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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by parnian1268 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:02PM (#17720686)
Founder here. We have secured partial funding but not all that we intend to raise. This is just a pre-application - an improved website and application will be released later. If you submit your application now we'll follow up with you when we release our full application or convert it automatically.

We're focused on creating a world-class mentorship community before increasing our Fellow outreach efforts.

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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by growlix on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:08PM (#17720717)
Very cool idea! Nice to see funding for non-traditional research models.

But I'm a little confused why you made this comment on an earlier HN post about Shannon Labs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17675617

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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by nicklovescode on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:14PM (#17720753)
it was posted earlier, but never made it on the top 10 pages for reasons we couldn't figure out despite getting plenty of upvotes on /newest. To check if it was actually alive we posted a couple dummy comments after a while, and then abandoned the post.

(disclosure, I'm a mentor and the post was sent to a few mentors, which likely tripped some bot checker)

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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by confeit on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:22PM (#17720799)
Because you also used a voting ring (next to astroturfing). Admire the hustle, though a bit too naughty.
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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by nicklovescode on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:28PM (#17720831)
A few of us think the project is very much worth upvoting! The bot checker should appreciate that :)
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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by confeit on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:36PM (#17720865)
That's why I called it naughty and not blatant manipulation. Now if this were an ICO or a company looking for an easy flip in the overhyped AI market, it would be different.
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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by growlix on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:27PM (#17720827)
Totally reasonable. I was more (be/a)mused than suspicious. I'm excited to see what gets funded!
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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by throwawaymath on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:16PM (#17720762)
That's not confusing :)

It looks like the founder was just trying to kick off discussion without being explicit about her involvement. The submitter (Aaron Lin) is also part of the organization.

In the scheme of things, I give them a pass. Raising attention for an initiative like this can be challenging. It's not actually dishonest.

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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by quickben on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:47PM (#17720919)
" It's not actually dishonest."

dishonest - Intended to mislead or cheat.

Raising any initiative with multiples of free 100k carrots is super easy. Why do they have to resort to all other tactics?

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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by paulsutter on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:07AM (#17721583)
So do you have enough funding to offer fellowships or not?

> We have secured partial funding but not all that we intend to raise. This is just a pre-application - an impr

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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by mjfl on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:15PM (#17720759)
why AI?
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Re:Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent re... by nicklovescode on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:20PM (#17720788)
The mentorship pool is mostly focused on AI and related fields, and it's high leverage for relatively few resources invested (check out https://aigrant.org/)
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