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Damien C. Tanner

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Compounding curiosity. Founder . Prev founded @pusher , @thoughtbot

London, England
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
There's a plethora of new chat language models being released these days, especially based on LLaMa and Alpaca. I've started tracking them (including license): Plan is to start adding some to for folks to play around with.
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10 months
Llama 2 has arrived on @Cloudflare Workers AI It's ridiculously easy to setup your own private Llama chat in your Cloudflare account Checkout the demo I just deployed: Here's how to set it up yourself in 3min ⏱️
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Damien C. Tanner
6 months
@Helion_Energy This guy is living his best life
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
I would encourage founders to read Mark Leonard’s (Constellation Software) shareholder letters. They’re a fine example of succinct, thoughtful and honest communication with investors. Here’s a PDF with them all since 2007:
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Damien C. Tanner
8 months
Say 👋 to - The web crawler made for AI We've been working on this for many months. Crawl all the content on any website to text, html or markdown. Use the API or UI and download it all in one file. You can upload this as Knowledge to a GPT, or use it to
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
is ChatGPT plus powerful team collaboration features: - Team folders - Shared chats - Correct facts (edit responses) - Add notes Plus more coming soon… Join the waitlist: We’re sending out invites weekly 💌
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
I think I've created web stack nirvana. Bear with me for a second... @CloudflareDev Workers + @htmx_org + @honojs + jsx This is sever side jsx with Cloudflare D1 SQLite db. Everything is a functional jsx component. Do you love it or hate it?
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
is a better UI for ChatGPT, with unique team collaboration features. You can share chats, organize with folders and use ChatGPT together with teammates in real-time. Sign up at - it's free for personal use.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
Latest hardback shareholder letter print: Constellation Software $CSU.TO It’s nice to be able to gift these to friends who are interested too.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
I can tell within 100ms whether a site is running on @vercel
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
Setting up a junior investment account for our kids. Choosing investments for family, with a >15 year timescale focuses the mind. The only good idea I have so far is Constellation Software $CSU.TO What would you buy today and hold for 15 years?
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9 months
@Teknium1 Okay OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k is blowing my mind 🤯 It's super fast on my M1 Pro. Testing out YouTube transcript summarization and it's coming out as good or even better than GPT4. Open source models are going to surprise us a lot next year.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 months
Llama 3 70B Groq feels like magic - near instant GPT4 level responses. Fun place to try it out is AI Playground
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
@levelsio It’s worth the pain. When you find the right person they could be with you for years. Been working with my lead dev for 4 years and I’m incredibly grateful 🙏 She built (and does customer support!) and recently we built together.
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Damien C. Tanner
6 months
@G413N Looks nice. I’ve been setting up my 8x 3090 today. Half the day wasted with similar network shenanigans 😂
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
Assistants are here 🪄 We've included a bunch of preset Assistants 🤖🧑‍🍳🧑‍💻 Even better, you can create your own Custom Assistants to share with your whole team.
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
Started work on a full $CSU.TO universe map, taken from the original press releases. About half way through so far, and haven't yet done any manual cleaning.
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
@nathanbenaich Sounded like OpenAI weren’t aware how popular it would actually be. Maybe technically ChatGPT isn’t that revolutionary, but it definitely crossed some uncanny valley threshold of usability.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 months
@Davidjpark96 If you’re having fun, and you love the team, don’t sell. You’ll never truely recreate the magic you have now. Yes you’ll have capital. But your millions of cash is the same as any other millions in a bank account. If you want some liquidity, sell a minor stake.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
Wow @remix_run () is just 🤯 It’s like the best of Rails and React distilled.
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Damien C. Tanner
4 months
Preparing for a 7h flight next week: ✅ Local Mixtral ✅ Copy of python, torch etc docs ✅ Copy of @rasbt LLMs from scratch book
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Damien C. Tanner
7 months
@abacaj Lawyer friends tell me the problem is lots of law text is behind paywalls. Imagine creating a coding model without GitHub and stackoverflow.
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
I’m using CoPilot and ChatGPT all day. It injects countless moments of magic and joy. Most notably, when I think through how to solve something, hit return, and CoPilot suggests exactly what I was thinking. Can’t help but smile!
