Joseph Nelson
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🦝 cofounder/ceo @roboflow (YC S20): making the world programmable. https://t.co/mFLoOYP0E5. assumes positive intent.
SF
Joined December 2011
The 8th prior founder joined Roboflow recently, though they are the first to have a $100M+ prior exit. (ex) Founders are joining Roboflow because you have autonomy, your impact is compounding, and we're so early. If you're quick, you'll be first 30. DM to write your own job.
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“BIG ASS HEAD” monitors what YT video you’re enjoying, classifies it into 10 categories (EDM, rock, …), and selects one of 100 guys’ heads to block your viewing experience — like you’re at the show. available as a dev chrome extension:
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this chrome extension puts the back of someone’s head on top of your YouTube video so it feels like you’re watching at a live concert . incredible stuff at NYC Silly Hackathon
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Today the US is unveiling its Action Plan to win the AI race, which has been six months in the making. @DavidSacks outlines 3 core pillars that guide the 90 concrete recommendations the administration will pursue — . 1. Innovation. “You have to out-innovate the competition.”
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we've been prototyping something new in visual AI. DM if you'd like to try it.
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weekend hackers made supervision trend on github. tons of fun projects to be built:.- DIY Ring Doorbell.- Guitar Hero but for dance poses.- Webcam telling you to put down your phone.- Flappy Bird but your gaze is the controller. ⭐️
WANT to build something with this project. open to use cases.
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the Vercel AI Accelerator startups move fast . the Coldplay meme is already in pitch decks. roboflow is a proud sponsor alongside modal, OpenAI, cursor, and AWS
Today is Demo Day for @vercel’s AI Accelerator. Truly, truly blown away by the pitches. 40 startups accepted, out of 900 high quality applications. We have over 300+ investors and leaders joining us.
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RT @roboflow: RF-DETR release next week. more SOTA models coming in smaller sizes, all open source and Apache 2.0.
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TIL Robert Noyce was born in Iowa. he let a friend that ran the Iowa college endowment where he attended invest early in Intel . that endowment is now $1.6B
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protecting wild macaws with computer vision 🦜.
@JoeOnChain Discovering Roboflow to explore how to count macaw into a Mexican ecological reserve who protects more than 400 macaws !.Our dream will be to virtually ID-Tag them and know exactly how many they are protecting because he never physically tagged them !
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ok, i’ll bite. we didn’t hire Soham. but I do have a related story. years ago, we hired a talented engineer from NVIDIA, who worked on their perception stack. the engineer onboarded in our SF office and things started well. something started feeling off. they were available at.
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i underestimated how big this would be.
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guess what we're cooking is so fire that the building has to check the sprinklers
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“I had a high degree of confidence that the tests would have passed had I ran them”. has vibes driven development gone too far?.
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RT @garrytan: Pano raised a $44M Series B for their wildfire early detection eyes-in-the-sky startup. Wildfires have only become more fierc….
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great idea.
1/18 Introducing Frontier Valley: A new special regulation district in SV that’s larger than SoMa. Once approved, it will be America's epicenter for physical AI and deep tech innovation, and will also be a template for "robotics-first" cities that can be replicated nationwide.
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