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Part 2 of this application is weird.

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It's interesting and something we're investigating at my company. Merely building out the marketplace/exchange for this stuff raises a ton of questions (which is good).

I asked a friend if they would pay $1/mo for a facebook alternative, and they said no -- they would just start using instagram. When I explained facebook owned instagram, they still didn't think $1/mo would be worth it, citing:

"It's just another thing I have to pay per month: Netflix, Spotify, etc."

People have mental budgets, and maybe their psychological good will in balancing those budgets get drained over time for things like recurring payments that aren't on a bigger scale ($100+) and aren't 100% necessary like internet.

1. Create demand

2. Acquire users

3. Own distribution

4. Iterate to multiply 1

This is awesome work. What's the process of vision -> latex conversion?

4 for it! Going to toss https://synapse.ai/ in there as well. :)

Synapse AI (Synapse.ai) | Building a decentralized AI network | REMOTE

Looking for solidity/rails/node/react hackers. We're building the future.

I'm biased but I'm running one. I've been a long time member of the hacker/dev community, heck, you can even come to our office and visit with us.

I also run the Crypto Builders meet-up out of Noisebridge here in San Francisco. Come out and hack with us.

> If we could solve off-target side effects using AI, then we'd be in a whole different ballgame. Having banged my head against it for a while, I think it is possible, but will take a huge amount of investment.

Can you talk more about what you've been thinking about here?

epic. thanks!

Awesome. Which book would you recommend?

(My comment will get buried because I'm flagged but whatever)

I had drinks with a bunch of Hugo award winners and candidates a couple of years back (2015?) and we started talking about near-future stuff. Mainly that I was looking for more of it. (Diamond Age fans out there?)

A funny thing came up: It's getting harder and harder to predict near-future stuff for some authors. I don't understand why. Is it that technology is becoming more and more obscured from the requirements of interacting with it?

Once upon a time, a person had to divine the landscape of network protocols and unix command line to understand the mystery of the internet. Nowadays that tech is just one click or swipe away -- perhaps there is less imagination required to figure out what's happening behind the scene, or perhaps no imagination is required anymore -- things just are.

Maybe we're just inundated with the next big trivial far future click-bait article that the future seems... well always right around the corner and less futur-y(?).

Or perhaps we're at the precipice of something entirely new and incomprehensible. I run a decentralized AI startup and we have an exercise where we try to imagine a world with particular capabilities but it (for a large part of my peers) seems out of reach -- as if it exists beyond a great divide.

It makes me think that whatever is next is either really beyond the scope of understanding, or just non-existent. It's fun (and exciting) to try and think about regardless.

This is a classic Network Flow optimization problem as well.

I would say distributed frameworks are in the wheelhouse typically when talking about decentralization and AI applications.

There is a Decentralized AI Summit[0] happening in San Francisco in Feb that currently has a call for presenters. You should reach out and show off your work there.

[0] http://decentralized-ai.com/

Hasn't this been a thing since forever? I remember also reading something about a glowing rabbit at one point in school.

Interesting, Yardsale founders created another app that IIRC basically did this. It never took off for some reason but I thought it was great to get an instant buy and pickup for electronics.

How would you improve the pipeline?

dan [at] synapse [dot] ai

Give participants (patients, doctors) access to subscribe to health data or symptoms (input) and create a consensus of possible treatment plans, iterate through those plans ordered by some metric (reputation, time, cost, availability).

When cure confirmed by patient, diagnosis is proven correct, data is captured, reputation increased among participants in consensus that were correct.

You could even use this as human-in-the-loop machine learning model training for open models.

If you want to explore what it might take to build this, we've just launched an alpha of our data/ml network that can facilitate a dapp built on top of Synapse https://synapse.ai/

Happy to reach out and chat more.

O_O that would make my year. #blessed

This is what I was getting at.

No lie this sounds like a great fit for a reputation based system of openly evaluated experiments on an immutable, open, decentralized ledger.

YESS any more details?

"can be detected" beyond regular ol' OS/Browser/Traffic/Activity fingerprinting?

Can you show me where changing your MAC address is illegal?

Good move for Yelp. Probably bad news for data privacy advocates.

They could track you from venue to venue, without your even connecting to the wifi. They could see how busy a restaurant is at any time based on number of smart devices with wifi, they could infer demographic data based on device id, etc. etc.

They could probably correlate this with other data sources to 100% identify who you are and target you.

It's good for business owners if they surface this insight to their audience. It's bad for business owners because previously Yelp has been notoriously a bad actor in the space and can't be trusted.

It's good for business owners that want a great interface and offer wifi that might also better the experience for their customers.

We had an SF crypto builders meet-up[0] where I gave a talk on Introduction to Solidity programming[1].

It's a pretty good primer to get from zero to smart contract in about 30 minutes. Learn from my suffering.

[0] https://www.meetup.com/sfhackdays/

[1] https://www.facebook.com/hackdays4all/videos/544008492611485...

Use the same judgement any VC would when approaching what to purchase. Every inch of doubt is where you're gambling.

I used to host the SFHN group, but the numbers started dwindling. Would be down to toss another one up just to get hackers out meeting other hackers: https://www.meetup.com/sfhackdays/