The real capital gains are the friends you've made along the way.

SEC Filing Watch: SV Angel appears to have closed $330M for SV Angel Growth II, L.P. The firm's first Growth Fund raised approximately $270M in 2022.

Today in tech history: Google went public 20 years ago on August 19, 2004.

SEC Filing Watch: 20VC Fund III, L.P. targets as much as $400M, >2x AUM over the firm's most-recently announced pair of funds. Best of luck to Mr. @HarryStebbings.

Scheduled Send should be built into any messaging system. Just because I'm up late and surfing around and lacking self-control to draft a message and send it in the AM doesn't mean folks need to be subjected to it, like, **tonight**.

Microwaved take: The constrained spectrum that makes Apple Vision Pro's passthrough color rendering look flat is a feature. You take the thing off and realize the world is suddenly vibrant and full of color. EDIT: for Grammar.

And if you just want to skip all the reading and go right to the application, here's the link. (You might need to create an account, which takes like 2 minutes.) .

Applications for a spot on Startup Row at.@pycon 2024 are now open! If you're building something awesome and want to connect in-person with the Python community, apply for free booth space and conference passes for you and your team!. Learn more:

It’s a week like this that I kinda miss being an in-the-trenches reporter. Separately, I’m considering framing the supplement to Wired’s October 2023 issue spotlighting OpenAI. Uncannily prescient:

Congrats to @ponderdata on its exit to @SnowflakeDB! It was great having the team on Startup Row at @pycon 2023 in Salt Lake City.

boop.

Now up on @DeepgramAI: @erin_scherf and I trace the academic journey of Language AI from Turing's Imitation Game to GPT-4, in 11 papers. So glad to have the opportunity to work with Erin again.

At least as far as the insurance stuff goes.

There's probably some blog post to write with an insufferable clickbait headline: "Why I'm Shutting Down My 6-Figure Data Labeling and Procurement Side Hustle". But that's for another day.

I'm like 3.5 hours away from being done with one of the toughest 16 months of my life. I, more or less, served as product manager and project manager for recovering from a total-loss house fire. Tonight's the insurance receipt deadline, and I bought champagne to pop at midnight.

I'm thankful for cloud backups. I had my phone set up on the ledge of my terrace for some time lapse photography. (dumb, I know) Well, there was a gust of wind, and my phone fell 6 stories onto concrete. 2 hours after buying a new phone, it's like that never even happened.

Listen to the podcast episode and try it all out for yourself, but not before reading Ben's article, which can be found here:

Congrats to current @DeepgramAI Research intern Ben Luks for taking the time to submit his article about using LLMs for generating food recipes to @bugcounter and @benjaminchapman's "Risky or Not" podcast!.

LLMs dominate the discourse because they can seemingly do basically anything with text inputs and outputs. How long will that be true?. Now up on @DeepgramAI: "The Underdog Revolution: How Smaller Language Models Can Outperform LLMs" by Andy Wang.

Current Friday Status: I'm taking my dog Zeus for a long rainy walk, ordering an uncomfortably large pizza, and diving into the new Zelda game. I have zero complaints at the moment.