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Co-founder of @trydaily . he/him/his.

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@kwindla
kwindla
3 months
A self-driving car just picked me up. Blade runner levels of rain tonight. I’m going to an office where lava lamps generate the random numbers that power the internet to moderate a panel discussion about machine conversation and robot voices.
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@kwindla
kwindla
5 months
Twilio announced today that they are discontinuing their Programmable Video service. #WebRTC is a small world. If you are impacted in any way by this change, my DMs are open and I'm here to be helpful however I can.
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@kwindla
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2 months
Function calling, interruptibility, fast responses. This is a nice example of where real-world voice interfaces are headed.
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4 months
So this Lumiere thing (which looks awesome) is another AI "release" from Google that I can't try out, even as a demo, huh?
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@kwindla
kwindla
16 days
. @mickeyxfriedman and @eoghan at AI Tinkerers tonight talking about the return of “weirdos and creatives” to the center of tech culture in SF.
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@kwindla
kwindla
2 months
@levelsio @fal_ai_data has llava and everything I’ve tried from them is very fast:
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@kwindla
kwindla
8 months
... and it's out in the world! An SDK for AI + real-time audio, video, and data. This library makes it so easy to connect an LLM into a video call that I've been tinkering with WebRTC + GPT-4 in a colab notebook. 🤯
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 months
Join us for an Infrastructure for real-time AI meetup on Wednesday evening at @Cloudflare . Panel featuring: * Jay Jackson, VP of AI and ML at @OracleCloud * @gorkemyu , co-founder of @fal_ai_data * @LoganGrasby , AI at @CloudflareDev Plus demos and pizza. If you have
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@kwindla
kwindla
4 years
@villi We ( @trydaily ) make that platform today. Two lines of code to add one-click, no-download video calls to any website or app. Operating at scale with partners like @Tandem_HQ . Powering developers who show us awesome new use cases every day.
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@kwindla
kwindla
2 years
I have always been a huge fan of the people at @confrere_video and the work they've done on #WebRTC . It's incredibly exciting to have the opportunity to work with many of them now as colleagues.
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@kwindla
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We start them young at our hackathons.
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5 months
Computer vision is so, so much fun to play with. Useful, too, of course. But you don't need an actual use case to hack on things that are interesting, beautiful, and surprising. You just need libraries like this! Also, I think that a good working knowledge of CV libraries,
@skalskip92
SkalskiP
5 months
supervision-0.17.0 release is just around the corner - plug in your favorite detection/segmentation model - compose the perfect visualization github:
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Yesterday there was a thread on the @latentspacepod discord about what's changed in the voice+AI domain over the past few months. I think three big things have changed since ~October last year. First, as with everything in Generative AI, there's a proliferation of more and
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@kwindla
kwindla
1 month
. @isidentical from @FAL kicking off the @aiengfoundation real-time & multimodal hackathon this morning.
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@kwindla
kwindla
2 months
Thanks @swyx , @hackgoofer , and @VibhuSapra for putting on a great mini-conference tonight about diffusion models.
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2 months
This weekend in one of the AI engineer group chats I'm in, we had an interesting discussion about self-hosting the components of voice/conversational AI apps as compared to using SaaS services. This is a generally interesting topic, and I've had this (new) AI infra conversation
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 months
100 people came to the Voice + AI meetup this evening and at the end of the night we had exactly one piece of pizza left. @ramyavmani ’s prognostimation [ed. yes he did just make up that word] skills are very impressive.
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kwindla
6 months
Things I love about what @Humane is doing. A partial list. 1. We're living through the early days of a platform shift. AI is going to enable and require new hardware — both at the chip level and the device level. The Humane AI pin is a big and interesting first swing at harware
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@kwindla
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@patrickc At Oblong we did a bunch of work for Boeing. This was during the final push to get the 787 shipped. Watching that project from a funny part-inside but mostly outside perspective, I remember thinking that the 787 might be the last civilian design Boeing would ever produce. Since
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 years
Big release for us, today. 📹 Stream any video session to a broadcast audience ... anywhere! Lots more new related APIs coming soon. If you're doing live streaming, tell us what you need (we might be able to give you early access to beta features).
