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making computers talk more naturally @sfvoicecompany ; prev founded @scalardotvideo ; e/acc
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the gpt4-o launch was incredible and really pushed the state of the for conversational ai forward - but we think we can do better in conversational intelligence
at
@sfvoicecompany
we have been working on OSS voice-to-voice models that go beyond turn-based conversations with a
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best possible start to the new year!
so hyped to be booking that one way ticket to sf!
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@itsarnavb
and I are going to start doing weekly(ish) 10-12 person dinners in BLR among other things
If this sounds interesting lmk and can share more info
Looking to foster more of the SF energy here
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@PrasoonPratham
Our education system is terrible.
There is a distinct difference between depth and quality. Just because you teach a subject in more depth doesn't make it inherently good.
The way you teach it is far more important.
Mugging chain rule with zero intuition for it isn't good.
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Toeay I am flying to Bali 🇮🇩 for a month.
While I'm in Bali, I'm going to be shooting a short-film (5-7m).
Here's the catch: it's going to be edited ENTIRELY ON
@modfydotvideo
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So last week we decided to spin out a tool from our video editor called
We built it in about 5 days, and it allows anyone to markup/annotate any video or give timestamped comments with just sharing a link
No signup required
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So last month when the vision pro was announced I cold email Mr Tim Apple, and after bouncing inside apple for a while I actually got a response
Can I now say I am officially good at cold emailing?
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Anyone else having really weird problems with
@Spotify
on Android?
My app is glitching like crazy, main glitch is it doesn't show the media player but plays music. It also doesn't tell the OS that it is playing.
Already uninstalled and reinstalled
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I had the coolest and most
@peakbengaluru
thing happen to me, my auto driver was the founder of ev auto company and was user researching and interviewing all the customers!
It was a great convo on the ride home
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⚡ THE BLR Emergency GPT hackathon is happening tom with
@composiodotdev
@PortkeyAI
@spacekayak
and
@The_Zo_World
It will be a 24 hr hackathon starting fri evening at one of the best venues in BLR
Venue, food, redbull and credits - everything on us
⌛ Very limited slots
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Have an YC interview tomorrow, they said it is not the final interview but still want to prep a bit for it.
Anyone with YC interview experience want to help me practice?
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Really going to miss this place, had a great 5 months and excited to be back (hopefully soon!)
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300 friends on the bird app!
Interesting to think that a little more than a year ago, I thought Twitter was this useless political place.
But the people here are truly amazing! Always seeing interesting things and finding interesting people
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Writing prompts is like writing PHP in a txt file - it sucks: nothing helping you improve it
We hacked on something to fix that
✨Optimist takes a prompt, generates it's inference and ask you what you would like to change about said inference
And re-writes the prompt for you.
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Couldn't he happier to finally officially announce I am a Pioneer! 🎉🎉🎉
Honestly the best community I've been a part of and can't wait for the rest of the journey!
I've always said it feels like being in YC in 2007 and it is a huge honor to be part of this amazing group.
Airbnb for parking. Zapier for farming. Personal CFO for freelancers. 12 Pioneers from 7 countries building new and innovative tools for the next generation.
Meet our October Tournament winners:
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So we just hired our first round of candidates to join
@modfydotvideo
using the money we got from
@Devfolioco
and I wanted to share the experience
Here is a mini thread on how to hiring for "broke" startups 👇
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pioneer fundamentally changed the trajectory of my life and i cannot thank them enough for everything they did!
We founded Pioneer in 2018 on a mission to find & fund the world’s creative, ambitious outsiders. Earlier this year, we made our final investment.
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Did some IRL marketing today
@ifp_world
.
First time really doing IRL talking to users, really good learning experience and great way to connect with a lot of video editors.
