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musings // relational AI @hearthai_co 🔥 // prev eng @stanford @nasa @worldsolarchlg @schmidtfutures @edinburghuni @apple @airbnb @meta
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some vectorstore analysis - what do folks like when building for production?
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Calling NYC x AI builders 📢 Sign up below to join us Wednesday, May 10 at AWS Loft for food & a panel discussion on building with
@LangChainAI
& other tools 🦜🔗
speakers inc
@hwchase17
@maddiehawkinson
@bernhardsson
@NicolaeRusan
@karinanguyen_
& me
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when you spend the year working on senate ad guidance and...it mattered 🥲
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NYC x AI is 🔥
thank you to
@maddiehawkinson
&
@ditzikow
@hwchase17
x
@LangChainAI
@bernhardsson
x
@modal_labs
@NicolaeRusan
@tulliemurrell
x
@shapedai
@madisenxtaylor
x
@huggingface
@OpenAI
& the amazing audience - such an energizing night on building 🔥
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if you're an engineer in SF who thinks about agents + authentic connection, we're hiring for key roles
@hearthai_co
a new era of network intelligence is here, and we're just warming up 🔥
join us
dm or email ashe
@hearth
.ai
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I couldn’t be more excited to share
@hearthai_co
is building a new category of next-gen products centered on agentic relationship management 🔥
We’re thrilled to be part of
@SalesforceVC
Gen AI fund alongside
@AnthropicAI
@CohereAI
@YouSearchEngine
🔥
We’re hiring engineers,
📣 Today,
@SalesforceVC
is thrilled to announce a new $250 million generative AI fund to support the startup ecosystem and spark the development of responsible generative AI.
Read more ➡️
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if you commit to nothing, you’re distracted by everything
I don’t want the trap of optionality with its lure of short-lived shiny successive beginnings
I want the depth of committed long, full journeys
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despite all the AI excitement, going to tech events is still weirdly sterile
you arrive at a large venue, most of the time with so.many.dudes, and just meander around until someone on a stage speaks at you
give us a salon, a host that guides, debate, intrigue, culture,
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the serendipity that I feel making forbes 30U30 enterprise tech on my 29th birthday...
so excited for what we have in store
@hearthai_co
🔥
#forbes30under30
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who else is watching daily
@arxiv
drops for llms & agents?
speed coded a slackbot to post daily paper drops with "agents or llms" in it
sharing code here ✨
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Hacked on a side project last weekend,
✨
Search on your contacts and ask an AI assistant questions 🔥
Get in touch for access 🔥
#buildinpublic
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Super stoked to have
@OpenAI
provide plugin access &
@huggingface
offer compute credits to attendees - make sure to sign up, attendees are notified next week! 🔥
Calling NYC x AI builders 📢 Sign up below to join us Wednesday, May 10 at AWS Loft for food & a panel discussion on building with
@LangChainAI
& other tools 🦜🔗
speakers inc
@hwchase17
@maddiehawkinson
@bernhardsson
@NicolaeRusan
@karinanguyen_
& me
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urging new york friends to give me that east coast energy fix & come grab coffee with me in the presidio like
@thesephist
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in light of the even number of 3k followers today, formally introducing myself
who am I?
my name’s Ashe, a high octane extroverted engineer 👋
what’s that mean?
- I love creating and engineering is my art form of choice. I’m trained as a software + ML engineer and have dabbled
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Happy to share I’m now working as an Engineering Manager
@schmidtfutures
on problems in talent, AI, nationality security, and tech policy.
Very excited to be working with
@abiylfoyp
@ShannonMBeckham
@GregorioManne
@knoray23
@andrewychoi
@KumarAGarg
@victoriahoued
!
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hosting my first sf housewarming tn
& how many people do we think will do this?
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NYC tech week is next week 🔥
join us
@hearthai_co
salon for debate, discussion, provocation on AI x human connection:
in nyc style, we'll be at a cozy loft with no shortage of espresso + spirits + candles
in partnership with
@huggingface
,
@salesforce
,
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2023 in New York brought
@hearthai_co
to that wonderful state that made art inevitable.
