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fuelfive | 1 year ago | on: Architectural cross-section of Kowloon Walled City

Thanks for writing Glider! I adored that game as a kid and was part of how the possibilities of computing began to captivate my attention.

fuelfive | 2 years ago | on: Do Not Build SaaS

Back when Elon started PayPal, SaaS was the frontier!

fuelfive | 2 years ago | on: Extreme parkour with legged robots

Glad to see our universities making progress in this important area of national security.

fuelfive | 2 years ago | on: SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance

By this logic, the title would be equally correct if they wrote "Jimmy Buffet Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance"

fuelfive | 7 years ago | on: Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Salary Database

It seems weird that Wired focuses on the negative edge case here. At Vicarious we use OptionImpact to make sure everyone is paid fairly, and I imagine that's the vast majority of users. Deceiving someone into taking a lowball salary is a very shortsighted way to run a business, and I have trouble believing any well-run company actually does this.

fuelfive | 8 years ago | on: RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks

We talked about releasing more comprehensive proof of concept code, but ultimately decided against it. While helpful for other researchers, offering anyone on the internet a ready-to-use arbitrary captcha breaker seemed like a net-negative for society.

fuelfive | 8 years ago | on: Vicarious AI raises another $50M

There are a few papers up on the site already and some more coming. As a business, publications aren't really the KPIs we prioritize (vs an academic-style lab like DM or OAI).

fuelfive | 8 years ago | on: General Game Playing with Schema Networks

Here's a link to the paper as well (ICML 2017 preprint)

https://www.vicarious.com/img/icml2017-schemas.pdf

fuelfive | 8 years ago | on: Schema Networks from Vicarious: Zero-Shot Game Playing AI [pdf]

Some additional results on other games in the blog post:

https://www.vicarious.com/general-game-playing-with-schema-n...

fuelfive | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

http://www.vicarious.com

AI research

fuelfive | 11 years ago | on: Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]

These are great highlights, although your second point from [1] is a bit misleading. Humans have a 5% error rate because the average person can't differentiate between 150 different breeds of dogs and other similar nonsense.

fuelfive | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

Vicarious - Silicon Valley, CA.

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Our long term goal is to build machines that exceed human intelligence. We are passionate about changing the world with science and software, and we are looking for exceptional people to join us in that mission.

Available roles:

  - Machine Learning Researcher
  - Computer Vision Researcher
  - Software Engineer 
  - DevOps
  - Systems Administrator.

We have raised ~$70M in funding and are not constrained by publication, grant applications, or product development cycles. At Vicarious, there is room to develop new approaches that would otherwise not be supported in academia or industry. In the long term, our work will push forward the AI and robotics revolutions.

Learn more: http://vicarious.com/

fuelfive | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Knowledge engine – instant answers to any question

When was the first Macintosh computer released?

1467 B.C.

Needs some work...

fuelfive | 12 years ago | on: SpaceX wins injunction to stop USAF buying Russian rocket engines

This is a very long video. What was nice in it? Can you give some highlights?

fuelfive | 12 years ago | on: Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy

Digging in to the journal article, the technique they use can only scale to captchas with 8 characters or less, so having a longer word is a simple fix.

fuelfive | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where are the hard programming challenges/jobs?

We work on hard stuff (http://vicarious.com/) and we're always looking for exceptional people

fuelfive | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Slidescroll – view your slide decks together

Ha, nice demo presentation.

One minor piece of feedback: add slide number out of total below the slide.

fuelfive | 13 years ago | on: Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs

We think so (http://vicarious.com/), but we are obviously biased.

fuelfive | 13 years ago | on: Vicarious Raises $15M to Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’

IIRC, the reasons were:

- Depending on how you read it, Last Invention can sound really ominous.

- LI is a bit of a mouthful to say, whereas Vicarious is a single word

- People generally responded better to Vicarious as a name when we asked around

Never heard of The Last One...

fuelfive | 13 years ago | on: Vicarious Raises $15M to Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’

We seriously considered Last Invention as an alternative name, and actually still own lastinvention.com. For a bunch of reasons, we decided on Vicarious instead. :)