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First Resonance | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | Onsite in Downtown Los Angeles

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We live in the information age. Information has a lot of value, most software companies' main asset is information. Visa, Mastercard and all the banks are companies that are valued very highly because they provide the infrastructure for managing money. Bitcoin is not just the asset, it is the network and the infrastructure. It's a whole system that works semi autonomously by by aligning the incentives of all of its members. Wouldn't you say that's valuable?

From the talks/podcasts I've heard, the goal is for the resolution to be good enough to measure and target individual neurons. Not sure where you get the ultrasound beacon part, but the images they have on their are using only red/near-infrared light. That being said, all of these is based on their own advertising. Curious to know, what are the fundamental physical constraints you are referring?

I'd much rather get an injection than get brain surgery.

This + OpenWater(https://www.openwater.cc/) will be a way better approach than Neuralink.

This is a very exciting line of research. Assuming this gets to be a real plane or drone. How do you deal with the Ozone it produces?

Check out "NOVA: Search for the Super Battery" on Netflix www.netflix.com/title/80991272?source=android It's a great intro into the challenges of current batteries and it shows Ionic materials' battery which is very similar tech to the one described in this article.

Is the startup visa (International Entrepreneur Rule) dead? or is there still hope?

Since we're sharing alternatives:

https://empiricalci.com is a dashboard to keep track of your experiments & compare them on public benchmarks.

Hey! just saw this message. Wish HN had notifications.

We're still putting together a roadmap for the open source project, but you can start by using the tool and filing issues that you find with the software or documentation. You can also file feature requests that you'd like to see.

Reach out via our Gitter chat: https://gitter.im/empiricalci/emp

Thanks for your interest!

Thanks! Currently we're focusing on single host experiments. We provide an open source client for you to run the experiments on your own hardware, so it's free. The use of the platform is also free for open source.

At some point in the future, once we gather more feedback we'll let you to run the experiments on our servers for a fee.

I built Empirical to address 2 major inefficiencies slowing down modern science: discovery and reproducibility of experiments.

I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Hi, Peter! as a Mexican, could I get an E2 visa investing $50k of my own money into my startup? Or what's the lowest investment needed for an E2 visa? In order to reach that threshold, could my investment be complemented with VC or angel's money?

Thanks!

We're working on this exact problem at Empirical http://empiricalci.com

We're building a way for CS researchers to run, share and compare experiments including their whole research environment.

We just applied to Apply HN and would appreciate your feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586948

That's the intended result. Although, we're not hosting the code, we're integrating with GitHub for that. We're going to be hosting the Docker images and the results/output. You'll be able to see which version of the code produces certain results.

Yes, MATLAB is a special case due to it being licensed software. I've used it in the past by mounting my local MATLAB installation into the container and I think I had to pass the MAC too. I believe we'll be able to get it to the point where we only need to mount the local license.

We're building a client on top of docker to deal with all this extra functionality. You can think about it like a specialized version of docker-compose

Down the road we'll be able to add support for specialized lab equipment in a case by cases basis.

For Windows only software, Docker and Microsoft seem to be making progress on that front. It's still to be defined how it's going to play out. Fortunately there are many cross-platform alternatives for most scientific software (at least in the AI area). Curious to know, do you have a particular software in mind?

As someone who submitted yesterday [1], I'd think we need to give new applications more days to catch up with early applications before making a decision.

Also, I think in order to give more reliability to the HN votes and ranking we need to find a way to give a similar exposure to all the applications, this would make up for other bias like time of submission.

One idea is to feature a subset of the applications in the front-page for a given amount of time. (not sure if that's what you're trying to do with /applyrand)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11586948

I believe you need to make an investment out of your own pocket to apply for that visa. An immigration lawyer told me $200k, do you know if you can go lower than that?

Daniel, thanks for sharing your thoughts. My initial focus will be in public datasets (e.g. Imagnet). People are already making their code and results available online through different mediums. However, I'm hoping having a specialized platform where you can share your whole environment will improve discoverability and reproducibility which should have great impact in collaboration as well.