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He is on those top-contributors lists. His username is "Ser Amantio di Nicolao" per article.

These are good calculations. I think many people would like to go to a significantly larger field of view than 40 degrees. 40 degrees horizontally is not that much: the human visua…

The older copy of the US site at https://web.archive.org/web/20180206011840/https://www.42.us... is very clear: "I AM NOT BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 30. CAN I COME TO 42? No. While…

Yes! :-)

Donald Knuth on email: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do take…

This article might be one of the best intros: Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics R. P. Feynman Rev. Mod. Phys. 20, 367 – Published 1 April 1948 Caltech has t…

The actual thesis is fun to look at! A typeset version is available: http://www.amazon.com/Feynmans-Thesis-Approach-Quantum-Theor...

Changing my iTunes password worked for me.

Following Gladwell's 10000 hour rule, I would say you could probably call yourself a data science after 1000+ hours experience working with datasets successfully. As far as the mat…

This is pretty cynical and not my experience.

I haven't seen any lab demonstrations of multi Mbit devices. Until we see that this is years away from production in my experience as a device physics researcher. All storage techn…

Flock math department here. Robots are software-limited, and Flock has more overlap with robotics on the software side than people might think. At Bump we have been writing softwar…

If anyone wants to do some very interesting contract work in machine learning (SVMs) for a YC company, please mail me. [edit: email address now in my profile oops]

iOS Expert - Loves coding more than managing (but can do both) Bump Technologies, YC S09, Mountain View, CA You like: - all things iOS, and solving challenging technical problems -…

Don't use Density Plots .. ... without seriously considering the benefits of a scatterplot. Here is some data I plotted recently: http://i.imgur.com/lvraM.png Yes, you need to be c…

Do you love perfectly designed products that work just the way you want them to? Do you like digging into data to understand the why? Do you like creating data visualizations to mo…

Even though I can program an Arduino just fine, this is so low-friction that it will encourage me do short projects and experiments I otherwise might not.

40 inch flat panels used to cost $40000 in higher volumes (production quantity) than LIDARs are shipping now. Now these panels cost ~$500 (and are better).

Mountain View, CA, Full-time, onsite Hiring in Machine Learning / Applied Artificial Intelligence. Work on the new new thing at Bump Technologies (we can't say exactly what it is y…

Bump has one engineer in Tokyo and we may expand, probably on front-end mobile (iOS or Android). Our lead product the Bump app is the 5th most popular app of all time in Japan.

We're hiring. Join the Bump team and help us bring the magic and delight to our millions of users. We're hiring for iOS, Android, machine learning, and backend. http://bu.mp http:/…

To our users, Bump is a magical experience. What they don’t see is the math behind the scenes that detects a gesture and determines precisely which two phones bumped together in su…

Today our users move 2M photos/day with our flagship app, Bump. Help us multiply this as we go beyond the utility model with Photo and Contact exchange. Bump in 2012 is a mix of re…