Lenny Bogdonoff
@rememberlenny
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Optimist. Working with @natfriedman + @danielgross to invest in technology startups, support portfolio companies and incubate new projects.
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Internalized urgency, intensity and speed - sustained over time - is a force to be reckoned with.
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Today was my last day at
@OpenAI
.
20 months ago, I left the YC startup I founded to join the Codex team where I prototyped the first code interpreter demos. From there, I helped start the internal Human Data team, where we built tools to produce data for frontier efforts, one…
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10 years of Github contributions:
- 2022-2023: OpenAI
- 2020-2022: YC w21 startup
- 2018-2020: Google Fonts
- 2016-2018: 18F
- 2013-2016: New Yorker
And a lot of side-projects and contracts spread out between.
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Career update - I joined
@natfriedman
and
@danielgross
investing in startups.
I want to meet one-on-one with 1000s of founders this year, so please reach out if you are working on something great!
We lead rounds from seed to growth, investing between $1M and $100M at a time.
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Personal update - last month, I became a father!
@jihiitea
and I welcomed our first son, Theo, into the world.
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8 years ago, on 2/11/2015, I took my then girlfriend on our first date, to an award ceremony, for adding the paywall onto the
@NewYorker
.
Fast forward to today, we are married, but and I’m doing the same thing at a new place on a very different scale.
And we have a puppy.
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I was testing new GPUs and thought I found an issue with the hardware.
Then I realized you can "hear" different model architectures.
When stress tests run at full capacity, the GPUs produce distinct rhythmic sounds and are distinguishable by frequency and step progression.
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Note to software founders: create physical artifacts.
Print out weekly updates, collect old mocks, and file them for the future.
I got a lot of joy filing 170+ pages of weekly updates last weekend, knowing I can look back on them.
Physical artifact > decommissioned servers.
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In the time I’ve worked at OpenAI, I’ve found it’s essence boils down to the tight-knit teams of exceptionally bright and industrious individuals who care about the work they are doing.
h/t
@MillionInt
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I'm honored to accept a grant from
@tylercowen
's Emergent Venture's to create a genealogy of street art, using machine learning. To learn more, see here:
Call for Emergent Ventures proposals in two particular areas: talent search, and how people make "big"" decisions:
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Rode a
@cruise
fully autonomous vehicle last night.
I was the only person in the car, and I sat in the back seat.
The trip was a fraction of the cost of a ride hailing app.
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"There was a month or two when the earliest I went home was 3am and latest I was in the office was 7am. Unless you've felt that gut-wrenching decision, you can't advise a entrepreneur."
@vkhosla
on investors who haven't lived the pain and do damage.
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GitHub commit history through the eyes of my wife
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I want to extend my recent experience working in OpenAI and building A.I. products at scale to startups!
Working on something great or considering your next project? Please reach out! I'm here and would love to talk through your ideas and opportunities.
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Hosting an event with friends to hack on LLMs and AI apis.
Attendees of the first event will get early private access to the DALL-E API on Tuesday 11/1/22 in SF.
Please share with SF builders and sign up to attend:
.
@OpenAI
officially announced the DALL-E API which will be release publicly soon.
Who in SF is interested in holding a DALL-E API hackathon in the second weekend of October?
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Going to different WeWork locations and leaving donuts…
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🎉
@milkvideo
Podcast Audiogram tool is live!
How it works:
☁️ Upload a podcast
🐮 Add titles and set colors
✂️ Clip a key moment
🎬 Download and share
Please share you thoughts and try it at:
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Now is a great time to apply to
@ycombinator
.
I’m not a actively working on the company I started in W21, but I can wholeheartedly say, YC is the best decision I made and will make again.
I’m happy to review applications - early (better) or late.
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A fascinating connection I never thought about before: The postal system was instrumental in the abolishment of slavery, due to its "anonymous" nature which made it impossible to discriminate between letters from/to slaves.
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@___________chen
Honestly, no. I'm a pretty bad programmer when compared to other people I know.
The things I'm good at is reaching a solution through brute force and then iterating, such that the final solution is manageable.
I always focused on things that were out of my comfort zone.