And now, this post is to share that in 2024 we feel excited and lucky to continue Hearth’s next chapter in SF 👇
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we ❤️ NYC x AI
@maddiehawkinson
We're hosting what looks to be an awesome State of AI event tonight with
@gideonmann
@maddiehawkinson
@ashe_cs
and others. Join us!
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🔥 let's goo
@hearthai_co
🔥
interested in working on next-gen AI x relationship management in NYC? get in touch 🔥
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NYC x AI, probably nothing 🔥 building & demoing
@maddiehawkinson
@costanoavc
@AndyChenML
@rachel_l_woods
@runwayml
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is v cool and is indeed on-demand compute that just works
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it’s me 🙂
@HenrySG
@ttunguz
@hwchase17
Who is this lady? Name’s not on the screen but she’s giving some fire answers
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@lessin
if sending a calendly link rubs receiver as a power dynamic I'm...happy we dodged a meeting
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my adulthood is going from years of a new york cafe table to my first sf dining table
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@sh_reya
accuracy high enough = setting user expectations in onboarding with what it can and can’t do + providing a few different feedback mechanisms (good/bad, open ends, user behavior observation)
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something I wish I built earlier:
daily slack updates on all the unprocessed candidates in our applicant tracking system 🤖
sharing now for folks using lever:
scheduled using
@modal_labs
✨
lever_slack_update_driver.py
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
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pinecone is expensive *in the throes of seeing our monthly bill*
vector dbs aren't new and we want one that simply works with reasonable cost forecasting
has been fun and easy to set up
@turbopuffer
!! & they are so clear, transparent, responsive🥲
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Twitter makes it too hard to protect yourself from hate speech on this platform, so I made a script that makes it easy to take a tweet and block its author and everyone who liked it:
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after tearing through many tools, really liking
@PrefectIO
setup/DAG/monitoring ✨
+ very grateful for
@divyahansg
taking my early morning call to discuss the data flows
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NYC AI is on fire 🔥
@hearthai_co
thank you to
@huggingface
@nomosintel
@salesforce
@M13Company
and an amazing group of guests for a special night on AI x connection
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looking for design-minded engineers, come work with me on better relationship-building 🔥
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We're sponsoring an emergency ChatGPT API SF Hackathon this weekend organized by
@rachel_l_woods
and
@nonmayorpete
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Like a lot of other folks working in AI, I have felt a tension between loving the space that I’ve been working in for a decade and feeling swept away by the speed of advancements and the existential questions surrounding our progress.
In an effort to feel more in touch with our
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officially swapping out pinecone for
@turbopuffer
today - fast all around, transparent on costs + roadmap, & such a communicative team
even if it doesn't have every single thing we need today they started with the right things (yay glob filtering!) & we're up for betting on
pinecone is expensive *in the throes of seeing our monthly bill*
vector dbs aren't new and we want one that simply works with reasonable cost forecasting
has been fun and easy to set up
@turbopuffer
!! & they are so clear, transparent, responsive🥲
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the beauty you see in anything is a reflection of the beauty in you
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best thing I’ve done as a solo founder is find the smartest (technical & high eq) person I know who has founded a company and pay them as an advisor for a 10-20 min phone call at the start of each day
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Congrats to
@pearvc
on Fund IV!! They have supported
@hearthai_co
since day 1, and before that have supported me and so many others in rethinking what's possible and building a better world. The Pear team truly exemplifies long-term relationship-building - cheers to their next 10
Thank you to everyone for the kind words on our Fund IV announcement this week. Today on the blog,
@MarHershenson
takes a moment to look back on the last 10 years of Pear and share why we're excited for the decade ahead.🍐
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the irony of building AI agent products this year
is actually that really strong backend engineering - not necessarily agent architectures - are the bottleneck
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we don’t talk enough about dedicated processing time and space for acute relational pain
this weekend I flew to miami to spend time with my grandma with parkinsons
my brain has been continuously looping on my memories of her contrasted with the progression of the disease
and
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AI is about to revolutionize relationship management - some amazing demos
@salesforce
, a stellar partner for
@hearthai_co
#EinsteinGPT
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at
@hearthai_co
we're staying briefed on our waitlist while in private beta🔥
check out our system 🔥
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grind in a way that makes you proud of who you become along the way
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agent infra that we need and don't want to build:
when output is X% variant or when error is hit as a result, I want
1. the output reported to slack channel
2. I comment correct output in slack
3. this corrected output is pulled into the finetuning training set and model is
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interested in learning more about our category POV?
