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   by viksit 11y ago

   Makes sense. Notably, however, this is an alpha product, very much a way to see user engagement and figure out what works and what doesn't, and what people want it to do. Once those questions are clarified, all the rest of the infrastr
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   by viksit 11y ago

   It appears that Whatsapp may have (temporarily?) blocked access to their service. User interactions have really spiked as we speak. Try shifting to FB Messenger (if abroad or not wanting to use SMS) or SMS in the meanwhile!
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   by viksit 11y ago

   That would be very interesting! Ping me offline? (username at gmail)
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   by viksit 11y ago

   Ah, it's possible that there's some issue with the WA integration. I'll check. In the mean time, SMS and FB Messenger should be active for sure! I'm using thirdparty open source libraries to integrate FB and Whatsapp int
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   by viksit 11y ago

   Incidentally, after checking it out - the product you have linked to is an SMS gateway. Myra is able to understand intent via natural language processing. This is independent of the medium you interact with it from - for instance, it could
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   by viksit 11y ago

   Thank you! That's on the cards.
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   by viksit 11y ago

   To clarify - the system is in fact natively integrated across the SMS, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger protocols. :) It's not using SMS as a way to talk to them. If you use those, you'll see that the responses are almost instantan
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   by viksit 11y ago

   Well, only to the point where it can answer your queries. Myra aims to be actually useful ;) But jokes apart - I think that using apps on the phone is like using bookmarks in 1999. Why do we have single purpose "links" that allow
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   by viksit 11y ago

   @machbio - thank you for the feedback! Definitely, not only can you share locations in whatsapp/FB, you can also do so in text messages. We have plans to integrate that soon, especially as the system launches on more cities. Regarding
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Thank you! The language models here are still being trained, so there will definitely be things it doesn't understand yet - eg, the fact that "party of 20" should translate into "good for groups". But that's gr
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Whoops. What was your exact query? I haven't found that wide of a difference. Worth debugging :)
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Absolutely - that was actually a screenshot from the iphone messages app. I tried to replace green with blue with not the best results :) Ive introduced the "Examples" section at the bottom though.
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Great idea. In fact, you could sign up right now - and get notified via your phone/email when it launches too. There will soon be non-location specific functionality available.
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    by viksit 11y ago

    That's a great suggestion @donall. I'm already crawling the web for information and not just reviews, but the location database would be awesome. Is there a specific class of program you guys have for free data?
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    by viksit 11y ago

    @mluskind - Absolutely. Phasing out launch as you might imagine.
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    by viksit 11y ago

    @dumbfounder - it crawls data for its recommendations. In order to maintain quality and make sure it's useful, I've limited its scope for the time being. More locations are coming soon!
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Thought I'd share what I've been working on for some time. Would love feedback! It uses Deep learning models for natural language. Happy to answer tech related questions here. Just a note: It's limited to San Francisco only f
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    Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text(getmyra.co)

    137 points by viksit 11y ago|88 comments
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Actually, I'd say the microservices architecture has helped in a complex project that I'm working on right now. Consider the following that need to be done here. - A main library that needs to load up a few gigs of data in memory
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Using a binary serialized format is actually pretty good that way. For a high throughput API that I built, shifting to protobuf from json, and using binary formats made a lot of difference. The packet size is lower, you can use JVM based pl
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Microservices are great, but the underlying protocol they run on is important. If you're building a REST interface to all your services, and something consumes them - they might be slower than a monolithic app unless you have something
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    by viksit 11y ago

    I've built a working prototype of an intelligent system that can act as a virtual assistant for a narrow set of tasks. Think what clara labs or magic try to do - they are partly human and partly automated. Here's my earlier post [
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    by viksit 11y ago

    His html skills are from the late 90s, clearly.. Thank goodness we don't judge him for that :)
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Thank you! Appreciate it.
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Haha.. I'm always irritated by the "big data hadoops java mongo agile" skill set blurbs. Tailoring it to what I would want to read myself :)
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    by viksit 11y ago

    Let me know if you'd like to chat :)
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    Ask HN: I'm an engineer looking for another technical co-founder [AI+Mobile]

    7 points by viksit 11y ago|6 comments
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    Announcing Briefly: A Python DSL to scale complex mapreduce pipelines(github.com)

    3 points by viksit 12y ago|1 comments
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    by viksit 12y ago

    Thank you! I just pinged you on twitter, but I thought I'd ask - would you know of any small copters like the cheerson cx10 that support customizable firmware?
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    by viksit 12y ago

    One quick question - would you also know of drone simulators that offer the ability to test out flight control algorithms?