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🌟 prev. @ExaAiLabs , @shopthrifthouse 🌟 @milksandmatcha on TikTok 🌟 @MIT Computer Science Currently in SF | DMs Open
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The fun-employment is over! So excited to take
@cerebrassystems
to the moon :) 🚀🌙
Big thanks to
@learnwdaniel
@juliechoi
@sophia_luo_
@swyx
@pk_iv
@jxnlco
@samjulien
@tyler_fong_
@brickywhat
@slaterstich
for their advice, support, and mentorship ❤️
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I asked my dad if he was disappointed in me.
He immigrated to the US in high school, worked like crazy to get me through MIT, only for me to leave one of the highest-paying new grad jobs for "startups."
Me: "Are you worried"
Papa Chieng: "Nope."
Me: "...."
Papa Chieng: "I'm
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May: Graduated from MIT
June: Reneged on NYC Quant Trading job
Sept: Moved to SF!
Now ya girl is looking to meet more people in the AI/LLM space :)
Coffee's on me ☕️😅
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I created a notes version of
@karpathy
's "Intro to LLM" video for folks who don't have 1 hour 😀 (~5 min read)
I focused on making the document as holistic and easy to follow as possible, for all understanding levels.
For example,
> significant restructuring of the video
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I summarized
@karpathy
's 1 hour "Intro to LLM" video into 3 minutes :)
Personally, trying to get better at summarizing and communicating through both notes and verbally!
Covers:
> what is an LLM
> how to build an LLM
> limitations
> future of LLMs
my notes summary:
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I compiled a prompt engineering "best practices and tricks" doc 😀
Created based on OpenAI
@isafulf
's prompt engineering talk at
@NeurIPSConf
and enriched with more details, examples, and tips.
I focused on making the document as comprehensive and concise as possible, and it
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Compiled all of my notes for quant trading.
Made this doc earlier this year and recently found it again. For context, I did several trading internships in college (HRT, SIG, Peak6) and compiled this with friends.
Includes:
> general textbooks to read
> interview question banks
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At MIT, our teachers required that we use chatGPT.
ex: our Chinese teacher told us to use chatGPT to correct our grammar before posting our essays for other students to read. She didn't want any incorrect grammar to confuse other students.
Why are schools still banning
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Hard-launching "Cafe Compute"
The first, late night coffeeshop with boardgames, In-and-out, boba, mochi donuts and more.
Hours: 8 PM - 1 AM
❤️ Co-hosts
@sfcompute
@lizziepika
@LearnWdaniel
@itsajchan
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A fourth friend from MIT is on the market :)
> MIT Computer Science (Undergrad + Masters)
> 2+ years backend, AWS, data pipelines, LLM + RAG experience
> Prev. Meta, Apple, startups
If anyone has any opportunities, he'll be following this post :)
if anyone's hiring: got a great Harvard friend, recently graduated and looking for the next thing :)
> Harvard Mathematics
> 2 years of ML research/engineer experience
> International Math Olympiad (IMO) x2
He's a quick learner and a great guy!
If anyone has any
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We made an app to search and interact with the latest AI research: the 3500+ 2023 NeurIPS papers!
Key Features ⚡️
> Search: Neural search over the 3500+ papers and see what papers are similar
> Understand: chat with papers about their key results, datasets used, possible
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I've gotten a lot of DM's recently about quant trading + breaking into the industry.
Context: I did 3 quant trading internships at SIG, HRT, and Peak6 and was planning to do it full-time. If anyone's interested:
💌 General Textbooks
- Options Volatility and Pricing
- All of
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A 5th friend from MIT is on the market (this time it's ME!)
> MIT Computer Science
> GTM + Engineering
> Prev. SIG, HRT, startups :)
more about me:
A fourth friend from MIT is on the market :)
> MIT Computer Science (Undergrad + Masters)
> 2+ years backend, AWS, data pipelines, LLM + RAG experience
> Prev. Meta, Apple, startups
If anyone has any opportunities, he'll be following this post :)
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Ratios I've experienced:
Middle school CS class: 1:15 girl/guy
First SWE internship: only girl
MIT: 1:1 🚀
Both Trading internships: ~ 1:5 girl/guy
NYC AI Hackathon: only girl team
TLDR: looking to meet more female engineers, AI researchers, etc ☺️
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Pioneering a new era of tech meetups.
