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night vision with the apple vision pro, no cameras needed

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Sama just got killed by his startup

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Sama just killed my startup

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I’ve sold everything. I’m tired of losing money. Just withdrew everything and put it all into 97% grade solid Tungsten Hiding my stash under my bed. No more banks, cold wallets, or credit cards. Just pure tungsten

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Sama just killed my startup

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Wow, within a day every single of the over 400,000 users of ChatWithPDF just vanished. Straight line down to zero. All b2b contracts cancelled, my GPU providers also decided to cut access to my embedding model hosting last night.

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they suspended @eIonmusk fr??

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even god didn’t need 128 gb of ram

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3 years

i just got fired from my job something about "unlimited vacation days doesnt mean you can take a trip to italy on the first day" so unfair... anyone hiring w/ unlimited vacation days?

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6 months

chatgpt plus accounts selling ebay for a premium 🫡🇺🇸

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we are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit :( the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience. you can still sign-up to be notified within the app when subs reopen.

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2 years

oh my god

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3 years

can we stop doing "stealth" startups who u hiding from bro, the irs?

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2 years

@neelsalami incredible

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1 year

Power is out in SF now: Can’t unlock door(smart lock doesn’t unlock) Can’t sleep(bed doesn’t regulate temp / vibrate to wake up) Water bottle doesn’t filter water Car doesn’t start(no charge) Can’t do homework (no access to ChatGPT) Heated mug can’t heat(no WiFi)

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2 months

this weekend i went through every OpenAI employee's Github contribution history, aggregated them to predict when GPT-5 will drop tldr: soon(but late)

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7 months

very rarely do i meet really successful people who are equally as technical -- quite surprising really almost like if you become too technical you become mid-curved

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10 months

yc w23 was a bunch of gpt wrappers yc s23 is now a bunch of langchain wrappers that should've taken a week and some diet coke to ship its egregious what they accepted

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10 months

Just got Code Interpreter to run GPT-2 117M with GGML entirely in ChatGPT Spent the weekend nurturing a relationship to get to this point -- also if you try enough you can upload zips of up to 250mb

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1 year

Another batch of YC was just obliviated

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We are adding support for plugins to ChatGPT — extensions which integrate it with third-party services or allow it to access up-to-date information. We’re starting small to study real-world use, impact, and safety and alignment challenges:

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10 months

introducing vlite, a blazing fast vector db written in pure numpy using Apple metal perf shaders it speeds up indexing vectors over Chroma, Pinecone, Milvus from 5x to up to 50x and it only has 2 functions. memorize() and remember(). thats it.

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2 years

Beanstalk is a credit based stablecoin protocol that was hacked for ~$80 million an hour ago How? By flashloan-ing enough collateral to become a supermajority voter and create a proposal(BIP) to effectively rug the protocol all in 1 tx lets dive in 👇

PeckShield Inc.

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Hi, @BeanstalkFarms , you may want to take a look:

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1 year

If you ever want to feel comfortable in life just know I met a guy at an OpenAI hackathon that’s now a Staff ML engineer at Tesla at 22

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6 months

these apps have prob made more revenue than all of YC winter and summer 2023 And have changed dev’s entire families/lives somewhere in Eastern Europe or south/east Asia

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there’s like a 100m arr cottage industry of making chatgpt dupes 😂

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6 months

just pasting in the entirety of Julius Cesar into 128k context mistral running locally all gpu cores have been fired up on m3 max

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4 months

i implemented Self-Extend on Mistral 7B last night it extends context length without fine-tuning from 8k to 16k and more using a new bi-level attention technique based off group attention code: paper:

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1 year

> started 6 mo ago > built on models similar to chatgpt a16z values it at 1b clubhouse vibes

Chatbot Character.ai valued at $1bn in Andreessen-led funding round

Pioneering tech venture capital firm makes first big foray into generative artificial intelligence sector

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4 months

chatwithpdf runs almost entirely on Cloudflare Workers at ~1m requests/mo (30m at peak) with ~400k users all in a single Workers KV store and the entire embedding retrieval done in workers apart from embed generation total cost? under $100 in 2023

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I run 34 cloudflare pages and 29 cloudflare workers projects, They process ~500k requests a month (504.71k last month), I also manage DNS, create however many subdomains I need on the fly, I use Cloudflare KV aggressively, I pay $5/month

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1 year

loving javascript, its like typescript without needing to use type: any all the time such a time saver

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11 months

Here are 10 insane Vision Pro apps you are not using properly to maximize productivity 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯👇👇👇👇👇👇

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1 year

ChatWithPDF ChatWithVideo ChatWithWebsite ChatMaps GitSearch I built all in the past week. 600k uniques, 75k daus, and millions of requests, entire infra is $10/mo been focusing on monetization llms/plugins past couple of months -- will share soon

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1 year

225 million to make a gpt 3 wrapper is insane

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BREAKING: After raising $225 million, @inflectionAI has launched Pi, a personal AI. You can try it at .

