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jgelsey

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About jgelsey

ex-CEO of Auth0. ex-CEO of Xnor.ai.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47283480

    Not publicly accessible, could you fix permissions?

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    Comment #37938759

    The big question is what do these sell for? Cost dictates how broadly these can be used.

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    Comment #35683149

    The core obstacle is financing - solar traditionally takes a long time to pay back from energy savings, so the financials of solar on warehouses didn't work out. The IRA made it po…

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    Comment #34622291

    Nathan Myrvold demo'd this at TED 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwyMuwNYKvI Safety is a blocking issue last I heard - something powerful enough to zap a bug can also perman…

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    Comment #34564177

    Children; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room, they…

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    Comment #34088724

    What does something like this cost, and then what's it's all-up install cost? IE trying to get to a $/kWh figure.

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    Comment #31927038

    There's no cheaper electricity source then renewables, by a long shot. Why bother with nuclear? https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... https://rameznaam.co…

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    Comment #25765665

    WireGuard is a spectacular gift to the community and I am grateful to have it.

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    Comment #24680670

    Access to the infrastructure is pretty easy - e.g. a WiFi Pineapple is $99. https://shop.hak5.org/products/wifi-pineapple There is no absolute protection against compromise, but it…

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    Comment #24676599

    Practically, you don't do a cert for your site, you do it to protect visitors to your site getting compromised by a MITM attack. A site without a cert is basically telling its user…

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    Comment #23135654

    What's with all the typos on the web site? e.g. "Unfetter Discover: Analyze seucrity gaps and explore adversary tradecraft" or "Unfetter Disocover". If the goal is to foster adopti…

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    Comment #22633914

    So it's not a hoax.

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    Comment #21869283

    Actually, my observation over the last 20 years of being a venture investor, bigco acquirer and startup CEO (including at a unicorn) is that the risk-adjusted $ compensation is the…

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    Comment #21448778

    U.S. has rule-of-law. Russia has rule-by-force. Comparing Russian and US elites like this smells like rank Russian propaganda.

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    Comment #18466712

    If Tulsa would just abandon its racism and religious bigotry I bet they'd attract a lot more folks than this offer will.

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    Comment #18321620

    I don't understand why folks want less information by eliminating Slack. I've adopted Slack and 2 companies so far and find it a tremendous performance optimizer. It's a tool for p…

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    Comment #17379059

    Key parts of https://auth0.com is built on top of their public serverless offering Extend serving 100M+ authentications/day.

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    Comment #17170785

    Disappointing it does not mention Convex Computer, which: -produced the world's first commercially available gallium arsenide supercomputer, the Convex C3 -owned the minisupercompu…

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    Comment #12283288

    Nope, USG was only ~1/3 the market for supercomputing back then. There were lots of industrial uses for supercomputing (e.g. computational fluid dynamics calculations to design tir…

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    Comment #12283259

    Well, much of "AI" in its modern form is statistical analysis. SIMD machines are great for linear algebra (integrated vector/scalar machines like 70's CDC machines, Cray and Convex…

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    Comment #12281908

    Very well written thesis. The machine, however, was extraordinarily difficult to program, resulting in Thinking Machine's quick death once they actually tried to compete commercial…

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