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david_at commented on Ask HN: What moonshots do you wish were being attempted?    · Posted by u/vagabund
neximo64 · 3 years ago
Real time Google maps satellite view
david_at · 3 years ago
We're building something pretty close to what you're thinking of https://www.grassland.network/
david_at commented on NeRF in the Wild: reconstructing 3D scenes from internet photography   nerf-w.github.io/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
Impossible · 5 years ago
I pitched a similar idea in an interview years ago in an interview (http://www.wearegamedevs.com/2016/01/20/scott-anderson-rende...) with the added complexity of forward simulating past events with different choices. I was asked what I would do with infinite time and money though. To this day my elderly parents tell me to quit my job and work on this idea :-D.

I do believe that past time travel to reconstructed and recorded events will be one of the stickiest use cases for VR.

david_at · 5 years ago
It's funny you say that... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529921

We're hiring too. Looking for an engineer with some game dev experience.

david_at commented on What's Blockchain Good For, Anyway? For Now, Not Much   wired.com/story/whats-blo... · Posted by u/maddogfog
anongraddebt · 6 years ago
I've always been agnostic on blockchain stuff. One of those 'flip-a-coin to determine its future' type of mentalities. On that note, my humble, unsubstantiated hypothesis is that IF it ends up not being a dud technology, then a couple of potential things that make that so might be...

(1) Something to do with the growing number of people not participating in the current traditional financial system (the unbanked etc) together with some sort of negative event in current traditional system (recession/depression etc).

(2) Something to do with future A.I. systems and processes requiring a historical snapshot of everything that happened within the system or process and blockchain somehow ending up being more reliable, secure, and accurate than a traditional database in recording the history of an A.I. system or process.

(3) Something to do with the ability to monetize certain things at scale that either could not be monetizable at scale before or could have been but no tech existed that could have made the project/business profitable.

david_at · 6 years ago
> (2) Something to do with future A.I. systems and processes requiring a historical snapshot of everything that happened...

This is what we're doing here -> https://www.grassland.network

david_at commented on Ask HN: Where can I work as a software engineer to combat large global problems?    · Posted by u/talking_panda
david_at · 6 years ago
I hope I'm not being too brash in mentioning my own project. https://www.grassland.network

We're looking for people who have Rust/C++ or Pytorch/Tensorflow experience.

david_at commented on Grassland ('Real-Life SimCity') Is Hiring Remote C++ and Python (AI) Engineers    · Posted by u/david_at
ddorian43 · 7 years ago
Job postings are a monopoly of YC (you can't comment/vote on them). So you can do whatever you want on this.
david_at · 7 years ago
Ah, OK. I didn't know that. (Sorry moderators)

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