anandkulkarni
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Comment · 7 months ago
Brilliant!
Comment · 10 months ago
well done!
Comment · 11 months ago
I did much of my PhD work on high-dimensional tetrahedral complexes (so-called simplicial complexes), and somehow was unaware of this lovely and quite intuitive result.
Thanks, John Cook!
Comment · 2 years ago
When I TA'd computability & complexity as a graduate student, I always loved giving this proof of Godel's Theorem as an easy corollary of the Halting Problem as a homework assignment.
It's beautiful, elegant, and easy to understand. I was introduced to the proof by a note in Sipser's text.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks for sharing, Stefan. Lots to be proud of in what Starsky achieved, and factors outside your control at work at the end.
Excited to see what you do next.
Comment · 7 years ago
I wouldn't set up a corporation until you have either a reasonable amount of cash coming in or someone ready to give you a check. After that, I'd start with an LLC in your home state, unless you think there's a chance you'll take outside investment. If you do, conversion to a Delaware C-corp costs around $10K in legal fees.
Comment · 7 years ago
Well! As it happens, around the time of this article I was working as a summer research student in Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, carrying out a search for supernovae as part of Saul Perlmutter's Supernova Cosmology group.
When astrophysicists work on this activity, they use (no surprise) computer vision. The lab's software automated the process these nova hunters ran manually: we subtracted two images of every segment of the night sky taken on different dates to see if any new bright objects appeared in the difference. If so, it's possibly a supernovae!
Because there are so many stars out there you can use this method to predictably discover large numbers of supernovae when you need to study them. They called the project the Nearby Supernova Factory ( https://snfactory.lbl.gov/ ); as far as I know this is still the preferred method.
Comment · 8 years ago
I enjoyed it, but you should allow me to disable random HackerNews links. That's not the purpose of the extension.
Comment · 8 years ago
Congrats, Randall and team!
Comment · 8 years ago
You can try https://www.hellokip.com/, an app for finding and managing your therapist.
Comment · 8 years ago
Kevin Fu and team at UMich's security & privacy group provided the most plausible explanation for what's going on here. https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/how-we-reve...
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks! I'll get these updated.
Comment · 8 years ago
I put together a browseable set of example high-quality landing pages here, ranging from startups to larger companies:
https://design.crowdbotics.com
These examples were originally selected by Kesler Tanner over at the Stanford Institute of Design. They represent what's going on as of mid-2017 in landing page design. The one shift that I've seen since this collection was last updated is the migration to bolder, more contrast-heavy color palettes that make use of more illustrations. Intercom and Dropbox's current sites are good examples here.
Comment · 8 years ago
We've got a number of blockchain developers in our team and rent out their time to interested parties, so we see a number of these options come up.
There are a few different business models possible:
* When ICOs are issued, tokens are sold in exchange for other currency (typically BTC, ETH, or fiat currency like USD). The reason is to have more-established forms of money available to pay developers working on the technology, so this means you can actually pay people conventional cash (in the short term).
* In the long term, most protocol developers monetize via software built on top of the underlying technology or powering the underlying technology. BlockCypher is one example (https://www.blockcypher.com/) You can offer pro versions if folks run them internally for a fee.
* It's also common to offer consulting/human services related to technology you developed. (https://gem.co/ is a good example)
* Decentralized protocols don't mean you can't take a cut of transactions – they mean everyone has a chance to take a cut of transactions! Most blockchains call these "miners" and open it up to everyone, but the initial protocol developer may also set up/offer a pool to take advantage of this process. This happens quite often with industrial/commercial blockchain used by larger industry groups.
* More generally, technology running on open protocols can be centralized/proprietary even if the underlying tech is open – the same rules apply. TCP/IP and HTTP are open and decentralized, but we have plenty of money-making businesses here on the web!
Previously: founder @ LeadGenius (YCS11), PhD @ Berkeley.
Computer scientist. AAAI HCOMP is my home conference.
http://www.crowdbotics.com
talk to me: anand [at] crowdbotics.com