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I had the fortune to first encounter Daniel online in 2018, through . I received a grant for tracking street art around the world, using computer vision and social media exhaust. When I started my last startup, Daniel was the first VC check I received,…
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A few OPTIMISTIC visions of the future - inspired by the ChatGPT Plugins hackathon.
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@joannejang
@OpenAI
Equally relevant question was why you were there on Saturdays in your blanket. 😂
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Thoughts on my 33rd birthday and some personal updates.
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.
@OpenAI
officially announced the DALL-E API which will be release publicly soon.
Who in SF is interested in holding a DALL-E API hackathon in the second weekend of October?
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Tried
@JuneDotSo
over the weekend. I highly recommend it for app teams with app telemetry setup, but not enough time to properly analyze.
Compared to Amplitude, GA, or any other product analytics, it provides the most clear and easy to understand analysis I've seen.
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I backed this kickstarter project from
@PyImageSearch
around hacking raspberry pis for computer vision projects:
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Breakdown of the infrastructure costs for the free chess platform, Lichess.
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Carried two monitors in a suitcase to be able to work from farm.
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Found a fascinating spreadsheet on Reddit from an e-commerce importer, who sells marble slabs, tracked container prices over five years.
Min: ~$1500 (‘23)
Max: $23k** (‘22)
**Ignoring one container that was $111k
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Follow my project to make a genealogy for street art here:
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My oversimplified mental model for embedding-based search.
Embedding based search is great when your query can vary dramatically, and the amount of data you have it large enough where text-only isn’t specific enough.
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Thoughts in
@sacrainc
on the maturing market of business video tools (including
@milkvideo
), opportunities riding the remote work/webcam coattails, and infrastructure around video tools.
Big thanks to
@janerikasplund
for letting me talk his ear off!
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TIL about Heavy Load Carriers, which are boats that carry big boats.
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I can’t recommend this book enough. Especially for folks building companies.
its a fascinating history of a generation of films and filmmakers that translated sheer will and creativity into in multi-generational empires permeating culture.
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This thread is a small glimpse into the near future.
Most hackathons are somewhat regurgitated ideas and REST APIs wrapped in lipstick.
The design space for these
M are broad and from people who were introduced to the interface for the first time.
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I have a desktop machine I built in 2018 with 2 GPUs and 88 gb of ram to learn how to train computer vision models. I ended up using for VR during the pandemic. And now I need for opening large CSV files in excel.
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Hello friends!
We are up on Product Hunt today to promote our last three months of work!
Please show your support and share with any marketing, sales, and growth leader friends you have!
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Many people don’t know but my older brother committed suicide.
Starting Saturday, dialing “988” will call the suicide and crisis lifeline.
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With remote work, I think a lot about Richard Hamming's points from "You and your research" on working with the "door to your office open" or "door closed".
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“It is all about execution. Even if you have a great idea - 5 other people will have it at the same time. This is why so many similar companies get started more or less simultaneously.” -
@eladgil
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If you do side projects and have any desire to start a company, you should be doing
@pioneerdotapp
.
@rememberlenny
has been a Pioneer since the inception of the idea, August 2018, batch
#1
. Three years of experiments, all culminating in
@milkvideo
.
Thrilled for him and the team on their $1.5M raise. Read more here:
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Sunday night product updates to come in
@milkvideo
.
📈 1. Sound waves: Improve clipping accuracy
📙 2. Translation: Increases audience size
✂️ 3. Clip maker: Simplifies making audio clips
🔊 4. Audio visualizer: Makes videos more engaging
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On Hyman Rickover’s thinking around building the first nuclear submarine.
Rather than thinking about complicated nuclear engineering, figure out the minimum power needed for the propeller, and then work backwards.
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If you aren’t researching your opponents and writing long form essays about them to get in their heads, are you even serious?
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Theres an undeniable sci-fi tone to seeing github issue exchanges in multiple languages.
It feels like the future depicted in Star Wars, seeing Obi-wan converse with an r2-droid and a non-english speaking humanoid, with perfect comprehension.
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In the 2030s, China and Japan could have more robots produced annually than children born, with humanoid robots supporting their aging populations.
Fertility poor countries augmenting future labor needs with bipedal robots is strangely logical.
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This is really good.