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Sergio Pereira
2 years
ChatGPT has changed software development! However, 68.1% of Software Engineers still don't use it. As a CTO, I'm telling my teams to use ChatGPT in their daily work to increase both velocity and quality. This is how 👇
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Damien C. Tanner
4 years
We're working super hard to get our new online event platform released! Checkout: If you have a small or mid sized event that has been canceled, please reach out to me.
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Damien C. Tanner
9 months
Seems like a good day to try out some open source models. Hermes by @Teknium1 is first up. I keep hearing good things about it.
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Damien C. Tanner
9 months
@levelsio @sama @gdb Currently 5% of my portfolio. Just wish I owned more now. With Sam and Greg they'll have a shot at the first $10T company.
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
@anon_opin You need to find good macarons
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
Been using the combo of @vercel + @planetscaledata + @prisma for a few years, and I gotta say it’s the most solid stack I’ve ever used. Never once had to worry about dev ops fires.
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
Shareholders of Constellation Software $CSU.TO: is it your top holding? If not, what companies do you rate higher, and why? @LibertyRPF @CJ0pp3l @long_equity @NicoperJES @willis_cap @stonkmetal @shomikghosh21 @PythiaR @SagaPartners
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Damien C. Tanner
8 months
Really loving @brevdev these days. They solved exactly what I've wanted for ages: being able to attach/detatch a GPU from your notebook on demand. Also @HarperSCarroll 's how-to videos (eg ) are just too fun 🕺
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Damien C. Tanner
11 months
Yes I’ve heard of air fryers But have you heard about Fire™️
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Damien C. Tanner
8 months
I've written a tutorial on setting up @LangChainAI ChatGPT RAG with your website content (scraped with our new service):
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
Am I diversified?
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Damien C. Tanner
6 months
@dannypostmaa UseScraper crawls any website to Markdown for your AI knowledge
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Damien C. Tanner
10 months
Cloudflare will have NVIDIA GPUs available for inference tasks in over 100 cities by the end of 2023, and nearly everywhere Cloudflare’s network extends by the end of 2024.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
From interested to LP in under 2mins. Still in bed and our 2yo isn't even awake yet. If this isn't innovation ⁦ @AngelList ⁩ I don't know what is. Delighted to be backing ⁦ @Austen ⁩ along with a few others now.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
AngelList Rolling Funds are the best thing to happen to VC. 🧵
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
CoPilot Labs now has a slightly hidden 'Custom' feature which is awesome. You can highlight code and ask it to do anything. E.g. 'rewrite this function to use X instead of Y library'. 🪄
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Damien C. Tanner
6 months
The AI SuperServer is live!
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
Can’t wait to set this up for my kids and make their drawings come to life
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Apple pencil with the power of Local Stable Diffusion using @Gradio Web UI running off a 3090 from r/stablediffusion reddit thread: github: colab: simple colab:
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
Successful day getting ChatGPT streaming responses piped through @Cloudflare Durable Objects and back to the browser over websockets. collaborative ChatGPT is ready to scaaaale 📈 Thanks @CloudflareDev for bringing us such awesome products 🙏
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
@kentcdodds @BHolmesDev Quite easy to make it fallback. My framework checks for htmx headers and just serves up a full page if it's a normal browser req.
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
I think I've created web stack nirvana. Bear with me for a second... @CloudflareDev Workers + @htmx_org + @honojs + jsx This is sever side jsx with Cloudflare D1 SQLite db. Everything is a functional jsx component. Do you love it or hate it?
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
$CSU.TO below $2,000 - now is your chance 💫
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
MRR just keeps chugging along like a steady steamship 🚢
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
@simonw @GergelyOrosz For any small team the console and IAM is just hair tearing out all day. I just have an app and I want to to run somewhere and not break. Vercel does extremely well at this today.
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Damien C. Tanner
8 months
Seeing the incredible pace of open source AI, it's becoming clear that models are going to be commodity and open. If AI models are open and free, the opportunities for startups is going to be in the applications that surround them - making models easy to train, distribute and
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Damien C. Tanner
10 months
After years of making every mistake possible in SaaS, I get it. Tech in SaaS is a know quantity, known risk. Marketing is the unknown risk. Prove marketing works for your idea first. Then build. It’s obvious. But few do.
