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I'm Liam Kaufman, the cofounder of Winterlight Labs.

liam.kaufman at gmail.com liamkaufman.com

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liamk··on Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad
Porting photoshop to iOS/ARM could also in part be motivated by a known or perceived Apple transition from Intel to their own ARM chips.
liamk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
WinterLight Labs (http://www.winterlightlabs.com) | Machine Learning Engineer | Toronto, Canada | Full Time | Onsite & At home

WinterLight Labs is a Toronto-based company which has developed cutting-edge software for objectively measuring cognitive impairment by automatically quantifying hundreds of aspects of speech and language using natural language processing algorithms and machine learning. We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer ​to specialize in the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine learning (ML) models. This role may involve:

● In-house implementation of state-of-the-art ASR models, using deep neural networks and open-source tools, such as Kaldi. ● Research and development of methods for online re-training and adaptation of ASR models, especially for individuals with speech disorders (e.g., aphasia) and elderly voices ● Analysis of the robustness of lexico-syntactic features derived from errorful ASR transcripts. ● Implementation of additional lexico-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features derived from textual transcripts ● Implementation of additional acoustic features derived from the speech signal ● Optimization of feature selection and dimensionality reduction techniques ● Optimization of model hyperparameters, and experimentation with a variety of model types. ● Optimization of multi-view approaches to data fusion ● Leveraging unsupervised and supervised approaches to data fusion

For more information: http://www.winterlightlabs.com/docs/JobdescriptionforIRAPML....

liamk··on Satellites Taking Pictures of Rockets Carrying More Satellites
They stiched still images together to make the video, perhaps that created the speed up?
liamk··on On being a female on a male-dominated engineering team
Those are several possible negative outcomes of positive discrimination. It's also possible that more women speakers at conferences encourages other women to speak, to work on side projects and generally to do things that get them promoted.

I think her point is that since there is so much negative discrimination, the positive discrimination is cancelled out.

liamk··on Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds
Amazing, that's as fast as the Lamborghini Aventador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Aventador
liamk··on A New Era at the Tor Project
"The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees."
liamk··on MacGap – Build Native OS X Apps with Web Technologies
About 2 years ago, the original macgap project stopped being maintained, so I'm happy to see that someone has forked it and maintaining it.
liamk··on How we CSS at EventMobi
If you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them here!
liamk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)
EventMobi (Toronto, on-site) we're hiring developers: http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/
liamk··on Introducing Socket.io 1.0
This was a long time coming! I'm very happy to see socket.io 1.0 finally released. Pre-1.0 had some deal-breaking technical issues, such as starting with websockets and falling back to polling. I think the new approach is starting with polling and then seeing if a) websockets are supported by the current browser and b) messages sent via websocket are received by the server (a firewall might prevent this).
liamk··on Fashions in Shaving and Trimming of the Beard, 1842-1972 [pdf]
U of T medical school has a similar set of class composites which do a great job of showing gender and race changes over the years.
liamk··on CoreOS Vagrant Images
ChikkaChiChi, that may be the single best explanation for what Vagrant is. Most people answer: "It provisions VMs" which isn't as enlightening as your answer!
liamk··on Polymer, a Web Components library built by Google
I have the exact same question. Polymere does databinding, and custom html elements, but I think Angular does it a little better.
liamk··on Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think
I wonder if the auction includes benefits like vacation time, signing bonuses, parental leave, work hardware etc?
liamk··on Adding Real-Time To A RESTful Rails App
While I used Redis and Socket.IO to add real-time to a Rails app, I'd be curious to hear what other people are using? Are people using commercial options for real-time?
liamk··on Important Conversion Metrics You Should Watch
Great point! Metrics are certainly content dependent and take careful planning to get right.
liamk··on Before Launching Build Software People Use
I suppose I wrote this blog entry as much for myself as for other nascent entrepreneurs. If you've been in the business for awhile, and your successful, the content shouldn't be new to you.
liamk··on Before Launching Build Software People Use
Interesting. I agree that the title is a bit awkward - I like your alternative better.
liamk··on Automating the setup of my perfect developer environment on OSX 10.8
I've started doing something similar, except I also use vagrant to ensure that my development OS is the same as production. I also find it easier keeping everything for dev within a VM.
liamk··on Google Zeitgeist 2012
I'm guessing VM is a common typo for GM?
liamk··on Show HN: I built a mockup/prototype/wireframe editor in ten weeks
15px would likely make it more usable on tablets. As an aside I wasn't able to resize a rectangle on an iPad 2. Good start!
liamk··on Stripe Would Be Perfect If...
If they support coupons, I don't see why they can't support taxes. Taxes are just the opposite of coupons and should be relatively easy for them to implement.
liamk··on Stripe Would Be Perfect If...
Indeed, and that is what we're doing right now. However, it would be nice if they dealt with creating nicely formatted invoices and emailed them so we don't have to.
liamk··on Show HN: Docverter: convert plaintext to PDF, Docx, or ePub. Now in open beta.
Looks great. If you added docx and pptx to the inputs then you could easily compete with some big names (your prices are very competitive).
liamk··on Flotr2 : a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs
Can it also be used with socket.io? I'm working on a real-time app and I'm using socket.io to transport the data and graphing it on canvas. I'd be happy to use a graphing library that 1) looks good, and 2) works with real-time data, instead of my custom solution.
liamk··on Confused in Class? There's an App for that
Yikes, fixing how it looks in ie9+ will be added to my todo list.
liamk··on Confused in Class? There's an App for that
I mentioned "Understoodit runs on devices that you and your students already own: smartphones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks." But I agree I think saying 'nothing to download or install' is a great idea, thanks!
liamk··on Confused in Class? There's an App for that
It currently is a web app! I tried to communicate that in the video, pictures and text on the website.
liamk··on Confused in Class? There's an App for that
Good thoughts! The 4-5 digit code would be a good way of differentiating between sessions/lecture. When adding class polls etc, it my be advantageous to give each student their own account. That could conflict with the current anonymous aspect of understoodit.com though.
liamk··on ShopLocket Announces Support For Stripe, Helping Bring Stripe To Non-Developers
Given that ShopLocket is based in Toronto, does this mean that Stripe is now offered in Canada?

More related, ShopLocket has been working extremely hard, and their site looks great.

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