malanj
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
The transmitter module; https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/AFBR-POL2120-DS
Comment · 5 years ago
There's a great gem in the comments too.
[Background: the question author (Michael) answered their own question]
Why is this not the accepted answer - waiting for a better one? – piiperi
@piiperi To me, it feels a bit arrogant to accept a self-answered questions before a couple of days have passed. Granted, on the other hand, in the case of this question, a different answer is quite unlikely. – Michael Karcher
Comment · 9 years ago
This comparison looks like bad content marketing at best. "The MSP430 family certainly includes peripheral options that current Green Array chips do not, such as flash memories and timers." => TI's 430 range peripherals is imo one of the primary use-cases.
MSP430's aren't trying to be energy efficient per operation - they are really bad at processing. What they are good at is running complex circuits/peripherals at a low total energy consumption over a long time.
The fact that they're running at 8Mhz is telling... that's far from the "low power" level. As far as I recall, you generally run using internal low-frequency RC oscillator for low power, and then just boot up the high speed crystal oscillator if you really need it.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'd recommend finding 5 more people with a problem like that, who're all prepared to sign a Letter of Intent (LOI) that they'll pay you $200/month for it. It's often easy to find a single person like that, but if you have 5, you might be on to something.
Comment · 9 years ago
Craziest thing - it works! Just detected a hotdog (off a photo). Machine learning has really come far, that this can be done for a joke app is really cool.
Comment · 9 years ago
My understanding is that if you trade through a platform like this, that's monetizing through order flow, you're getting screwed by HFTs. I.e. AFAIK Robinhood doesn't need to be selling the data to HFTs (which they don't do), for you to get screwed by them.
Anyone here in the space who can quantify the "hidden" cost you incur because of more sophisticated traders trading against you?
It feels like working with a broker who's explicitly charging you might actually be cheaper if you take this "cost" into account?
Comment · 9 years ago
It (used to be) accessible to any developer on the internet as a platform :-)
Unfortunately, it's shifted to internal use (Journey employees, and enterprise employees).
Also - Thanks!
Comment · 9 years ago
Here's a specific anecdote of how I did it in Palo Alto (after just arriving in the US from South Africa):
The first day I was in Palo Alto (and the US), I had absolutely no contacts and was severely jet lagged. I had just moved to the US to establish my startup (https://journeyapps.com) in the US, raise "Silicon Valley VC" and chase the dream ;) tl;dr - JourneyApps is a platform for businesses to quickly developer mobile apps for internal use.
I walked down University Avenue, and spotted Palo Alto bicycles. I walked in (very nervous) and asked one of the sales people if the manager is in. Jeff (the manager), was there and asked what I wanted. I explained I'd just moved here, and was working on a startup that eliminates paper forms.
He was kind enough to not kick me out, and (because it was closing time), spent some time talking to me about how they sell bicycles and which paper forms he uses. He also explained how much of a pain it is.
I kept delving into the details of his business, which he absolutely loves, so he was keen to keep talking. After forming a good idea of what his world looks like, I asked if he'd be keen to do an experiment with us. We'd make an app that does bicycle sales on a tablet, and bring it to him in a day or two. The experiment would be free, he just needs to tell us what works and what doesn't.
He was really keen, and gave me copies of the forms he uses. Overnight we built an app on our platform that acts like his paper forms. The next day we rolled out in his store, and waited for bicycle sales.
The app worked, and we learnt a heck of a lot about US business culture, even though it was just a "small family owned" bicycle store.
Eventually we raised the mythical Silicon Valley VC money and got our first Fortune 100 customers, but the process stayed remarkably similar:
1) Find someone who's passionate about their business
2) Talk to them with genuine interest and learn about their world
3) Be upfront and open about which problems you think you can help with, and which not
4) Over deliver.
Comment · 9 years ago
We've actually done an Amazon Echo integration :-) So you can do things like check balance, or send money to a predefined set of contacts etc.
A lot of the use-cases getting interest seem to be related to spending management. E.g. company cards for everyone in a team that integrates with Slack. So when you spend on the card it notifies you, and asks you to submit the payment receipt directly on Slack.
Comment · 9 years ago
There are two ways we're dealing with that at the moment. 1) A sandbox mode to test code on, that simulates transactions without moving real money 2) The idea of "pockets", so you can attach code to a specific ring-fenced pool of money
Comment · 9 years ago
That'll actually be one of the key use-cases for Root I think.
E.g. We've had people who want a card for their spouse, and then whenever one of them spends money, it alerts the other one so that they can sync budgets.
Comment · 9 years ago
Not at the moment unfortunately
Comment · 9 years ago
The account supports EFT payments already
"Perform OCR on this image. Return only the text found in the image as a single continuous string without any newlines, additional text, or commentary. Separate words with single spaces. For any truncated, partially visible, or occluded text, include only the visible portions without attempting to complete or guess the full text. If no text is present, return empty double quotes."
Found in: https://github.com/video-db/ocr-benchmark/blob/main/prompts....