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SEEKING WORK - Remote or Los Angeles, CA I have a top-flight engineering education, was acting CTO of two funded startups, and have worked with numerous other startups on their core products. My client work is focused on developing custom s
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I authored one of the 55 chapters/articles in "AI Game Programming Wisdom 4." Just like the "Game Programming Gems" series, each book 1-4 is a separate collection of articles by various authors on various topics in
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The way that C expresses it elegantly is via the comparison operator. The author is concerned that people try to be clever and use subtraction instead. Here is how the author corrected this error by using comparison operators instead of sub
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South by Southwest’s unpaid labor problem(salon.com)
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Start with Arduino to see if you might enjoy robotics. Arduino is easy to use, reliable, cheap, and there are lots of books on how to make robots with it. It is "real" electronics -- the skills you learn with it will be directly a
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What about offering an advisory role? I would be hesitant to bring anyone aboard as a co-founder unless they are able to put in a full-time effort and/or contribute a substantial amount. I've found that once you have a product bui
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I transitioned from software to brain science for my PhD. (Caltech has a unique program for this called Computation and Neural Systems.) Universities hire regular software engineers all the time for software development work. Biology labs h
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You assume that all libraries are bug-free and documented accurately! I assure you that few are.
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I disagree with the author -- I never feel lost and stupid. There is always a way of bringing an idea to life, even if there are compromises and tradeoffs. But nowadays, I am forced to rely on third-party libraries. These libraries often ch
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I went to a state school and Caltech, which is not an Ivy League school but it is well regarded. The math courses were definitely much more difficult at Caltech. The incoming student caliber is much higher than at the state school, so even
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F.E.A.R. The AI engineer is an MIT graduate and employed AI planning research into the game rather than a typical state machine approach. See http://web.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf
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The textbook author already put in quite a lot of time to prune a subject down to what is most worth your time.
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Get used to it! Potential clients are often no-shows and fail to return calls because they found someone else ... even when their business seemed like a sure thing. I use this as a barometer -- if a prospective client does not respect my ti
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I have also experienced the problematic client you describe. The client had neverending revisions. He could never present me with a final list, even after all items in the contract were complete. He then refused to pay, unless I added addit
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Try talking to your university -- sometimes they have small loan options or may be able to qualify you for a grant, especially if you are very close to graduating.
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Many commercially-plausible ideas coming from research labs are in fact patented and owned by the university. Companies which use these ideas are required to pay licensing fees or to purchase the patent. (Most research universities have a &
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Assuming you are in the US, try applying to national laboratories such as Los Alamos/Lawrence Livermore/etc. Many offer bioengineering-related internships on the regular search portion of their "jobs/careers" site,
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It happens, just make sure you backup frequently. I am always nervous when directly modifying production databases. So, I take every precaution I can think of, even if it sounds like it will "obviously" work. Hopefully you will ge
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I often do a SELECT first using the same WHERE to make sure I am updating the correct rows. Also on my staging system I use a subset of the production database so that I can test destructive queries like this before running them on the prod
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SEEKING WORK - Remote or Los Angeles, CA I have a top-flight engineering education and was CTO at a venture-backed startup. I have great communication skills and deliver a high quality product with a fast turnaround. Here are my areas of ex
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AI is a very broad field. Much of the academic "classical" AI requires some advanced math to understand in depth. A fun place to start is video game AI because it is visual. For example, path-finding algorithms, the ghost AI in pa
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The official filters are $2.99 for 350 on Amazon, so 0.85 cents per filter (for up to 4 cups). $2.99 for a year's supply seems pretty reasonable to me.
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Even at working 25 hours a week, a freelancer can make a good income.
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SEEKING WORK - Remote or Los Angeles I develop high-quality custom software for startups and established businesses. I was the prior CTO/cofounder of a venture-funded social networking startup, have a top-flight education, and have bee
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In the articles I read, it sounds like Oculus has very carefully worded how exactly motion sickness was "fixed" ... saying it "eliminates it in certain virtual environments." [1] The only cause of unbearable motion sickn
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"The seven companies with the youngest workers, ranked from youngest to highest in median age, were Epic Games (26); Facebook (28); Zynga (28); Google (29); and AOL, Blizzard Entertainment, InfoSys, and Monster.com (all 30). According
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Typically when a product shows up all over Vine like Flappy Bird did, at least some of them were paid for. Any evidence of this?
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(1) Get a client to pay you to solve one of their problems, but keep the rights to the software. Then, make it your product and sell it to others. This way, your product is funded, you know someone really needs it, and you can continue to p
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I used CarWoo for my first dealership purchase. I was not even considering buying a new car, so I just signed up on CarWoo on a whim. However, I was shocked at how low one of the offers was, only about $1-2K more than I was willing to spend
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Apply for Google Summer of Code! They'll pay you to work remotely on an open source project, even internationally.

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