The game is basically the XOR operator combined with set-style game mechanics. What makes it better than other set style games, imho, is that there's a mathematical property of "projective sets" that guarantees that there is always at least one valid set on the table.
Nexus Intelligence | https://getnexus.ai | San Francisco | Full-time | Onsite/Hybrid
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Founding Software Engineer — Accelerate and elevate our software development work. You'll be working ~50/50 between improving existing software (PLC programming copilot, web app, LLM agent) and building new features and products from scratch. Exceptional full stack software development skills are required, preferably with strong Typescript/React/Node experience. Experience with manufacturing/controls is not required but would be a plus.
I'm Jonas, lead architect at Nexus Intelligence. We’re a software startup backed by a16z that’s building industrial automation systems for companies at the forefront of the US manufacturing renaissance. Our initial product is an agent-based platform for developing & operating legacy control systems, a set of platforms critical to automotive, food, energy, and other industrial sectors. Our vision is to bring AI-enabled workflows, development tools, languages, and runtimes into the manufacturing ecosystem - ultimately becoming the platform on which all modern industrial automation processes are built and deployed.
The team currently consists of Chris (CEO and founder, previously at Tesla, Stanford CS & MBA) and myself (automated biotech labs at Zymergen and Counsyl, dev tools at AWS, Cornell PhD). The first version of our product is in use by customers. You'd join us for the exciting and fast-paced 0 → 1 phase of company building. You’ll need to strongly believe in our mission, welcome the challenge of ambiguity, and iterate fast.
If this particular role doesn't quite fit your interests, we also have a General Application form on the same careers page. Email: [email protected]
Hi, author of the post here. I tried to include some info on temperature requirements and how cold chain distribution works, but it's hard to capture that comprehensively because it varies a lot geographically.
While I do appreciate how difficult it is to distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at -70 C, I am still puzzled by how deep into the distribution this temperature gets maintained. As far as I know, the spec is that the vaccine can be stored (and transported) at regular fridge temperatures for up to 5 days. It seems like everyone (in the US anyway) is focused on maintaining -70C all the way to the point of use. What about the alternative of thawing it at some distribution center and focusing efforts on getting it into a person within five days after that?
Hi, author of the article here. If you can remember or find any additional details about this, I would be curious to learn more about it. I admittedly didn't research the dry ice section too deeply because it is so ubiquitous.
This NPR All Things Considered clip made me wonder if dry ice might be more complicated than I thought: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/24/950102003/does-u-s-have-enoug... Note how the interviewee's business is located in Miami but the dry ice comes from Georgia. Surely a populous state like Florida has local dry ice production?
Also, fun fact: "[Fearing a dry ice shortage,] the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association sent a letter to state and federal officials asking that 350,000 pounds of dry ice a week be set aside." Source: https://www.cbs58.com/news/cheese-industry-threatened-by-cov...
Zymergen uses biology as a source of new chemical building blocks that enable the development of novel products and materials. We have many open positions across engineering, science, and all other functions listed on our website: https://www.zymergen.com/careers/
My team is currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer. We write the software that translates experiments designed by our scientists into actions performed by robots and automated laboratory equipment. Combined with the work done by our colleagues who are geneticists, data scientists, research associates, and many other disciplines, our work leads to new chemicals with properties unlike anything that can be derived from petroleum.
Our tech stack is different from what you'd normally see in a factory or biotech laboratory. We call this role “Software Engineer” and not “Automation Engineer” on purpose: Our codebase currently contains REST APIs served by Django apps, Vue.js for user interfaces (and simple Django forms with sprinkles of jQuery for others), Python’s asyncio in worker processes, and a collection of device drivers (also written in Python). Our infrastructure includes Kubernetes, Puppet-managed EC2 nodes, Kafka, MySQL, as well as a few cherry-picked components you’d find in a traditional process control system (e.g. Windows machines, Programmable Logic Controllers). No prior experience with robotics or automation is required, we're happy to teach you about these things.