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8 months

Just got GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct and turbo function calling to create math animations (manim) just from text Now you can easily ask to graph, answer questions, and you'll get a beautifully rendered animation explaining the concept It works thanks to few-shot prompting 🎯

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1 year

It’s so over

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@sdand

6 months

Absolutely deviating after putting in a gruesome 48 hours someday in April

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9 months

@jaltma 11/10 in being so insanly boring you have nothing to do besides start an internet company or go biking on the penninsula

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1 year

chatwithpdf is now running on a 16 core 60 gb box serving hundreds of thousands of requests google drive is now fully supported, alongside a full host of other issues that have popped up as users ramped up on ChatGPT plugins

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6 months

i can feel we’re in the last innings of software my agi timelines have significantly decreased this will allow us to focus on more important areas, BCI, brain stimulation, conquring the galaxy, etc.

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6 months

2021 was another time

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9 months

i find it so insane alibaba can drop 3 new embedding models outscoring ada-002 on almost all benchmarks (with lower dims) embeddings are great for similarity/search but also can improve how text is represented at train time and you can run them on your own cheaper than ada2

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6 months

if you’re reading this, download the weights before it’s too late

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10 months

life isn't about making money its about winning (and having a lot of money) co-founder of a popular db startup dissed me last week (he's twice my age) and will make it my mission to go to market faster

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1 year

@giladrom typically google can tell if its ai gen heres a tool to check:

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9 months

Thank you ChatGPT Plugins

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3 years

I have no idea what Fast is or what the 1 click checkout is or how its worth north of a billion & I’m totally okay with that. I’ve also still never found a store that uses Fast Checkout.

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@adcock_brett how about sticking to your company for longer than 3 years before dumping your spac. or was it easier to "ipo" and say you're going to make 1 billion next year without a single one in production to this day

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1 year

Oh my god it’s so over

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It’s so over

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2 years

its easier to open up a bank account than it is to get fully verified on coinbase

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2 months

palmer lucky made $700m at 22, napoleon from modest beginnings dominated Europe for decades, his legacy echoing through history wrote a blog trying to unwrap what high agency is, link next

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3 months

@mayfer they use “patches” which give image/video artifacts an abstraction to make them more persistent, think of them like transformer tokens

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3 months

back home in cupertino, testing on the 🥽 and excited to share that im working on something new. if you're thinking about interfaces and llms, pls dm me

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@sdand

9 months

sharing a deeply personal post ive been meaning to finish the past 2 years have been full of ups/downs. hopefully will inspire anyone in/going into college

Suffering from success

Two years ago my life changed. After locking myself in my room since the beginning of the year I was hungry to run it up turbo. Peak 2021, money was being...

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5 months

@arthurmensch the french are accelerating

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6 months

the saga is over. steve ballmer always wins

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1 year

chatwithgit is on the store it has been incredibly helpful having Github search directly integrated into chatgpt so it can source code samples directly from the source

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@miramurati When are you releasing Ilya?

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is consumer ai dead? the uninspiring stories of gpt wrappers ramping up to 10s to 100s of thousands of users are common, they rake in profits with 40-70%+ margins and seemingly all die within 5-9 months. Why?

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@sdand

6 months

everyone in Hayes valley has this tweet open rn it’s insane

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i love the openai team so much

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6 months

openai employees were rlhf’d into oblivion last night — ask any question and the default response is quote unquote “I cannot comment on that”

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@abacaj Jim cramer effect

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1 year

Beautiful day in Cupertino, California

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1 year

chatwithpdf, chatwithvideo, chatwithwebsite, chatwithgit, chatmaps(soon), partychat(soon) took 2 weeks tops? time to setup a stripe account. wish there was a clear way to attribute these plugins to me. i saw a tiktok in spanish with 100k+ likes the other day abt chatwithpdf!!

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@giladrom lmao i tried the same thing with gpt2 in 2020. got 100m+ hits before google deboosted + marked all my sites as spam + got disinterested generated articles, added relevant images, and sparsely sprinkled backlinks to rank interested to see where this goes

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5 months

we’ll look back in a few years to the textbox interface for AI model as we did brick phones for calling

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2 years

@VCBrags

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@sdand

1 year

@TwitterDev Please fix this 9 month long urgent issue in the API first. You can’t even get an access token from the refresh token without getting a new refresh token which invalidates the use of even having an access token!

Refresh token expiring (with offline.access scope)

Appreciate the response. Actually I think refresh tokens are for 1 time use only as well as being limited to 2 hours. I used the twitter api (both POST request and via the official typescript sdk)...

