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Building AI to speak with 🐶 | 🍊DAO 💎: | @YCombinator S15, @TechstarsBoston 09, @Northeastern '11 #GoHuskies
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What
@OpenAI
has envisioned of what we’re building:
Announcing the “Lab for language learning & alignment research with dogs”
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Amazing! The hours
@_lebek
,
@sayangel
,
@pedropregueiro
,
@JarekSyg
, and myself put to get the membership token working gets a mention in TechCrunch.
With incredible assists from
@peer_rich
,
@Chumbalayaa
, and
@hansklaus4711
.
Reminder mint here:
More than 1,000 YC alumni have joined a DAO looking to back young crypto startups
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@pitdesi
Yeah my m1 has slowly deteriorated to a crawl so I’m guessing the next model is being released in a few months.
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@michaelharriot
How Harriet Tubman led a secret army for the Union and how that can improve your psyops operations 🧵
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@rod_mallo
Borders established by ancestors of mostly foreign monarchs. If a group of people have agreed to their borders then there's collective legitimacy otherwise it's forced upon a population.
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@JeanineSuah
Definitely legal support, it's so painful + expensive engaging with lawyers even for simple questions. This was huge while going through YC that they provided.
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@alexiskold
"Software to translate dog barks"
Doozy as there's 0 VC concerns with this one. Checkmate.
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Excited
@yoheinakajima
likes what we're building.
Explainer:
1. Segment the stream: dog barks, person speaking, and other sounds (doorbell, vehicle, etc)
2. For person speaking we pass it to whisper
3. Dog barks we built custom models to vectorize and then run similarity score
No idea who this is or if it’s legit, but sounds like my kinda weird:
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Before this video I was a mere man with a tenuous and fragile understanding of the powerful tech behind LLMs and now I have progressed into galaxy brain understanding of the meaning of life itself.
if you’re confused about how large language models work this new animation from google deepmind should clear a lot of things up
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I have wanted to be part of the ML advancements for years and every time there was an AI boom, I felt overwhelmed & underconfident to work in it. I did not known at the time that I was accidentally working in ML for the last 6 years.
Back in 2014, I started a small meet up
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@vgr
1. Set up iOS Alarms for task deadlines a la Pomodoro
2. Close all tabs before bed except: one) next day's most critical task ii) metrics c) calendar & email
3. Mostly keep templates for different tasks so rarely start from "blank page"
4. Social media between meetings only
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something I had a hand in with a few other yc alumni
so much fun to build something people want immediately and then getting instant feedback again
🍊DAO just shipped its first product! There’s now on chain verification that you attended Y Combinator. YC alumni can mint a non transferable NFT.
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Anyone here obsessed with dogs, multi-modal models, and can help with Swift engineering? We basically have our app 95% of the way there now need help refining the experience and building our training pipelines to continue improving performance.
Looking for a co-founder.
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You don't learn crypto / Web3 from a curriculum.
You learn it by buying ETH on coinbase, get hit with crazy fees (🤑), transfer to HW wallet, 🤑, try to ape into a NFT, lose out b/c HW wallets are insane, accidentally get it, 🤑, transfer to hot wallet, 🤑, get scammed, 🤑
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@tekbog
Rarely do software-focused companies retain a technical moat. Most of the advantage emerges from customer adoption and in Postman's case their ability to sell into enterprise via their land & expand adoption strategy to get the tech org on the same tooling to keep APIs in sync.
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@atroyn
It's all fun and games until your loss functions suddenly drops and SF has to be nuked out of existence.
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Thank you for the love!
@karine_hsu
@JonathanMoyal
&
@yoheinakajima
@alexisohanian
-- we have a deep bench of bioacoustics engineers solving this problem.
Crazy bet: I think we'll be able to communicate with dolphins thanks to AI in the next 5 years. 🐬 I told
@OlympiaOhanian
this and now I'm gonna have to fund one of these companies to make sure I don't let her down.
