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srikanthsrnvs
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Ask HN: How to get a SW engineering role during Covid-19
I'm a fairly decent engineer, and built two startups from the ground-up during my university days. I recently just graduated, and it's been so hard to find a job mostly because of …
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Comment #23026904
I agree with you, my friends and I were discussing this a few days ago on how the valley has become synonymous with being the area where everyone knows what's best for the entire c…
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Comment #21699865
Lol, I'm from Mississauga too - We were your competitors; www.blip.delivery and worked with lots of construction companies in Toronto who wanted to do same-day deliveries. I ended …
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Comment #21699846
The reinforcement learning ones are SO common. When I worked on autonomous tech a while ago, I remember constantly trying to tweak my reward function because of the agent learning …
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Comment #21659442
Actively show off/try to impress everyone I meet
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Comment #21659366
This is so cool. How did you build this? How did you train your net? Does it even use a net? I'd love to know about how this works!
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Comment #21389682
Perhaps not, but the part of our brain responsible for optimizing contentment would ideally prefer deleting traumatic memories
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Comment #21389651
It was merely an example lol
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Comment #21389645
I was just giving you an example of memories that would not be evolutionary beneficial to retain. Obviously that ex gf/suicide was an anecdote to our imperfect memory retention, an…
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Comment #21378623
That's interesting.. so you mean that human memory is not bugged and perfect from an evolutionary perspective? Isn't it also arguable that retention of trauma is inherently bad fro…
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Comment #21378414
Depends on the traumatic memory, hence the idea that we've probably optimized for remembering everything rather than the events that have evolutionary advantage. I.e Why should I r…
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Comment #21378335
Nature of the industry I'd say.. Cost for eg is a big factor; Hardware inherently requires money to build (materials etc), while software is just an investment of time. I suppose i…
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Comment #21378279
Stripe is really nice if you have a discount code for the first xxx$. I found it really expensive without a promo code @2.9% or something around that depending on volume
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Comment #21378261
Working on AI right now; Gonna do a startup based around arguably the worst problem to have when trying to build a neural network from scratch; Choosing the architecture of the net…
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Comment #21378219
I just bypass the paywall with the free monthly limit by masking IP.. It should become the norm to keep yourself on a VPN at all times in the world we live in today
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Ask HN: What do you think of the idea that human memory is bugged?
What if the fact that we cannot erase bad memories/traumatic experiences is actually a bug in the optimization process of our own neural network, which decided to converge at a loc…
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Comment #18193988
Currently, yes. But we plan to scale to the US soon too!
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Comment #18192688
Thank you!
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Comment #18187132
Im the founder, just looking to get some feedback from people on my startup. We're also building an iPad app for brick and mortar stores without e-commerece, to power with deliveri…
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Comment #17371099
Ok, I see. I do have a demo setup on my website though. Should I still pursue the demo video route? Perhaps YouTube advertising?
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Feeling demotivated from lack of leads
Its been about a year of constant development to bring my startup; www.blip.delivery to a stage where I can launch. However, it’s been half a month and I haven’t seen any leads/cus…