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gavinhon Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?

Django and HTMX

gavinhon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2022)

I'd be happy to discuss my team's roles; can you email the address in my profile?

gavinhon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2022)

I'd be happy to discuss my team's full-stack SWE role; my email address is in my profile.

gavinhon End Scrum Now

This article is bad.

gavinhon Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn

The "all light grays" color scheme in the "Design Project Management" pie chart is very difficult to understand.

gavinhon Curry–Howard correspondence

TLDR: Stephen Curry and Dwight Howard exchanged letters monthly between November 2014 and June 2018.

gavinhon Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund

From https://algorithmia.com/bounties:

  MACHINE TRANSLATION Bounty $100

OK.

gavinhon Graph Data Structure Interview Questions

A candidate's performance on these questions is probably not indicative of his or her performance at your iPhone fart app company.

gavinhon How to build the next Trello and sell it for $425M or more

> Atlassian bought Trello for $425 million. Because Trello was on trajectory to kill Atlassian.

Please write complete sentences. Some people in the tech community seem to think that sentence fragments can replace clear, simple sentences.

gavinhon Our Open and Autonomous Salary System

Those job titles are literally nauseating.

gavinhon I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

Unfortunately, the Premium Experience was an HTTP 504 in my case.

gavinhon Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars (2015)

   I know what you want to ask next: “Okay, what about turning my model into a nice and shiny web application? I bet this is something that you can’t do in R!” Sorry, but you lose this bet; have a look at Shiny by RStudio A web application framework for R.

True, but it is a dumpster fire.

gavinhon Venture Funding Gushes in New York City

You're citing figures from 2013.

gavinhon Google employee lives in a truck in the company's parking lot

Try NYC, Boston, or London.

gavinhon The Grid: Certainly Misguided, Probably a Scam

Currently, the absolute pinnacle of AI technology are programs which, in the highly specific contexts for which they were explicitly programmed, trick 33% of people into thinking they have the language skills of a 13 year old.

No.

gavinhon Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Machine Learning in Python?

Shameless plug: http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Machine-Learning-With-scikit...

gavinhon Python for Finance

I have read several of Packt's titles, and their quality is inconsistent.

gavinhon “Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team

I hope AirBnb's other communications aren't as ugly as that heap of sentence fragments.

gavinhon Bret Victor's favourite books

Isn't there some book about not displaying all of your website's text in images?

gavinhon Cities and Ambition (2008)

The Valley urges its inhabitants to become more powerful... by creating cat photographer social networking iOS fart apps?

gavinhon Cities and Ambition (2008)

Perhaps the title should be "Cities & Ambition & My Snarky, Arrogant Generalizations".

gavinhon The decline and fall of IBM

Ah, I was waiting for Cringely's annual IBM-doom-and-gloom post.

gavinhon Poll: What do you use for deploying code?

i use a git post-receive hook that calls a bash script and supervisor for small projects

gavinhon Google Glass hands-on: Not a good device for consumers

Your phone might be 1' from your hands, but not your eyes. I always hated trying to read a 4" screen on my windshield or in my cup holder while driving. I am not sure if refocusing your eyes on Glass's display would be an improvement though.

gavinhon Google Glass hands-on: Not a good device for consumers

Imagine working on an airplane engine and having the manual right in front of you

For example, you already have Google Maps to guide you around your city with turn-by-turn audio navigation. That tool doesn’t get any better when it’s smack-dab against your eyeball.

I don't see why a manual for an airplane mechanic is better smack-dab against his eyeball but a map in one's line of sight is not better for a person navigating.

Her claims that Glass distract you from reality are counter to Google's thesis that Glass frees you from the distraction of staring at your phone. Both claims could be true, but I haven't seen much evidence regarding Glass.

gavinhon Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible

Pick a paper on NLP. Measures of document relevance and summary quality are not black and white, especially when you account for the ways the authors munged their test sets and scores.

gavinhon How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

Thanks. It is based on http://nlp.stanford.edu/~wcmac/papers/nli-diss.pdf.

I use a simpler alignment representation, and use semantic role types in the predictions.

gavinhon Nobody Really Likes Google Glass

From what I understand, many of those complaints are valid.

However, I could excerpt only criticism from reviews of Business Insider, title them "Nobody Really Likes Business Insider", and it would also be unfair flamebait.

gavinhon How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google

I'm working on some open source projects that pertain to recognizing entailment in plain text. Entailment is the relation that holds when one text "follows from" another.

For example, "Carolina beat Duke" follows from "Carolina defeated the Duke Blue Devils once again". I have a demo here: http://ec2-23-22-22-135.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8001/demo

Here's an example app that uses entailment recognition to answer natural language polar (yes or no) questions: gavinmh.github.io/HelloTablet.

I'd be happy to talk to anyone who is interested in getting involved.

gavinhon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Brooklyn, New York - Remote OK

I am a full-stack Python and Java developer with expertise in statistical natural language processing and augmented reality.

http://gavinmh.github.io/HelloTablet/ is an example of a project I designed and built from end-to-end.

You can find some of my other projects at gavinmh.github.io

Technical Skills ● Languages, Expert: Java, Python. Prior Experience: C++, JavaScript, Prolog ● Markup languages: HTML, CSS, XML, JSON ● Databases: MySQL, MongoDB. Web technologies and frameworks: Django, Tornado, Flask, Node.js ● Operating systems: Linux (preferred), Windows XP/7 ● Machine learning and NLP libraries: Scikit Learn, NLTK, OpenNLP, Lucene, CoreNLP

Contact me at gavinhackeling at Google's popular email service dot com.