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@lolitataub
Try it and if it’s not working to meet their metrics: drop it. It’s likely a waste of time but every now and then have fun with what you’re doing. Also most things we do in startups are hindsight waste of time but every so often bad ideas turn out to be brilliant.
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Working on something new and looking for beta testers.
High level: We got AI we're applying to dog barks and dog behavior. Testing with a few beta testers now and looking to expand.
If you have a 🐶or know someone who deeply cares about their 🐶, DM me or leave a comment 👇🏾.
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What’s coming out next month is our AR for dog translations! Here’s what we did to make this a reality:
(image source:
@midjourney
which is very close to our version)
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🐶- bark bow-wow woof (translated: we're working on it)
If I am not able to talk to my dog with AI by next year, I am done w this shit.
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@sabakarimm
Talk to customers and have fun with people you work with. Intensity to the max is not helpful to anyone including yourself.
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Amphibious Housing for All
My mom just took this video from her apartment on the north shore of Boston.
I can’t imagine what the next 25 years are going to be like for those who live on the coast.
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@benhuh
@jointheorigami
@crisisdao
@OrangeDAOxyz
It's incredible watching
@OrangeDAOxyz
grow as well as the tools you're building
@jointheorigami
based on what you learn scaling up DAOs. Realizing the better future is near!
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@pitdesi
West Oakland.
Super close to the highway (10 minute drive to the city) & W Oakland Bart stop takes 5 mins to get to Embarcadero with nature all super close.
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@karine_hsu
@alexisohanian
@OlympiaOhanian
I started with dolphins at
@OrcasoundApp
though we'll have to start with companion animals e.g. dogs, cats, horses before going to dolphins due to the difficulty in knowing where they are. Though if someone wants to take over
@SeaWorld
there's an opp here
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you can now buy your coffee with crypto (apparently the holy Grail of payment adoption)
we at
@taikacoffee
are now the first coffee company to accept crypto payments, probably nothing.
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@journeyio
is absolute game changer when you're raising a round. We're closing investors at a very rapid clip and it reduces the back/forth of emails asking for random documents. Great job
@bweitz1
!
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My gun reform: you must be part of a militia. The militia must be registered to retain gun carrying privilege (similar to non profit tax exemptions). If any member breaks violence laws the whole militia loses their status. Moves closer to 2A and creates social accountability.
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@svpino
Building ML to study 🐶 to bring about the Star Trek translator for all animals. Reach out if you want to help out.
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@nicolexcaba
@samroseloui
Yes! I built a prototype so have notes still and the business model is massive especially with medical tourism for pets.
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@jsrailton
@bngSplat
@SwiftOnSecurity
Wrote a quick python script now just need to wrap it in an API:
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Why this works? Dogs have different barks based on who they're speaking to so there's not (yet) a universal system that will understand dogs by default so we ask our users to help us out. With enough barks (10 to start, 50 to get 95% confidence) we can run better inference.
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@BooksWisdom
@paulbiggar
@ycombinator
Thanks I like that essay. Here's a fantastic speech given by Fred Hampton you might enjoy:
Looking forward to your next recommendation!
@BooksWisdom
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@DStrachman
@shriyanevatia
Continuous fundraising rounds. Currently we do discrete rounds every 18 months have been playing around with RUVs and community rounds to allow equity continuously regardless of accreditation status.
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What we’re doing at Sarama
We’ve shared Lux thesis—
of tech x ‘animal communication’
⌨️ 💻 x 🦮🐶🦜
—an ‘interspecies internet’
allowing animals to express: choice, preference, control.
Here‘s a very crude kludgy example of what we’ve described
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Thanks to
@yoheinakajima
we got 20 sign ups in 15 minutes for our private beta as we work on rolling out our beta to the app store (currently in Apple Review)
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How I got started with dog communication research 🧵
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@TonnaObaze
Be clear on how you can actually provide help. Far too many promises made prior to investment that all fall to the wayside post-deposit.
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@zackkanter
It works better when there's errors so they weed out people who are sensitive to details. Otherwise they have a harder time converting people later on. They prey on the most gullible folks:
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when you're so talented people need to start figuring out the math to be convinced we're really not in a simulation.
