hurrycane

DatologyAI | Member of Technical Staff | Full-time | Onsite, Redwood City, California | https://www.datologyai.com/

At DatologyAI, we build tools to improve large-scale deep-learning models by selecting the right training data. We are automating data curation at petabyte scale, helping customers to train models faster, to better performance, and enabling smaller models to achieve performance competitive with much larger models. Models are what they eat, and the data models ingest determines everything about their capabilities.

Since founding less than a year ago, we have raised $57.6M, including a $46M Series A in May 2024. Our backers include AI luminaries Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Jeff Dean, and Amazon and Microsoft.

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Here's a blog article regarding the changes required for search to support the tweet length changes: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

Unfortunately behind a pay-wall.

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Fitbit, the leader in the fitness band market, is near a deal to acquire smartwatch maker Pebble, according to three people briefed on the deal.

The price couldn’t be learned but it is thought to be for a small amount. Pebble had been looking to sell, one of the people said. There have been signs over the past year or so that Pebble was facing financial challenges. Earlier this year it reportedly laid off about a quarter of its workforce.

THE TAKEAWAY The expected sale of Pebble to Fitbit signals a consolidation in the wearables market.

The Pebble brand will be phased out after the deal. What Fitbit will get is Pebble's intellectual property, such as its operating system, one of the people said.

The deal signals a consolidation in the wearables space, which has been crowded with several players including Apple and Jawbone. Pebble burst onto the scene several years ago with a flashy Kickstarter campaign that drew interest from consumers. But it struggled to gain traction.

Pebble burst onto the scene several years ago with a flashy kickstarter campaign that drew interest from consumers. Fitbit, which went public last year, has had its own issues. Its stock price which has fallen from a peak of $49 in August of last year to roughly $8 today, giving it a market cap of $1.87 billion. The company recently reported net income fell 61% to $43.5 million in the nine months to Oct. 1, despite a 39% increase in revenue to $1.6 billion. Fitbit's main product is fitness bands but it sells what some have called a smartwatch, pitting it directly against Apple's watch.

Meanwhile, Jawbone, another maker of wearable devices, has also struggled in the past year or two and had looked for a buyer, without success.

Source: http://go.theinformation.com/dfNa4p4B_IY

Last year there were 233,000 petitions. Only 85k petitions are actually accepted each year. Compare that to 172,500 petitions received in 2014 and 125,000 in 2013.

This means the rate of companies that use h-1b has actually slowed down by a lot. I know as a fact that most of the US tech companies that have offices in Europe, are actually transitioning to using L-1 visas and don't apply for H-1b anymore.

If you're a small startup and you want to hire someone who is not a US citizen your options are pretty limited right now.

More details on the blog post too: https://www.elastic.co/blog/heya-elastic-stack-and-x-pack

Also forgot to mention scalding.

Why is that? Finagle, Mesos and Aurora look like solid open source projects from Twitter.

I'm curios what tech stack they use for this?

Each year there are 20k work visas for people who graduated MSc in the US and 65k work visas for the rest of world.

That means if you got an offer to work from a startup or a big tech firm there are about 23% changes you'll get the visa.

I had the same issues last around July - August and continued upgrading as they release new versions and somewhere along the way it got fixed.

You can also had to fine tune some timeouts (election and compression if I remember correctly) to get the best performance out it.

Their architecture looks to me really mature - a lof of features are the same as Passengers'

I strongly believe that this is the next version of Phusion Passenger.

We run into the same cost-related problems for our CDN. What we did to solve it was to rent dedicated servers that are near AWS regions. We used Route53 latency based routing to route traffic to that dedicated servers + Nginx + LUA. We're serving 300+ TB of traffic per month and the total price is just a percent of the RubyGems AWS Bill. There is some maintenance included with this solution and the problem is finding the right dedicated server providers.

Billion of metric values.

I always keep an eye on: http://github.com/twitter lots of awesome stuff ranging from frontend stuff to distributed services. Having 100 open source projects and judging by the rate they are putting things out they do have a good engineering team.

A one click information dashboard for every person in the world that uses a computer. I don't live in the US and I feel invaded by this.

It's insane. So if I'm a truly passionate and talented but I'm not a US citizen I don't get to play with the best because only the first 65k get to do it? I bet most of them are applying to big companies and the percent of startups is really small.

Also on the same street a division of SendGrid works too. Iasi, Romania a little Silicon Valley :)

Did you know that Amazon SES is built in Romania ? http://romania.amazon.com

DNS issues for me in Romania. dig @8.8.8.8 www.facebook.com responds with empty A record.

The Prime Minister actually quit yesterday so it's the "former" Prime Minister.

Thanks! Cairo looks interesting too. If you have some invites left I would be grateful!

"Language tools for handling application-level concurrency" this sounds interesting. Can you recommend a good read about this topic?

PS: I presume the graph drawing library is written in-house, what did you use as the building blocks for it (both for design and implementation) ?

It very simple to write a quick DataMapper adapter for RailsAdmin. The thing with the history model is going to be changed probably on Saturday's BugMash.

See this for comparison with other solutions: http://www.slideshare.net/hurrycane/railsadmin