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boltzmannbrainon Ask HN: What are climate science problems approachable/solvable with AI and ML?

As an example, Aclima offers "hyperlocal air pollution and climate emissions intelligence" (aclima.io). Looks like cool tech, but who would be their customers?

boltzmannbrainon Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm

"never heard of"?? I would hope all Python devs at some point Google "What algorithm is Python's built-in sort function?"...

https://docs.python.org/2/howto/sorting.html#sort-stability-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10948920/what-algorithm-...

boltzmannbrainon Ask HN: Have you gotten a job from HN's hiring threads?

I hired a remote SW engineer who reached out from one of the hiring threads.

boltzmannbrainon The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

OP and ReMarkable users, what ebook stores do you use?

boltzmannbrainon The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

Lack of backlight was a disappointing surprise for me. Seems like such an obvious feature, I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to turn it on. Then found on their website there's no backlight b/c they want to maintain a true paper-like experience. :unamused:

boltzmannbrainon Wanted: Buyers for a 1% stake in all my future income

How is there no About page?

boltzmannbrainon Stripe Corporate Card

Brex user here. Anyone run a direct comparison of the benefits (cash back, partner deals)?

boltzmannbrainon Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature?

Related: Is there a dedicated HR tool for remote companies?

It's been quite burdensome figuring out payroll, benefits, employment forms, etc. for int'l employees (contractors and full-time). I'd love a slim version of TriNet/BambooHR/etc that makes all of this easy for us.

boltzmannbrainon Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

Respectfully disagree. We may not be representative of all teams, but we did devote considerable time and energy into Confluence. No amount of love from the users can resolve application issues like slow load times, buggy draft-saving, inability to copy-paste, clunky commenting UI, etc.

boltzmannbrainon Ask HN: Alternatives to Atlassian Confluence?

I'm curious, why didn't Notion stick?

We started using Notion as an alternative to Confluence, but I'm not a fan. It feels too fluffy (as do other tools like Monday). Confluence can be a pain and expensive, but the UI/UX is professional.

boltzmannbrainon A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

> the first model to try and decipher vision in a biologically plausible way.

> Their work is the first of its kind.

No and no.

Shapley has great work in this area -- other biologically-plausible models of visual cortex indeed cite his work -- but this article is making grandiose claims with little knowledge of a deep field of work.

boltzmannbrainon Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

Excited to try this! Saag is one of my favorite foods but almost impossible to eat at restaurants because of dietary restrictions (lactose-intolerant and keto). So I've been making my own healthy versions at home for years. It would be super helpful if you could include more ingredients info. For example, I would order the saag tofu, but I'm curious where the fat is coming from (assuming coconut milk base, my version is still leaner). Thanks Soham!

boltzmannbrainon Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

You don't. And probably not much.

boltzmannbrainon Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

What is Urbit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04AKTCDavc

Don't know if I'd call it a product per se.

boltzmannbrainon Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

Latent Sciences: https://latentsci.com Building legit AI solutions (not deep learning (wat?)) to fight the most challenging diseases with broad impact.

Yes hiring: https://angel.co/company/latent-sciences/jobs

And to recommend a company I don't work for: https://tlon.io/ It's not yet-another-crypto, it's not faux-AI, it's real technology for the sake of building something new.

boltzmannbrainon When to Shut Down a Startup [video]

No. Apples and oranges. I presume the guy running the local AutoZone doesn't aspire to be acquired by Google or Roche for $2 billion. You could make the case for expert chefs or restaurateurs pursuing Michelin stars and fame -- going through relatable struggles, aspiring global success.

boltzmannbrainon When to Shut Down a Startup [video]

Because as a founder the startup is your life. It exhausts you mentally, physically, emotionally, financially. If your startup isn't accelerating, it feels like you are wasting your life away at an accelerating pace.

boltzmannbrainon Google Pays Its DeepMind Tech Professionals a Huge Salary

"... average salaries of Google’s DeepMind staff in Great Britain, which amounted to $345,000 per employee."

https://www.top500.org/news/ai-engineers-commanding-six-figu...

boltzmannbrainon Google Pays Its DeepMind Tech Professionals a Huge Salary

Looks like rather flawed back-of-envelope calculations to get those salary numbers... anyone with more credible sources?

boltzmannbrainon Show HN: I created a newsletter to help people get better at coding interviews

Also see https://www.dailycodingproblem.com/

boltzmannbrainon Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing

I wonder is there an interesting/useful way to integrate this concept and Tim Urban's time blocks [1]?

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/10/100-blocks-day.html

boltzmannbrainon How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

AI drug discovery is not an ideal market -- crowded, and long horizons to validation checkpoints. Our value prop to pharma is in clinical trials utilities. Relative to drug discovery, better path from pilots to revenue deals, but still cumbersome. Nonetheless your advice to target startups is sound :)

boltzmannbrainon How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

> The dogmatic preference for experienced CEOs in biotech is a relatively recent phenomenon (last 15-20 years).

I guess it's relative, I'm not even 30 :)

FWIW the pushback I get from big pharma is less around age but rather as an AI guy saying "look I solved that thing you've spent 20 years working on."

boltzmannbrainon How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Life Sciences VCs that incubate and spin-out their own companies put serious muscle behind the startups, in two main areas: money and leadership. The article notes the first, going on to suggest large upfront financing is no longer necessary, but glosses over the second. In biotech it is still very much the status quo to have seasoned execs leading startups. Not because younger founders are incapable, but rather this is what pharma execs want to see, and have connections with. It's hard enough for a startup to get pilots and deals with pharmacos, exponentially so if the founders just took CS 270 with the CEO's grandkid.

boltzmannbrainon Facebook gets closer to letting you type with your mind

hmmm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jroQCyWwEgE

boltzmannbrainon Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)

Equations wrong in the original Poincare embeddings paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08039 ? Do you recall which?

And thanks for sharing your Lorentz implementation!

boltzmannbrainon Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space

Authors learn embeddings in a Poincaré space rather than Euclidean, better for hierarchical relationships. The reference paper is a good read: Nickel & Kiela '17 "Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations", https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08039