One specific area our team is trying to get better at is frontend development and we hope that you can play a role in that. Be prepared to become our resident frontend expert and to spend 50% or more of your time designing and implementing user interfaces. All our users are internal to Zymergen: They include scientists who need to tell the robots what to work on, support engineers who troubleshoot misbehaving robots, and manufacturing engineers who rely on utilization data from our dashboards.
> If Hertz or Avis attempted to use public space to park their inventory, local residents and city officials would pitch a fit.
I don't have a counter-example for your very specific statement, but these are close:
* The car rental company "Rent a Wreck" in San Francisco drives between 5 and 20 of their camper vehicles off the lot and parks them in public parking spaces every morning around 7am and brings them back in in the evening. Reported to 311, "not enforceable".
* The Enterprise car rental branch at the Amtrak station in Emeryville, CA, routinely blocks a bike lane and public parking spots with rental vehicles. They also perform vehicle inspections and handovers there. No outrage, in fact Emeryville doesn't enforce parking in bike lanes or at red curbs, period.
* "Global Gourmet Catering" in San Francisco backs rental trucks into their loading bay such that the entire sidewalk, the entire bike lane, and up to half a traffic lane is blocked approximately every second day. In the evenings the same trucks are parked in public diagonal parking spots sized for passenger vehicles across the street, blocking the side walk and bike lane in the other direction. Reported to 311, forwarded to parking enforcement, won't enforce because blocked sidewalks and blocked bike lanes are handled by different people, and this involves both.
* "Enclosures International Corporation" in San Francisco basically runs a fulfillment operation with frequent forklift traffic on a public sidewalk and the bike lane. Super dangerous actually, because it forces cyclists to cross defunct train tracks in the traffic lane at a sharp angle. When the fork lifts aren't there, the Audi Q7 of one of their employees still blocks the sidewalk. Reported to 311, you can guess the outcome.
I asked @sf311 on Twitter why these things don't get enforced, but parking scooters on sidewalks does [0]. The answer:
> These scooters do not have a license plate. So it does not fall under SFMTA DPT.
> DPW BSM permits use of and enforces ordinances regarding public areas, as pertains to blocking items that don't have a license.
Amazon actually had a general purpose search engine once. That's what a9.com was. The company A9.com [1] is still around as an Amazon subsidiary [2], the search engine is not.
I also read about Bosch's involvement but this story was based on a report by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper which is not trustworthy. [1] is an English language source that relays this report. The gist of the story was that Bosch supplied the software for R&D purposes and Volkswagen engineers decided to put it into production cars too.
However, this was later rejected by Bosch who claim that writing additional code is required by the car manufacturer to get the emissions test detection feature [2].
I'm Automation Engineer at Counsyl, building software and hardware that runs the robots in our automated genomics diagnostic lab. My team is currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in factory automation or logistics, and an Instrumentation and Controls Engineer.
Email me at [email protected] if that looks like you and automating a laboratory sounds interesting to you. Other software teams at the company have open positions covering everything from frontend to devops, see below.
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Counsyl is a health technology company that offers DNA screening for diseases that can impact men, women and their children. We’ve revolutionized the lab and created a one of a kind platform that gives people access to critical health information at key junctures in their lives. Software, automation (robots!), and design are at the heart of Counsyl’s mission and drive our innovative approach to health technology products, platforms, and operations. We are a team of builders: our custom-built infrastructure and products run on an open-source stack of tools, such as Python, Django, Postgres, Puppet, React, and SASS.
Our engineers work on topics ranging from bioinformatics and laboratory automation to EMR integration and medical billing.
One of the photos shows the system in use at the DHS immigration line. Aren't there notices all over this place telling travelers that cellphone use is strictly prohibited before passing the checkpoint? It seems strange that the airport relies on people breaking the law to provide better service...
