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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Could Apple use their neural engine in the M1 to accelerate gaming?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

What advances have we seen with Explainable AI and what are the first use cases?

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direction.wufoo.com 12y ago

Interested in helping disadvantaged grad students find career direction?

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geekli.st 12y ago

Call to Action: Emergency Response for communities in path of Typhoon Haiyan

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What did you want to be when you were younger? And what are you now?

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live.wsj.com 12y ago

Show HN: Smart safety sensory alert system for Firefighters

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www.kashflow.com 13y ago

The K-Team

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: HN Mentoring?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: What online startup Christmas deals are on offer?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: How would you store a number with a 10^6 digits and all numbers

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www.kashflow.com 13y ago

Do you have enough followers to read this blog post?

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www.kashflow.com 13y ago

The unsung heroes of the SaaS industry

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www.kashflow.com 13y ago

Inspiration or Plagiarism?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

What law books should an entrepreneur read?

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www.bbc.co.uk 14y ago

Wikipedia - what can it tell us about Sopa?

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frankmillerink.com 14y ago

Frank Miller against Occupy Movement

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Why don't we use subtitled films/tv to train speech recognition?

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So what if a large TV is being used to cast business information in a meeting?

It's ironic that Sony as a media producer and TV maker could be streaming copyrighted images for an algorithm to use.

Could this be used as an example from AI companies on the use of copyrighted images for training data?

I think this boils the problem down solely to the individual. What if companies realised this issue and made a period of time during the day devoted solely to learning, knowledge management and innovation. If their developers only use AI to be more productive, then the potential degradation of intellect could stifle innovation and make the company less competitive in the market. It would be interesting if we start seeing a resurgence of Google's mythical 10% rule with companies more inclined to let any employee create side projects using AI (like Cursor) that could benefit the company.

Should there be a better way of reporting and displaying bugs?

For displaying the bugs, I'm thinking of something like what invision was - showing the interface of for example the desktop and showing the number of bugs associated with different elements of the desktop.

By displaying bugs as posts on a forum, I feel that we lose track of how degraded the performance of the system actually is.

I would imagine that having a camera videoing your preparation of ingredients and cooking would give enough data to classify the ingredients and the used volumes. From the video it should be easier to track the weight of everything... and perhaps depending on how the ingredients are used, determine/predict how the macronutrients are altered during the process.

You could consider doing a mini hackathon with the kids whereby the aim is to create a board game of some kind. Have the kids design the game on paper or card,then at the end use your cnc mill to create the boards, tiles, player pieces etc. You could then use the world cafe (https://toolbox.hyperisland.com/world-cafe) facilitation method for all the teams to explain their games to each other and recommend improvements. You could even show them how to use chatgpt to take their game ideas and flesh them out at a later stage (tutorial, rules etc.)

This idea would allow them to create something fun which is their own, that they can keep in the classroom and play with. It may also make them think of what other games they can create in the future.

Could devices to trigger other senses work? Like an aromatic diffuser on a timer switch that pumps out a scent, or a SAD lamp that simulates sunlight. A vibration device for the bed

Negative Mass 3 years ago

Since it focuses on electrical charge, would it be worth renaming it to Anti-charged-matter

Are there other types of Antimatter that focus on different properties?

What are the next steps to look at from here?

- Creating a grammar to 'direct' the video

-- Blocklist for inappropriate words or phrasing through an Independent advisory body

- Optimising the output to synthesise a coherent video

- Add rudimentary sound output for the video

- Ultimately, the next frontier is building virtual simulations, ie. World Building <> Metaverse

Earlier this year I was exploring a web3 industry 4.0 open science solution rethinking how research is performed, by who (or what), skills required, deliverables (no journals needed), a semantic knowledge base of results good & bad, validated through repetition, a framework for how experiments are managed.

Here's my research on the 'Challenges facing Academic Research' - https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOkNfljM=/?share_link_id=58427...

Quotes that I found important:

"It discourages rigorous research as it is difficult to obtain enough results for a paper (and hence progress) in two to three years.

The constant stress drives otherwise talented and intelligent people out of science also."

- Anonymous

"End the PhD or drastically change it. there is a high level of depression among phd students. long hours, limited career prospects, and low wages contribute to this emotion."

- Don Gibson, Scientist at BioConsortia

Funding "affects what we study, what we publish, the risks we (frequently don't) take, it nudges us to emphasise safe, predictable (read: fundable) science"

- Gary Bennett - Neuroscientist at Duke University

"We need to recognise academic journals for what they are: shop windows for incomplete descriptions of research, that make semi-arbitrary editorial [judgments] about what to publish and often have harmful policies that restrict access to important post-publication critical appraisal of published research." —Ben Goldacre, The Datalab, epidemiology researcher, physician, and author

"An estimated $200 billion - or the equivalent of 85% of global spending on research - is routinely wasted on poorly designed and redundant studies." - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

"As much as 30% of the most influential original medical research papers turn out to be wrong or exaggerated." - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201218#COM...

"The BMJ found that one-third of university press releases contained either exaggerated claims of causation (when the study itself only suggested correlation), unwarranted implications about animal studies for people, or unfounded health advice." - https://www.vox.com/2014/12/10/7372921/health-journalism-sci...

Inside the habit tracker, I expect that you could also grow tired of the interaction played repeatably.

Would it make a difference if the interaction was procedurally generated, offering an unexpected reward at your fingertips each day?

Google Doodles <MEETS> Checkboxes

Could it be suggested that banning end-to-end encryption may put citizens, businesses,institutions & infrastructure at risk from hostile nations (Russia in this instance), who may seek this as a potential attack vector?

Therefore we position EARN-IT as a national security threat over individual privacy.

Is there any distortion/difference seeing the painting in real-life at an off-angle that cannot be replicated through current scans?

And are there any neurological studies about seeing/feeling physical objects versus virtual? And would VR help close the gap?

In London, I work as a consultant growing startups - but now I'm looking for a full-time role in growth/marketing/partnerships for a high growth tech company...

My side project is a hackathon/startup school hybrid focusing on creating entreprenurial solutions that tackle the challenges of diversity - http://www.startupandbloom.com/

Currently, I'm writing up press releases and sponsorship documents.