Out with the dinners, in with the anti-dinner (workouts). Will continue hosting these weekly :)
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Just moved to SF and found my favorite weekend activity... run club!!🏃♀️
Slow, "exploratory" runs where we hit a different happening each weekend. Week 1: ran to/from the marina to watch the flight week show
Week 2: ran to Oceans Beach and did a grill out!
Anyone wanna join?
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I graduated from MIT without a job.
Much to my parents' dismay, I last minute decided quant trading wasn't for me and decided to pursue startups. Thankfully, we have AI to supercharge our job search 🚀
Anyways, I wrote this:
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I asked the CEO of one the top trading firms "how to become more financially literate".
At the time, I was an incoming quant trader and he was a fellow MIT alum.
His only recommendation...
@matt_levine
's Money Stuff!
"Single best financial writer out there. If you read his
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Anyone in SF wanna do some bucket list things with me? 👋Just moved and looking to make some friends :)
1. bike golden gate
2. hike lands end
3. SF botanical garden
4. thrift shopping
5. spin ping pong
6. Fisherman's wharf
(please give more suggestions + food recs)
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This past weekend, I celebrated moving to SF and joining
@metaphorsystems
❤️
At MIT, I interned at quant trading firms every summer, and right before senior year, signed with an NYC trading firm for full-time. It was good money and I had fallen into it freshman year.
A pivotal
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Made an AI tool to automatically discover, research, and evaluate candidates using Exa 😀
Here's how I did it!
1. Start with a small list of potential candidates
2. Use
@ExaAILabs
's web search/scrape + GPT-4 to research and evaluate the candidates for good fit
3. Use Exa's
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Bittersweet to share that I’ve recently decided to leave Exa! Nothing but love for the team that has truly become a second family and feeling so pumped for where Exa is headed. 🚀
I’ll be in NYC and SF for the next few weeks, would love to catch up or grab coffee with folks!
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I compiled a ~5 min read of
@andrewyng
and
@isafulf
's 2.5 hour "Application Development using Large Language Models" talk at NeurIPS!
It was super cool to attend with
@metaphorsystems
and I managed to get a spot by showing up very very early! 😛
Some things it covers:
> LLM
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Any advice appreciated :)
When I was younger, I tried to be good at a lot of things. Know how to code, play the violin, ice skate, etc.
When I applied to college, it was "you have to have one spike. You won't stand out to the admissions office if you're well rounded." This
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I'm 22.
What percent of my time is supposed to go to
✨ career
✨ personal growth
✨ fitness + health
✨ relationships
✨ fun
All advice appreciated :)
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At
@ExaAILabs
, we’ve sourced 1000s of sales leads by combining GPT4 with Exa itself. Here's how we do it 🙂
With Exa’s similarity search, you can input a URL and find the links that most semantically match it. If you do this with a company’s page, you get a huge list of
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if anyone's hiring: got a great Harvard friend, recently graduated and looking for the next thing :)
> Harvard Mathematics
> 2 years of ML research/engineer experience
> International Math Olympiad (IMO) x2
He's a quick learner and a great guy!
If anyone has any
A third friend from MIT is on the market:
> MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (6-2) and Material Science (3-A8)
> Prev. USACO, USAPHO, & Regeneron STS
> list of publications attached
> Current student, looking for internships
If anyone's looking for a beast AI
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SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDERS/CREATORS/FRIENDS 🎉
weekend in sept. crazy nice airbnb. insane group of founders.
slow down/reflect/write/leave the laptops at home.
who's interested?
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The
@metaphorsystems
team is at
@NeurIPSConf
for the week!!
If you're interested in our mission or want to exchange notes on LLMs, RAG, or search, let's get coffee (on me)!
I'm also hosting several events:
> Run Club 🏃♀️: a pre-NeurIPS NOLA exploration run. Co-hosting with
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My daily workout:
I started watching deep-learning videos while running on the treadmill. Each time, a one-hour lecture.
Call me employee of the year :)
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✨ SF Socialites ✨
Just moved to a new city and my friend built the BEST way to tap into the social scene. I can filter my search to Partiful + posted in the past month.
