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SEEKING WORK - Auckland, NZ or REMOTE Laravel Expert: I have 6 years experience as a Laravel developer and 4 more before that as a PHP/Web developer. Previously I was CTO of a startup (Designer Wardrobe) - I took that website from a 5 page MVP to a massive codebase that served around 3 million hits/month. More recently I helped another company speed up an important API they were having trouble with, I took the loading time from > 5 seconds to ~300ms without any breaking changes.

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SEEKING WORK - Auckland, NZ or REMOTE Laravel Expert:

I have 6 years experience as a Laravel developer and 4 more before that as a PHP/Web developer. Previously I was CTO of a startup (Designer Wardrobe) - I took that website from a 5 page MVP to a massive codebase that served around 3 million hits/month. More recently I helped another company speed up an important API they were having trouble with, I took the loading time from > 5 seconds to ~300ms without any breaking changes.

I currently run my own startup and I am seeking part time consulting work to help me bootstrap.

More details of all of my work is here: https://jarrad.dev

Contact me on hello@jarrad.dev


Expanding on the OP question, does anyone know anybody doing interesting things with abstractive summarization (outside of salesforce or whitepapers)?


SEEKING WORK - Auckland, NZ or REMOTE

Laravel Expert:

I have 6 years experience as a Laravel developer and 4 more before that as a PHP/Web developer. Previously I was CTO of a startup (Designer Wardrobe) - I took that website from a 5 page MVP to a massive codebase that served around 3 million hits/month. More recently I helped another company speed up an important API they were having trouble with, I took the loading time from > 5 seconds to ~300ms without any breaking changes.

I currently run my own startup and I am seeking part time consulting work to help me bootstrap.

More details of all of my work is here: https://jarrad.dev

Contact me on hello@jarrad.dev


This is really cool but pricing for commercial images seems high. At work we use pixelz.com which is an API for human image processing. They clear cut/resize/rotate and recolor for around $0.60 per image. Results are fantastic, we have around 1 in 1000 images that have to be sent for reprocessing.

The only advantage I could see to using this is the instant turn around.

Edit: I was looking at the one off pricing. It looks like subscriptions are really good value.


That's 10 times the price of this service.


Isn’t that more than what this service charges?


I love the idea of Superhuman but haven't been able to get an invite. Do you happen to have one (email in profile)?


Same here!


Looks really great. As a developer I would be way more motivated by this than some free credits for my companies account.

How do you handle fulfillment? Seems like it could be a real time suck if it is manual? Also do you ship internationally?


Thanks for the feedback! Fulfillment - I plan on just manually ordering coffee to people once per week. If it gets to be too much work that'd be a great problem to have :)

I do ship internationally, and if for some reason I can't I would send a gift card instead.


Maybe this is real, but it doesn't seem to line up with what I have heard from other Youtubers.

Firstly it is almost certain that a video is initially demonetized by an algorithm. Only during a manual review is it looked at by a human.

The main complaint from Youtubers is that the algorithm is way too strict and inconsistent. But the manual review process is pretty fair and the vast majority of videos get remonetized. The issue here being that by the time a manual review is complete most of the views for a video have already happened.

I could of missed it, but I have seen very few complaints about the manual review process being overly strict or biased.


They are probably using the manual reviewers to train an ML model to look for these things. It's going to take some time, but I think it's possible to get the models to match the manual reviewers.


I wonder why you're the only skeptic in a forum that's usually skeptical about every post. Yes, you're right, this is not Google's MO. Google tend to look for software based solutions first and foremost before resorting to humans to solve problems. Recently Google have really been working on their voice transcription software and I imagine they could easily design a bot that scans subtitles and video frames for offensive content


In the past I would have agreed with your skepticism, but they just announced a huge human-powered review team:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/05/technology/google-youtube-hi...

I don't know based on that article if it's directly related, but they've obviously decided that they need serious human review teams.


Wow, my mind is blown. Makes me now feel like all those claims Google made in the past about how impractical hiring a customer care team would be for them was just pure BS.


Couldn't the algorithm give its judgement before the video goes live?


YouTube's advice to creators is to do exactly this - post the video privately to let the algorithm and potentially the human review go through before making it public.

Sadly, since this process can take up to 48 hours, this doesn't work if your videos have any kind of time sensitivity.

It also doesn't help with videos of streams, which are automatically posted immediately after the stream's conclusion.


It also doesn't work - uploading a video privately passes monetization, uploading the same video pubically has the video monetized. It's completely arbitrary.


YouTube is trying to roll out something like this, it hasn't taken effect yet though.


> The issue here being that by the time a manual review is complete most of the views for a video have already happened.

Wouldn't the solution, then, be to credit the account for the revenue generated while it was demonetized? It's not like Youtube didn't get revenue from ad impressions while the video was flagged.


Sorry, when they say demonetized, they mean "ad restricted" as in no ads are shown. The issue being advertisers don't want their ads shown against objectionable content.


Google does not benefit from demonetized content but instead hurts as they still have infrastructure expense.


I have the exact same use case and have not been able to find a service that does it. We have a machine learning service that generates some content for each user but the rest of the email is just a standard newsletter.

In the end we just fire it from our web application like a transaction email, this has a few disadvantages though:

- Sending to our list of 100k users takes a good portion of the day, although this could be fixed if we used the bulk send APIs our transnational email provider has.

- Our marketing team can't easily edit the rest of the content in the newsletter so it generally remains pretty static or needs developer time just to send a newsletter.

I'm not really sure how such a service would work though, would the email provider make a webhook call back to your servers with the user id and you server return the content for that section?


I have been looking for an abstractive summarization API for quite some time, any idea when you will be releasing this. If you are planning any sort of beta I would love to be part of it :)


Sign up for a developer account to stay updated and shoot me an email at ajay@plasticity.ai if you'd be interested in sharing your use case, we'd love to learn more.


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