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5,837karma·1,157submissions·August 2, 2011
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Title is definitely overblown. Roll-to-roll production is still very much a small scale process. Linear change not stepwise
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Bret Victor
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This Exponent episode on Spotify is excellent and they discuss how they don't have quite the same power as Netflix but still more than people appreciate - http://exponent.fm/episo…
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It's quite common for people to start with just $1k and do well and get to that kind of money. I'd recommend doing some research before just jumping to conclusions: https://www.li…
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Reminds me a lot of the article from the Atlantic ("The Coming Software Apocalypse"): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/savin... …
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I'd personally really like for code to go away / not need to use it. It's an important bootstrapping step, but really only the hardware of the 60s and 70s more / less needed text, …
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More overlap than you think! In his talk - https://vimeo.com/115154289 - Bret has a footnote reference to Radical Atoms group (Hiroshi's group)…
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So many things I could say about this, but I"ll let Alan Kay speak for me -
https://youtu.be/p2LZLYcu_JY Alan talks about how ideas in Calculus could be manifested from an earl…
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Some good ideas here, but we have to aim much higher than this. I like some of the ideas Bret suggested in his call for climate change: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#media …
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Data science, data science, data science. The company I'm involved has some blog posts you might find useful: - https://www.dataquest.io/blog/how-to-get-a-data-science-job&#x…
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I'm involved with a startup that's specifically tackling this very problem -- how do you learn the theory & application of machine learning quickly (especially if you already know progra…
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Oh weird, maybe it's temporary? That's odd, it was just there a few hours ago.
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Highly recommend Bret's 2 talks for context: [1] Seeing Spaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ
[2] Humane Representation of Thought: https://www.youtube.c…
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They may just be "hosting" them. Providing support, space, etc. It's a bit unclear actually. Actually, it looks like you're right that they're looking for funding. It seems li…
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I think you'll like the discussion he had at CMU a few years back, which focused a lot on the technology side of things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFc379hu--8 …
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Seems like it was ported over (the code anyway): https://github.com/itfrombit/osx_handmade …
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This is not a gimmick haha. Read my comment from earlier in this thread: Casey is really well known in the gaming community - https://mollyrocket.com/casey/about.html Through Han…
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My understanding is that Casey was specifically bothered by newer game programmers not understanding the underlying internals and writing slow software. Seems like he wanted to do something about it a…
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This is not uncommon in game development. Jonathan Blow and others have spoken at length about why game development is different than web development or other types of software engineering (not in a c…
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Casey is really well known in the gaming community - https://mollyrocket.com/casey/about.html Through Handmade Con, he's also interviewed many other creators like Jonathan B…
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upcoming batch applications?
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YC HARC - harc.ycr.org
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I recently read about Luminar ( https://www.luminartech.com/ ) and their focus on making affordable, accurate LIDAR tech. Wonder if there are other components like this that need to be …
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Reminds me of Makani Power! Super cool
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FYI your link to https://humanapi.co/careers is 404'ing !