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BitLit

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About BitLit

Previously founder at shelfie and aquatic informatics. VP of Erasure at Numerai. Now working on spacey stuff.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #30652248

    File this project under: the engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think about if they should.

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    Comment #29028748

    Indeed. And Prince Rupert is probably an outlier since it has almost everything going for it in terms of ship-to-shore efficiency. With a population is ~12k, road traffic rounds to…

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    Comment #29028147

    Apropos the importance of building new container shipping ports in places that don’t have land scarcity, traffic, and well organized NIMBYs? Let me introduce you to the port of Pri…

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    Comment #26701512

    Years ago I was making a pitch to USV... the startup I was pitching was publishing related, and out of the blue one of the partners (Brad) asked me what order I read my Economist i…

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    Comment #10421159

    Would have been great if the pic was high enough resolution that we could have actually done computer vision on it... Kamil had to be an mTurk for a day and transcribe the book spi…

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    Comment #10242990

    Cool! That's be a super easy feature for us to add. We're on it.

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    Comment #10241878

    I'm the app's developer, so I'll chime in here. The deals we have with publishers require that the book can't be returned to a bookstore. Having to write in your book isn't the onl…

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    Comment #10241858

    Cool, idea... what if we made a reverse lookup, so you could search in the app for the book and we could show you the picture of your shelf with the book highlighted. Thoughts?