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nvidia is doing amazing work, and many of their employees are in the bay area. 3072 cores for $999 - http://www.geforce.com/.../geforce-gtx.../specifications The number of companies using this device to solve real problems is growing. Jeremy Howard just started an interesting one - http://www.enlitic.com
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I think a lot of startups are solving important problems that might not be obvious. Any Musk startup - Tesla (electric vs. oil consumption), SpaceX (building space "colonies"), SolarCity (alternate energy), Paypal (payments). You also have Uber (limiting cars on the street & oil consumption), AirBnb (better utilization of current buildings rather than building additional hotels). Even stuff like meerkat, etc could po…
If Meerkat is a productivity enhancer, then surely Yo is one as well - when people don't have to write text messages, it saves time for something else.
Communication methods that people laugh at (AIM instant messaging) can be reappropriated into something useful (hipchat, slack) years later.
Skymind is building an open-source, distributed deep-learning framework for Java and Scala. http://www.skymind.io/ http://deeplearning4j.org/
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It's exactly because all these startups pretend to be "changing the world" that they become measured by these promises. And obviously most come up short. But that doesn't need to be a bad thing. Paying lip service to "real" progress, especially when it concerns poverty/environment/democracy etc, may actually lead to actual progress down the road.
Where has this need come from for startups to feel illegitimate unless they are changing the world, giving back to the community, bringing world peace blah blah
On the other hand, two other popular startup mantras "making products that people love" or "fixing a problem that people have" are quite easy to spin to be worthy and good.
I submitted this to slashdot a few weeks ago, but it got declined: "For some time now, I have been following the "startup scene" and frankly, I am left with a sense of dismay. How many of the startups actually do anything of any real value to mankind? It seems to me that the startup ideas just keep getting more ridiculous and stupid by the day and I think I would go as far as to call the whole thing deeply broken. I…
I think a lot of startups are solving important problems that might not be obvious. Any Musk startup - Tesla (electric vs. oil consumption), SpaceX (building space "colonies"), SolarCity (alternate energy), Paypal (payments). You also have Uber (limiting cars on the street & oil consumption), AirBnb (better utilization of current buildings rather than building additional hotels). Even stuff like meerkat, etc could po…
And yes, we are hiring in LA, in those areas, as well as for full stack developers. Feel free to reach out at noel@secondspectrum.com or work@secondspectrum.com
I submitted this to slashdot a few weeks ago, but it got declined: "For some time now, I have been following the "startup scene" and frankly, I am left with a sense of dismay. How many of the startups actually do anything of any real value to mankind? It seems to me that the startup ideas just keep getting more ridiculous and stupid by the day and I think I would go as far as to call the whole thing deeply broken. I…