@trydaily
Daily
3 years
We're excited to announce Daily Live Streaming! Our newest API makes it easy to build video calls and live stream them. Broadcast to millions on #RTMP platforms like #FBLive , YouTube, #Twitch . Or stream to custom players via #AmazonIVS #Brightcove #Mux 🧵
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 years
I’ve done a name change + rebrand twice. Always happy to help out another startup founder. My DMs are open.
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@kwindla
kwindla
4 months
Today I learned that a @Waymo doesn’t turn on its windshield wipers in the rain. And, indeed, that should not have surprised me as much as it did.
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@kwindla
kwindla
4 years
Tonight in the @joinClubhouse Future of Work room: a conversation with @shl about the evolution of independent creative work online since he founded @gumroad , and the trends he’s seeing lately as a tech investor. 8:30 PDT. 💫
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 years
New @trydaily starter kit for audio apps on @ProductHunt today.
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 months
Packed house tonight at @solarissociety for demos, hosted by @seanxthielen and @pk_iv . Some of the LLMs are behaving, some are not. It turns out that in this brave new world we have to pray to two sets of demo gods, the normal ones and the new, hungry AI deities.
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@kwindla
kwindla
2 years
We are hosting a Happy Hour on Wed Oct 12th in SF's Mission District. Please join us at the Root Ventures office (2670 Harrison St) any time between 6:30 and 9:00. Feel free to register here, or just to join us without registering:
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@kwindla
kwindla
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@WillManidis Maria Rosa Menocal. The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History. U Penn Press, 1987. Out of print for a long time. Now back in print. Beautiful and mind expanding.
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@kwindla
kwindla
5 months
This is a fantastic home page headline. (kudos to @fouadmatin )
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kwindla
2 months
My favorite thing on @ProductHunt today: Zora Learning. (Named after Zora Neale Hurston!) Configurable reading experience for kids. You pick the grade level and the kind of story, and a story is generated for a child to read. Between sections, there are questions to answer (the
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@kwindla
kwindla
2 months
Thanks to @GenAICollective for working with us to put in the AI & Voice summit last night. And thanks to @solarissociety for the truly lovely community space.
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@kwindla
kwindla
4 months
Find yourself a partner that loves you like @RevenueCat ’s customers love RevenueCat.
@levelsio
@levelsio
4 months
Is there an Apple Developer webhook sent at the end of a subscription period after the user cancels? So user signs up on 1 Jan, cancels on 2 Jan, but still has until 31 Jan to use it, so then I want a webhook on 31 Jan? I get this from Stripe so it'd be useful to do the same
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@kwindla
kwindla
4 years
@Austen We think so at @trydaily - super reliable video calls with two lines of code.
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@kwindla
kwindla
2 years
Thrilled, indeed!
@trydaily
Daily
2 years
We’re thrilled that @SarahM and @vr000m have joined Daily to help lead engineering & growth. Today on the blog they talk about where we are & where we’re going, our remote-first approach and culture, and our growth ahead. P.S. Come join us. We’re hiring!
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@kwindla
kwindla
4 months
Voice + AI meetup on Wednesday at the Cloudflare office in San Francisco. Pizza, conversation, and demos. Thanks to this meeting's panelists: @natrugrats , @rajivayyangar , and @Prafulfillment . And thanks to @CloudflareDev for letting us come hang out with the lava lamps. RSVP
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@kwindla
kwindla
1 month
My cold take (which would have been a hot take a month ago) is that long context windows *increase* the need for good RAG.
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 years
🙏🏽 Existing investors joining this round include Tiger Global @lachygroom @terronk @jcspinell @moxxievc @katies @semil @astonmotes David Eckstein @toddgo23 @rahulvohra And we're very excited to work with new investors @seanrose @cendanacapital and The Heritage Group
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kwindla
5 years
between storm fronts
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 years
How about … wait for it … Daily. ( @trydaily — disclaimer, not currently raising.)
