Mapistry | Full Stack Software Engineer | Berkeley, CA (SF Bay Area) | Hybrid (3 days per week in person)
Mapistry is hiring an experienced Javascript engineer to join our small team, building the environmental compliance command center used by hundreds of manufacturing facilities. If you have always wanted to work on a product that has a meaningful impact on the world and love working at startups, Mapistry could be the place for you.
Mapistry | Berkeley, CA | Full-stack | Remote (North and South America)
Do you want to make a difference for the companies behind all the products you take for granted and reduce pollution at the same time? Then Mapistry is the place for you. The EPA can write regulations on top of regulations, but if it is too difficult or too expensive to follow these rules, companies will drop the ball. At Mapistry, you’ll help protect the environment by making it easier and more affordable for companies to follow the rules.
Mapistry is a post revenue, venture-backed startup. Our customers range from SMBs to Fortune 100 companies. Some manufacture products like wine, cardboard, gypsum, garage doors, medicine, precast cement, and pickles. Others provide services like trucking, busing, recycling or tank washing. They all have one thing in common: they are overwhelmed by environmental regulations. That’s where Mapistry comes in to help our customers avoid lawsuits and fines, and protect the environment too.
Mapistry | Full Stack Developers, Account Executives, Digital Marketing Campaign Specialist | Berkeley, CA | Remote in US for Developers, Onsite for other roles
Mapistry is SaaS for environmental compliance. Customers include Fortune 100 companies in industries like trash/recycling, consumer products, food processing, mining, etc. We are a team of 18 and closed a $2.5M seed round lead by SaaStr.
Mapistry | Instructional Designer | Berkeley, CA | Onsite
Mapistry is SaaS for environmental compliance. Customers include Fortune 100 companies in industries like trash/recycling, consumer products, food processing,
mining, etc. We are a team of 15 and recently closed a $2.5M seed round.
Mapistry is launching a new business line to take some of the training we do in person and move it online. We are looking for a creative individual with experience in instructional design to take the lead in developing the courses for this effort. You will work closely with our environmental team to develop courses on topics like “stormwater pollution prevention,” “spill prevention” and “hazardous materials management.” The viewers of these courses will be range from environmental professionals to maintenance workers employed for Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing and transportation space. If you are passionate about preventing pollution, these courses can be a fantastic way to have an immense impact.
This is a unique opportunity to get in early and shape the direction of the program. Not only will you be responsible for developing course content, but you will also have the opportunity to set the direction for the tools we use and strategies we employ to make the courses effective.
Mapistry | VP of Demand Gen & SDR | Berkeley, CA | Onsite
Mapistry is SaaS for environmental compliance. Customers include Fortune 100 companies in industries like trash/recycling, consumer products, food processing, mining, etc. We are a team of 8 and recently closed a $2.1M seed round.
VP of Demand Generation:
Mapistry is seeking an experienced and passionate Director of Demand Generation to own Mapistry’s demand gen, lead gen, lifecycle marketing and growth. We're looking for someone who is both eager to roll up their sleeves and someone who has the experience to manage the marketing team as Mapistry grows. You’ll be responsible for all our marketing channels including email, SEO, webinars, blog, conferences (both hosted by us and others).
One of the leading reason customers use Mapistry is that they know they can trust us to be their environmental compliance experts. This trust starts with marketing. We rely deeply on content marketing and much of our existing marketing strategy revolves around this goal. You’ll need to embrace the challenge of managing and developing highly technical content (with the help of our environmental team).
Sales Development Rep:
Mapistry is seeking a Sales Development Representative to join our growing sales team. This is a role for someone who is early in their sales career and seeks an opportunity to grow with our company. You must be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where change is a constant. The SDR will work closely with the sales, marketing, and product teams and will serve as the first point of contact for prospects.
Mapistry | First Sales Executive | Berkeley, CA | Onsite
Mapistry is Gusto for environmental regulations.