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Damien C. Tanner
8 months
Here we go, Mixtral running locally giving me an OpenAI API compatible API with ChatGPT-3.5 level responses. AI is gonna be in everyone's home very soon.
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
$CSU.TO Mark Leonard's 2016 letter: "While we have developed some techniques and best practices for fostering organic growth, I think our most powerful tool is using human-scale Business Unit’s (BU's)"
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
Cloudflare should be trying to acquire Vercel. Just gonna put that out there @rauchg & @eastdakota Both companies have a relentless focus on speed and developer experience. Just imagine what a seamless experience of Vercel/Next.js + Workers/Durable Objects would enable.
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
Constellation Software $CSU.TO isn't just decentralized, it's fractalized. In 2006 Leonard reached capacity and delegated capital deployment to the 6 group managers. In 2017 each was running a similar size org to Leonard in 2006, so they fractalized once again.
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Damien C. Tanner
9 months
@levelsio Next week will let you one-click crawl every page from any website to a markdown file which you can upload to your GPT assistant.
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Damien C. Tanner
5 years
I often think about this cartoon
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Damien C. Tanner
4 years
Konf is here! Such an incredible journey with the team bring this live. We're so excited to see the amazing online events everyone runs 😁
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Konf
4 years
🎉Today we are excited to announce the launch of Konf, a full end-to-end virtual events and conferences platform!🎉 Konf is for people who love people. It offers everything you need to run fun and engaging online events. Create your first event now👉
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
Almost exactly a year to the day, we've finished our lockdown project. First night over in the woods and woke up to deer wandering outside the back doors 🦌
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
Falcon looks like a great model but the royalty payment license is a bit short sighted. Give @MosaicML (and many others!) a few months and they’ll have a fully open 40B alternative.
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Cameron R. Wolfe, Ph.D.
1 year
The Falcon-7B/40B open-source LLMs were released late this week, and their performance is super impressive. But, there's a huge catch for those using them commercially! Here's my main takeaways from the models so far... model architecture. The Falcon models were released by
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Damien C. Tanner
4 years
Absolutely thrilled to be hosting @HasuraHQ Con'20 for the next 3 days on 😁 We've been able to be the engaging real-time online events platform we dreamed of thanks to Hasura's db 🌍
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Tanmai Gopal
4 years
My favourite part about #HasuraCon20 is that we’re running the virtual conference on which is built on Hasura! 🤯🤯🤯 🔥🔥🔥 by @dctanner and @Haje ! Check them out!!!
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
Let's do this 🪄🚀 My new product is live NOW. One-click and train a ChatGPT powered agent on your website content, then embed it anywhere (probably on your website). 50% off for 1 year for the first 100 folks here: EARLYHALFPRICE
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
“We think that GPT 5 is currently being trained on 25k GPUs . $225 mm or so of NVIDIA hardware.”
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
@sama Lots of folks building to fill in those gaps! I built to give teams ‘multiplayer’ ChatGPT.
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Damien C. Tanner
9 months
@Suhail @eerac @Replit @amasad They need a smaller independent team who can steam ahead without any big company molasses. An acquisition would get them a team who could keep up momentum needed now (at least for a time).
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
Honestly, the goals never stop shifting. Sold two companies for 8 figures. Current life goal: get my new product to $10k MRR.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
Spent the day lounging in the sun with friends, cooking lunch for the first time in our self-build (only took 1y longer than estimated to complete!)
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Damien C. Tanner
8 months
@levelsio About 3x more expensive though. Heat pumps are kinda magical and get you free energy from outside with all those pipes.
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Damien C. Tanner
9 months
New office. This time with a window with an actual view of outside. Last place had little natural light. Already my eyes are happier.
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Damien C. Tanner
4 years
@simonw We use which basically gives you the best of both worlds: automatic GraphQL based on postgres schema. We use a fair few views for complex stuff.
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Damien C. Tanner
9 months
Early next week we're going to start opening up access to (sorry you can't sign up right now) You'll be able to scrape any website to a single markdown file which you can upload to OpenAI GPT Assistants knowledge files. lmk if you'd like early access.
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Damien C. Tanner
8 months
I’ve been assembling a team of AI hackers, who’ve been cooking up open source AI magic. We’re going to see how far we can push open source language models. Our focus will be on transparency and open license training data, so our models will be safe for companies to use.
