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Re:Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity by estsauver on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:55PM (#13265735)
Well, I founded a startup that's using ML to help turn satellite data into credit risk profiles for the world's poorest farmers so we can sell them fertilizer and seed.

So... I think tensor flow is going to be pretty great for the 1K farmers we're working with this year and ~50k we're going to try and reach next year.

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Re:Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity by philfrasty on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @03:16PM (#13265857)
This is one of those ideas where I think...how on earth did you come up with the idea of building such a company? Sidenote: sounds absolutely amazing! Congrats!
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Re:Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity by carterehsmith on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:38PM (#13267539)
> help turn satellite data into credit risk profiles for the world's poorest farmers so we can sell them fertilizer and seed

Not sure if satire or serious :].

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Re:Reasons 2016 was a great year for humanity by estsauver on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @03:27PM (#13273347)
Completely serious, we're alumni of The Climate Corporation.

Satellite data is cheap or in many cases free, and the cost of sending a trained loan officer out to the field is far too high to justify.

Shoot me an email at [email protected] and I'd be happy to chat more.

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