Our arts and crafts skills could use some work
The sign still applies here :)
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finally setup our house properly! ig this mean we are truly moved in!
next gonna go to every friends house and install bidets
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In an
@beondeck
meetup, with
@rajavick
,
@itsarnavb
,
@SETIADEEPANSHU
,
@pbanavara
and
@ExplorerAadi
Feel free to come through if you are in BLR
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we already have teams in our discord training/fine-tuning gazelle:
if you can’t wait, and wanna just dive into the code directly - the link to our open-sourced gazelle trainer is here:
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Really digging this animation I made for the landing page for our new thing, I think I kinda nailed it
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@ParthSareen_
Notion + React Notion X + Vercel
Big advantage of this is, it is free expect domain off course.
And you need to change 4-5 lines of code.
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till today’s discussion at
@AGIHouseSF
i didn’t realize how devastatingly bad california’s sb-1047 would be
- the bill locks models especially oss models to 2024 standards
- passes on criminal liability to the publisher of the model even for any fine tunes or reworks
this bill
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Shakti was one of our earliest believers and supporters.
Every interaction with him was great and he always went out of his way to help us.
I am at a loss for words
Rest in peace 🙏
We're very sad to share that
@shaktigoap
is no longer with us. Shakti was one of the brightest lights in the hackathon community and we'll eternally be grateful for all that he did as
@Devfolioco
cofounder for lakhs of students across India. Wishing more strength for his family🙏
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I have successfully bullied another person into joining
@pioneerdotapp
This time it was
@dakmig
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the oss voice-to-voice landscape is extremely nascent and we want to catapult it forward, to do this we are launching two things today with new models coming soon
first, we are open-sourcing a trainer for gazelle (asr + llm) built by
@hingeloss
which is an open-source slm
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We can't hold society hostage for the sake of the basket weavers
Even if we are the basket weavers
I apologize but won't be amplifying startups whose mission is to fully replace software engineers with "AI devs."
It's clear why VCs & investors love this idea; and why founders as well. Imagine how much money they could make if they succeed!
I hate the idea of that future.
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now let’s talk about the models we are building
fully open source, will give you the ability to tune our slms with your own data or augment them with additional capabilities. these models would have the ability to decide when to talk, it would just wait for you while you pause
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While working on our script, we realised we have a few montages in our short film and our editor does not have any time warping (slow down/speed up) support.
So we shipped it today - it is fun shipping feature you need on the same day
Toeay I am flying to Bali 🇮🇩 for a month.
While I'm in Bali, I'm going to be shooting a short-film (5-7m).
Here's the catch: it's going to be edited ENTIRELY ON
@modfydotvideo
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Teasing...
If you want to play with this, dm me
We are prototyping something to make prompt engineering better, if you've done some prompt engineering dm
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Super excited to be a part of the first cohort of Build India fellows
The next 6 months are going to super exciting 🚀
Announcing the 1st batch of Build India Fellows🇮🇳
Things they are working on👇
⚡ Open Source Cloud Based Cache Management Tool
🎥
@figmadesign
for Video
🌐 Shopify for 🇮🇳 Service Businesses
🤫 A Blockchain Project in Stealth
Read More👉
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Gonna be in Dubai from Monday for a week, who should I meet while I'm there?
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As cool as it is that
@virgingalactic
made it to space today, they should really improve their livestream for next.
Probably start by making it more stable, adding sound, and like better angles.
Definitely somewhat anticlimactic from the visuals standpoint
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Just got vaccinated, thankfully my apartment did a drive.
Really wished the centralized system was better tho.
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Gonna make a thread of some of my fav photos from dubai
(So happy I brought my camera)
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@zachcodes
@github
I am a second year CS student building a Web Assembly based Video Transcoder which proceeds video in you browser without using a server
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I cannot be happier to be joining
@MLHacks
Fellowship this fall and to be contributing to various open source projects for the rest of the year.
I genuinely feel so happy that I made this decision to not go to "Zoom" University this fall.
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Not started film work yet, still writing but took a few nice pictures since getting here.
Toeay I am flying to Bali 🇮🇩 for a month.
