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alantrrs

69 karma · joined March 8, 2011

Interests: - Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, startups, science.

twitter: @alantrrs github: https://github.com/alantrrs

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alantrrs··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
First Resonance | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | Onsite in Downtown Los Angeles

We’re looking for great software engineers to help us build a productive and reliable platform for the vast range of manufacturing users who use our software to build hardware every day. Our customers are building electric airplanes (eVTOLs), satellites, autonomous vehicles, robotic farms, and more. Our team comes from SpaceX, NASA, Zoox, Apple, and other world-changing hardware companies.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/firstresonance/jobs/5581911003

alantrrs··on MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies
We live in the information age. Information has a lot of value, most software companies' main asset is information. Visa, Mastercard and all the banks are companies that are valued very highly because they provide the infrastructure for managing money. Bitcoin is not just the asset, it is the network and the infrastructure. It's a whole system that works semi autonomously by by aligning the incentives of all of its members. Wouldn't you say that's valuable?
alantrrs··on No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain
From the talks/podcasts I've heard, the goal is for the resolution to be good enough to measure and target individual neurons. Not sure where you get the ultrasound beacon part, but the images they have on their are using only red/near-infrared light. That being said, all of these is based on their own advertising. Curious to know, what are the fundamental physical constraints you are referring?
alantrrs··on No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain
I'd much rather get an injection than get brain surgery.
alantrrs··on No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain
This + OpenWater(https://www.openwater.cc/) will be a way better approach than Neuralink.
alantrrs··on Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
This is a very exciting line of research. Assuming this gets to be a real plane or drone. How do you deal with the Ozone it produces?
alantrrs··on Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for electric vehicles
Check out "NOVA: Search for the Super Battery" on Netflix www.netflix.com/title/80991272?source=android It's a great intro into the challenges of current batteries and it shows Ionic materials' battery which is very similar tech to the one described in this article.
alantrrs··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Is the startup visa (International Entrepreneur Rule) dead? or is there still hope?
alantrrs··on Google is acquiring Kaggle
Since we're sharing alternatives:

https://empiricalci.com is a dashboard to keep track of your experiments & compare them on public benchmarks.

alantrrs··on Show HN: Empirical – A framework for computational experiments
Hey! just saw this message. Wish HN had notifications.

We're still putting together a roadmap for the open source project, but you can start by using the tool and filing issues that you find with the software or documentation. You can also file feature requests that you'd like to see.

Reach out via our Gitter chat: https://gitter.im/empiricalci/emp

Thanks for your interest!

alantrrs··on Show HN: Empirical – A framework for computational experiments
Thanks! Currently we're focusing on single host experiments. We provide an open source client for you to run the experiments on your own hardware, so it's free. The use of the platform is also free for open source.

At some point in the future, once we gather more feedback we'll let you to run the experiments on our servers for a fee.

alantrrs··on Show HN: Empirical – A framework for computational experiments
I built Empirical to address 2 major inefficiencies slowing down modern science: discovery and reproducibility of experiments.

I'd be happy to answer any questions.

alantrrs··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi, Peter! as a Mexican, could I get an E2 visa investing $50k of my own money into my startup? Or what's the lowest investment needed for an E2 visa? In order to reach that threshold, could my investment be complemented with VC or angel's money?

Thanks!

alantrrs··on “Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now”
We're working on this exact problem at Empirical http://empiricalci.com

We're building a way for CS researchers to run, share and compare experiments including their whole research environment.

We just applied to Apply HN and would appreciate your feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586948

alantrrs··on Apply HN: Empirical – A Platform for Reproducible Science
That's the intended result. Although, we're not hosting the code, we're integrating with GitHub for that. We're going to be hosting the Docker images and the results/output. You'll be able to see which version of the code produces certain results.
alantrrs··on Apply HN: Empirical – A Platform for Reproducible Science
Yes, MATLAB is a special case due to it being licensed software. I've used it in the past by mounting my local MATLAB installation into the container and I think I had to pass the MAC too. I believe we'll be able to get it to the point where we only need to mount the local license.