Lmk if anyone's facing the same thing and wants a link :P 👀
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Recently decided to leave Exa and have really enjoyed this period of 'self-guided growth and exploration' in my early 20's. I made a list of areas that I wanted to dedicate time to -- reading, coding, content creation, fitness, etc. as I passively think about what to do next :)
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Is anyone looking to hire a beast engineer or product person? My best friend is looking for new roles.
Some details:
- Graduated from MIT in Math and CS
- Prev SWE @ Capital One and PM @ Startup
A very quick learner and jack of all trades :)
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if I had a nickel for everyone who's told me, "You should've stuck to your quant trading job. Building startups is so irresponsible and spoiled" ...
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If you're curious about me and what I'm up to, check out the new website :)
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Another cracked friend is looking for AI Eng roles!
> UC Berkeley bachelors + masters (NLP focus)
> AI Research @ Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)
> Prev. founding AI Eng @ Startup, MLE @ Pinterest
Super close friend. If anyone has opportunities, he'll be following this post :)
A 5th friend from MIT is on the market (this time it's ME!)
> MIT Computer Science
> GTM + Engineering
> Prev. SIG, HRT, startups :)
more about me:
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I interviewed for my first quant trading internship 19 months before the internship started. I had JUST started at MIT, and I was career-wise clueless, and very (easily) impressed by the food, hotel, and travel for the onsite.
Because of that, I only did trading internships in
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If you're a founder or creator and want some free TikTok exposure, comment ur startup!
Looking for some startups to create content about
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I spent 2 years creating content on TikTok, reaching 40M+ views and 4M+ likes. I compiled my lessons and learnings for consistent virality.
These tips apply to any content creation: demo videos, pitching, youtube, etc.
The guide covers
> creating an engaging script
> common
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When you're mad about being ticket scammed, so you post a fake concert to expose the scammers :P
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If you're a founder or creator and want some free LinkedIn exposure, comment ur startup! Looking for some startups to create content about
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If you are working on a side project or interested in hacking and need some free compute/inference... DM me!
Open to all engineers, researchers, or students. Comes with
@CerebrasSystems
ramen 🍜👀
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Resource for learning more AI/ML ✨
MIT lists all of its AI/ML course materials online for free at .
There are TONS of ML courses and one of the ML professors (Shen Shen) recently created a website/ interactive tree to help you figure out which course to
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Get instantly notified whenever you, your company, or topics of interest are mentioned online 🤖
> Built with
@browserbasehq
and
@ValDotTown
> Constantly monitors Twitter, Hacker News, and Reddit
> Sends a slack notification every time your keywords are mentioned
Project
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Visiting the alma mater this week! If anyone's in the Cambridge/Boston area and wants to chat startups, AI, or LLMs let me know :)
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👋👋👋
Any founders or creators in NYC tryna grab a nice dinner? On me 😄
(free food = perks of being a content creator)
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Made a tutorial to automatically research, triage, and outbound a list of companies!
> Uses
@ExaAILabs
to find and scrape relevant company links
> Creates a company summary, company category, and personalized outbound email
> All automated inside google sheets
Full code
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I'm so excited to help organize the annual MIT AI Conference on Oct. 21 in SF! We'll be joined by 30+ amazing AI leaders including Sal Khan, Sam Altman, and Kanjun Qiu. Join us for a full day of talks, sessions, and networking.
If you're interested in attending, comment what
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We’re hiring beast engineers at
@metaphorsystems
🦫👷
LLMs have become magical, but the way we find knowledge online still feels like 2010. We're using transformer-based search architectures to give full control over what you can find.
We’re a team of ex-MIT, Harvard, and
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AIs need powerful access to knowledge. But search engines haven't improved since 1998.
- 2024
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Announcing the official end of an era.
After posting on TikTok for 1.5 years, getting over 37M views and 3.8M likes, I've accepted that it's no longer for me.
I started it originally to grow
@shopthrifthouse
and it certainly served its purpose. Got the first 10k+ users with
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After conducting 20+ experiments, I have concluded that AI Researchers are actually sleeper athletes.
They must be really good at training.