While I'm in Bali, I'm going to be shooting a short-film (5-7m).
Here's the catch: it's going to be edited ENTIRELY ON
@modfydotvideo
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Today we rented a private theatre to watch everything everywhere all at once.
It didn't air in India, so this was the only way to watch in India
It was totally worth waiting 5 months to get to watch it in a theatre
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Made a tiny duckduckgo style bang utility for
@perplexity_ai
Love perplexity, but not a huge fan of their search extension
Default to perplexity
!g -> google
!p -> perplexity with copilot
!m -> metaphor
!! <bang> -> last query with new bang
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@steventey
does this and on private repos too. It is amazing, they have a new file view with it in the main github view too
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Finally bought a domain for the covid resource thing I was hacking on
Supporting 5 cities atm, but would encourage anyone to go add a lot more.
Will be adding a lot more data today and tomorrow.
Currently collabing with
@batrakanav
and
@Siddhant_K_code
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After being heads down building for a while, we are slowly rolling out early access to our editor.
And such we have started a weekly changelog
We are super excited for everything this year has in store for us, and all the things coming to our editor in the near future
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Dune is easily one of if not the best movie of this year. It was truly an amazing experience.
Would highly recommend everyone watch it in a biggest imax screen you can.
Need to get enough people to watch this so we actually get the sequel
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@modfydotvideo
We are going to publicly sharing the entire process as we go along both in terms of making the film and building the editor out.
There is definitely going to be a BTS film
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Recently did an interview with
@pioneerdotapp
where we covered a lot from how we started, our future plans, our successes and failures so far. Even our whacky sleep schedules.
Lot of exciting things coming in the near future
👇
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@modfydotvideo
The team for this film, will be spread across 3 continents and 6 timezones. We are all going to fully collaborate using our editor
2 in 🇮🇩, 2 in 🇺🇸, 2 in 🇮🇳 and 1 in 🇸🇦
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@modfydotvideo
The real fun part, though? We're going to be upgrading our editor as we run across features we need.
I can totally picture myself stopping mid edit to build a feature and continue editing.😅
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Grandparents just got vaccinated 🎉🎉🎉
Genuinely so happy, was really shit scared there when all this started. Huge relief to have them vaccinated now
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Been working on something a bit different for last couple of months, coming out soon
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@modfydotvideo
We are also opening this up to our community to be involved in the process of making the film, so feel free to hop into our discord and come work with us!
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👀 I spy a few unannounced/new features apart from keyframes too
Exploring how adding keyframes to clips works in our canvas video editor we're hacking on (
@scalardotvideo
)
We're kind of bridging the gap between node-based and layer-based editing
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As someone who's never seen SNL I'm so confused lmao
But ngl watching
@elonmusk
do random dumb shit is kinda funny
Also didn't SNL have a great cast at some point? I know only two people on this cast
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I have a really smart co-founder lmao.
Also this is so good while being his side project.
Got tired of tsc taking forever to type check my code so I made a Typescript type checker in Rust for fun
For a small Typescript file it's 500x faster than tsc taking ~0.002s vs ~1.3s (using SWC for compilation). It supports only a small subset of Typescript (for now).
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Just had a 1 hr long user interview that was great and immediate scheduled another interview with that user because we had so much more to talk about.
Feel so energetic after a good user interview.
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@zack_overflow
literally forced me to add this to our investor update
Meeting
@0interestrates
was zack's primary achievement this month
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moved into a new hacker house in hayes last week! throwing a small house-warming bbq next fri
if you are in sf and wanna say hi come through!
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For a long time I thought I hated working in the day cause of just too much light but I think the deeper reason was the light was too “harsh”
I wanted to experiment with “softboxing” the light coming into my room and quite happy with how this section has turned out
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On PH now!
Writing prompts is like writing PHP in a txt file - it sucks: nothing helping you improve it
We hacked on something to fix that
✨Optimist takes a prompt, generates it's inference and ask you what you would like to change about said inference
And re-writes the prompt for you.
