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tchadwick

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Building autonomous robots in Canada.
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tchadwick··on Ask HN: Where can I work as a software engineer to combat large global problems?
The company I work for is hiring. https://seedotrun.com. We are a start-up working on autonomous agriculture. Lots of benefits to our design compared to a traditional tractor in regards to GHG, efficiency, farmer well-being, and food security.

There are a number of companies like us popping up. Bear Flag Robotics in California is another example.

thomas at seedotrun.com if interested.

tchadwick··on Ask HN: Is it possible to move to another country when over 40?
But he sure did try. I was also a Canadian living LA, but am back in Canada now. Definitely miss it.
tchadwick··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
Dot Technology Corp. | Data Scientist/Deep Learning Engineer | Regina, Canada | Full-Time

We're building an autonomous tractor. Check it out at https://seedotrun.com. It needs to not run into things, so that's where you come in.

DOT: We successfully developed and manufactured an alpha prototype in 2017. Currently, we are manufacturing 6 beta machines to work the fields this summer.

Tech: LIDAR, radar, cameras, caffe, CV, CNTK, python, c++, tensorflow, aws

Duties: - Manage, train, and tune state-of-the-art deep neural networks - Evaluate and test sensors and sensor fusion - Test the product in controlled and real situations - Collect, process, and manage training data, including training and testing pipelines

If you're interested, email me at thomas (at) seedotrun (dot) com.

tchadwick··on Ask HN: Has anyone moved to Canada?
I'm Canadian. I moved to LA for a bit and then moved back to my home in Saskatchewan. I took a bit of a pay cut to come back, but I work for an autonomous vehicle company now. I enjoy it much more than my job in LA. We're looking for a Deep Learning/Data Scientist right now ;) $70-150k CAD is what to expect for salary range.

It definitely is harder to find interesting companies in Canada, which is why I originally left. They do exist though! Most decently sized cities are actively building startup & tech communities.

tchadwick··on Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach
I've heard Canada was affected as well. As a Canadian living in the US, I'm doubly fucked.
tchadwick··on Building Code Posters with Elixir
I'm the creater of codeposters.io (https://codeposters.io). It's cool seeing everyone's take on this. I have a python script that consumes an image and text file of code and produces an output text file. Then I bring that output text into Illustrator and fine tune it.
tchadwick··on Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox
This is a cool way to learn about flexbox.
tchadwick··on Ask HN: How does Quora auto login work?
Are the links from the emails they send out? Might be a token in those links. I don't have any quora emails right now to check.
tchadwick··on Show HN: See what makes presidential candidates' hearts beat faster (Live)
I assume they are using the theory/algorithm from the MIT video magnification work: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
tchadwick··on Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
I sub to these three:

computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/computerphile

leveluptuts: https://www.youtube.com/user/leveluptuts

google chrome developers: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChromeDevelopers

tchadwick··on Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?
My side project is http://codeposters.io. Revenue is hit or miss. I'll occasionally get big bumps in traffic. Conversion rate sits at almost exactly 1%.
tchadwick··on Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code
I made some art out of it (http://codeposters.io) and have it on my walls now.
tchadwick··on Show HN: Pastry Development Kit
The landing page looks really good! Including the pastry hat in the kit is awesome too. If I lived in the US, I'd probably get this as a gift for someone. Maybe targeting it to the parents of children/teenagers that like to bake would work out?
tchadwick··on Show HN: Codeposters – making code into art
So, have a way for you to enter a github repository (for example), and have the image created using that repository?
tchadwick··on Show HN: Codeposters – making code into art
It's assembly code from here: https://code.google.com/p/virtualagc/source/browse/?r=258#sv...

The posters start with the code from BURN_BABY_BURN--MASTER_IGNITION_ROUTINE.s

I concatenated a number of files together and removed new lines, and runs of certain characters (space, #, and * for example). I felt that runs of the same character distracted the eye too much to keep. Those NASA engineers liked to make huge blocks of # characters.

tchadwick··on Show HN: Codeposters – making code into art
I haven't figured out a good way to make the text clearer in the product images. They're 36in x 24in, so when I zoom out to take a screen shot, the text is all muddled.

It's assembly code from here: https://code.google.com/p/virtualagc/source/browse/?r=258#sv...

The posters start with the code from BURN_BABY_BURN--MASTER_IGNITION_ROUTINE.s

tchadwick··on Show HN: A shopping bot for when you're drunk
This is pretty funny. What kind of technology are you using to handle the texting? Would be cool if you're using something like wit.ai to do intent and sentiment analysis on responses you receive and respond accordingly.
tchadwick··on Some Problems Shouldn't Be Solved
I created an account on justin.tv a long time ago and my username was 'grapefuckingjelly'. For awhile I couldn't log in because of a new validation on the log in form for swear words (the validation eventually went away). These days, I constantly hit a screen when logging into twitch.tv to transfer my justin.tv account over. It never seems to work... probably due to some validation.

I tried logging into twitch last night and it kept telling me my username/password are invalid, so I think my account is inaccessible again.

tchadwick··on Most of Us Don’t Download Any Smartphone Apps at All
The article does surprise me. I assumed people were regularly (at least one a month) downloading new apps and trying them out... I guess I'm definitely in the minority. I like to explore the app store and see what's new. In any given day, I'll be using apps for facebook, instagram, twitter, snapchat, product hunt, mail, safari, nest, hangouts, alien blue, and soundcloud. And when I find a new website that interests me, I usually check if there is a corresponding app.
tchadwick··on Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again
This looks really useful, and I'm trying to figure out if I could use it on a project I'm working on, but hitting an issue. I sent a support message. Nice job!
tchadwick··on Show HN: Somewhere – Instagram hack motivates you to travel more
I really like this. I've already found some interesting places!
tchadwick··on Ask HN: What is your download speed?
Down: 100 Mbps

Up: 20 Mbps

Location: Canada

ISP: SaskTel

It's a fiber connection. I'm not sure why they limit the upstream so much.

tchadwick··on Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
I bought a couple poster texts about 3 years ago. They're awesome :)
tchadwick··on Show HN: Write the best headline for your content with this simple app
Looks good to me! I went straight to the site without reading your post and was confused about what I was supposed to be doing, but I did come up with some some silly headlines.