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co-founder interview top talent with emotive, intelligent AI // prev AI at @amazon , @ezrainc , phd @thecrick 🇬🇧

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5 mins of unedited conversation between a candidate and Recruit AI
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wake up hun, toronto is starting to build nice residential buildings
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@WillManidis full body mri + llm to interpret and investigate is such a powerful combo and sadly years away from reg approval
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I’m serious 🇨🇦. If you’re a founder in Toronto, I’ll be your first customer. Just ask. I’ll give you raw, unfiltered feedback. Honest feedback is the only way to hone our craft. Already connected with 5 early founders this week. All thanks to the kickstart from @skanwar /
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@jackclarkSF everyone’s focused on AGI but 100s of (narrow) human-level ML models will be just as impactful
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my lil love letter to Toronto: spent most of the day on baldwin st cooking up recruit ai improvements with the team the coffee shop, food, and talent density on this one street is insane doctors next to scientists next to builders- someone at every table honing their craft. i
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@luke_metro @bakztfuture I would pay a premium for a smart speaker with ChatGPT integration. Every existing voice assistant is trash compared to ChatGPT results
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these demos are insane
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the coming generation of startups won’t build directly on AWS/GCP/Azure we’re not far from the point where you can get away with Cloudflare/ @Railway / @flydotio /vercel/paperspace/huggingface/even Replit etc and never directly touch the big 3
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this is what progress looks like, used to just be Shopify and WS
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had to make one for toronto
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@Casey please make a video about how it goes
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11 months
@levie This. Already hearing about startups who didn’t have a backup API planning to add on anthropic, cohere, etc
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@rauchg Lambda functions and API gateway 30s timeout
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2 years
@GergelyOrosz In the short term more things will break. That’s kinda fine. If they can eventually get back to a steady state Twitter is much leaner and potentially healthier as a result.
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been a month since I posted this — met 11 founders in that time and paid for 8 new products I’m still serious — if you’re a founder in Toronto I will try your product, just ask. the only way to make Toronto into the kind of entrepreneurial community I want to live in, is if we
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I’m serious 🇨🇦. If you’re a founder in Toronto, I’ll be your first customer. Just ask. I’ll give you raw, unfiltered feedback. Honest feedback is the only way to hone our craft. Already connected with 5 early founders this week. All thanks to the kickstart from @skanwar /
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6 months
there is an amazing sentiment brewing in toronto/canada let’s hold each other accountable if you’re a new founder in Toronto, I’ll be your first customer. I’ll give you honest feedback. it’s time to hone our craft
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David Hariri
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Tonight, @mimurchison asked @tobi what Canada’s competitive advantage could be. Tobi’s answer was “craft”. This made my heart sing. I think he’s right and we should hold each other to a higher bar by buying each others things and giving each other the hard, but necessary
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@JShamess @jayvas @heritagetoronto @MoreNeighbours My favourite thing about Toronto is the feeling that this city hasn’t “peaked” yet, still growing, still improving. Underrated aspect which isn’t true for other big cities that have already had their peak influence
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32nd trip around the sun, done.
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@WillManidis landing page also seems medical claimy to me, but honestly glad someone is trying to productise this
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@chronark_ @supabase I don’t get why people live in houses, they’re just a pile of bricks
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there’s something special brewing in 🇨🇦
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Oh, Canada
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me all week around my normies
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tiff is one of Toronto/Canada’s world class things, everyone should celebrate and support it
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5 months
embracing the benefits of living in the north
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6 months
saw some @newdemos_ tonight, learned a lot. I was a Toronto/Waterloo mega-optimist before. we’re doing even better than I imagined.
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@KarlTheMartian maybe this is the beginning of a renaissance for Y+D square
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just run
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Co-signed. Consolidate around Toronto. 10x the events. Only hire in the GTA. Build products with incredible design. Give back to the ecosystem. This is all happening (and we’re living by it at Ribbon) but it’ll happen faster with more on board.
@ReamBraden
Braden Ream
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Hot takes on what Toronto needs to be a viable tech ecosystem: - way more tech events after hours. this is part of what makes sf special. New demos, 535, and Vclub are great starts to recurring events but need more - startups need to raise more and hire less. Focus on paying
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@EricDLombardi parking. just remove parking on streets where there are street cars. it’s unimaginable for native torontonians but pretty much the standard in most of europe for similarly important roads
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@AndrewArruda @tszzl taking the worst architecture from all 3
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@KennethCassel with some motion detection to reduce the API calls you could get this pretty cheap and do things like: “notify me when my dog drinks water”
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all the problems in my life would be solved if toronto had japanese 7/11
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Team has been working super hard on this. Recruit AI is now generally available and to celebrate we're launching on Product Hunt We've put our voice AI through its paces and interviewed 1000+ candidates over the last two weeks. Try it out for yourself.