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1 year

At Coachella for 25 y/o fintech engineers

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@sdand

10 months

"vector dbs are like the new high school calculator example app" well yes -- you don't need $50mm to do cosine similarity and a numpy array

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over the past month my plugins have embedded over 10 billion tokens and 2 million unique hits to handle that scale, every service i used broke down day after day introducing serverless embeddings, at half the cost. called re-embed. why? -->

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“you’re a real person?” —treehacks

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1 year

@TwitterDev Making a paid API doesn’t help hobbyist and small developers who are building an ecosystem of apps on top of twitter. Really sad to see.

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6 months

you are not physically ready for how much we are going to accelerate for the next 48 months

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@sdand

9 months

everyday I wake up and thjnk about distribution, viral growth loops, and UIs forget vc money I think fundamentally gpt wrappers surprisingly arent saturated and all you need is a killer execution/sales team so far I am having my best month in about a year

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distribution is king. i don't care about anything else

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been thinking a lot about something @bchesky said on a podcast recently: "Speak to your customer as you would to an 8 year old. Not condescendingly, but simply (...) considering that your audience is busy and may not be fully attentive."

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honestly haven’t read a single stripe book but will keep buying bc they look cool

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@sdand

2 years

I'm 19. My perspective on work, life, and happiness has changed a lot over the past year. Here are 7 lessons I'm taking into 2022:

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This high school kid made the very popular and Arcane discord bots At a 3% conversion rate for his freemium discord bots he's easily pulling over $200k+/mo or nearly $3mil a year(45k paid users at $5/mo) pretty wild

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7 months

i take back everything i said about thinly veiled gpt wrappers having no moat

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8 months

If you were to run human brain level compute on 1m H100s it would cost $2,000,000/hr opposed to Min. USA wage if 7.25/hr At 100t synapses and est. 20 flops/syn its 2 quadr flops A single H100 priced at $2 has 2k tflops, meaning it would take 1m to match the brain Wonder when…

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where engineering becomes redundant, design becomes more essential GPTs are incredibly simple to make but despite being excited about Plugins, i havent used GPTs making them intuitive and to utilize actions/retrieval to make GPTs that are world-class will take longer

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10 months

i made like 7 or 8 chatgpt plugins in one week in may i chatted with some fellow plugin devs and now it turns out they're in the s23 batch wtf

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7 months

also all of them have an iphone mini

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6 months

mfs hyped about a feature Poe launched with in June and a 10 figure startup that’s going to be effectively eliminated tomorrow

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vlite 2 -- a simple fast vector db made in numpy released today(again) and is lighter and faster than ever with binary embeddings and: - a new file format: CTX -- to make embeddings composable, portable - langchain support - 1.1s to search 500k documents, total package <25kb

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@sdand

2 years

@laf0nd someone already updated the wiki

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@sdand

10 months

There's virtually no setup for this. Just two functions with optional flags for more customization memorize(): input some text of any length. it'll be chopped, chunked, and embedded automatically. remember(): input some text you want to search against.

GitHub - sdan/vlite: fast vector database made in numpy

fast vector database made in numpy. Contribute to sdan/vlite development by creating an account on GitHub.

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1 year

📝 Introducing ChatWithPDF Chat/analyze/question with any PDF directly in the comfort of ChatGPT via Plugins access The best part? Free. Forever. since it's plugged into ChatGPT. Here it is helping me with homework

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wearing a mic everywhere you go is a great way to get subpoenaed

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@yacineMTB

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Anthropic London hackathon being run by the best @cerebral_valley

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7 months

a bit sad to see so many companies raising rounds for something that should be an open sourced product-- imagine a world where numpy, beautifulsoup, or nshepperd's gpt2 repo (first finetuning repo!) wasn't open source? hoping these companies open source eventually

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few things in life replicate the bliss of opening up a fresh jupyter notebook, dumping your thoughts, and pressing shift+enter

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@sdand

8 months

ultimately want to cultivate exceptionally brilliant engineers in a single space. no congratulatory funding rounds, or flashy twitter demos, just really dedicated designers, engineers, and gtm founders working on something with a semi-monthly production pace

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what if we made a venture studio here?? (dm me)

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1 year

we've embedded 8 billions so far this week

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@sdand

1 year

one thing I refuse to do is build in public if I ever post mrr I’m going to delete this app made and sold startups entirely on twitter(on diff accs) just grinding away with a laptop and a banger Kanye playlist

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something about sf hackathons is so funny they act more like pitches to vc judges because realistically none of the winners have started their project that day

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1 year

LFG

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2 years

@buccocapital chamaths entire existence is founded upon wrapping up ponzis into nicely packaged investments to dump on you

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@sdand

1 year

if you inspect element on a chatgpt plugin's logo you can find its url, its ai-plugin and openai config files from there you can look at what other ppl are doing and use it to make your plugin better pvp world

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1 year

chatwithpdf is a simple chatgpt plugin that offers limitless file q/a for free. it went from 0->300k uniques this weekend just submitted another 2 plugins into the plugin store(also free). will continue hacking on plugins until we completely dominate

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