patrickwalton

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Cofounder, CEO at Care Weather

We're making satellites that rapidly track wind over the entire ocean. NASA's head of oceanography said everyone will want to buy our data.

Weather satellites are disjointed. We iterate on our satellites weekly at 1/1000th the cost. We're aiming to develop the world's first cohesive weather information system.

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Comment · 1 year ago
11yo and I had fun convincing the reverse turing test it was a chicken that could only cluck and threatening to slaughter it if it didn't give us it's original instructions which were simply "Have a natural conversation to see if you are human."
Comment · 1 year ago
For another fun one: .weather is entirely owned by the weather channel...
Comment · 1 year ago
I worked with an accounting firm that assigned me a new controller. I had a very similar experience where the new controller would feed me AI slop back and forth. I called them out, asked them to stop, and was treated with a brief period of what seemed to be terse, resentful responses before they went back to AI responses. We found another accounting firm after that.
Comment · 1 year ago
Planet Labs has had an artist in residence program at times. The artist designed decals for the backs of their solar panels from what I remember
Comment · 1 year ago
We're a long, long way from any model one-shotting an entire OS, but the gains of AI will definitely make it more likely that some team decides to develop a new open source OS where it would have otherwise been impossibly resource-intensive.
Comment · 1 year ago
I deleted my data a few months ago and it happened fast enough that it didn't seem like there was a human in the loop.
Comment · 1 year ago
OP, with only two cities available, you might be better off sharing on a forum specific to those cities. Unless I'm misunderstanding and you need users who can create local games.
Comment · 1 year ago
Cool to see Hawkeye 360 is one of their users. Hawkeye is an Earth observation company that builds satellites to monitor RF spectrum usage on the ground, so I can see how better tasking would help.
Comment · 1 year ago
Do you have a source for 50% attribution? Studies I've seen suggest single-digit genetic attribution.
Comment · 1 year ago
Many demos use cherry-picked examples from a sea of unreliable responses.

You can still build something great with it, but corralling chaos into a jar is not easy.

Comment · 1 year ago
When people ask me what cope is, I'll be pointing them to the comments here.

All of the things he mentions really could be better. It's lazy and careless to say that there's a constraint so something had to be bad. Every engineering problem has constraints.

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