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
Delighted with how my experiment with ChatGPT API + @Cloudflare Durable Objects turned out today. @CloudflareDev should really work to get the official OpenAI lib functioning in Workers, as it's a great way to work with the ChatGPT API.
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Damien C. Tanner
4 years
10 years ago in a standup we wondered what fun things we could build with the newly released WebSockets protocol. 10 years later, thanks to the hard work by @maxthelion and the whole team, Pusher is joining MessageBird 💫
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Max Williams
4 years
Pusher is joining MessageBird! I’ve truly loved building this company over the last 10 years. I'm so grateful to all those who were part of the journey. We'll continue our great work in our new home and contribute to gigantic ambitions.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
Kinda amazing I’ve been using @close since 2014, and it’s still imo the best CRM out there(especially for outbound sales). The data model and search system is so elegant.
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
@bernhardsson These days the only interview task I have to set for developers is: setup up an S3 bucket with single use signed URL direct upload from the browser. Do it first time and without googling and you’re hired 😂
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
Current 20 year plan: 1. Build SaaS 2. Invest profits into Constellation Software 3. Sell SaaS to Constellation Software 4. Invest proceeds into Constellation Software It all comes full circle doesn’t it.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
Durable Objects is one of the most exciting new building blocks I’ve seen in a long time. It combines serverless functions with websockets and global storage.
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Durable Objects, now in Open Beta.
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
Through some feats of engineering this contraption () produces genuine espresso on your stove. Designed by a jet engineer and built in the UK, it's a thing of beauty.
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Damien C. Tanner
7 months
Honestly how did Medium go from the new blog darling to the most annoying website ever. Has anyone scraped the whole darn thing to make our lives easier?
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Damien C. Tanner
6 months
Eight 3090 turbos installed. Thing of beauty if you ask me.
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
Holidays are nice
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Damien C. Tanner
10 years
There’s only a few ways to scale user growth, and here’s the list http://t.co/ap8UwKHsHx
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Damien C. Tanner
4 years
Time for some Twitter self-isolation. Inquiries for have understandably shot up, and we just gotta focus and get to launch asap 🚀
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
Busy day at the office 🐑
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Damien C. Tanner
7 months
Me: try this new AI search engine it's amazing My wife:
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Damien C. Tanner
9 years
What an incredible journey. The company I started in 2011 with @stuartbowness is now part of @workday http://t.co/qcJWQvfleD
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
BioNTech just acquired @phagomed . They develop phage (viruses that only target bacteria) therapies, currently as an alternative to antibiotics. But, there is some exciting potential for phage-targeted delivery in cancer.
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
@jefrankle @Teknium1 @nisten Shame the perfect name for that company is taken
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Damien C. Tanner
4 years
@awilkinson This is the book you need Will change how you look at things. Always invert!
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
My mum has been losing her eyesight. Doctors have been stumped. So we asked GPT-4: “You are an expert doctor. I will provide symptoms and patient information. You will ask follow up questions, and then respond with possible diagnosis when you have all the details you need. “
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Damien C. Tanner
5 months
OpenAI has not won yet. It’s all still up for grabs. GPT4 was driving me nuts today. Just giving me summaries of what I should write instead of writing the darn thing. Booted up Mixtral locally on my Mac and it did a swell job at exactly what I asked it.
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Damien C. Tanner
11 months
build saas to $50k mmr sell for 5x arr invest everything in Constellation Software wait 20 years billionaire
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Damien C. Tanner
3 years
I've started teaching our toddler one new AWS product per day, so she at least has a chance of knowing them all before she starts programming.
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Damien C. Tanner
8 months
Open source AI (esp ChatGPT alternatives) is a real wild west right now. Early internet vibes and I love it. Folks in high school are cooking up AI models that sit alongside those from Intel and Microsoft in the leaderboard. New models that break records seem to be released
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Damien C. Tanner
1 year
If you're wondering why $NVDA is up over 100% from it's lows....
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
@nathanbenaich Google DeepMind may turn out to have been the steal of the century. But OpenAI still being independent has allowed it to execute at startup speed. DeepMind will stay in Google molasses.
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Damien C. Tanner
2 years
The stock market is an absolute dumpster right now. It's hard not to feel a bit down. But today we just got our first paying customer for - honesty couldn't make me happier 🥹
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