@mattturck
Matt Turck
3 years
With Monday at $16B market cap and Sunday raising a $100M Series A - if your company name is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday, I don’t care what you do just DM me and I’ll invest $50k
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kwindla
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Microsoft Excel
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Darrell Brogdon
15 days
Unpopular opinion: There hasn't been a single no/low-code platform that has stood the test of time.
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Another great launch video from a @solarissociety company. (It's a trend!) @pk_iv is filling a big gap in developer tooling. It's *hard* to run headless browser workloads reliably and at scale.
@pk_iv
Paul Klein IV
1 month
Today, I'm excited to announce my new company @browserbasehq . We're building the piece of infrastructure that every AI application needs: a programmable web browser. We're funded, growing fast, and looking for engineers who want to build foundational tools for AI. Join us!
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@kwindla
kwindla
6 months
AI thought of the day: intelligence too cheap to meter. @sama 's Open AI Dev Day talk last week, and @satyanadella 's Ignite talk yesterday, are two of the best company keynotes I've seen. Having great products and code to present is a big part of that, of course. But clarity of
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kwindla
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The origin story of amazing startups is often the founders solving a specific, hard problem inside another company or previous iteration of their startup, then realizing that lots of other people need that problem solved, too! @SlackHQ , @RevenueCat , @browserbasehq .
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Paul Klein IV
2 months
enjoyed demoing at @trydaily 's AI infra meetup last week! just call me the headless browser guy.
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@kwindla
kwindla
4 years
Relatedly: an outdoors that you can ride a Peloton in
@sheetaverma
Sheeta Verma 👩🏽‍💻 (she/her)
4 years
Startup idea: a Peloton but you can ride it outdoors
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8 months
@apenwarr every pixel gets its own cuda kernel with in-memory fallback to software rendering as needed
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kwindla
3 years
Lots of great new design and architecture work went into this completely rewritten version of our embedded video calls component. I learned so much about React best practices, following along over the last few months. We'll release source code for all the components soon, too!
@trydaily
Daily
3 years
Daily Prebuilt is the easiest way to add video calls to events, telehealth, productivity, gaming and all kinds of use cases. Today we're releasing a major update, with even more developer features. #WebRTC #CpaaS
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kwindla
2 months
This voice+diffusion UX from @JonPTaylor feels like a little slice broke off the future and landed on my timeline.
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kwindla
4 years
Live now on Clubhouse with @rajivayyangar talking Synchronicity: the future of work, collaboration, and video.
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kwindla
4 years
nov four twenty twenty
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kwindla
7 years
James Baldwin taking William F. Buckley, Jr. apart piece by piece at a Cambridge Union debate in 1965 --
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@kwindla
kwindla
8 months
Here's a closer look at the tech stack and APIs underneath the AI-powered Clinical Notes tools for #telehealth that we released last week. "Today’s most advanced 'frontier,' Large Language Models have an impressive range of use cases. But perhaps the most impressive thing about
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@kwindla
kwindla
9 years
"A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management". With links to instructional gems by @bfeld and @jasonlk -
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kwindla
2 months
We had a lot of fun last week geeking out about building infrastructure for AI at scale, lightning-fast inference, and developer tooling. Thanks to @cloudflare for hosting!
@trydaily
Daily
2 months
Voice+AI meetup last week — topic: infrastructure for real-time AI. The panel discussion featured @LoganGrasby , @jayjackson07 , and @gorkemyurt . Demos from @browserbasehq , @UpTrainAI , @ConwayAnderson , @HyperboundAI , and @recall_ai . Stay to the end for video of a voice
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kwindla
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We've got a lot of "AI" threaded through all of Daily's architecture, but this is the first time we've released APIs that expose AI-powered workflows as first-class components. Excited for this use case -- saving healthcare providers hours of work sitting in front of a computer
@trydaily
Daily
8 months
Today we're announcing our AI-powered Clinical Notes API: an industry first to help #telehealth ease the burden of care documentation. Developers can seamlessly integrate an AI-powered clinical notes workflow into virtual care apps. (1/5) #HIPAA
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@kwindla
kwindla
2 years
When we started @trydaily , our goal was to build the possible WebRTC stack. This seemed like a truly massive commercial opportunity. But, also, a project worth working on for the 10+ year arc of a startup company.
