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smithmayowa

504 karma · joined April 10, 2017

SaaS Founder of a B2B CRM tool that automates the collection and showcasing of positive feedbacks @ testimonly.com

smithmayowa20@yahoo[dot]com

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smithmayowa··on Update to Ask HN: What to do if I’m about to lose my job to mental health issues
Great to see that things seem to have turned around for the better for you.

No one deserves to ever feel deppressed, I say this confidently, having been swallowed by depression once and succesfully coming out to tell its woefull tales, it's great to see another person escape from its cold, lonely, and sad clutch.

smithmayowa··on Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter
A big bang event could explain the reason why the universe expanded in the first place, but it does not explain the accelerating expansion of the universe currently, forgive me for my ignorance if any, but in physics I was taught that any object which moves or is in constant motion was acted upon by a force, and so if the big bang created an expansion it will be a constant expansion and not an accelerating expansion as is obtained presently, as there is a requirement for a kind of force to cause an accelerating expansion which is not explained by a singular big bang but by a continuous big bang, which could as well be infinite in nature.
smithmayowa··on Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark matter
That is a really interesting way to look at it, and yes since in reverse time, the acceleration never quite reaches zero, the universe can then be though of as an infinite occurrence that has always been expanding with no starting point.
smithmayowa··on Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
I up-voted because of your keen sense of humor hurrah jobigoud, this made me laugh.

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sorry i blind typed that.

smithmayowa··on Ask HN: Nigerian entrepreneurs : How do you deal with PayPal restrictions?
I'm Nigerian and also about to make use of flutterwave for processing payments with my SaaS.
smithmayowa··on Tech Giants Spend $80B to Make Sure No One Else Can Compete
True but then aquihire and aquisition were not that prevalent in the 90s.

The problem is not really even the lack of competitors so to say but mainly the fact that little startups that look like they might be good fits for the business model of big cooperations are acquired right off the bat.

smithmayowa··on Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?
We are Testimonly (https://www.testimonly.com) and we want to help SaaS businesses automate their users feedback acquisition and showcasing workflow.
smithmayowa··on Ask HN: Older Hackernewsers What are the things you used to be bothered about.
Lol
smithmayowa··on Ask HN: How do you drive leads to your side project
What if they are not, how do you then drive leads.
smithmayowa··on Ask HN: Atheists of hackernews how do you deal with zealouts.
I was just thinking about doing something like this, and now that you have mentioned it I will definitely try this out.
smithmayowa··on My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
No I'm not a troll and yeah true to the other posters words I'm 24 and apologize for my ignorance to the reality of ageing.
smithmayowa··on My dad’s resume and skills from 1980
It will be very cool if he could though, as I do believe he will much rather work on something he loves doing and is good at rather than being committed to a nursing home, besides it will definitely be a sight to see, a 92 year old man hacking away on a system, debugging, writing code, and joining up in meetings, He was literally alive when computing was not a thing or worth much and he got to not just see it grow but he helped make it grow, I will definitely like to work with someone like that.
smithmayowa··on Which CRM is better for business?
Shameful self promotion, but I am currently working on a user feedback collection crm at www.testimonly.com check it out to see if you might be interested.
smithmayowa··on Google joins the race to $1 trillion
Wealth begets wealth further yet and meritocracy seems further still.
smithmayowa··on Ask HN: Sites like product hunt to get early users for your beta launch
Thank you
smithmayowa··on Elon Musk apologises to Thai cave diver for Twitter attack
Yeah stunning to see the proverbial elon ego take a back seat in this case, that dude is just too passionate about his ideas to admit fault when wrong in most cases, which I was half as passionate about my ideas.
smithmayowa··on Ask HN: I have a not secure ssl certificate on my netlify hosted static page
Thanks I guess it was a glitch or something
smithmayowa··on Machine Learning professor on Google Brain and other commercial ML research labs
Well this is expected considering the fact that people who go into academia research tend to really love what they are doing, and while not implying the opposite for corporate researcher, they generally do love to work on things that make their company more money and sees them also earn more money as a result, so sadly "its all about the money stupid"
smithmayowa··on “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”
It is Great to see the speed at which wikipedia has updated this occurrence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum
smithmayowa··on How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
Compared to the companies started at similar times which followed the grow fast path but ultimately failed and looking at the slow but steady growth path reddit has been allowed to follow I wonder why ycombinator does not accept more companies like reddit(slow but steady growth companies) into their accelerator, I mean being a founder of one such company I think that will be awesome .
smithmayowa··on Advice
What I will like to really know is people thoughts on what they think people 20-30 & 30-40 should do
smithmayowa··on The Founding Fathers: Smugglers, Tax Evaders, and Traitors
Stunning read particularly the part about colonist cutting and selling trees marked for the government to smugglers and feathering tax collectors. America has always been the wild west and Americans have always been wild folks, they just civilised themselves somewhat mostly due to the immense wealth they got after world war two, hence the surprise I get when people are surprised they do things like Iraq and the whole middle east expedition or when people are amazed at their strong gun rights.
smithmayowa··on Show HN: A Chrome Extension for Filtering Phobia Inducing Images(Spiders,Snakes)
Thanks will look into this.
smithmayowa··on Show HN: Shotsnapp – Create beautiful device mockup presentation
This is a very usefull and nice product.
smithmayowa··on Show HN: A Chrome Extension for Filtering Phobia Inducing Images(Spiders,Snakes)
I sadly do not understand what you have just said.
smithmayowa··on Show HN: A Chrome Extension for Filtering Phobia Inducing Images(Spiders,Snakes)
Hi Everyone I just made a chrome extension that utilizes an imagenet tensorflowjs model to filter out the 2 top images that people have phobias for ;snakes and spiders. The github repository is available at https://github.com/Smithmayowa20/phobiadeflector and its chrome store link is available at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/phobia-deflector/a...
smithmayowa··on Ask HN: What approach would you suggest for Text classification?
FastText is state of the art when it comes to word embedding due to its ability to generate embedding for even words it has not seen, so perhaps your problem lies in your model's architecture, are you using convolution neural nets or just basic feed forward networks I have had great success using CNN for text classification, and in your words pre-processing are you filtering out stopwords(very common words in English that throw confusion to a models ability to correctly classify text's).
smithmayowa··on Ask HN: What small thing whould you change in the world if given the chance?
I would change myself, make myself a vastly more intelligent, good looking, lively and spontaneous person, and yes I will throw in immortality to the mix, I will so to speak rewrite my genes to become a perfect being so to say(I now wonder if perhaps according to the grandfathers axe paradox the resulting being will still be me), then I will proceed to try to change the world, having lovely fun along the way.
smithmayowa··on Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States
This phenomenon and a host of other's happening in U.S currently are the reasons why trump was elected.

Edit: relax people I'm black not racist what I mean to say is that the rise of China's economy and the dwindling influence of whites in the sphere of things globally is what brought trump to power

smithmayowa··on Palmer Luckey’s defense company Anduril already leading to arrests at the border
I bet they are using an implementation of mask rcnn/fast rcnn object detection and bounding box to achieve their objectives.
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