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One of the 'tutorial game' is indeed to move resources. I think a lot can be done if the train exposes variable and counters (ie.: the colour blocks become resources, the train starts counting them, and you can write if-then-else logic around it)

I actually wanted to do this myself too. I'm quite sure there is a firmware that can be expanded not very dissimilar from an arduino.

The other thing that I'd love to do is to 3d print a station (with related time stop) with a Qi charger. Shouldn't be too hard to have an induction coil under the train. The only problem is that the firmware shut down the train when it is charging.

what was it about ?

I wonder if there are any consequences from a security standpoint. Does the community of hackers out there believe this will open the opportunity for new exploit?

I might be controversial, but, from my experience, reading at least 1 fiction and 1 non fictional book every 6 weeks, there is a big difference in information density.

The non fictional books, especially the self helping/improving one, tend to be very diluted. whatever the reason is. This is naturally in conflict with the reader purpose: extracting value in the fastest way possible.

That is probably why apps like Blinkist or 'OneBookADay' have quite some success. This, by no mean, is to say that books are not an amazing format for the vast majority of content they are being used today, and for the past 700 years.

I'd be very interested to hear from a Lawyer what are the implication of doing something like this. Controlling the last mile of fruition (in this case the browser) can open a lot of opportunities (ie.: replacing podcast ads with contextual one, etc). But I wonder if this is legal or not.

This is technically feasible. The latest html5 api (quite well adopted) allow copy paste from the OS and drag and drop. There is quite a bit of server side / javascript to implement, but it is feasible.

Do you plan to commit back to the community your extra graph UX/UI. They look very neat and I don't think it will jeopardize the success of your startup. The reason why I asked about the usage of Electron (or similar) is because they are well known to be resource hungry. Slack went down that route and found themself in a pickle. Considering you are also doing a lot of data manipulation in memory (I assume) this might be very expensive on a React Stack. Anyway, something to keep in mind, don't worry about it right now.

If you are going after individual contributor, I'd spend quite some time figuring out good integration points (ie.: Notebooks), so you are better integrated in their workflow. I'd avoid going enterprise, because date warehouse and data visualization are well solved problem (both in SaaS and PaaS flavor). Source: I led data organization at mid/big companies.

It looks likes this is a chromium/proton wrapper around a webapp. Is that correct? The plot lib used seems very similar to plotly.

I'd be very curious to hear about some of the tech stack design choices. I'd be also interested to understand who's your target user.

All valid points, the beauty of Github is that you can write a pull request and add all those informations to the project, or even better, you can write what an alternative solution would be 'Instead of using X, you can use Y'. If you feel extreme generous you could even use this as a teaching opportunity. Explain concept like Creepage starting from the existing example and propose the alternative solution from there.

That bright green looks quite strong in pair with white text. Have you tried to run your colour palette on a tool like https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/ and see how they score on the accessibility axis ?

I would love to hear more how the COVID19 has exacerbated the business down period. I naively thought that enterprise software would not see a strong impact from COVID19 in the first 2-3 months.

I've recently saw a documentary on General Magic. I've been working in tech for 15 years and had never heard about that company. I think we all have a lot to learn, and should pay more respects to the giants that took us here.

To everyone reading this topic: I would love to work on a project like this. Really, doesn't matter if it is this one, or Google SideWalk, or Microsoft secret project. IF any of you are working on this already, I'd love to chat!

Thank you for the pointer! I've updated the original comment, and my knowledge base too :)

For a while I thought you would need too much energy, then I realized I don't know well enough the physics of how a laser works.

[Warning, very stupid idea ahead]: Since I don't know well enough the topic, why wouldn't be possible to use a satellite to collect solar energy (because outside the atmosphere you can collect ~40% more (edited) the solar energy due to lack of atmospheric filtering effect),and then transmit that energy back to earth via some sort of wireless energy distribution mechanism (laser?). I guess a YoYo satellite with real tens of KM of wire to earth has a lot of reasons for not be feasible.

what are the other 2?

I feel Apple is abusing their dominant position (single app store) to force all the developers to implement & maintain Sign In with Apple as a new SSO method: https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/

I'm really curious to see how this will fly with the Antitrust

For front end developers, this is basically redux @ react

Seriously Apple, you are still charging 99$ a year each developer that wants to publish on your store.

Is this how you support developers? Is this how you favorite competition? Is this what you call a developer experience at no additional cost?

I'm not a VC, but I'd be happy to give this guy the same amount of money that YC gives to their startups. Seriously.

Love this!

So has been every single form of Art since the beginning of it.

So has been every single form of art since the beginning of it.

It's a shame that there is no longer this level of openness in talking about tech and engineering. Even in modern papers, there is still a lacking of 'bigger picture'

Ah, great catch! thanks for sharing

You are referring to this http://learningsys.org/nips17/assets/slides/dean-nips17.pdf, right?

It didn't make the cut just because is a keynote and not a paper, but nevertheless is a great engineering fit. Even more if considering that in the meanwhile Jeff is running the entire brain team, and keep pouring contributions on a regular basis: https://research.google.com/pubs/jeff.html

At Spotify, we have a reading group. I started one at SoundCloud and at Google there were multiple focused on very specific topics. If you can prove to your company the value in investing in a reading group, you can probably start one in your company too.

KTH, Stockholm's main technical university, has an open reading group too, open to everyone. Probably if you have a big enough university in your area they have something similar.

Alternatively try reddit, ie.: on r/machinelearning. That said, the value of doing this in real life, in front of a whiteboard, is worth going extra mile and find someone to team up with.

This doesn't have a scoring function or objective function hence is not 'solving' a problem. it's just mimicking a behaviour. There is quite a difference.

I always thought that the I in AI stood for Intelligence