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pbharrin

194 karma · joined March 20, 2011

Author of: Machine Learning in Action YC W12 Currently obsessed with natural language processing
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pbharrin··on Apple cuts Vision Pro shipments as demand falls 'sharply beyond expectations'
This product is more like the Apple Newton than the watch.
pbharrin··on How 'A.I. Agents' That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers
I found this website: https://crast.net/438657/how-ai-agents-roaming-the-internet-...
pbharrin··on How 'A.I. Agents' That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers
This article is paywalled, do you have a version without the paywall?
pbharrin··on Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM
On Monday Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng said instruction following LLMs would be commoditized. Apparently they were right.
pbharrin··on Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
Cruise was aquired by GM in 2016, unless they are spun off there won't be an IPO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_(autonomous_vehicle)
pbharrin··on MuchQuestion, a Bitcoin enabled QA
Great idea!

I found a little typo on the front page: "It's also you who decides whether an answer deserves a pay (money paid don't automatically go to the first answer)."

should be: "It's also you who decides whether an answer deserves to be paid (money paid doesn't automatically go to the first answer)."

pbharrin··on Scan business cards into more than 250 apps
Why does it need to add your address book?
pbharrin··on Dear founders: Children are not a distraction, they are motivation
Awesome. A great professor said the best grad students were the married ones because they knew how to manage time. I believe the same is true for founders with kids.
pbharrin··on Seamlessly Buy with Bitcoin using Zinc
They are even giving you money back. Awesome
pbharrin··on Arscoin, our own custom cryptocurrency
"if you look at Bitcoin and you see the contributor list, it’s a dozen people writing a majority of the code. If you lower the barrier to entry and allow people to experiment, you bring more people to develop it in the space."

So true, the biggest complaint from the Bitcoin core devs is that there are few people contributing. Especially when there are heavily funded companies relying on this code.

pbharrin··on Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help
I don't understand, I thought the AFA (Obamacare) won and all those curmudgeons fought it all the way to the Supreme Court and lost and we now have healthcare for everyone.

What am I missing?

Why does this gentlemen have to loose his house to get medical treatment if healthcare is affordable?

pbharrin··on Handybook Buys Exec in a Deal for the On-Demand World
Congrats! Awesome job.
pbharrin··on Ex-Napster exec fatally struck by sheriff's patrol car while biking
Same here in Silicon Valley. Anecdotal evidence: on Steven's Canyon Road there is a monument to two cyclists who were killed by a police officer.
pbharrin··on IBM researcher can guess your personality from 200 of your tweets
That is great because I have written less than 200 tweets, and so have most of my friends.

"Machete don't tweet"

pbharrin··on TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden internet
Awesome! The first thing I saw in autocomplete was my book. I assume people are searching for discussion groups, not bootleg copies.
pbharrin··on How We Found All Of Optimizley’s Clients
That is an incredibly bad idea. The people who would use this value the data and are willing to pay a lot of money for it. Secondly they are not going to be doing many searches. The Google search monitization strategy will not work. This guys have the right idea, copy the way BuiltWith.com makes money.
pbharrin··on Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi
This is a great idea. One thing I would like to point out is that microwaves come in different power levels. A large one may be 1200W while a small dorm microwave may be 750W. The cooking instructions in your database will need to account for this.
pbharrin··on Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps
ClutchIO is not native, which is why something like this is needed.
pbharrin··on The ARM server apocalypse
I think he meant TSMC when he said TWSC.
pbharrin··on The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun
The fact that he didn't have to complete high school, (he does have a GED) to get a job at Booz paying $200k/year should be speak to his intelligence. I know people with graduate degrees from Harvard that made less than that at the same company.
pbharrin··on Ask HN: What are some 'startup lingo' you didn't know before?
talent acquisition or acquihire. Even if I did know what that meant I didn't know how to spot one initially.
pbharrin··on Intel’s Long Awaited Return to the Memory Business
Yes all SRAM
pbharrin··on Intel’s Long Awaited Return to the Memory Business
The link takes over a minute to load, but it does load.

They must be serving this from a Raspberry Pi.

pbharrin··on YC Demo Day, the Morning After
Well they did not convince the "tech press" that they were the next Google.
pbharrin··on YC Demo Day, the Morning After
I think what everyone here is missing is that the press is looking for "Tech" companies doing wild, innovative things with technology. -The WSJ article was in the "technology news and insights" section. -TechCrunch has the word Tech in its name. -Demo Day is held at the computer history museum -this is Silicon Valley

Sorry I didn't attend demo day, but when I read the summary I felt none of the companies were very high tech, and I'm sure that's what the press felt too. I was waiting for Peter Thiel to say: "we asked for flying cars and you gave us painless divorce."

Don't get me wrong, I would love to invest in companies that make money over companies that use some fancy new technology.

pbharrin··on Deep Learning - The Biggest Data Science Breakthrough of the Decade
You need Flash to watch this even on Chrome.
pbharrin··on The Robotic Legs of the HAL Exoskeleton
You completely missed the point of the post. The point of the post was not: "look someone made an exoskeleton". As the other commenters pointed out before you edited the title, there have been many exoskeletons made.

The real point of the post is: a company has named themselves after a fictional company that almost brings an end to the human race.

By blindly changing the post title you are filtering out relevant information in the post. The relevant information here is my perspective, why I think this article should be read by other HN readers. The whole point to having comments, and an open text field for submission titles is to get the perspective of HN readers.

pbharrin··on The Robotic Legs of the HAL Exoskeleton
The original title of this post was: "a company called Cyberdyne makes an exoskeleton - really".

By changing the title, the novelty is lost.

pbharrin··on The Robotic Legs of the HAL Exoskeleton
Cyberdyne was the name of the company that created the Terminator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
pbharrin··on A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science
The TED community is full of snobbery.

HOWEVER: I'm glad they are blowing the whistle on pseudo science related to GMO food.

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