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by uuilly 6y ago
Difference is you can't "hold in" a pre-term birth b/c you're afraid of covid.
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by uuilly 7y ago
The total deal with Uber was worth about 20M upfront. The rest was milestone driven. Milestones didn’t happen bc Anthony got fired and there was a fatality that shut the program down.
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by uuilly 7y ago
Lidar is solidly worse than the human eye in dust, rain etc. Waymo has struggled w/ dust devils in AZ. Cruise has struggled w/ steam vents in SF. I work at a John Deere subsidiary and we are quite interested in dust performance fo
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by uuilly 7y ago
Hey! We’re moving it to row crops to save herbicide. I miss Salinas but stoked with what we’re doing in the Midwest.
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by uuilly 7y ago
http://www.bluerivertechnology.com/ Now owned by John Deere. Goal is 10x reduction in chemicals while doubling yields. We’re deep in ml & robotics and our creations scale across the deere fleet touching most of the arab
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by uuilly 7y ago
There are a lot of variables and these events don't happen that often so rules are hard to come by. That said being, I've been through three acquisitions and it really depends. How valuable are you personally to their strategy? If
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by uuilly 7y ago
I haven’t read your link bc your title is incredibly presumptuous. You don’t know who I am or what problem I’m solving.
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by uuilly 7y ago
I used to work for Anthony at 510 systems. He tried to hire me for Otto as well. Watching this whole thing unfold from, obscure story in 2011 to the Waymo Vs. Uber trial to federal charges and national news is rather surreal. Anthony is one
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by uuilly 8y ago
John Deere / Blue River Technology | CV/ML - Software (robotics / embedded) - Full Stack | Full Time | Sunnyvale, CA & San Francisco, CA | ONSITE For the last 100 years John Deere has been giving farming equipment power i
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by uuilly 8y ago
You know how in war movies when the guy leaves the trench only to come back and find that all his friends have been killed? In the valley you leave the trench and come back to find that all your friends are rich. No words can alleviate that
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by uuilly 9y ago
Blue River Technology (recently acquired by John Deere) | SW & CV/ML | San Francisco & Sunnyvale | Onsite Come make smart things in big machines: http://careers.bluerivertechnology.com
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John Deere drives into San Francisco looking for farm-tech engineers(sfchronicle.com)
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by uuilly 9y ago
https://agfundernews.com/blue-river-clear-leader-john-deeres... Many stories. Will blog soon :)
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by uuilly 9y ago
Yup. A few days ago we (60 people) got bought by John Deere for $305M b/c our machine reduced herbicides by 90% using CV/ML. Our only moving part was a solenoid. Would not have survived if it had been more complicated. You clearly
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by uuilly 9y ago
Blue River Technology | Sunnyvale, CA or SF, CA | Onsite | Full Time Agricultural Robotics. Hiring all types of SW Engineers at all levels especially those with the willingness and aptitude to delve into machine learning. We made a machine
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by uuilly 9y ago
Thank you. I work in Ag and it seems crazy that someone should be able to buy a machine like those Deere sells and be able to modify the controls SW. Can United Airlines update the controls SW on Boeing 747? I'm not sure how tractors a
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by uuilly 10y ago
From the article: "It presents a large corpus of 1,627 articles that were manually fact-checked by professional journalists from BuzzFeed." At first I thought this was an onion article. It turns out they're serious.
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by uuilly 10y ago
Relative to HN I'm probably an expert in ag. Relative to people who grow things I'm far from an expert. I was employee 3 at Blue River Technology and I've been there for four years: http://www.bluerivert.com The w
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by uuilly 10y ago
Yeah, after being a "dozen rides a week" Uber user for the last year, I switched to Lyft. There is just no reason for this.
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by uuilly 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by uuilly 10y ago
Blue River Technology | Sunnyvale, CA | Onsite | Full time | Full Stack Developer / Robotics Engineer / Computer Vision / Deep Learning http://careers.bluerivert.com We are building machines that will reduce chemi
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by uuilly 10y ago
The main reason to avoid any sort of mechanical kill is time. Even if you could deploy and retract a puncher in 100 ms, you'd travel 10 inches during that time. The slowest operation in row crops is about 6mph. Same principle applies t
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by uuilly 10y ago
GMO + broadcast applied herbicides is a long term loser. For years cotton growers in the South Eastern US applied Round Up from planes. The chemical would dissipate on its way down and apply half doses to weeds. Some of these weeds could me
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by uuilly 10y ago
You're spot on. You could use human labor to control weeds very effectively. It would just be extremely expensive.
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by uuilly 10y ago
My biggest problem w/ modern DSLR and mirrorless cameras is that critical controls are buried in menus or they are assigned to dials whose behavior changes. Photography is very much a flow / muscle memory thing for me. I just can&
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by uuilly 11y ago
I worked w/ Ben through our google acquisition. This is all accurate. He's a fun, talented guy. Funnily enough he was only the 4th or 5th strangest bird of the 50 or so employees at 510 systems. Good times...
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by uuilly 11y ago
Thanks! I'll try it.
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by uuilly 11y ago
I've been using chrony to sync 18 CPUs in a realtime application. I've found it to be a mixed bag. Once it gets syncing, it's really good. I've got it set up so I'm accurate to w/in a few microseconds on my LAN
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by uuilly 11y ago
Another option that has been around for a number of years is: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtconcurrent-index.html
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by uuilly 11y ago
One's fear of robots taking over the world is usually inversely proportional to the number of times they've debugged a brownout.

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