Counsyl is a health technology company that offers DNA screening for diseases that can impact men, women and their children. We’ve revolutionized the lab and created a one of a kind platform that gives people access to critical health information at key junctures in their lives. Software, automation, and design are at the heart of Counsyl’s mission and drive our innovative approach to health technology products, platforms, and operations. We are a team of builders: our custom-built infrastructure and products run on an open-source stack of tools, such as Python, Django, Postgres, Puppet, React, and SASS.
Our engineers work on topics ranging from bioinformatics and laboratory automation to EMR integration and medical billing. Positions we are currently hiring for include
If you have a background in factory or lab automation and are interested in applying your skills to a genomics lab you should email me at [email protected], we're looking for people like you to join the automation team.
In Holyhead (ferry port in Wales with many daily connections to Dublin) you board the ferry from the end of the train station platform of the high speed rail. The slow ferry takes three hours, the express ferry takes 1.5 hours. When I was there in 2006 there were many direct trains from there to London Euston.
The other option might be ferries that carry trains. I believe they don't do this across the Irish Sea, but I've been on a train that drives onto a ferry across the Baltic sea connecting Berlin and Malmo (Sweden). You can get off the train while on the ferry, but you don't have to.
This might be true for connecting to a wired network, but like others stated in this thread, Macs can take a surprisingly long time to connect to a wireless network.
If you want to see a client connect to Wifi very fast, check out the electricImp [0] module. I've never seen mine take longer than two seconds to go from power-on to it being registered with the server (EC2 instance).
> When you turn something which 99.99% of normal apps...
I think you are confusing your personal use case with everybody's use case. What's a "normal app" anyway? Did you mean to say "apps I use on a daily basis"? Because of the 17 apps on my home screen, 6 do not have a functional requirement for internet connectivity. I bet for users in emerging markets this ratio might be even higher.
> If a user ONLY gets a permissions pop-up when it actually matters...
For most people, spending money is something that actually matters. Again, just because you don't have metered data, doesn't mean everyone else is in the same situation.
> Just an obstruction which teaches the users permissions can be safely ignored
Google manages to sort millions of search results by relevancy, I'm sure they can do the same for app permissions.
I would argue that no permission should be "implied". For each example you list in that category, I can find an argument to not make it implied. For example: Many people are on plans with capped data per month and are therefore concerned about how much data an app uses. As such a user I would want to make sure apps like a flashlight app do not use internet connectivity at all. Likewise if you are concerned about privacy and want to know when an app connects to the internet and thereby automatically reveals your location, possibly usage pattern, etc.
A similar product that has been around for a little longer is electricimp (http://www.electricimp.com). I've done a couple of little projects with it at home, but is has also been used in several consumer products already.
This is genius. I rarely drive, and when I do it's seldom at night, but when I do I want exactly what's in the first picture on this website. I never understood why no GPS (app or hardware) comes with this feature, even though it provides clear advantages. In rally racing providing this info is basically the entire job of the person in the passenger seat.
You use Moscow as an example so I'll assume you are from there. I am from Germany. That means we both have experienced countries with a well designed public infrastructure including public transport. Americans do not have this background. In America, the general attitude towards providers of public infrastructure (be it government or private like Caltrain) is that they are assumed to be incompetent, their actions should be opposed, and their business disrupted.
I ride Caltrain every day and the experience annoys me a lot (still less than driving), but I feel sorry for the people running Caltrain because despite providing a valuable infrastructure service that is in huge demand, they are considered the lowest priority by everyone they interact with and have to deal with the most ridiculous restrictions and regulations. For example, Caltrain knows that they are always behind schedule during rush hour and want to adjust their schedule. But to do that they have to consult everyone and their uncle over a year-long process where every nutjob's concerns about a five minute scheduling change can stall the entire process.
Infrastructure projects deal with such problems everywhere, but I have not seen a place where this attitude is so deeply engrained and systematic like here.