Screw Elon Musk and the horse he rode in on. There is
no way I'm going to give that character my content or
collaborate in anything he owns or has a stake in.
Still looking for an alternative.
Founder of modularcompany.com , we do Technical Due Diligence for investors (early stage, VC, PE), vendors and acquirers in Europe and the Near East.
Partner at Tablomonto.com. If you have an interesting early stage startup in The Netherlands I would like to hear from you.
Founder of camarades.com / ww.com, creator of the first 'streaming webcam software'.
Small time angel investor, > 20 investments to date, > 20K < 100K
Happy to report that now three of those have exited with nice returns.
My email is jacques@modularcompany.com, phone + 31 6 30 366 241, Netherlands
Feel free to contact me anytime, except for large money transfers from African countries or such.
And please don't even think of approaching me to get your stuff posted or upvoted, if you want something posted do it yourself, if you want stuff to be upvoted post interesting stuff!
If you comment and I'm not responding to you it may well be that you are filtered out from my view.
"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression."
Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
Software developer at a major research university. My unit has been part of the open data movement for 75 years.
I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY.
Some projects I've worked on: a voice chat service for the Brazilian market, the market leading open access e-Print server, e-business systems for car dealerships, wineries and a pallet recycling company, decision support systems for sales territory assignment, a collaborative visual editor for knowledge graphs, a social network for a secret society, a rich metadata database for the global performing arts with hundreds of Postgres tables that we should have built in RDF, a similarity metric for generic concepts (people, places, creative works, ...), a search engine for patents powered by a neural network, conversion of Freebase to an RDF graph with perfect referential integrity, an automatically curated collection of more than 1 million images of thousands of topics, a study of statistics of the sound of crumpling paper, and two efforts to commercialize foundation models before
Current side projects involve: structurally modelling financial messaging standards such as FIX, FPML and ISO 20022 with OWL DL, prototyping a smart "RSS reader" with coupled workflow engine and text relevance and clustering models, and a system of "three sided cards."
I maintain a website with translations of pg's essays to polish language, http://esejepg.pl/.
I do software nowadays, but I'm constantly looking for opportunities to do something actually useful for humanity. If you know of some, please let me know - especially if they involve biotech, cleantech or NewSpace industry.
(see also: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2018-01-06-going-far-going-small.html)
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Aw, what the hell, I want that extra badge:
https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=TeMPOraL
(see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389773)
I love to teach what I know even if I am no expert. It is simple. Teaching makes you better. I love to ask the "why" and not just the "what" or "how". I also am a geek and builder by nature.
I am always looking for smart, hungry and talented people to join me in creating great products and company.
My long term interests are in SaaS, edtech, Dev Tools, Devops etc for the most part. I may have ADHD but too lazy to get diagnosed.
Always happy to chat with strangers. Hit me up if you want to talk about anything.