🐐
@Simone_Biles
Here is a physics paper explaining exactly how she accomplishes this conversion of angular velocity to linear velocity.
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@RahulHambal
@Suhail
both better lossless compression especially with neural networks and more bandwidth internet connections will occur over the next decade.
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There's advice on dealing with major failures in startups like "No's from customers" or "firing fast even if they are good but assholes". There's not much content on the small but big failure cases e.g. "Send this 83(b) or .0042% this person's family will generationally hate you"
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I didn’t lie. It’s a vaccine clinic in my neighborhood where I showed up and got a place in line. I even asked the admins and they said it’s open to the community which I’m part of. Also no one checked for eligibility and for this clinic it’s open for all. Check your facts.
For the second time, a
@ycombinator
founder has posted to the internal YC forum about how they lied to skip the vaccine queue in Oakland, with instructions for other founders to do the same.
Absolutely fucking disgusted
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@jaysbookman
@ninaturner
Her biggest political advisor is her father who has been one of the architects in our modern weakening of democracy especially with an expansive interpretation of war powers for the president so that seems to be untrue.
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@alexiskold
Oh got it haha sarcasm label should be a thing. Though I am working on software & dog training model for a new vocal language between dogs <> people. There's a lot of scientific evidence and constructed languages are an underexplored space.
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@pthread
@codinghorror
@heartpunkk
@cherthedev
Complex white board questions I can agree but asking people to show they can write a for loop is a sanity check. I generally start off with a code review for a project they can share to ease the nerves but asking for basic tests seems reasonable. Though could be wrong.
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@sama
A dog CEO pitching to investors with a mix of dog investors and human investors that are happy with the results. The board room has a view of the Golden Gate bridge behind the dog CEO.
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@aditishekar
At my prior startup:
1. I blocked off hours to do CX weekly
2. Gave CX agents ability to hand vitriolic calls to me
3. Asked CX agents to politely hang up
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Customers calm down when transferred & CX felt we had their back.
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@AbhayVenkatesh1
I think constructing a market from the ground up is extraordinarily expensive w/o government/military. Whereas exploiting latent markets that are undervalued by amateur groups is where you see the most profound impact.
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@CindyBiSV
Happened a few times and most recently where I just was. What were you main lessons when leaving? I always feel raw given some of the stakes.
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Most stressful time in my life growing up was the day before cleaners came. My mom was very adamant cleaners didn't have a bad impression of our house....
Cleaners come every Wednesday.
Which means every Wednesday morning, WE have to clean for the cleaners.
Some things aren’t meant to be understood in this life.
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Amazing team doing something awesome in CV.
1/ Today we’re excited to unveil Sieve (
@sievedata
), a cloud native platform for processing, searching, and running all sorts of AI models on video.
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Best investors indiscriminately put money behind people then support them deeply!
@ycombinator
proves this approach given their selection criteria is your ability to write clear, concise sentences and speak in English to a hostile audience.
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Same people:
Man slaps another man on TV - "this is a precedent we can never live down"
Man tries to own another country - "think about how he feels"
🤔
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@deliprao
💯
It was initiated by someone that felt bad they were unable to join the hunts so started to track the time it took everyone to come back & % of tribe that survives which led to humankind's first KPI.
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Incredibly valuable advice and I've lived through this experience 3x as I drank more KoolAid than was in the jug.
Also, keep your friends close as that'll be your lifeline when things blow up. Being a failed founder is only really popular as Medium blog posts.
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Interesting article by
@deliprao
on how dev docs should be teaching people how to build stuff:
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@Ramzyis
@steph_rich
@Clarence_Bethea
@eamonncarey
@ryankuder
@sabakarimm
Amazing room and great questions/moderation!!
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@TheMcGirkEffect
@Margare7a
@NateSilver538
I work on this with the team at
@OrcasoundApp
and there’s a few other efforts that are on the slack where we discuss bioacoustics methods to resolve the challenges around deciding.