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Roommate Jeff got Hinge ghosted so now we're throwing this. 🤠
think: laptops, ✨disco lights✨, vibey music, energy drinks
Who wants an invite 👇👇
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slow jog at the gym +
@karpathy
videos
PS: in my running era if anyone wants to go on a run 👋
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I've finally figured out LinkedIn! Started consistently getting 750k+ views and 3k+ comments on each of my posts. Also, 22x'd
@metaphorsystems
LinkedIn in 2 weeks 🚀. It's been a great tool for quick hiring and product testing for Metaphor, and I've also helped a couple AI
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Helping another friend look for new roles:
- MIT CS and Math (undergrad)
- MIT Masters w/ research experience in general relativity, computer vision, and NLP
- published in NeurIPS
- industry experience in quant research and ML engineering
Can personally vouch that he's one of
Is anyone looking to hire a beast engineer or product person? My best friend is looking for new roles.
Some details:
- Graduated from MIT in Math and CS
- Prev SWE @ Capital One and PM @ Startup
A very quick learner and jack of all trades :)
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The roommates and I recently started 75 Hard. 2 workouts, 10 pages of a book, diet, etc... everyday for 75 days.
Recently have read Skin in the game, Atomic habits (I HAD to haha), The Startup of You, and Economic facts and fallacies.
But would LOVE any book recs.
Some
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I started reading the Elon Musk biography with the context that I wanted to gain inspiration.
And then I was like hold up. Why am I trying to be a traumatized human when I'm not traumatized. Hmm.
Is this SF bubble or just me
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At what age do you have it "figured out"?
For me:
Graduating high school ❌: applied to MIT as a biology major (haha 😅)
During college ❌: switched majors 4 times
Graduating college❌: Reneged on full time post-grad because I realized it wasn't for me
I'm definitely inching
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I have a question...
Does being an early-stage founder mean that you're unemployed? "Unemployed" feels like such a negative word haha yikes
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✨Free coffee and coworking✨
Me and the roomies
@wangzjeff
@WilliamBryk
are starting a "Coffee and Co-work" series in our SF place next week.
Think: (free) diy coffee/matcha bar, lots of desks + couches for people to casually work, chat, read
Who's interested!!
#sf
#cowork
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AI builders, can we please normalize our parents not understanding what we do? 😅
@metaphorsystems
is an embeddings-based search engine but to Papa Chieng......
I called him right after to clarify that his daughter isn't just building a non-profit Google.
Somehow he's still
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Really want to try solo-traveling but have always been worried about safety + logistics.
Any recs for country, preparation, or even people's experiences? Is it worth doing 👀
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My mom asked me yesterday whether I was looking at big tech companies, and I realized that it's never even crossed my mind haha.
I studied CS in college but only tried quant trading before pivoting to startups post-grad. Always thought early-stage startups or founding was for
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SF is not dead 🏃♀️
Every week in SF is so different, but the one consistency has been running with friends on the weekends :)
So grateful to have cultivated a group of friends equally invested in fitness, sun, and grinding.
Out with the coffee-chats and in with the jog-chats!
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lol
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A third friend from MIT is on the market:
> MIT Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (6-2) and Material Science (3-A8)
> Prev. USACO, USAPHO, & Regeneron STS
> list of publications attached
> Current student, looking for internships
If anyone's looking for a beast AI
Helping another friend look for new roles:
- MIT CS and Math (undergrad)
- MIT Masters w/ research experience in general relativity, computer vision, and NLP
- published in NeurIPS
- industry experience in quant research and ML engineering
Can personally vouch that he's one of
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starting a weekly SF co-working squad with
@andrewqu_
✨ a different coffee shop every week
✨ once a week Thursday
who wants to join :)
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Hey SF founders, friends, creators, 🎉
the web0 house is hosting a party this coming Saturday. Comment or DM for the deets :)
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SF FRIENDS!!
Co-hosting this! Talking about work or startups is illegal and will result in immediate removal from the premises. Who's trying to come?
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Made a tutorial on combining web retrieval with LLMs to research and generate a report on any topic :)
> Uses
@ExaAILabs
to find and scrape the latest web content
> Generates reports on startups, industries, news, etc.
> Grounds the research with relevant, accurate citations
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I have been contracting on the side as I think about what's next. It's my first time doing this, and can confirm Jason has been really helpful :)
If you're doing tech consulting this could add a few thousand to your bottom line.
