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fuelfiveon Architectural cross-section of Kowloon Walled City

Thanks for writing Glider! I adored that game as a kid and was part of how the possibilities of computing began to captivate my attention.

fuelfiveon Do Not Build SaaS

Back when Elon started PayPal, SaaS was the frontier!

fuelfiveon Extreme parkour with legged robots

Glad to see our universities making progress in this important area of national security.

fuelfiveon SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance

By this logic, the title would be equally correct if they wrote "Jimmy Buffet Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance"

fuelfiveon Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Salary Database

It seems weird that Wired focuses on the negative edge case here. At Vicarious we use OptionImpact to make sure everyone is paid fairly, and I imagine that's the vast majority of users. Deceiving someone into taking a lowball salary is a very shortsighted way to run a business, and I have trouble believing any well-run company actually does this.

fuelfiveon RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks

We talked about releasing more comprehensive proof of concept code, but ultimately decided against it. While helpful for other researchers, offering anyone on the internet a ready-to-use arbitrary captcha breaker seemed like a net-negative for society.

fuelfiveon Vicarious AI raises another $50M

There are a few papers up on the site already and some more coming. As a business, publications aren't really the KPIs we prioritize (vs an academic-style lab like DM or OAI).

fuelfiveon General Game Playing with Schema Networks

Here's a link to the paper as well (ICML 2017 preprint)

https://www.vicarious.com/img/icml2017-schemas.pdf

fuelfiveon Schema Networks from Vicarious: Zero-Shot Game Playing AI [pdf]

Some additional results on other games in the blog post:

https://www.vicarious.com/general-game-playing-with-schema-n...

fuelfiveon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

http://www.vicarious.com

AI research

fuelfiveon Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]

These are great highlights, although your second point from [1] is a bit misleading. Humans have a 5% error rate because the average person can't differentiate between 150 different breeds of dogs and other similar nonsense.

fuelfiveon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

Vicarious - Silicon Valley, CA.

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Our long term goal is to build machines that exceed human intelligence. We are passionate about changing the world with science and software, and we are looking for exceptional people to join us in that mission.

Available roles:

  - Machine Learning Researcher
  - Computer Vision Researcher
  - Software Engineer 
  - DevOps
  - Systems Administrator.

We have raised ~$70M in funding and are not constrained by publication, grant applications, or product development cycles. At Vicarious, there is room to develop new approaches that would otherwise not be supported in academia or industry. In the long term, our work will push forward the AI and robotics revolutions.

Learn more: http://vicarious.com/

fuelfiveon Show HN: Knowledge engine – instant answers to any question

When was the first Macintosh computer released?

1467 B.C.

Needs some work...

fuelfiveon SpaceX wins injunction to stop USAF buying Russian rocket engines

This is a very long video. What was nice in it? Can you give some highlights?

fuelfiveon Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy

Digging in to the journal article, the technique they use can only scale to captchas with 8 characters or less, so having a longer word is a simple fix.

fuelfiveon Ask HN: Where are the hard programming challenges/jobs?

We work on hard stuff (http://vicarious.com/) and we're always looking for exceptional people

fuelfiveon Show HN: Slidescroll – view your slide decks together

Ha, nice demo presentation.

One minor piece of feedback: add slide number out of total below the slide.

fuelfiveon Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs

We think so (http://vicarious.com/), but we are obviously biased.

fuelfiveon Vicarious Raises $15M to Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’

IIRC, the reasons were:

- Depending on how you read it, Last Invention can sound really ominous.

- LI is a bit of a mouthful to say, whereas Vicarious is a single word

- People generally responded better to Vicarious as a name when we asked around

Never heard of The Last One...

fuelfiveon Vicarious Raises $15M to Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’

We seriously considered Last Invention as an alternative name, and actually still own lastinvention.com. For a bunch of reasons, we decided on Vicarious instead. :)

fuelfiveon Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy

Unfortunately, this attack does nothing to advance the state of the art in OCR (or audio recognition). It's basically the same story as every other CAPTCHA attack to date: take advantage of some accidental statistical regularity in the generation function. As soon as this kind of flaw is discovered, it only takes a few hours for the generation code to be patched in such a way that completely prevents this sort of attack from working.

fuelfiveon Show HN: PandaStream redesign

It's beautiful. Who's your designer?

fuelfiveon Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28

A friend of mine attended last year. He described it as "the most socially awkward people you've ever met telling you how to be less socially awkward".

fuelfiveon Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class

We're hiring AI researchers!

http://vicariousinc.com/

fuelfiveon What Happened to the Future?

I've worked extensively with the FF guys as an entrepreneur, and from what I've seen they really live these values.

The consumer internet startups FF funded were often intended to become something more than they turned into. Slide was supposed to be about cross-site predictive analytics on a massive scale. Silly widgets were just the data capture vector. Frogmetrics (my FF-funded YC startup) had similar ambitions for the real world. Both companies fell way short of our secret ambitions, but not for lack of effort.

Also, many of FF's most interesting investments aren't on the site for secrecy reasons.

One more anecdote:

Last year, when I told some VC friends that I was working on strong AI as a startup, they laughed. When I told Luke and Brian at Founders Fund, they said they wanted to invest. It's obviously too early to say whether we'll meet the same fate as past AI companies, but we're off to a good start (http://vicariousinc.com/), and that's thanks to Founders Fund taking the kinds of risks they discuss in the article.

fuelfiveon HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains

cloudrocket.com

fuelfiveon I made a browser-based chat app. Based on node.js and nodechat.

bump

fuelfiveon Ask HN: What do you waste too much time on as a developer?

and writing deeply nested replies...

fuelfiveon 13yo "Spider Boy" scales walls using recycled vacuums

Thanks :) Can't believe somebody on HN played Rubicon. Made my afternoon.

fuelfiveon 13yo "Spider Boy" scales walls using recycled vacuums

My first major project was also a videogame. I made it almost ten years ago, and I still get fanmail about it once a month. I think creative people will create.

http://marathonrubicon.com/