nolanhergert89

I suggest you take inspiration from your competitor's documentation on the topic.

The only potential upside for me is the benefit of tax-loss-harvesting, since I do my own investing and stay in standard ETF index funds. I thought TLH was only relevant for the $3K limit for income deductions, but after reading Frec's great pages [1] [2], I see that it makes a lot of sense when you have a large capital gain in your future like a house or a diversifying stock sale that you want to accumulate losses for. They also answer a number of topics mentioned in the comments here and others not mentioned.

There's a good chance I will end up investing with you, but only with new income. It's not worth liquidating my current capital gains! I can also ensure I don't have cross-account wash sales by keeping my other assets strictly in ETFs or just don't sell anything.

I too hope that you will last long enough to make money in the other ways you are planning. Good luck!

[1] https://frec.com/tax-loss-harvesting [2] https://frec.com/resources/blog/direct-indexing-handbook

There doesn't exist an addressable transparent LCD yet in mass quantities. But I'm working on a dimmed piece of plastic moving around on a stage. The computer vision is sorta straightforward actually.

Working on a prototype for solving this, basically a smart small shade on the windshield that moves around and covers just the light that falls on the driver's eyes and gets out of the way if not needed. Busy due to FIRST robotics commitments right now, but hope to have a demo/pitch in the next few months!

The stressful steps required to take it to the finish line (product someone can buy on amazon) is demotivating though, if I'm being honest, especially compared to the pretty fun and well-paid job I currently have! Many of the typical motivators like money, prestige, etc don't work for me, I just want to invent useful stuff and to a lesser extent, have it help someone. Planning on iterating on prototypes and keeping the stakes low. Any other motivation advice?

Don't confuse the Optane SSD products (worse binned media over a slower NVMe link) with the higher-performance (and more expensive) Optane Persistent Memory product. For the latter, the latency looks to be sub-microsecond (~100X? SSDs), bandwidth is ~3-5X SSDs, ~10X more endurance, and up to 10X more dense than DRAM (512GB sticks anyone?). Don't have a specific good source though, just from Googling.

I wasn't a marketing person, but I was on the engineering side.

As a hack until then, I've found Google's Custom Search Engine feature to work well enough for my use cases. I just add the URLs that are "tier 1" for me. https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/cse/all

For detecting a pulse from the face, I was able to get good results using pixel tracking and spatial averaging with no fancy math. However if illumination at all changed due to motion, it threw things off considerably without a more work or band passing around the heart rate frequency. (assuming too much in my book)

More notes and code here: http://nhergert.ozeo.org/doku.php?id=projects:remoteppg