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In the end,
@satyanadella
is a certified 🐐and
@sama
grew his leverage over
@OpenAI
given Microsoft controls most their compute, capital, and enterprise distribution (now likely emerging startup distribution)👏🏽 Plus he can accelerate his hardware + chips products.
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as a founder I hearby declare my support for DC statehood what other founders are with me?
The founders never intended for Washington DC to become a state.
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@ProfNoahGian
Create a loom video of your pipeline, put together a half-assed pitch deck on docsend, put together a launch party in sf on partiful, invite investors, fly out, get invited back to the offices, have investors compete for your round, boom!
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Come hear what we’re working on next week!
Voice + AI Meetup next week at the
@Cloudflare
office in San Francisco, featuring a panel discussion with
@natrugrats
,
@Prafulfillment
, and
@rajivayyangar
.
DM me if you want to demo.
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Latest research from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary finds that dogs learn word boundaries the same way infants do! 🧵 1/
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@T_ommy_R
@krossny1
@danielmarans
It’s illegal to kill people but the issue is the ease of access to guns in other states. We should create residence laws to acquire weapons so this becomes less likely. We do this for getting a library card…
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@ErichFlambeau
@jxmnop
Amazing! So if you have a paper or work to show this is possible you'll resolve explainablity in ML models otherwise your comment is useless.
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Twitter business model:
1. Free for everyone
2. $1/tweet from anyone that identifies as an investor, surge pricing for “hot takes” and “narrative violations”
3. Enterprise pricing for bot farms so there’s still high MAU and bots are part of the fun.
🎤
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We pushed our public alpha: Sarama's dog bark translator. It took us a year of active development to take a sci-fi project into a market ready product. Thank you to all our beta testers that spent countless hours helping us with our development! 1/5
What we've learned 👇🏾
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@paulbiggar
Also I never showed people how to skip a line given the rules for federal vaccination clinics were 18+ and the president announced it the same night as this rant.
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@heyalexfriedman
Poorly.
What's helped:
1. Meditation
2. Following similars on social media
3. Social breaks through the day (I'm extroverted so 2020 was especially hard)
4. Stopping work when I still have energy instead of going till I collapse
5. Playing with my dog
6. Strangely TikTok
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Coming to a Sarama app near you
A fascinating visual guide to the various gaits utilized by canines when moving at different speeds
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@thevisahan
How I did it: I blew up a production db at a startup where I spent 5 hours using back ups and logs to recreate the original
How I suggest others to do it today: Get
@OpenAI
account and request codex then ask it to convert English to sql to get a better sense
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@paulbiggar
more importantly a yc founder did come with his uncle, aunt, & mom and all got vaccinated who had trouble in other sites which was the whole point so all you did was raise hell to get a post removed that helped others.
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Do you have friends interviewing for
@ycombinator
S20? If so, let me know. My friend & I are running mock interviews.
#YC
#S20
#YCInterview
#YCombinator
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@OfficialBBrooks
@geri_kirilova
The historical activist cultures were also much more daring than we have today given the trauma of strong leaders' assassinations, mass incarceration, active destruction of activists orgs and the strategic erosion of the first amendment to benefit capital.
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@jasonkimvc
reply:
> Aero plane will be revolutionary but Wrights Brothers just hacked some bicycle parts together no scientific underpinning unlike Samuel Pierpont Langley. Anyone could do this in a weekend.
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@pepijndevos
@RichDecibels
@visakanv
Hinduism is hard to categorize as (mono|poly|a)theistic. All interpretations work. The storytelling in Hinduism is structured around societies and many Hero's Journeys. Bhagavad Gita and the larger Mahabharata have branching stories that converge. Marvelverse from 1000s years ago
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Feeling pretty good about my 📃🙌🏽 right about now
Having 💸 is good as the markets 📉
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Let’s discuss how we can find out what dog’s actually think about their meaning of life
Playing around with 🤗 Candle for CPU inference on Mac.
8.55 tok/sec. (4-bit quantised)
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