Varun Singh
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@trydaily. ex-CEO @callstatsio acq’d by $eght. earlier multimedia protocols and video at $NOK, $STM, $LGE, phd @aalto. Focus on growth, revenue. 🇺🇸🇫🇮🇮🇳
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2007
RT @UnslothAI: You can now reproduce DeepSeek-R1's reasoning on your own local device! Experience the "Aha" moment with just 7GB VRAM. Un…
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RT @kwindla: Launch day for @Google Imagen 3! We updated Story Bot — one of the classic @pipecat_ai voice interaction starter kits — to u…
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RT @swyx: With Gemini 2.0 GA pricing/benchs, it's official: @GoogleDeepMind has the Mandate of Heaven.
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Shocked to hear of his passing. He will be missed for his deep technical insights but also for his community work with the W3C, IETF, and IEEE. My most recent catch up was his visit to Palm beach and we caught up discussing media transports and watching birds. In all my interactions, I can say, he always made time.
Over the weekend the Internet lost a long time advocate, collaborator, and inventor with the passing of Dr. Bernard D. Aboba. Bernard was a longtime Microsoft employee having joined in mid-1994 in the earliest days of the modern internet. He was not yet an employee when he participated in Microsoft's first executive offsite on the internet held the same week Netscape was formed. He brought with him copies of a book he had just authored "The Online User's Encyclopedia: Bulletin Boards and Beyond" — I still have my copy as it was indispensable in those early days. Yes, back then you could print the whole internet in one 800 page book that one smart person could author. Bernard rose up through Microsoft and was most recently an architect on Teams. Over his entire career at Microsoft Bernard actively participated in IETF processes and working groups. His contributions are widely known in the community and more broadly used by all of us on the internet routinely. He led pioneering work to secure Wi-Fi for corporate use all the way to most recently his work on WebRTC and WebCodecs. He authored over 100 RFCs and 55 remain active. While many at Microsoft participated in standards, he was among the earliest and a leading contributor. He leaves behind an incredible contribution. More here and I wanted to share his professional work given the legacy of his contributions. Further details on his remembrance will be available via family. May his memory be a blessing.
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RT @kwindla: Using Gemini search metadata in a voice AI application Filipi added support in @pipecat_ai for Google Gemini's `groundingMeta…
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I believe healthcare in Asia is perhaps better than both the US and Europe. There are different reasons for healthcare being broken in the US and Europe. Tl;dr — egregious costs in the US and care isn’t much better. In Europe, unless you’re close to dying, you won’t be taken seriously. I had an issue in Finland in 2018 where one of my tonsils grew so large over 4-5 days that each day, I couldn’t progressively eat. On day 6 when antibiotics didn’t work, they finally sent me to ER and the doctor applied a local anesthesia anddid an incision to drain the tonsils. It cost me $30 but the main issue I take was the days of negotiating with the doctors that things were not looking great. And that penicillin isn’t working. It didn’t help that there was overlap with the Easter weekend. OTOH, in Sept 2023 in the US, I had a kidney stone that I only realized on day 6 when things were really blocked. For 5 days I thought that I had tweaked something in the gym. Nonetheless, it was a trip to urgent care and then to the ER. The stones were only in the right tube and about 4mm and already on their journey. I was sent back home with pain killers. It cost me 4K out of pocket. That was my max out of pocket anyway. Anyway, the urgent care billed me 10K (insurance covered 8k) just to send me to the ER where they ran the CAT scan again because they didn’t trust the urgent care’s diagnosis. They charged 30K and the insurance covered most of it, my out-of-pocket was $2K. The interesting part, at the ER they didn’t cover the charges for the IV. Which they charged 1K. This cost me $4K for a diagnosis, and the excruciating pain for another 2 days. Not sure what would have been the experience in Helsinki (maybe comparable to yours). The followup doctor visit could only be scheduled a month out, because the worst would be behind us in a few days and 30-40 days out was the earliest I could see the doctor anyway. Since the trip to the ER blew out most of the out of pocket max, seeing the specialist for the rest of the year was mostly covered by the insurance. Based on what I’ve heard about medical tourism in Asia, I guess the care experience in Asia might be better.
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RT @aconchillo: Pipecat 0.0.53 is now available! First @pipecat_ai release of 2025! So many new external contributions which means Pipecat…
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Today, we got internet at the new rental property. The contract stipulates a 1Gbps connection, but my experience suggests that the actual speed is significantly lower. and Google’s test results indicate that the connection can barely reach 485 mbps, while Speedtest, which utilizes servers operated by the ISP, can achieve a maximum speed of 750 mbps. Given that all target servers are located in the Bay Area, this performance is unacceptable and falls short of the advertised 1Gbps speed. The primary concern for me is the upload speed, which barely exceeds 25Mbps. This significant asymmetry in upload/download speeds poses a challenge for two people working from home. video calls will likely to result in queuing delays. The availability of only one provider further exacerbates the situation, as there is limited competition in the market.
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RT @MatthewBerman: The DIGITS supercomputer is gorgeous in person. And even smaller than I thought it would be. @NVIDIA_AI_PC
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