"WearCam has been an experiment in connectivity, starting early 1994, running on and off until September 15, 1996 (shut down when I went to ICIP 96 in Lousanne, due to poor net connection from there). After the conference, I decided that extensive revisions were in order: with further development of the pencigraphic image compositing algorithm that assembles the images transmitted from my wearable computer system to the base station on the roof of building 54. The hope is to have near-realtime performance using a 64-processor system."
Open communication is great when there are incidents, but even better is having no incidents. (of course there are nuances depending on specific context)
> It’s simply not economically viable to continue adding functionality to a product that does not generate any revenue.
I'd gently push back on this. If the primary purpose of the open source component of an open core project is to acquire new free users (top of funnel for paid users), then it provides some value. Any work spent keeping the open source experience good is essentially marketing spend and may make sense depending on the ROI. Agreed the incentive is to eventually get those users converted to paid users, but that's not inherently a bad thing IMO. Acknowledge there are better and worse ways to go about incentivizing users to convert to paid.
Overall I enjoyed the post. The latter half felt a bit less concise but intro was strong.
This is great advice, but when it's not possible to ship daily, I find that even just committing once a day is a good micro-goal to keep projects moving. The GitHub streaks feature can help motivate you too.
This is fascinating! Any idea how it is implemented? Guessing it's using some open source search engine like Elasticsearch to build the indices/compute relevance in a centralized manner. Would it be possible to leverage the distributed nature of TOR to create a completely P2P/distributed version of this search engine? Relevance features like TF/IDF might be a bit challenging to implement, but it seems like it would be possible!
Fei Fei Li has some great quotes near the end (starting around 31:10):
"I find it very hard to convince women and underrepresented minorities to work in AI."
“We are not sending the right messages to attract people of all walks of life - we tend to just celebrate geekiness, nerdiness, but when you have an ambitious young woman coming into our department or into the AI lab... if we present ourselves just as geeks loving to do geeky things, we’re missing a huge demography..."
“We're missing a huge opportunity attracting diversity because we're not talking enough or thinking enough of humanistic missions in AI."
I have a little sister who often wonders whether she should keep studying engineering because of things like this.
Sorry, I didn't see that when I posted! Didn't mean to spam. (HN usually detects these at post time too, but I guess this didn't work for some reason.)
Awesome! I tried coming up with justifications for all of the rules, and decided that having animals popping into existence didn't make sense, but if you consider the whole thing an open system with an influx of predators, then yours still makes perfect sense. Much more interesting to watch :)
"WearCam has been an experiment in connectivity, starting early 1994, running on and off until September 15, 1996 (shut down when I went to ICIP 96 in Lousanne, due to poor net connection from there). After the conference, I decided that extensive revisions were in order: with further development of the pencigraphic image compositing algorithm that assembles the images transmitted from my wearable computer system to the base station on the roof of building 54. The hope is to have near-realtime performance using a 64-processor system."
also narrative (and of course related products like glass, spectacles, etc) - http://getnarrative.com/ - (2014) https://www.cnet.com/reviews/narrative-clip-review/ - (2016) https://www.fastcompany.com/3064785/why-some-wearable-camera...
unclear how humane will toe the privacy line - https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/humane-the-secretive-ai-st...