convalytics

I started this account 15 years ago, when I thought "convalytics" would be a good name for a company doing conversion analytics. (click-through rate, etc...) Turns out, I'm better at automation. So 6 years ago, we pivoted. #MyXAnniversary

With the amount of public data available, it's a shame that we haven't automated the home buying process to be as simple as Amazon checkout, or at least as easy as buying a tesla.

@iruletheworldmo Honey, what are you doing? Just getting ready to read a new book!

i never want to read any other way again.

Turn around time from first meeting to functional automation in under 2 weeks. Message me today and let's build some automation! #AutomateEverything

Even if you only do that task 10 times a day and pay on the lower end, ROI is under 90 days. Common tasks that we automate: - Order Entry - Status updates / notes in and out of your systems. - Order Completion / Final Upload - Vendor Maintenance

Doing some napkin math today and was shocked at how fast you can hit ROI break even if you automate a single process with Convalytics. If you have a 5-minute task that you do 30 times a day (2.5hrs), you'll break even in as little as 30 days.

@EcZachly Nobody actually believes that. It's just the way the interview system is set up.

If someone told you to be a good student, I should just study the SAT questions again and again and again. You’d look at them like they’re crazy. Why do we believe grinding Leetcode and system design interview questions again and again and again makes you a good engineer?

@yacineMTB I had an intern many years ago who asked about becoming a data scientist. He had minimal computer skills, zero coding skills, and no interest in the actual job. But "data scientist" was the sexy high paying job. 100% in it for the money.

Most software engineers today aren't technology nerds. Too much money in it now

This took me like 2 minutes of thought, 5 minutes waiting for the videos to render, and 5 minutes to figure out how to splice the videos together using shotcut.

My first attempt at a "commercial" using Google Veo 3. Splice together a few 8-second clips and anyone can produce commercials for their small business.

@ycombinator @ValueMateAI Will be keeping an eye on this!

ValueMate (@ValueMateAI) is modernizing real estate appraisals with a platform built with AI at its core. Compared to legacy software, ValueMate allows appraisers to be 80% more efficient. ycombinator.com/launches/Nbs-v…

EVERYONE SHOULD START A BUSINESS 1. because AI agents make it possible to move like a team of ten 2. because you can start one while you still have a job (and probably should) 3. because it rewires your brain 4. because $100 and an audience gets you further today than $1M did in 2010. 5. because AI just created the biggest entrpreneurial opportunity window of human history 6. because it forces you to get good at storytelling 7. because it gives you an absurd amount of leverage in the job market 8. because you get to help people 9. because you can test demand before writing a single line of code. 10. because you can automate the boring parts and focus on the fun 11. because you can test ideas in 48 hours, not 48 weeks 12. because your ideas deserve more than a Google Doc 13. because making money in your sleep never gets old 14. because you get to stand on the shoulders of giants building on their tech (openai, shopify, cloudflare etc) 15. because it's 2025 and you can even get free startup ideas backed by trends @ideabrowser 16. because it's a rollercoaster of emotions and you'll learn a ton about yourself 17. because maybe you can't stop thinking about an idea and it's driving you mad 18. Because life is short and it's fun

@anothercohen Runescape is the only part that fits this timeline. None of these things still existed by 2008.

The year is 2008. You just picked up one of these bad boys from Office Depot. You’re about to steal the family phone line for the next 8 hours playing RuneScape and waiting for your crush to message you back on AIM. You try to download music but accidentally torrented porn from Limewire. Life is good

@DevinAI Devin has been sent to the break room for retaining.

feel like i'm working at lumon

@karpathy I've often thought about treating words on a page like pixels in an image. Maybe not the same thing, but a different paradigm than pure left to right text.

This is interesting as a first large diffusion-based LLM. Most of the LLMs you've been seeing are ~clones as far as the core modeling approach goes. They're all trained "autoregressively", i.e. predicting tokens from left to right. Diffusion is different - it doesn't go left to right, but all at once. You start with noise and gradually denoise into a token stream. Most of the image / video generation AI tools actually work this way and use Diffusion, not Autoregression. It's only text (and sometimes audio!) that have resisted. So it's been a bit of a mystery to me and many others why, for some reason, text prefers Autoregression, but images/videos prefer Diffusion. This turns out to be a fairly deep rabbit hole that has to do with the distribution of information and noise and our own perception of them, in these domains. If you look close enough, a lot of interesting connections emerge between the two as well. All that to say that this model has the potential to be different, and possibly showcase new, unique psychology, or new strengths and weaknesses. I encourage people to try it out!

@mercuri4pa The demand isn't expected to go down anytime soon. Let's build more nuclear.

Electric utility prices are rising due to increased demand and will continue to rise as long as the Shapiro administration continues to stifle supply and penalize energy producers post-gazette.com/news/politics-…

With AI, unit testing will become even more important. Devs are changing huge chunks of code while trusting that the AI made no mistakes. We should be running unit tests every time we accept a change made by AI.

@HeroDividend My stocks are doing better... But "my stocks" happen to be MSTR.

Owning Bitcoin does not make you a better investor You can have a 50% gain in stocks the same way you can have a 50% gain in Bitcoin Thank you for coming to my TED talk

@adrian_horning_ Pittsburgh, so pretty much the same. However, we will have blue skies and 70 degrees for a few random days in December or January.

How does anyone live in northeast Ohio? You never see the sun in the winter

@RampCapitalLLC The crazy thing to me is the people who bought at like $6, sold at $1,200 and never touched it again. Like, you didn't hang onto a few just in case? Or ever buy some more on a dip?

If you think about it you’d have to be a complete psychopath to have bought a lot of bitcoin and never sold it through all of the ups and downs