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Training a deep learning model to detect “The Witness” puzzles(gabe.smedresman.zone)
6 points by gabesmed 7y ago|0 comments
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by gabesmed 7y ago
Project creator here, this was an experiment inspired by the WitnessIRL thread on reddit to find puzzle patterns from the Witness anywhere. I'm also an experienced web engineer but pretty new to deep learning, so it was an opportunity
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by gabesmed 10y ago
Exactly! The root of all this (I think) is the contracting structure for building jet fighters -- cost plus percentage -- was applied to software, which has such a different cost structure. With that structure there is no motivation to ship
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by gabesmed 10y ago
The youth helped us mostly because we were able to hop up and live in that house for months in order to be close to CMS - know our customers! But even for us those days are over - we have offices in SF and DC and have multiple more establis
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by gabesmed 10y ago
node/MySQL/nginx for both app2 and SLS. both are on AWS -- the first federal govt systems to use them. Even with the urgency, needed to wait almost a year for them to be approved, mostly around security concerns.
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by gabesmed 10y ago
Changing the government contracting process is going to be the slowest part of this -- yep nothing drastic is different now that a few years ago. But the winds of change are in the air. The fine folks at USDS are working hard to fix this fr
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by gabesmed 10y ago
We basically rebuilt things from scratch on a node/MySQL/nginx stack while providing the same API as the old system, and were able to swap it out. We have become masters of the strangler pattern of software design...
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by gabesmed 10y ago
The core of the issue was that EIDM, the old system, was an assembly of products designed for corporate intranets on the orders of 1000s of users -- it was never meant to be used for a consumer system. So all this super complicated permissi
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by gabesmed 10y ago
We love 18f!!! We work a little more closely with USDS as our relationship with them is more complementary - they find opportunities in government and will often consult with us and other modern firms on how to approach big problems like id
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by gabesmed 10y ago
We had the dubious fortune of coming in in a crisis situation, which let us insist on our way of doing things. (Bringing own computers, AWS, modern stack, quick hiring, etc) Even then, though, launching our first product (App 2.0) to produc
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by gabesmed 10y ago
A lot of the most effective pushback we end up never seeing at all -- it happens in decisions and conversations we aren't party to. We do think in the long run delivering a radically better product will win out... But the presence of p
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by gabesmed 10y ago
Todd Park, the ex-CTO of the United States, started to process of pulling in Silicon Valley talent. We were called "Todd's kids" for the longest time :) Todd reached out to the CEO of Civis Analytis (Dan Wagner I believe?), w
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by gabesmed 10y ago
Hey all, i'm one of the team members of Nava, the public benefit corporation that emerged from the MPL team to continue to improve how the government serves its people...happy to answer any questions!
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by gabesmed 11y ago
Nava - Washington DC I'm part of a small team of expats from Silicon Valley that came out to DC last year to help fix healthcare.gov. (Mostly Stanford, Google, Y Combinator folks) We've learned a ton, and see an opportunity to cre
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by gabesmed 14y ago
Yeah, this would be great to have, especially for live previewing of different material combinations. Would require a major rev of the interface/rendering though, so didn't make the cut for launch.
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by gabesmed 14y ago
It's called Emmet's "The Good Stuff" - a gel urethane that gives a nice warm glow to the wood, is easy to apply, quick-drying, and not unpleasant or dangerous to breathe. (we work out of our cottage, so no professional ventilation systems f
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by gabesmed 14y ago
We'd love to make a custom floor! We can do any size piece as long as it's tiled by panels. It'd be cheaper to use the standard sizes (so the largest panel to tile would be 16x20) as it helps us conserve material. But we can conceivably mak
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by gabesmed 14y ago
We're actively working on an OSM render path. Coming soon!!
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by gabesmed 14y ago
Yup. The working title for the project was 'mapquetry'. Though technically inaccurate, Woodcut Maps is way catchier.
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by gabesmed 14y ago
Then I would personally salute you. Still trying to convince the fiancee to do our living room as a woodcut floor :)
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by gabesmed 14y ago
Our oboist team member, who hand-carves her own reeds, assembles and finishes each map by hand.
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by gabesmed 14y ago
I'll be preparing a preso for WhereCamp this weekend; I'll definitely put it online as well.
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by gabesmed 14y ago
Heya, I'm the developer behind Woodcut Maps! The site is built on python/django and hosted on AWS. Most of the interesting work happens in python with PIL, numpy and scipy. We download maps tiles (Google for now, working on an OSM render pa
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Making effective introductions(blog.meetgatsby.com)
7 points by gabesmed 15y ago|0 comments
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by gabesmed 16y ago
Another example to look at: http://www.appsafari.com/games/10766/kingpin-game/ Kingpin, ... is a new addition to the foursquare client family. ... Users can accumulate points, collect badges to store in vaults, and become mayor (boss in K
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Google Maps launches Styled Maps; reskin base Google Map(googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com)
6 points by gabesmed 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Maps API Styled Map Wizard(gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com)
3 points by gabesmed 16y ago|0 comments
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Founder Dating (for meeting potential cofounders) event in SF(founderdating.com)
2 points by gabesmed 17y ago|0 comments
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by gabesmed 17y ago
I wish I'd known him.
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Pretweeting -- a market game based on twitter word frequency(pretweeting.com)
18 points by gabesmed 17y ago|3 comments

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