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If you're wondering how they prompt the models: "Perform OCR on this image. Return only the text found in the image as a single continuous string without any newlines, additional t…

The transmitter module; https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/AFBR-POL2120-DS

There's a great gem in the comments too. [Background: the question author (Michael) answered their own question] Why is this not the accepted answer - waiting for a better one? – p…

This comparison looks like bad content marketing at best. "The MSP430 family certainly includes peripheral options that current Green Array chips do not, such as flash memories and…

I'd recommend finding 5 more people with a problem like that, who're all prepared to sign a Letter of Intent (LOI) that they'll pay you $200/month for it. It's often easy to find a…

Craziest thing - it works! Just detected a hotdog (off a photo). Machine learning has really come far, that this can be done for a joke app is really cool.

My understanding is that if you trade through a platform like this, that's monetizing through order flow, you're getting screwed by HFTs. I.e. AFAIK Robinhood doesn't need to be se…

It (used to be) accessible to any developer on the internet as a platform :-) Unfortunately, it's shifted to internal use (Journey employees, and enterprise employees). Also - Than…

Here's a specific anecdote of how I did it in Palo Alto (after just arriving in the US from South Africa): The first day I was in Palo Alto (and the US), I had absolutely no contac…

We've actually done an Amazon Echo integration :-) So you can do things like check balance, or send money to a predefined set of contacts etc. A lot of the use-cases getting intere…

There are two ways we're dealing with that at the moment. 1) A sandbox mode to test code on, that simulates transactions without moving real money 2) The idea of "pockets", so you …

That'll actually be one of the key use-cases for Root I think. E.g. We've had people who want a card for their spouse, and then whenever one of them spends money, it alerts the oth…

Not at the moment unfortunately

The account supports EFT payments already

Yes, it's definitely part of the plan. As you can imagine there are a few interesting security challenges etc to solve, but we're working hard on it.

You can sign up to the waiting list at https://root.co.za/ We'll be sending more details to people on that list soon.

It's generally a "read only" view, i.e. you can get account info etc. Root is a "write" API. So you can actually create and modify transactions.

Founder here - let me know if you have any questions! More details at https://root.co.za/

Founder here - feel free to ask any questions!

Space shuttle's main engine was the "boosters". A huge liquid (very cold hydrogen and oxygen) tank which supplied the fuel to the actual shuttle during launch, and two smaller soli…

If you can't get past nature's paywall, and want more detail... https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/01/overlearn tldr: Task: detect which one of the two successively presented ima…

The author lost me at "Mathematical genius resides within every one of us — most people just don’t know it yet." The movie Ratatouille captured the sentiment much better, "a great …

I wish pg would start writing longer form essays again. His startup essays had a huge impact on my approach to building startups. They were hugely insightful and inspirational for …