nightsd01

I got my current job with Triplebyte. I’m incredibly happy with how it all worked out and couldn’t recommend it enough.

I got to interview with some pretty exciting/interesting companies.

The only problem with Triplebyte, in my opinion, is that I don’t think they track job success AFTER the hire. I imagine this is probably a problem they’re working on. But it’s hard to build a successful recruiting company if you don’t know what happens to the employees once they actually get hired.

In university, I was studying biology. In my free time however, one day I had the strange desire to build a simple app that would simulate the solar system.

After spending months learning how to build software, I realized just how deeply satisfying software development was to me. So I started doing small, low paid freelance work building apps to build up a portfolio. Every time a project ended, I’d move on to bigger projects with higher pay. I’ve never looked back. I dropped out of school and my passion & skill have grown ever since. Eventually I had a good resume and the recruiters came to me.

Now I am working at an amazing company in the Bay Area. I love it. It’s a job where I actually look forward to going to work every day, which is fortunate and lucky.

Given that the software world is always changing, I am always learning something new. Lately I’ve been learning React-Native.

To get more training data, you could have filmed using a green screen.

Insert whatever background you like (as long as the result looks natural). That way you can automatically get a good pixel map of the subject. And using a video camera at 30fps, you could get thousands of training images in just a few minutes.

Of course, you might run into an issue of overfitting (it might learn what you as an individual looks like and not generalize to other people). However as long as you green-screen a somewhat large number of people this shouldn’t be an issue.

Edit: darn. Looks like I wasn’t the only person to think of this idea!

I would heavily recommend against lead free solder as the other commenters have done. Unless you have a ton of experience with soldering, avoid it like the plague.

That’s interesting! My ESP8266’s don’t have many GPIO’s, only 8 pins total.

Are you using some small SMD package or a breakout board?

And even from 2005-2010 the FCC was suing ISP's that violated the principles of net neutrality.

CoderPad seems like an excellent product and I’m very impressed

I’m also impressed by your YIMBY project and that you mentioned it!

You can simulate a lot of atoms with a modern supercomputer. The only problem is just how many atoms there are even in a tiny grain of sand. However that doesn’t mean all hope is lost. You just have to get really clever - there is a lot of repeating patterns in a grain of sand - you don’t really need to simulate all or even most of it. The same holds true for most structures.

What’s really fascinating about the current state of the art in computer vision/deep learning is just how many of the top research papers basically say “We tried this, it works, we’re not really sure why”

On iOS, does TensorFlow Lite utilize the GPU for inference when needed or is it CPU only?

If so, does it use OpenCL or something?