philosophygeek

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by philosophygeek 3y ago
I wish the press release had a bit more detail about what this model actually does and whether it's actually useful for the suggested use cases. However, make no mistake: this is for the scientific community and will not help geospatia
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by philosophygeek 4y ago
I wrote this. AMA :)
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by philosophygeek 4y ago
Hey, I'm the founding CEO who wrote the article. I hold some of the blame here too for trying to read the market and be something that we weren't. When you hear lots of people raising at 20-30x their ARR, it pushes you as a foun
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by philosophygeek 6y ago
Has anyone tried to write an algorithm that translates any piece of text into "basic English." That seems like a tractable problem, since it's just mapping all the words in English and grammatical structures into Ogden'
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GAN generates fake snow in satellite images(medium.com)
2 points by philosophygeek 6y ago|1 comments
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by philosophygeek 6y ago
A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory trained a GAN to test automated change detection algorithms in satellite imagery, with a link to the associated SPIE paper.
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by philosophygeek 6y ago
We've had 10 years of frothiness in venture markets. Many employees under 30 don't even know what a downturn looks like. They're used to high pay, constant calls from recruiters, and venture capital flowing into their compa
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by philosophygeek 8y ago
I left the Bay Area almost 5 years ago now to start a company that I spun out of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Everyone - investors, my friends & family, our founders, even me - thought we would move to San Francisco within a year. F
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by philosophygeek 8y ago
I'm the CEO of Descartes Labs. It's indeed true that we've built a data refinery that ingests lots and lots of satellite data. The data refinery can be seen as a two-sided marketplace. On one side, we form partnerships wit
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by philosophygeek 8y ago
What a fantastic read. As a CEO who has grown my company from 6 to almost 100, this is one of the hardest discussions to have with someone. It's not that they did anything wrong , they're just no "right" for the positi
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Bill Gates Is Reddit Secret Santa(qz.com)
2 points by philosophygeek 10y ago|0 comments
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Petabytes of satellite imagery predict crops(motherboard.vice.com)
7 points by philosophygeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by philosophygeek 10y ago
Descartes Labs | DevOps Engineer | San Francisco, Los Alamos, NYC | http://www.descarteslabs.com Descartes Labs | Software Enginner | San Francisco, Los Alamos, NYC | http://www.descarteslabs.com Descartes Labs is bu
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Processing a Petabyte of Planetary Pixels with Python(youtube.com)
9 points by philosophygeek 10y ago|0 comments
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How drones help fartmers(eandt.theiet.org)
3 points by philosophygeek 11y ago|0 comments
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by philosophygeek 11y ago
This is Mark Johnson, the CEO. Check out: https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs/hello-world-f2215d4dec90