Let me ROAST your consulting proposal for FREE (privately, just DM me)
I've scaled my consulting from 170$/hr to 100k a month and have helped others add 5-50k to their business by writing better
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Building
@metaphorsystems
.
If anyone is also thinking about LLMs, RAGs, or search, I'd love to grab coffee and exchange notes :)
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Does anyone know a good designer? Looking for some branding and UI work for
@metaphorsystems
!
Looking for someone who can build a magical/out-of-the-box experience for our frontend 👀
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I changed my Twitter banner so folks know my hard work ethic started at a very young age 📈
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I probably won't travel much in the next year. There's just no time!
At first, I was worried this meant that I was wasting my early 20s. But I slowly realized the real reason is because
1. Work is too important and I don't want to take time off
2. I don't feel a need to take a
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I started creating content during college as a free GTM strategy for
@shopthrifthouse
!
I founded Thrifthouse during MIT, and I am so grateful that I started building my own distribution channels early. I've since done 50+ partnerships with startups and brands across TikTok,
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Had the best time hosting ✨ Ladies, Linguinis, and Martinis (LLMS)✨
Gathered a group of amazing founders, researchers, and operators for an intimate dinner.
Special thanks to the
@ExaAILabs
team :)
- Chef Jeff + Chef Will
- Server Shreyas + Server Hubert
- Bartender Ben
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Neural search, chat with, and bookmark all 3500+
@NeurIPSConf
2023 papers! We built this last week to help folks navigate the papers and find others doing similar research :)
For example:
If you search this year's Test of Time winner written in 2013, "Distributed
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i had a running notion page of life lesson and reminders that have drastically changed my life. A collection of personal wisdom that's "hit different."
my best friend and I combined ours recently :)
i think it would be so fun to gather a group of people to share and maybe even
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I also wrote my MIT admissions essay about my love of drinking boba 🧋
I got into Harvard + almost every college I applied to w/ an essay about studying at McDonalds. Had multiple admissions officers write me handwritten letters complimenting me on it
To any frantic high school senior, the best advice I got was - keep in mind that the admissions
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Unlock fast, agentic workflows with Cerebras and Instructor
Use Instructor to get guaranteed structured outputs from LLMs hosted on
@CerebrasSystems
. 20x faster inference than on GPUs. <1 min to implement
1. Create a new Instructor client with 'from_cerebras'
2. Define
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Interesting conversation yesterday about a friend who's currently an AI Engineer at a pretty big company. He's currently heavily considering business school as a way to "differentiate himself." He thinks his job will become obsolete because of AI?
In the meantime, every other
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Someone on Twitter tried to sell me his list of VCs....
So...I used
@metaphorsystems
to scrape my own list. I searched "VCs investing in early-stage AI startups" and got 100+ relevant VCs. It works for any stage/sector/etc.
Did this in <5min.
If anyone else is raising, happy
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Looking for some design advice!
Maybe around 2-3 hours of contract work over the next few days. Any good UI/UX designers to recommend? 🙌
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I can’t wait to be a mom one day! We had Friendsgiving and I made my world famous sweet potatoes 🥰
Planning a dinner party next week. Comment if you want to come
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Hey Austin founders, VCs, creators, dropouts, and web0 developers 👋
Let's make a community :) Comment or DM and I'll get a group going. Feel free to retweet so we can build some momentum.
#austin
#founder
#creator
#community
#atx
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I feel like every wise person reads constantly or took time off to do nothing but read. Looking to curate the ultimate 'Mental 8 Pack' list, especially for someone in their young 20's.
For context, some of my recent favorites are
> Fooled By Randomness
> The Art of Strategy
>
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The best feeling is when you're a super-user of your own product :) ☺️
We're building
@metaphorsystems
-- a neural search engine. A cool use case is that you can find your hidden competitors, potential customers, and future investors.
An example 👉 My first startup was a resale
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🚨🚨CALLING ALL NEW YORK CREATORS, FOUNDERS, & COLLEGE STUDENTS !🚨🚨
@shopthrifthouse
is hosting an end-of-summer event for the coolest people to meet the coolest people. Friday 6-8 PM. In collaboration with
@roughdraftvc
and
@vercisocial
COMMENT OR DM FOR AN INVITE
👇👇👇
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