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@ricburton lmao that’s just… my skin
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@Penalosa_G Why not both?
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bolt dot new is genuinely insane ephemeral software is here and soon there will be no excuse shipping the same UI for all customers, every UI should be tailored to the specific needs of your exact customer
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there’s a spot on bloor where the gamjatang is $10 for a bowl that will slap your soul the grandma in the kitchen takes a break every 15 mins. she’ll sit at the back of the restaurant and silently survey the diners. she’s been honing her craft longer than I’ve known what my
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still processing what happened this weekend — learned a lot, made a bunch of new friends, built alongside really smart people. really grateful for that.
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@neerajarora What are the biggest issues with WhatsApp/the way it is being run today in your opinion?
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@abacaj Disagree - we’ve scraped nearly 1M jobs with this approach and now probably have the most comprehensive data anywhere. The pages that we parse are really variable, wouldn’t be feasible with your approach.
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8 months
I am ridiculously optimistic about Toronto’s future. So much future tech being built here.
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Matt Espinoza ✦
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hosted a dinner and chatted about everything from longevity to holding companies toronto tech scene is so back
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@zswitten Google will eventually lose this market. There will always be hesitation to fully commit to LLMs and eat their current business. A more nimble company will launch first, serve much more relevant results + organic ads
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@arankomatsuzaki Really cool result. It’s getting harder to argue these models are not doing reasoning
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went to my first @535Toronto event today, been wanting to check it out @thematt_ross and gang are building something special. I love small intimate events like this. @aiouy riffed (off the record) and the group asked genuine tough questions. could never happen in a big crowd.
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@alexisohanian the majority of search users don’t even realise these are ads
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OpenAI are really going to release AGI before we can connect bluetooth headphones on a plane
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NotebookLM is worth a try - maybe Google can still ship after all. I fed in my phd thesis and it created a 12min podcast with two hosts (listen in thread)
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@zachtratar This is what makes it great. I believe Google flights isn’t monetised, so the team felt they could ship something like this without hurting conversion.
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@SKRollins @christogrozev How common is it for that rank to be behind enemy lines during an invasion? Asking as a complete novice
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5 months
Last night at 2.30am a candidate interviewed with Ribbon this would be almost impossible without Recruit AI we collect post-call feedback from every candidate, this was theirs: “Everything was amazing, it felt like it was not an AI but an actual human being.” Recruit AI
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who’s doing this in Toronto? brilliant format
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let's get cancelled, on Thursday. What will you say?
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founder mode is starting to make it to linkedin, this week will be hell
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@kmedved @NateSilver538 Partially why I am against re-entering into lockdowns/restrictions (much of Canada). “Temporary” restrictions are politically easy to extend regardless of new evidence
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surprising early feedback: people _love_ being able to interview whenever, wherever. 1am on a Sunday at the airport? go for it
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@danielgross the fact that they are getting better at estimating the amount of compute to reach X target is under appreciated. OpenAI now know how much compute they need to create a GPT that can improve itself
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During my PhD I spent a lot of time studying a protein called beta-catenin. Today OpenAI released ChatGPT and I asked it a few questions about beta-catenin. LLMs as a learning tool will be incredible. Everyone will have an on-demand socratic method information mentor.
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@_jayphelps surprised this was shipped, retail reviews team down bad
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@lopp @paulg A great copilot feature would be to auto-write print() statements at the most complex/critical points.
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5 months
update: acquired a brand new second hand bike toronto is unbeatable on days like this
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RIP to my bike (right) my second bike stolen in toronto now
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@stevegraham They had many other options, eg require that any clients using the API also show ads, charge a reasonable amount, acquire the clients, etc
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I’m back home in the uk for a few days so sharing a bit of my lore that often surprises people: this kid with an iranian name grew up in the kentish countryside, spent his teenage summers working on land rovers and repairing tractors i’m a toronto tech mans now but rural
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Skiff was a great product. Notion is getting one hell of a team - they shipped relentlessly.
