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philosophygeek

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About philosophygeek

CEO of Descartes Labs. Formerly of Zite, Bing, Powerset, Kosmix, and SideStep.

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    I wish the press release had a bit more detail about what this model actually does and whether it's actually useful for the suggested use cases. However, make no mistake: this is f…

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    Comment #32359136

    I wrote this. AMA :)

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    Comment #32359095

    Hey, I'm the founding CEO who wrote the article. I hold some of the blame here too for trying to read the market and be something that we weren't. When you hear lots of people rais…

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    Comment #24690546

    Has anyone tried to write an algorithm that translates any piece of text into "basic English." That seems like a tractable problem, since it's just mapping all the words in English…

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    Comment #24189323

    A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory trained a GAN to test automated change detection algorithms in satellite imagery, with a link to the associated SPIE paper.

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    Comment #22769310

    We've had 10 years of frothiness in venture markets. Many employees under 30 don't even know what a downturn looks like. They're used to high pay, constant calls from recruiters, a…

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    Comment #19343056

    I left the Bay Area almost 5 years ago now to start a company that I spun out of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Everyone - investors, my friends & family, our founders, even me - …

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    Comment #18548876

    I'm the CEO of Descartes Labs. It's indeed true that we've built a data refinery that ingests lots and lots of satellite data. The data refinery can be seen as a two-sided marketpl…

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    Comment #18443207

    What a fantastic read. As a CEO who has grown my company from 6 to almost 100, this is one of the hardest discussions to have with someone. It's not that they did anything wrong , …

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    Comment #13115916

    Descartes Labs | DevOps Engineer | San Francisco, Los Alamos, NYC | http://www.descarteslabs.com Descartes Labs | Software Enginner | San Francisco, Los Alamos, NYC | http://www.de…

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    Comment #9410232

    This is Mark Johnson, the CEO. Check out: https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs/hello-world-f2215d4dec90