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Building a Camera to Capture Imagination: Early Passion and Failure Two years ago, I embarked on a journey to build a start-up based on the belief that camera software should be able to capture people’s thoughts, not just reality. In my previous post (nearly eighteen months ago), I argued that the term “camera app” was…
The “mobile camera app” is a misleading name for what it actually achieves. The misnomer is quite similar to the usage of “iPhone” when one refers to smartphones in general. Though the iPhones can make phone calls like any normal telephone, they are in truth more powerful and ever-improving personal computers that can be used…
Hi friends, This is Congxing Cai. Greetings from Mountain View. It’s hard to believe that we are already at the middle of the year. There have been so much happening and yet to happen. Here is a short summary of what I have read besides all the startup works. 😂 Happening Now Technology saves the…
Hi friends, This is Congxing Cai. Greetings from Mountain View. It has been a super hot week in the west coast. 🔥🔥🔥 More than 6 months have passed since my last post. I have been writing, but too busy to post anything. In a short summary, I left Snapchat, where I had an amazing 4+…
Hi friends, This is Congxing Cai. Greetings from Mountain View. A lot is happening. I took a step back and looked into some of the changes in the product landscape this week. Happening Now 👯♀️ The Collab House of TikTok-era depicts a story of the new kind of content house that hosts a collective of young popular…
Hi friends, This is Congxing Cai. Greetings from Mountain View. 2020 is a rollercoaster. The past few weeks have been getting even more crazy. Too much news to absorb. But, let’s take a step back and view changes as a norm of life. Happening Now 😷 The coming months of the pandemic could be catastrophic. The virus…
We had a smoggy week here in the bay area due to the record-breaking wildfires along the west coast. The sky on Wed was Mars orange. It perfectly matched the scene from the movie I watched over the long weekend: Blade Runner 2049. Both images are taken from online. One is SF from my friend…
There’s a well-known saying in the ML community: garbage in, garbage out. It means that if the model is trained using badly labeled data with lots of errors, the model will predict badly in return. A solid human labeling process provides high-quality labels to train the models with better quality. Those high-quality human labels can be used as ground truth for the related ML applications to train, calibrate, and evaluate against.
Here is a digest of the best links each week for anyone who might be interested. The Pandemic: the reality we live in Though the overall covid related deaths may be undercounted in many parts of the world according to Economist’s excess death tracker, it seems the growth of daily death rate quickly fell off after…
Here is a digest of the best links each week for anyone who might be interested. The Pandemic: the reality we live in Wired reviewed why San Francisco handled the onset so well: The history of fighting HIV/AIDS has transformed SF to be more open, compassionate, science curious and become an international center of medical talents;…