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 years
@andrewjdupree @seanrose @ninacali4 Thanks so much, @andrewjdupree ! @seanrose , please ping me any time if I can be helpful. It still feels very much like early days @trydaily (five years in), but we have big dreams. :-)
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@kwindla
kwindla
10 years
Big helo preparing to drop test @SpaceX capsule. Why is this not covered by TV like, say, NFL training camp? http://t.co/vasPCMdIuW
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kwindla
3 months
Really fun event last night. 70 people came out in the rain to talk about voice/real-time/AI topics. We threw up a little weather-appropriate, AI-generated textures toy demo in the background on the big screen. Thanks to @fal_ai_data for the high-fps Stable Diffusion Turbo API
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kwindla
8 years
[Yay!] Pluot ( @pluotco ) raises $2.5 million to bring video conferencing to the masses - via @techcrunch
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kwindla
7 months
My favorite launch on @ProductHunt today: LangChain Templates LangChain is a framework for building AI-powered applications. It's widely used, evolving quickly, and strikes a nice balance between stability and experimentation. Depending on what you're
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kwindla
8 months
@bencasnocha I think @mwseibel understood all of that and thought the most important thing was protecting founders. I’d never heard of Neo either. But I definitely think that a substantial majority of startup accelerators have been a bad deal for founders. Because they take equity without
@mwseibel
Michael Seibel
8 months
I’ve heard so so much dirt on Ali Partovi @apartovi from YC founders over the years… anyone thinking about working with him or Neo needs to be careful and do their diligence. Ali - the fact that you’re calling @garrytan a bully is laughable. You should check what’s going on in
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kwindla
4 months
Happy New Year!
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kwindla
4 years
Live on Clubhouse with @rajivayyangar , @ninacali4 , and @shanictaylor talking about the future of collaboration, tools, video, and work.
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kwindla
8 years
Khoi Vinh ( @khoi ). How they got there. Design Dept. 2015.
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kwindla
2 months
@swyx @eugeneyalt @Vapi_AI @trydaily Yeah, definitely take a look at @Vapi_AI . Really good developer ergonomics. You can get started quickly, but their APIs also give you a lot of flexibility. And they've solved a bunch of the hard, low-level stuff so you don't have to worry about things like echo cancellation,
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kwindla
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Full house at @cloudflare for @aiengfoundation real-time AI hackathon demos.
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kwindla
4 months
@levelsio @patrickc Personally, yes. Air travel safety stats are incredible — one of the great global achievements of the last 40 years. And I think our regulatory culture is still healthy enough to correct for and manage these Boeing-related problems. If we are talking about safety (in the US),
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@kwindla
kwindla
8 years
Want to work on a fun product, with experienced founders, at a funded, early-stage startup? Please contact us!
@olainitiative
The Ola Initiative
8 years
@pluotco Brings high-end beautiful video conferencing to distributed teams. Pst, they are also hiring! #LIBinSTEM
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kwindla
3 months
Thank you to @Cloudflare for the hosting. (See what I did there?)
@benarent
benarent
3 months
great evening with @kwindla @rajivayyangar @natrugrats @Prafulfillment and demo crew showcasing voice & AI.
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kwindla
6 years
. @pt ’s advice here for startup founders is excellent. When you are raising a seed round from tech investors, you might not be asked about next-round dynamics. But thinking through that now can avoid a lot of pain down the road.
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kwindla
3 years
As always, thank you most of all to the developers who are building applications on top of Daily. We love being a small part of so many teams' incredibly creative work. And a personal thanks to our team. It's a blessing to work with such smart, kind, and funny people, daily ;-)
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kwindla
8 years
Hello, Pluot Communications! Our new project is on Product Hunt this morning ...
