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spog314 commented on Losing my son fortressofdoors.com/i-los... · Posted by u/lukeplato

I have to say I'm really humbled to suddenly see this on the front page. Today was a particularly hard day; I won't go into details but taking care of a permanently disabled invalid involves a lot of ups and downs and some fairly messy manual labor to keep them comfortable and in good shape.

I love you all. Hug your kids if you have em.

EDIT: The above blog post here was one of three things I wrote in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy to try to process my feelings and exorcise my dark thoughts. I have two more which you can find below:

The Ballad of St. Halvor (a poem): https://www.fortressofdoors.com/st-halvor/

Four Magic Words (short story, somewhat dark): https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/

spog314 · 2 years ago

I sent few suggestions to your email leveluplabs@gmail.com. Is this the best email to reach you?

spog314 commented on Geeks-need help to catch the Animal · Posted by u/spog314

greenyoda · 7 years ago

- Depending on how big the neighborhood is, you might need lots of cameras to get coverage. Drones may not be practical since someone would need to fly them, and to recharge them after a few hours of flight. (If a drone crashed and harmed someone or something, who would be liable? Would the noise of the drones frighten the coyotes, who would move away from the drone and not be detected?) Fixed cameras would be expensive, since they'd need to be mounted securely and have a way of communicating with a monitoring station.

- There are privacy issues. If you put your entire neighborhood under video surveillance to spot coyotes, how will people be assured that their privacy isn't being compromised? Who will have access to the video, under what circumstances, and for what period of time? Would someone be able to subponea the videos in a divorce case? In a police investigation?

- It seems that software that would be able to tell the difference between a coyote and a dog from a distance would have to be pretty sophisticated. (Is that a coyote pursuing a runner, or a runner running with her German Shepherd?) I don't know if you'll be able to find that capability without paying lots of money for a customized solution. The cops wouldn't be happy if they got an automated alert every time a dog passed by a camera.

It seems like a low-tech solution might be the best: people keeping an eye out for coyotes and calling the cops if they spot one.

spog314 · 7 years ago

Thank you greenyoda. The low-tech solution is what we are doing now. It seems we are reacting to the situation and living in fear than solving the problem once and forever.

spog314 commented on Ask HN: How much does working at a Big 4 company help longterm career prospects? · Posted by u/wfsn

spog314 · 7 years ago

If you're doing Masters in AI/ML/Autonomous vehicles where your eventual thesis will be on-par with current tech companies, you should do Masters. Else, get into SDE role, figure out real world and with money in hand (salary savings)figure out whether to do Masters or not.

My background: Did Masters in US, worked as SDE, been in Consulting for many years at big-4. I now get called on high risk projects.

spog314 commented on Show HN: 5400 TED talk texts open sourced github.com/saranyan/TED-T... · Posted by u/svig

spog314 · 8 years ago

hi svig: What you did with TED talks is cool. I'd like to know how you did this? Please share technical details. Thanks in advance.

spog314 commented on Ask HN: What was it like when dot-com bubble collapsed during 2000-2002? · Posted by u/wbsun

spog314 · 8 years ago

Do you think we're in a bubble and it'll burst?

spog314 commented on Ask HN: How to potentially sell a bot to an organization · Posted by u/chitrang89

spog314 · 8 years ago

Please reach out to gopalmuni2000gmailcom for advise.