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Comment #25405178
For those interested, I created a gem in Ruby for comparing the similarity of images by computing the dhash of an image and then calculating the Hamming distance between the hashes…
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Comment #23459992
Out of curiosity, how did you find investors to sell to for secondaries?
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Comment #20709055
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai Apologies if it came across as vague. You're welcome to try out our pricing and timeline estimation system if you'd like to get a sense for h…
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Comment #20708752
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai To clarify, while we intend to use AI to solve a variety of different problems, we're not using it for actual code synthesis (ie. building ap…
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Comment #20708666
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai Apologies for that experience! We're currently working on a new iteration of that site and will be launching it very shortly. Come back soon …
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Comment #20708639
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai Glad you were able to stop by at Collision! The process today is certainly not as user friendly as we'd like and can be quite time consuming.…
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Comment #20708191
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai All of our project timelines are generated fully automatically. Today we are hovering at around a 90% accuracy on those estimates, and are mo…
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Comment #20708089
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai We're attempting to tackle the problem holistically. That means that we're tackling every single step of the traditional product development …
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Comment #20707917
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai It's not just one problem we're tackling, it's actually more like 40 small issues that we're working on. You actually named a few right there…
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Comment #20707556
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai We've been very transparent with our investors on where we are in the process of creating this platform both pre-investment and post. They ac…
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Comment #20707494
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai Happy to elaborate - in a nutshell what we're trying to do is automate as many parts of the traditional software development lifecycle as we …
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Comment #20707344
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai You're more or less correct in your understanding, we're trying to get to 80%, and are certainly not there yet. The other thing to keep in mi…
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Comment #20707280
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai We actually wrote a blog post a little while ago that might answer a lot of the questions I'm seeing here: https://blog.engineer.ai/a-little-…
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Comment #20707213
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai AI is certainly not magic, and as an industry we're super far away from what would be considered real AI in the technical sense. That being s…
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Comment #19518871
Ruby on Rails out of the box gets a lot of bad rep for being slow and non-performant. Has anyone replaced MRI with JRuby or TruffleRuby to mitigate that? Were there any significant…
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Comment #19518856
ActionCable is super easy to use out of the box to get WebSockets running, but it's incredibly non-performant. Anything more than 100 concurrent users took the time taken to a send…
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Comment #19518840
I'd say it's more use Rails for all of your standard CRUD operations and then use Go as a module in Rails using Quartz/FFI if you have any algorithms that need to be high performan…
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Comment #19518828
We had huge performance issues with ActionCable that basically made it unusable for more than 100 concurrent users. We considered EventMachine however ended up going with AnyCable …
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Comment #19518805
It's true that there isn't an official way to use Devise over REST, but then again Devise isn't even the official way to manage auth in Rails apps - it just happens to be the de fa…
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Comment #19518767
To quote the ever popular HTTParty Ruby library: "When you HTTParty, you must party hard!".
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Comment #18398574
Our founder, Sachin, exited Nivio at a valuation of $100m, and used some of the proceeds to bootstrap Engineer.ai. From my understanding, Nivio was merged into one of the investor'…
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Comment #18398556
Beyond Saurabh’s family connection, Engineer.ai has no relationship financial or otherwise with Videocon or Venugopal Dhoot. - Disclaimer, I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai
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Comment #18398481
I'm now seriously considering adding that Prometheus photo to our press kit ;) Jokes aside, my colleague @sachmans has posted a comment above that should hopefully answer your ques…
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Comment #18398429
Well there's a pretty big difference between us the Grid - namely that we don't believe that humans will ever get fully replaced in software development. Instead we're looking to s…