Read about agentic relationship management 👇
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it's photo friday they said
put more of your personality on twitter they said
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@AviSchiffmann
"If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem."
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1/6 During the pandemic and post-election I chatted with a lot of folks about job transitions.
I spent 6 months between full-time roles & felt it was incredibly beneficial. Some thoughts (specific to my tech background) 👇
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funneling this nervous georgia energy into writing down learnings from my year working in politics. coming from tech, it was a *very* different world
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flightbound, calling the bay home for the first time in a long time
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nyc x AI is on fire 🔥 come build with us
The AI energy in NYC is escalating rapidly right now and I've been so appreciative of the engineers and VCs supporting this ecosystem. Ping me if you want to be added to a thriving community of NYC AI builders on slack and in person (NY only please!)🤠
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some agent interaction ideas we’re thinking about
@hearthai_co
: how do we get to fast + high-quality?
1. agentic products that offer chat, retrieval, and workflows are slowed by at least an LLM routing call
2. with agentic products should come a new era of dynamic UIs per the
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amazing humans all around on this 🔥 including a surprise 4th speaker & she is iconic 🔥🔥
We did a LangChain meetup in NYC that
@ashe_cs
was kind enough to help organize, now its our turn to host her in SF!
Really excited to do a panel with Ashe,
@CohereAI
, and a surprise guest TBA next week. Thanks to
@SalesforceVC
for organizing!
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wrote about my egg freezing experience 🥚
why I did it & what it was like 👇
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Reading “How Women Rise”, and thinking through my work habits of *not* being self-promotional & shifting the attention to others because “If I do an outstanding job people will notice”
the
#1
thing I’d do differently in my last role is habitually claim my contributions
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starting french lessons this week in SF with the aim of injecting more variance into my network ✨
what activities do folks in SF like for network variance?
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realizing how I grew up pretty constantly hearing and saying
“I love you”
and as an adult I say it liberally + automatically to my friends
which is really nice
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« you can’t A/B test your way to taste »
internal demo culture > external testing culture
user interviews have their place, but you can't A/B test your way to good taste
you get there by building a lot, staying grounded, and being super honest
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found for me the best thing is to wake up at 5am and not *do* anything
- led light therapy in bed? hell yeah
- aimless walk to touch grass in the park? yup
- meditation next to a candle? mhmm
and then the rest of my day feels so much more creative and expansive and joyful
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This rings true to my experience. An added difficulty to progressive tech is that it’s an adversarial environment (dems vs republicans) so detailed white papers aren’t published and techniques specific to the weirdness of political data modeling aren’t shared
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wanted to see what I’d look like with bangs and didn’t see any gen AI renderings I liked -
Amazon fake bangs on the other hand are so realistic I’m persuaded to just use these
wondering what other AI experiences might make users run towards the real tactile thing
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@isaachasson
@StanfordGSB
one of my fav stanford things was an army-funded defense tech research project with
@SISLaboratory
I later went in and out of gov tech (nasa + DoD job offer)
truly think it would minimize international geopolitical risk if every US student had mandatory uni defense tech
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yesterday I was gifted an nft with penguins. it was so cute I screamed
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I can't speak highly enough about the
@pearvc
community...I'm continuously in awe at the team's brilliance and groundedness
Thank you Pear 🍐 (and especially
@VivHo
!) for curating amazing conversations and friendships through the Female Founder Circles
Thank you for the opportunity
@pearvc
to put together our first Female Founder Circles 🙏
..10 inspiring sessions with female trailblazers
@cathy_polinsky
,
@padmasree
,
@sarahtavel
,
@saranormous
..
Most of all, it was an honor to support 💞 32 truly brilliant female founders 💞
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experimenting on ways to reduce LLM calls in agent paths and speed up product experience
& openai's new embedding model is more linearly separable which is cool, for example 👇
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