@skiffprivacy
Skiff
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Skiff is joining @NotionHQ 🎉 We're excited to accelerate Skiff's mission by joining Notion. The world needs tools that empower people and put their interests first. We're in a better position than ever to deliver this change. Read more on👇
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~2 yrs into the LLM craze and we’re finally seeing a wave of interesting new UX (canvas, bolt, NotebookLM) buckle up, it’s just the beginning — don’t forget that the future is exciting
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Future wifey ran the half marathon today
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2 years
@amasad the nay-sayers don’t understand that scaling, data, and new architectures can still bring 10x improvements. we’re nowhere near optimal on any of those three factors
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more scientists should yap
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RIP to my bike (right) my second bike stolen in toronto now
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@BigTechAlert @karpathy @arcinstitute please let the karpathy + genomics arc begin
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6 months
this is big
@aidangomez
Aidan Gomez
6 months
Introducing Rerank 3! Our latest model focused on powering much more complex and accurate search. It's the fastest, cheapest, and highest performance reranker that exists. We're really excited to see how this model influences RAG applications and search stacks.
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travelling with a laser meter is iconic - I really like this guy’s style
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Brandon Donnelly
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This is the Barceloneta neighborhood. It looks totally wild / awesome in plan view. But the streets are a very comfortable 6.6 meters wide (building face to building face).
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team cooked with this UI — navigating 30min interviews is a breeze now
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1 year
Ribbon is growing! We’re hiring three roles, in Toronto: ✨React/Nextjs/typescript expert ✨Full stack engineer ✨Community manager If you or anyone you know fits the bill, get in touch.
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@Suhail Commiserations and congrats. Takes a lot of self awareness for this kind of pivot. Looking forward to seeing what you build in the creative space.
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we’re all in on Supabase building @RibbonAward , it’s almost silly how fast it’s allowing us to move
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OpenAI are really going to release AGI before we can connect bluetooth headphones on a plane
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BRB, fixing this
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Steve Saretsky
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Goodbye, neighbor.
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this is a masterpiece — bottom right is legit hilarious
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Bryce Roberts
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Who did this?!?
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@frantzfries I bet this slapped in Figma
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1 year
Today, we launched NFT issuance on Ribbon. This is a huge step for us. We’re the only platform where it is _impossible_ to lose access to your achievements.
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Prototyping a new feature for using rainbowkit - it’s unreal, so easy to use. Wouldn’t be surprised if >50% of new projects over the next year use it. Genius move to drive people to @rainbowdotme
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@scottastevenson big big problem - would be down to collaborate with you and others to fix this
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@rauchg this is helpful - we actually switched over one endpoint for this very reason ;) but the limit for lambdas is still a pain for our stack in general and we can’t port all serverless to Vercel because… $$$
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@enriqeth this goes hard
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@ralstonmctodd I think they’re optimizing for the lake view
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choose your fighter @vita_dao vs @altos_labs
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@Suhail Their philosophy is different. Apple’s hardware focused strategy is brilliant IMO. eg the fact that all classification for Photos happens on device is amazing.
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we need to build high speed rail between chicago and toronto
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Chicago Urbanist
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We need less Chicago-NYC discourse and more Chicago-Toronto discourse
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GPT wrappers still have a lot of potential but surprisingly they need one more layer of wrapping to be truly helpful
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Multi-aspect is awesome. Cohere is releasing the most important building blocks out there. Will be huge when this is GA.
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@aidangomez
Aidan Gomez
6 months
Excited to announce the Compass Beta, a very powerful multi-aspect data search system powered by a new embedding model, Compass. We're looking for help stress-testing the model's capabilities and finding where it breaks. Sign up here:
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@krugermacro Tether still the biggest risk right?
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@lucperkins Is the high level architecture understandable in a day? I’m imagining no, if similar to systems I’ve worked on. That’s the only meaningful definition of “quick tour” that would fit here
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@alexgraveley probably the highest impact : team size ratio for any product in the last decade
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@0xfoobar all the stories about being the saviour of crypto went to his head - the level of greed in SBF’s actions is off the charts
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we launched video interviews — proud of the team for solving many technical hurdles to get there Ribbon is the only AI interviewer on the market with video. 100+ teams are interviewing daily with Ribbon now.
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notebookLM is the first AI gen’d content that people are willingly consuming, that’s the magic I wonder if the Netflix of tomorrow looks more like a mini movie studio or if this is just a temporary phase / experiment
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@tomgara Glass Onion is overrated but lack of recent quality is a factor. I think it’s less active lying and more poor calibration
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@anotherglassbox we need to build the privatised tolled highway that Yorkville deserves
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@chaoticdesigned v east end of queens quay
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