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How did you end up working on that?
tag this NSFW
Surely that would be 'making a child'?
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#12Characterizing the effect of near-surface humidity and wave action on Ka/Ku band satellite transmissions from a surfboard-sized autonomous swimming vessel. I have a little sensor platform, and customers that want it to do a whole lot more. Bandwidth can be hard to come by 6000 miles from the nearest human.
Also, working on how to integrate a small team of hackers into a big team of production oriented engineers. Making the first of something is such a different skill set to making thousands more.
I got here by getting headhunted for a neat-sounding job after a project elsewhere ended, and then assuming more and more duties until my title had to change to match my responsibilities.
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#13Working on a new company, one which (I hope) will turn the restaurant industry on its head. I want to make in-restaurant ordering, payment, and service pure joy.
I'm mostly heads down coding every day, building an MVP. Also trying to find some investor interest where possible, however fundraising has never been something I'm good at.
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#15Seeing if mental health crises can be predicted by gathering passive data from your phone. ( Accel, gyro, GPS, music choices, keyboard entries, app usage, sleep, facial expressions etc)
i think we’re doing this already arent we? at least foe AdHD and depression. i think its a great use case but the privacy risks are massive.
Yeah the privacy issues are bit scary. Our app can only be installed by people who are in IRB approved studies, but the nature of the data collected means de-identifying it is impossible.
There is also the issue of what happens if it turns out we can predict things, it's a bit pre-cog ish. Depression and suicide are such massive problems though that new methods are absolutely needed.
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#16Models to detect strokes in medical images to be deployed in a hospital.
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#17Making people connect offline
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#19Im working on https://carboncredit.io
It is a next generation carbon offset marketplace.
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#20Working on the problem of "blue" light affecting circadian rhythms and sleep. We launched our MVP, Bedtime Bulb [0], in 2018, and it's now the most popular product in the category. We're expanding out of North America to Europe in the next couple weeks.
We've had a ton of great feedback from customers, and we are working on several new sleep technologies that we plan to release this year.
It's also been interesting to apply the lean methodology to hardware. Iteration cycles are long, but I'd argue that lean is just as important for hardware as it is for software.