowglow 10y ago|0 comments

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