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So I'm not a morning person. As a new parent of a 1-year-old, I realized I can get an extra 45 minutes of sleep in the morning by leaving books in our baby's crib for her to look t…

Commercial products in the space have been around for several years but can only screen for a small number of genetic diseases at a time. For example, Natera's Spectrum screens for…

Glad you like it! Matterport's camera uses a mixture of structured light, deep learning, and other techniques to build a 3D point cloud from each capture. Then, the app aligns the …

FWIW, I don't think he's creating a monocrop forest -- he's planting a range of species that form an interdependent web. This is also being done in locations that were forests a fe…

The world has a lot of land, though. Before humans came along, there were roughly 6 trillion trees in the world. Now there are about 3 trillion, mainly due to forests being cut dow…

A friend of mine who's studied climate change in detail recommended the following company for voluntary carbon offsets: https://carbonfund.org/product-category/plant-trees/

Yeah, it's definitely a lot. I think the actual costs will be a lot lower as this will take many years of experimentation before scaling, and by then the cost of the solar panels (…

I agree, but I still think of this as a useful part of a complete solution. It's something that buys us time to shift away from fossil fuels. With current tech, we could drasticall…

I'm not an expert in this area, but from what I can tell: Young rapidly growing forests sequester carbon more quickly than mature forests, but mature forests still sequester some c…

Some thoughts on finite CO2-absorbing capacity: - If these forests are sustainably logged, we can take some of the carbon out and sequester it in buildings (or even just bury it), …

If you didn't see the link to the paper, it's here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.06158.pdf A wide range of usecases are discussed there.

Lots of things! Since 3D convolutional networks are very limited in their maximum resolution, most of the interesting things you can do involve learning on RGB+D images via a 2D CN…

Matterport makes a 3D camera and web platform that allow users to easily capture and display 3D models of physical spaces. Check out some example spaces in our gallery: https://mat…

We're building a 3D reconstruction system that makes it easy for anyone to automatically build 3D models of physical spaces such as houses in just a few minutes. We have an initial…

Matterport enables you to make online 3D copies of physical places. We're building a 3D reconstruction system that makes it easy for anyone to automatically build 3D models of phys…

We're building a 3D reconstruction system that makes it easy for anyone to automatically build 3D models of physical spaces such as houses in just a few minutes. We have an initial…

Matterport (YC W12) creates a low-cost easy-to-use 3D scanner that lets you turn reality into 3D models. We scanned Y Combinator shortly before demo day -- you can see the scanning…

What we're doing: We are creating a low cost point-and-shoot 3D scanner. Our software, combined with the inexpensive 3D capture hardware now available on the market, will allow eve…

just got one (or rather, we got a "come in for an interview" email)

I've done a lot of work in this area, and I can say that this is significantly faster and higher quality than the other Kinect-based 3D reconstruction techniques out there such as …