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kwindla
3 months
dark mirror (real-time image-to-image thanks to @fal_ai_data )
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kwindla
6 months
Universally available personal tutors, everything is a bet, and Candide:
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kwindla
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We have spent many years optimizing bandwidth and video quality management code, and building out global infrastructure that is very good at routing packets at scale. Which, hopefully, just means everything works great all the time and you never think about us. But thank you for
@ShirazDole
shiraz
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for calls of 1-5 —  @trydaily which powers @calcom CalVideo simply cannot be beat super simple, fast, and straightforward any time i join a Zoom call now, it just feels so stuffy and overbearing — way too many bells and whistles
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kwindla
4 months
If you don't have *at least* three camera devices available at all times (plus another one to take a photo with), are you even computering?
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kwindla
6 years
grey day
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kwindla
4 months
Reminder: Voice + AI meetup on Wednesday evening in San Francisco. This community grew out of conversations at @solarissociety earlier this month and is now 168 members and accelerating. The pace of new things being built right now around the intersection of real-time,
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kwindla
3 years
Story of my life ...
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kwindla
4 years
Video calls designed for the needs of caregivers and families, right now. This is a wonderful project.
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kwindla
5 months
As exciting as anticipated advances in materials science and biology are, and as transformative as cognition too cheap to meter will be, let’s be honest: it’s really all about talking to whales.
@begusgasper
Gašper Beguš
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Sperm whales have equivalents to human vowels. We uncovered spectral properties in whales’ clicks that are recurrent across whales, independent of traditional types, and compositional. We got clues to look into spectral properties from our AI interpretability technique CDEV.
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kwindla
2 years
As with all things worth doing, the people with whom one shares the journey are the most important part. It's been incredibly fun digging in together with @idaaa , @daginge , @sventy , @jayne_mast , @helenasometimes , @astral_clouds , @pmichk , @_____alexc , @hjortlam , and everyone else.
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kwindla
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It’s not too late to enter The Most Interesting Bot In the World contest. We are giving away this @nvidia card.
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kwindla
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@ConwayAnderson Good segue to @vikhyatk showing another of my favorite AI things, his awesome Moondream vision model. Moondream is small enough to run locally and powerful enough to do a lot of useful things. And he recently added bounding boxes!
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kwindla
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I had to ask my confidential (okay, not so much) source at @ProductHunt what's going on with this @peer_rich / @kiwicopple drama that's been all over my timeline this week.
@rajivayyangar
Rajiv Ayyangar
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The Product Hunt showdown of the century is on Monday. @calcom v. @supabase @peer_rich v. @kiwicopple It's a battle of 2 very experienced hackers and teams. Tune it on Monday, we'll be live tweeting and hosting a Twitter space
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@kwindla
kwindla
4 years
@jarnoeerola @scottbelsky @trydaily We ( @trydaily ) are shipping live streaming of any call to <near infinite> viewers very, very soon. 🚀🏃🏽‍♀️📡🎥🕹📞📺
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kwindla
5 months
Motivated by Twilio's announcement that Twilio Video is going away, I've been spending some time digging into what the latest version of Zoom's Web SDK can (and can't) do. It's definitely getting better, but it's still much less performant than native WebRTC. And it's still
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 years
@vedikaja_in @varadhjain @rrhoover Over several years at @trydaily , the most super of our super connectors are @semil , @terronk , and @KatieS .
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kwindla
3 months
scenes from a hackathon. h/t @aiengfoundation
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kwindla
3 years
We’re also excited to announce two new members of the Daily team. @vr000m joins us as Chief Product Technology Officer. He's long been a key #WebRTC contributor. It's exciting, and an honor, to work together, and have him help lead Daily.
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@kwindla
kwindla
3 years
@SarahM joins as our new VP of Engineering. We are a fully distributed, kind, inclusive team that loves the complex engineering we work on every day. Sarah has spent more than twenty years leading engineering teams. We're thrilled she's here to help lead Daily.
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@kwindla
kwindla
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Friendly drama is the best drama. Fun day on @ProductHunt (and @X ). Brings back some memories. We launched our very first @trydaily product in 2017 on the same day that @Square launched Square Register. Under the circumstances, we were pretty happy with #2 Product Of the Day.
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Rajiv Ayyangar
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can’t focus on work, product hunt too exciting today
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