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I've always know the M1 TDP is amazing, but super super impressed by it today
Forgot my charger while at a friends house, everyone was sleeping.
I was able to work (code, server, localhost) on my laptop for 4hrs while it was connected to a power bank, with less than 5% charge.
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Got a YC Final interview for the 27th would love to get as many mock interviews in as possible and prep for it.
Especially since
@zackinsomnia
came on a co-founder since I practiced for the previous preliminary one.
Have an YC interview tomorrow, they said it is not the final interview but still want to prep a bit for it.
Anyone with YC interview experience want to help me practice?
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Anyone want to do an emergency hackathon in BLR?
Open to mid-week or weekend (tho diwali so mid week is better)
@NirantK
down to make something happen with us?
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@zack_overflow
built a GUI to help him write complex FFmpeg commands.
It's been working great for us internally, so we decided to launch it today.
Check it out if you're fed up with writing FFmpeg commands:
I got fed up writing FFmpeg commands. Its unintuitive, and can get ugly and complicated quickly
A couple of months ago, I built this GUI to help me write complex ffmpeg filtergraphs that we have been using internally and decided to launch today.
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This is something we actually Yolo wrote a few months ago. Few friends told us we should show it off
It is a zero config, test runner which builds and runs TS, 12x faster than Jest.
It also supports browser test, without using something like jsdom.
At
@modfydotvideo
we wrote our own test runner because we hate Jest. It's:
- 12x faster than Jest
- 11x faster than Vite
Here's a basic benchmark (take with a grain of 🧂) comparing it w/ other test runners. We're thinking of releasing it, pls let us know if you would want this
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@PrasoonPratham
This is kind of old and hasn't been properly update in a while but has a really cool desktop animation
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As climbs through the front page of PH
I wanted to the credit the people and tools that helped make this project happen
@mozillabuilders
and
@pioneerdotapp
for their respective incubator programs and specifically
@bartdecrem
👉
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Someone is hosting a 70mm screening of interstellar on the 12th so hyped!
Fastest I’ve booked a ticket
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@Rahul_J_Mathur
@ycombinator
@BimaPeBharosa
Congrats!
Also idk how anyone can really keep this quiet, I definitely couldn't
How was demo day?
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Today was Stark(my puppy) first day downstairs, he is the small dog.
And instead of being afraid of other dogs he decided to chase a dog three times his size.
This was too cute and funny not to share!
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If you are in Bangalore, you definitely want to check this out!
🚨 Blockchain builders in Bangalore, you’re in for a treat tomorrow! 🚨
We’re hosting an event for you to get a chance to meet other builders, share knowledge and have fun!
📍Bier Garten, Koramangala
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Hosting a smol hack night for
@OpenAI
dev day
Come through - super excited to see what get announced!
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playing with some buttery smooth animations
This is still massive WIP but fun to hack on shit like this
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Ported a tiny old side project to use GPTs now, a quick agent to make spotify playlists for you
Much more powerful as a GPT with both the improve knowledge cutoff and web browsing
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Two main takes outside WTF
But I think this just saved Google - if anyone pulled mafia strings it had to be Google
The second is I’m really scared this make us go the way of nuclear and we peak here; without someone like Sam (and Greg) there is a chance we don’t get much
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Apparently this is ice tea? I am so confused by how confidently the waiter served ice tea as soup
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@JPBrebner
threw an emergency openai devday hackathon
@BLRxZo
and was an amazing venue - very nice vibe
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@joshqharris
Ngl this is one of the best companies I've seen - so mad I didn't think of this lmao
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Finally, we have slowly started rolling our early access to our editor, if you'd like to try it out just dm me or join our discord below
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not sure how anyone can be an openai doomer at this point - been arguing with so many openai doomers this week and there is a night and day between what we just saw and any other ai companies demos - these were all live with bugs/mistakes and everything else you’d expect
openai
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