Yup and in my opinion it is a great use case for it. Faster to generate my own extension than to trust something already in the store. Not critical enough to matter if it failed and very low threat surface.
This could potentially have very interesting consequences for ML models. It will depend if their training data is considered part of the source code.
If there was a loss prevention specific video analytic that flagged a person’s behavior as abnormal, would the person have a right to audit the source code for the CNN and/or the training data that was used in the development of that analytic?
As someone working on such analytics it could become a real adventure to comply with that. My dataset came from customers that agreed to shared with positive/negative examples with me but not necessarily for me to share publicly. The privacy of the people in the shared examples would also need to be considered.
Wouldn't that just mean you'd have to make sure the data doesn't contain private identifying information to start with? Seems like a win-win for the people in datasets and the people who are auditing the code.
"Wouldn't that just mean you'd have to make sure the data doesn't contain private identifying information to start with"
That condition is not easy.
It is very hard, to have data about people related stuff, without private identifying information - especially because now there is face recognition and co.
If the person does not have the right to audit the model - i.e. determine how and why exactly it flagged them - with consequences wrt government interaction with that purpose, I would argue that it's a violation of due process. If it's impossible to meet that standard with ML in a satisfactory way, then perhaps ML should not be used in those contexts at all?
Backblaze is great for cloud backups. They do not backup network connected drives but will backup drives connected locally.
I'm not pretending a network drive is local, but actually mirror the important data from my NAS to a locally connected 14TB USB drive. It stays connected all the time.
I have some cron jobs that run rsync scripts, but the data that needs to be backed up rarely changes. This gives me 30TB on my NAS, of which, 14TB are backed up in backblaze for $60/year.
I can make this work in my situation because the items I want backed up are less than the working space I want on my NAS.
My experience with backblaze has been dark patterns and and customer hostile practices. They get recommended in every thread about backups, and I started using them because of these recommendations. I’m not a customer any more and I wouldn’t use them again.
Rather than accusing them of "dark patterns and customer hostile practices", list specifically what they did. I've had good experiences with their B2 service.
The best thing I did was get a hobby that got me out of the house. For me it is drone racing, but it could be jogging, swimming, or even go fly a kite.
Once I get back into the house, I've burned off some energy and can focus on my side project. For whatever reason if I sit in front of the computer all weekend I have a hard time getting started.
HUVRdata is looking for an experienced python/full stack developer to join our team. HUVR is expanding its data and analytics platform for drone based inspections. Our customer use drones to get a new view of the world. We provide them the tools and processing to get a new view of their data.
The ideal person has several successful projects that they've worked on before and has the right attitude to solve problems they've never seen before.
Our development team works with a very high level of autonomy. We trust each other to make the right decisions and help each other when needed.
We use Python and Google App Engine. If you haven't ever touched Google App Engine, don't worry, it's just a WSGI web server.
We use Node.js, NoSQL, mapreduce, and imagemagick, ffmpeg for image processing. Familiarity with these would be a plus.
If you are excited about what we are doing, send a resume and an introduction with an example of your work. Make sure it is something you're proud of (github, blog, Olympic medal, etc).
Insomnia seems to be stuck in an "Install update" loop. Each time it opens I get prompted to update and restart. I update and restart and then get updated again. The cycle continues.
I'm uninstalling and re-downloading it but just wanted to let you know.
As an Austin resident I think the real lesson to learn is how poor of a job Uber did of gaining supporters. I went from being a vocal supporter to an almost hostile opponent based on their behavior.
They spent a reported $8 million in very confusing ads. They sent text messages and push notifications to customers. All of this felt very disingenuous and deceptive. I will be sad to see them go but they are their own worst enemy right now.
I agree that many Austinites were turned off by the sheer amount of spam sent by the Uber/Lyft-backed campaign. Others, I believe, were simply angry about the cost of a single-issue special election. [1]
Yet others, I believe, were furious that those two generously funded companies were attempting to insert themselves into local politics and override a regulatory scheme enacted by the local elected government. And if Uber and Lyft could buy this election, what next? It's been said that Uber and Lyft needed to make an example out of Austin, but the reverse is true, too: Austin needed to make an example out of Uber and Lyft.
It was a very bad campaign, which makes me suspect that they did it on purpose. If they won this campaign, they'd have to win again in every other city that tries this. If they lose, pull out of Austin for a while, and make sure it's national news, other cities might think twice.
They basically turned it into "here's the legislation we wrote, if you don't pass it, we're leaving immediately", and then spammed everyone with text messages, INCREDIBLE amounts of junk mail, and door-to-door canvasing. They turned a lot of people off, big time. (Where's the story about that?)
I'm really hopeful some competitor can show up and eat their lunch, before they come slinking back. The way they behaved turned me from a fan into someone who actively distrusts them.
I'd be happy to go through some of your options even if you don't use us. We're a startup that does cloud based security video hosting. https://eagleeyenetworks.com
Let me know if you want to talk.
mcotton <at> eagleeyenetworks.com
I've never heard of that and unless you are happy with the worst-case base salary I would renegotiate. Having been a part of many bonus systems, I never plan on the bonus money to actually hit my bank account.
I believe if I were to take this offer, the risk/reward would have to be higher, in addition to knowing about partial bonuses and how pass/fail/partial allocation is figured(discretionary vs calculated). So in this example to take a 20K salary hit, the bonus would have to be at least 40K. If you hit it only ever other year, it evens out.
