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Save Net Neutrality by Exploiting Tiered Internet Video Streams(hackernoon.com)
2 points by rachellaw 9y ago|0 comments
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What Bots Can Do That Websites and Apps Can't(medium.com)
4 points by rachellaw 9y ago|0 comments
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Why We’re Fans of Xiaomi for Bot Design(medium.com)
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Emoji and Image Understanding for Bots(medium.com)
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Why Bots Are the Next Industrial Revolution(medium.com)
7 points by rachellaw 10y ago|2 comments
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by rachellaw 10y ago
I think they're all pretty bad tbh. They aren't very good at guessing age, and guessing gender is harder especially if you're young or have rounded features.
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by rachellaw 11y ago
thanks! We were wondering if it was worth applying. We went from zero revenue to generating revenue after our old accelerator and was looking into YC to grow now that we had a solid, validated product-market fit.
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by rachellaw 11y ago
How much is the bias against startups that have been to other accelerators? What are the benchmarks for progress in those cases?
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by rachellaw 11y ago
One the reasons why it took so long (2 months to approval) is there isn't a clear set of rules for success. When you submit to Play store or Apple store, there's a list of guidelines and checkbox reasons why you get rejected. With
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How to Get Your Bot on the Slack App Directory(medium.com)
5 points by rachellaw 11y ago|1 comments
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The Care of AI to Come(psfk.com)
4 points by rachellaw 11y ago|0 comments
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Get naked with your users (why data transparency matters)(medium.com)
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by rachellaw 11y ago
I like the penguin it's cute, but I can't help but think of Microsoft clippy
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by rachellaw 11y ago
Yes, that's what we thought as well when we got rejected. With such a large group of applicants, the core reason is probably "you're on the wrong side of bell curve" At the same time I wish they were more transparent. Dr
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by rachellaw 11y ago
one of the things that really struck me when fundraising: "...that 25k he just gave you, could've gone to his kids' college fund or investing in blue chip stocks instead. It's amazing that you can raise money at all.&quo
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by rachellaw 11y ago
one of the key reasons why people join accelerators is for network and connections though, not just advice. Without that conversations, that sounding board, all that written advice just makes another investopedia/venturehacks guidebook
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by rachellaw 11y ago
It's more of a natural evolution. We had one idea on how to use the technology, but the user feedback preferred a smaller aspect that we overlooked. So we narrowed down and turned that one small aspect into the company focus instead. T
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by rachellaw 11y ago
We've already taken investment pre-pivot from angels, screwing investors over to be a 'fresh startup' seems to be a type of fraud. It's different pitch, but a natural and logical progression. Most of the time ideas need
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by rachellaw 11y ago
It seems to unfairly penalize startups who've pivoted since after the accelerator. We've been to one. It was early stage, and within our geography. When we spoke to YC/500startups in 2013, it was all about having traction or
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No more Butlers in AI(medium.com)
4 points by rachellaw 11y ago|0 comments
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Designing AI Persona: Why We Shouldn’t Let Hollywood Dictate UX Design(medium.com)
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3 Things We Learned Building a Chatbot for Slack(medium.com)
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Kip for Slack: Shopping chatbot for you and your team(medium.com)
3 points by rachellaw 11y ago|0 comments
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Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India(economist.com)
394 points by rachellaw 11y ago|237 comments
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by rachellaw 11y ago
I think it's in-combo with the whole AI/automated personalization as well. It used to be very difficult to do intelligent bots, but now you have tensorflow/caffe/word2vec frameworks that come built-in with NLP The walled
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by rachellaw 11y ago
What's fascinating is the bot-bandwagon is mirroring the early app market. With apps, you downloaded things to do things. With bots, you integrate them into things, so they'll do it for you. (Save extra step laziness)
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Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK(techcrunch.com)
78 points by rachellaw 11y ago|72 comments
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by rachellaw 11y ago
I think you have to be a successful founder i.e. huge revenue or huge user growth or a VC in order to give expert advice and feedback. For user testing, the most important metric is not how many people give us feedback but whether it's
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by rachellaw 11y ago
We were rejected, despite being in the YC RFS' category (A.I.) Kip is a deep learning search for fashion in IRL stores around you: https://kipsearch.com I don't think there was a particular reason why they rejected us,
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by rachellaw 11y ago
Thanks! I'm curious to know how Lyst would handle outlier datapoints. ANN seems to be a variation of regression techniques (achieving nearest result) instead of creating a new mutual exclusion (unsupervised learning)

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