Evan Walden
@itsevanwalden
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Making it easier for people to find meaningful work at @Getro 🐇🕳
Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2009
A workflow I'm enjoying for managing coding agents on a kanban board: When an agent needs your input, it turns the task red to alert you that it's blocked! And then you can respond right there on the card to unblock it 😎
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A US teacher sharing her classroom experience. One of the comments underneath says: "47 years teaching. Just retired this year. The difference between then and now is like night and day. The kids have zero attention span!"
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Viruses can take up to ~12 hours to incubate, so regularly washing them out makes sense. And it works. In an RCT of 387 adults gargling water 3 times a day: -36 percent fewer infections -Milder symptoms when infection occurred
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Big fan of @meetgranola !
Say hello to Granola for iOS. When we launched @meetgranola, we wanted to bring the magic of AI notetaking to your Zoom calls. Today, we're bringing that magic to your in-person conversations. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
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What happens if high quality AI models become free, ubiquitous, and inexpensive to run on even low-spec hardware? (1) First, you can rebuild every productivity app AI-first. That starts with Microsoft Word, Google Sheets, and Apple Keynote. But it extends to wholly new kinds of
AI will move into a window (later this year) that I would call "second mover's advantage." That is, the first obvious moves that could be big are played out given the technology/funding cycle. The rest of us get to watch how it worked out, take stock of the pace, understand how
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The risk of politician coins comes from the fact that they are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings
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"Now is the time to talk about the fact that large-scale political coins cross a further line: they are not just sources of fun, whose harm is at most contained to mistakes made by voluntary participants, they are vehicles for unlimited political bribery, including from foreign
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Introducing Perplexity Assistant. Assistant uses reasoning, search, and apps to help with daily tasks ranging from simple questions to multi-app actions. You can book dinner, find a forgotten song, call a ride, draft emails, set reminders, and more. Available on Play Store.
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Wondering how to actually use AI in your day to day? Our team @a16z asked some of AI's biggest names to nominate their favorite products of 2024 - this is a great starting point 👀 Here are their picks! ⬇️ For general AI assistants: - Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) - AI search
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Meet Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence.
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Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is
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Excited to see this board with so many open roles in Defense Tech / Deep Tech!
What if we launched a separate website with a dedicated Defense Tech/Deep Tech job board. What if we had about 200 companies listed on it representing +4,000 open roles? What if it was live next week?
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📈 Facing challenges measuring the impact of your fund’s talent initiatives? Dive into proven strategies with Melanie Blaine from LLR on Nov 1st. Register for the webinar: https://t.co/zU4wG8tWkG
#VCTalent #TalentOps #HeadofTalent #PETalent #webinar
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Melanie shares how Heads of Talent and Platform at VC funds can measure and communicate the ROI of talent at VC funds
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Tired of reviewing hundreds of profiles when sourcing candidates? Introducing AI-Powered Matching, #recruiting’s secret weapon. Learn how it can help you find precise matches in less time: https://t.co/MkMohantxf
#AI #Tech #VC #venturecapitalist #hiring #venturecapital
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I often get asked "Why is @Angellist building cap table software. Aren't there plenty of people doing that?" The answer is in our long term plan (which we are sharing for the first time today here) 👇
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With seed funding relatively insulated from market turmoil, elite candidates are more willing than ever to take a risk on early-stage #startups. Read this blog post by CEO @itsevanwalden to learn why 2023 is a moment of opportunity in #hiring. https://t.co/G1lZhzfEPY
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2023 has the potential to be a game changing year for early-stage startups, and the ones that leverage their investors’ networks will have a significant advantage.
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