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by rsp1984 12y ago
> If we were to think through what it would actually mean to configure the universe in a way that maximizes the number of paper clips that exist, you realize that such an AI would have incentives, instrumental reasons, to harm humans. Ma
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by rsp1984 12y ago
The Houston office is only assembly and order execution. We don't intend to build an R&D unit there.
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by rsp1984 12y ago
DotProduct -- Boston, MA or Wiesbaden, Germany == 1. Senior R&D Engineer in Computer Vision == == 2. Software Engineer in Mobile == == 1: We are looking for a software engineer with a strong 3D Computer Vision or Graphics b
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by rsp1984 12y ago
> Something needs to happen to break it free, but what that is, I don’t know. It has to take advantage of the form factor in a way that cannot be replicated on the smartphone, and do it better than a small, ultra-light laptop. This is wh
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by rsp1984 12y ago
> In the seed round investors are betting on the vision, but in the A round, they need to see results. They want to see rapid growth and they want you to be profitable or able to make it to profitability on the money you have in the bank
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by rsp1984 12y ago
An excellent read. Moreover, most linkers these days have the ability to strip out unused code from your executable if you are using static linkage. That means if your tiny executable uses just some methods of a gigantic library, it can do
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by rsp1984 12y ago
How about the public companies themselves (rather than investors) put the money into private companies in related sectors, via M&A or venture arms? This certainly paid off for Yahoo when it bought a chunk of Alibaba. Not sure it'
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Having grown up and studied in Germany and having lived and worked in the US too I know the differences quite a bit. Yes, thinking is more narrow here in Germany and the "Fachidioten" that you are referring to are real. However, t
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Curiously in Germany Diesel is actually cheaper than regular gas at the gas station. This is because it's taxed differently. So a Diesel car saves Germans money two times (less fuel consumption and less price per tank) as compared to a
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by rsp1984 12y ago
This is especially ridiculous since NVIDIA just updated their SHIELD tablets (a $299 product) to support OpenGL 4.5 (yes, the desktop version).
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by rsp1984 12y ago
At DotProduct, a mobile 3D Computer Vision company, we have two open full-time positions in engineering. Location is either in our R&D headquarters located in Wiesbaden, Germany (Frankfurt am Main area) or in our office in Waltham, MA.
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by rsp1984 12y ago
It's because most companies start before they are getting funded and before there is funding for the company the founders quite often put a lot of work into the company for no compensation. Sometimes they even put their savings into th
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Is there any difference in it being "open sourced" as opposed to just being a free sales agreement template?
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by rsp1984 12y ago
> For almost anything any team can do, you have to assume there will be five other teams, just as good or better, doing the same exact thing. That may be true for your typical cloud / SaaS / consumer internet / AirBnb for
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by rsp1984 12y ago
At DotProduct, a mobile 3D Computer Vision company, we have two open full-time positions in engineering. Location is either in our R&D headquarters located in Wiesbaden, Germany (Frankfurt am Main area) or in our office in Waltham, MA.
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Yes, 74.6 billion is their revenue for the quarter but it's also about their profit (extrapolated) for a year! :)
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by rsp1984 12y ago
> Ignore all that. Functional code is characterised by one thing: the absence of side effects. It doesn’t rely on data outside the current function, and it doesn’t change data that exists outside the current function. Every other “functi
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by rsp1984 12y ago
For web stuff and just generally using mobile phones as "dumb" computing devices I agree. However there are other examples where computing on the phone makes more sense than computing in the cloud: A) Whenever data volume is large
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by rsp1984 12y ago
They probably confused that with GB. Not sure which sensors would even put out Terabytes per second. Let's assume they have a brand new high dynamic range RGB-D camera that has 32 bits per channel at 60 Hz. To reach 1 TB/s that ca
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by rsp1984 12y ago
> But in the real world, even the good guys might screw you if it ever turns into a situation of You Vs. Them. Then I guess the "good guy" in your world is only a seemingly good guy (as PG may state it) in my world, since it wo
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by rsp1984 12y ago
I have a problem with your point 3. With all respect but I think I heard that argument before in the context of women being sexually assaulted and the way they dress being to blame...
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by rsp1984 12y ago
// must be overloaded template<template<typename> class M,typename T,typename F> auto operator>>=(const M<T>& m, F f)->decltype(f(std::declval<const T>())); Could someone please poi
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Machine Learning, Combustion Engines and Real-Time Control(raspberrypi.org)
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Aside from some other great comments here (some of it which really nail it) I'd like to point out that the greatest difficulty of the author seems to be being in charge of things. Throughout the entire story he is denying control. Be
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by rsp1984 12y ago
This looks very similar to http://famo.us/ . What is the main difference of Snabbt.js as compared to famo.us?
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by rsp1984 12y ago
At DotProduct, a mobile 3D Computer Vision company, we have two open full-time positions in engineering. Location is either in our R&D headquarters located in Wiesbaden, Germany (Frankfurt am Main area) or in our office in Waltham, MA.
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by rsp1984 12y ago
I wonder what the process is for paying back the Nominal. Surely Pound Sterlings in 1720 had an entirely different value than today (as has pretty much every other currency, in case Pounds was not the currency for this particular debt).
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by rsp1984 12y ago
== Update: == For applicants who cannot / don't want to move to Germany: The Software Engineer in Mobile position can also be located in our Boston, MA office.
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Can you enlighten me what "SWFs" are?
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by rsp1984 12y ago
At DotProduct, a mobile 3D Computer Vision company, we have two open full-time positions in engineering for our R&D office located in Wiesbaden, Germany (Frankfurt am Main area): == 1. Senior R&D Engineer in Computer Vision ==

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