Mapistry is looking for a sales leader that is inspired by the builders, the doers, the folks that manufacture cement, mine the ingredients in our toothpaste, and drive our buses. Our customers use Mapistry to ensure they are protecting the environment and complying with all the rules, so they can get back to doing. It’s not sexy and it’s not flashy. But if you want to really make a difference for the companies behind all the products you take for granted and protect the environment at the same time, Mapistry is the place for you. Mapistry is a post revenue startup, in fact we are profitable, our customers range from small "Mom and Pop" to Fortune 100 companies.
Mapistry is looking for a sales exec with a demonstrated track record of sales "hunting" success with large, multinational commercial and industrial customers as well as sales team management. You’ll have a seat at the table working alongside the founders and take ownership for building, optimizing and managing the complete sales and success function. The ideal candidate is on a trajectory to grow with the company and become the Head of Sales, leading a larger sales team.
Stereotypes are not "just patterns". Google "stereotype" and the first definition is "a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.".
In this case, the machine is learning, for example, that women do dishes and men drink beer. This isn't based on empirical data and patterns. It comes from the data the algorithm is trained on, which in this case is "...more than 100,000 images of complex scenes drawn from the web, labeled with descriptions". Those descriptions inevitably reflect human stereotypes (which again aren't just patterns). "Both datasets contain many more images of men than women, and the objects and activities depicted with different genders show what the researchers call “significant” gender bias."
Should machines understand that men are more likely to be construction workers than women, I think so. But that doesn't mean that biased data is not a huge problem.
At the very least, we should strive to teach machines to understand the world as it is, not as we view it through flawed, biased eyes. Datasets generated by humans are going to be invariably flawed and far from reality, unless we take careful steps to ensure otherwise. Emphasizing the importance of these datasets, we should be particularly concerned when we are teaching machines to act based on our biases and find that (in the case of this article), the machine is actually learning to amplify our own biases.
Patterns do fit stereotypes perfectly. They are oversimplified concepts of something real; some samples are outside the pattern and that is perfectly fine for pattern-discovery. So stereotypes and patterns aren't distinct concepts in essence.
«Datasets generated by humans are going to be invariably flawed and far from reality, unless we take careful steps to ensure otherwise.»
If the data in the wild is not real, we can only adapt it to your reality to make it real. That's not necessarily my view of reality. You can't just pluck objectivy out of the air and fresh up fake real data.
No they don't. "Stereotype" is a psychological concept, and therefore by definition incorporates human subjectivity. There are various conflicting definitions, but most include the possibility or likelihood that many overstate or even completely falsely construct generalizations.
Or, as Wikipedia[1] states,
> By the mid-1950s, Gordon Allport wrote that, "It is possible for a stereotype to grow in defiance of all evidence."
> Research on the role of illusory correlations in the formation of stereotypes suggests that stereotypes can develop because of incorrect inferences about the relationship between two events (e.g., membership in a social group and bad or good attributes). This means that at least some stereotypes are inaccurate.
I have had this experience in Maryland in 2009. Luckily it wasn't a very serious emergency in then end. There was a small explosion in our heater and I smelled smoke, so I wanted the fire department to check it out. I called 911 repeatedly on my cell and repeatedly got a busy signal, finally I went back in the house, got out my computer (before smart phones) and looked up the local fire department number. After they arrived they asked me if I called 911, and I said I couldn't get through and they said I needed to keep trying so they had it for their records?!? The fact that they asked sort of implies that this happens often (or maybe they just knew that I had called directly). It was a weird experience, and turned out that I was lucky that the heater hadn't completely exploded. I definitely don't think I will ever trust 911 again.
There has been a lot of talk about how we need to make changes to the "pipeline" in order to get more women into engineering, but sometimes this is a deflection. (http://www.katelosse.tv/latest/2014/9/12/magical-futures) I think this is a great example of how by being supportive, companies can encourage more women to go into engineering jobs.
I have a friend who is a YC alum and he is definitely hispanic. Not going to call him out, and of course that is only one person, but I don't feel that being a minority is going to hurt you. YC has made a lot of effort to address diversity: http://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups
Mapistry is hiring an experienced Javascript engineer to join our small team, building the environmental compliance command center used by hundreds of manufacturing facilities. If you have always wanted to work on a product that has a meaningful impact on the world and love working at startups, Mapistry could be the place for you.
Apply here: bit.ly/mapistry-software-engineer
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