We're building a client on top of docker to deal with all this extra functionality. You can think about it like a specialized version of docker-compose

alantrrs··on Apply HN: Empirical – A Platform for Reproducible Science
Down the road we'll be able to add support for specialized lab equipment in a case by cases basis.

For Windows only software, Docker and Microsoft seem to be making progress on that front. It's still to be defined how it's going to play out. Fortunately there are many cross-platform alternatives for most scientific software (at least in the AI area). Curious to know, do you have a particular software in mind?

alantrrs··on Tell HN: Apply HN applications now closed, let's discuss the next step
As someone who submitted yesterday [1], I'd think we need to give new applications more days to catch up with early applications before making a decision.

Also, I think in order to give more reliability to the HN votes and ranking we need to find a way to give a similar exposure to all the applications, this would make up for other bias like time of submission.

One idea is to feature a subset of the applications in the front-page for a given amount of time. (not sure if that's what you're trying to do with /applyrand)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586948

alantrrs··on YC Lessons From Two Latin Americans Who Walked Into Silicon Valley
I believe you need to make an investment out of your own pocket to apply for that visa. An immigration lawyer told me $200k, do you know if you can go lower than that?
alantrrs··on HN Office Hours with Jared Friedman and Trevor Blackwell
Daniel, thanks for sharing your thoughts. My initial focus will be in public datasets (e.g. Imagnet). People are already making their code and results available online through different mediums. However, I'm hoping having a specialized platform where you can share your whole environment will improve discoverability and reproducibility which should have great impact in collaboration as well.
alantrrs··on HN Office Hours with Jared Friedman and Trevor Blackwell
Jared, appreciate the feedback!. Any chance you could introduce me to some people in the Open AI team? I think this would be a great fit and I'm very interested in their thoughts.
alantrrs··on HN Office Hours with Jared Friedman and Trevor Blackwell
Hi! I'm building a platform for scientists to run and share their experiments (anything computable) including their whole research environment. I want to make scientific research easily discoverable and replicable.

First, what are your thoughts on this market?

Also, some advice: I'm currently building the prototype based on my own experience as I'm my own user. That's the only thing I've been focusing on, I haven't looked for external feedback yet and haven't spent much time looking for people to join me. I figured both of those things will be much easier once I have the prototype ready. Am I on the right track or should I be doing everything at once?

alantrrs··on HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris
I'm building a platform for scientists to run and share their experiments (anything computable) including their whole research environment. Since experiments usually require specialized expensive hardware (like GPUs), I'm thinking about ways to make this affordable to individuals and academia. I'm planning a few modalities for experiments to run: 1) on their localhost (targeted towards individuals) 2) on the cloud (targeted towards academia) 3) on their own servers (enterprise version).

Technically, I know this is right sequence for each modality to be built. But businesswise, is it the best way to be launched?

Also, What are your thoughts on this space/market?

alantrrs··on I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter, thanks for taking the time for this AMA. I have a ton of questions, but here's a summary:

1. Can I incorporate a company and look for funding under a B1/B2 Visa? 2. Once incorporated and funded, what type of Visa could I get for myself to work for my own company? 3. Would my two-year home-country presence requirement "212(e)" affect getting those visas? 4. If I'm unable to get any other Visa, could I be living in the US with a B1/B2 Visa working for the company I founded but without receiving a salary? How long could I stay? How about a TN or TD Visa?

alantrrs··on HBO CEO: "...an internet-based model [for TV] is just a fad"
Oh the establishment. They don't want to go out of their same ways of doing business and evolve like the rest of the people.
alantrrs··on Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief
Here is the full article http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=losing-your...
alantrrs··on ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
Im from Mexico, and aparently these kind of things are already happening here. A friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that the cable company called him to say that he was downloading copyrighted material from warner and that he should stop or he would be cut off.
alantrrs··on Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS
uhmm...this sound more and more like a Carnivore reloaded
alantrrs··on Facebook has your complete phonebook
I don't think that's my complete phonebook
alantrrs··on Ask HN: How do I start with Machine Learning?
MIT open course ware. Its like going to college, but free xD http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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