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1/n Analyzing a dataset of 100,000 street art images for geographical clusters. Each dot represents an image from Instagram that was scraped. These images were taken between September 10, 2014 and March 31, 2015.
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To understand why it’s so hard to get a 4090 today, I finished Chip War last week.
I strongly recommend it for anyone in any ML adjacent space to better understand the recent history of semiconductors and the background to the present day global supply chains.
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Onboarding a new engineer and made a run through of how our codebase works.
I thought it would be a quick 10 minute video, and it ended up as a 40 minute repo-by-repo explanation.
Sharing here for anyone interested:
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In spirit of the YC deadline, here is the application
@rosscranwell
and I submitted for
Now is a great time to apply to
@ycombinator
.
I’m not a actively working on the company I started in W21, but I can wholeheartedly say, YC is the best decision I made and will make again.
I’m happy to review applications - early (better) or late.
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Long time coming, but very excited about a new feature on
@milkvideo
that will detect the unique speakers in a video, and provide visual markers regarding where they appear.
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An illustration complimented explainer on how make the "audio wave" visualization, and what it actually represents.
1/n 🧵
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Happy to announce that
@milkvideo
will be one of the companies presenting at the 14th annual
@SXSW
Pitch competition in the "Entertainment, Gaming & Content" category!
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Im analyzing graffiti images with machine learning techniques to build a genealogy of graffiti.
I use a convolutional neural network based feature extraction and encoded results. This shows 5,623 photos cluster the similar artists based on 25,088 dimensions.
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It's very easy to come to New York. It's very easy to leave New York. It's quite hard to come, and then stay.
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This is the worst blog post in the world No one would retweet this. It’s so bad. …
http://t.co/47r8xMjORN
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Surprisingly easy and extremely useful GPT-4 business case:
Gave it a list of email domains of users. Asked it to output the largest companies, with the employee count, based on the domains.
Outputs a target list of companies, in the order of company’s employee count.
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Surprising scene from New Delhi.
Road vendors walking through stopped traffic, besides the fruit sellers and child beggars, are hawking top-selling bootleg books.
Booklist included:
- Sapiens
- Zero-to-one
- The Intelligent Investor
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Excited to be one of seventeen winners in the first
@pioneerdotapp
tournament! Thank you
@danielgross
@narang_rishi
and all the other collaborators + funders (
@stripe
+
@pmarca
) working to make this happen!
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1 year ago today, on 10/24/2020,
@rosscranwell
and I executed Milk Video's incorporation, kicking off the beginning as a company.
After working night-and-day for four months, trying to build out some viable business-centric video tool, we formed
@milkvideo
.
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The second cohort of
@tylercowen
’s Emergent Venture’s grant recipients have been announced! More education based projects!
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Tuesday night updates frin
@milkvideo
.
🔗 1. Upload using Youtube URL
⏩ 2. Audiogram tool (beta)
🥳 3. New creator plan ($9/month)
Note: We need some beta testers for our new audiogram tool.
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Im continually impressed by the quality and breadth of
@PyImageSearch
blog posts - great write up on ML models in production
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Moved offices last week.
Managed room for two whiteboards and a rowing machine.
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@rsg
@fredwilson
said the exact thing about his highest return investments being from rounds where "no one else" was interested in the at the
@southpkcommons
talk in NY.
He even said when people try to explain why they aren't interested, that makes him even more interested.
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Made uturn.js to detect scroll direction change via events, using requestAnimationFrame
http://t.co/SZxclkKi1a
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Is anyone else in 50+ Slack/Discords, but only pay attention to one or two channels in each?
I wish there was a way to aggregate the channels I actually care about in one place. Even more awesome would be granular notification controls.
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The internet rocks.
Since Sunday, I wrangled my way through understanding waveforms through binging 3blue1brown, and sending cold DMs to authors of interesting github repos.
The process led to multiple new friends, 4 phone calls, 2 in-person meetings, and lots of learning.
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Halfway through
@burkov
’s new book, “The hundred-page machine learning book”. Im finding the writing incredible clear and straight forward, while also containing the perfect introduction to academic concepts and practical practices. I wish this was published sooner!!
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Everyday, I open Twitter to type "LFG", but then I dont.
so. LFFFFFFGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
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All gas, no breaks. All signal, no noise.
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