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Victoria, British Columbia Katılım Ocak 2010
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Adam Dymitruk
Adam Dymitruk@adymitruk·
"[ #EventSoucing ] is intuitive. If you register everything that happens, figuring out what should be the current state of the system is accounting, the other way around, is _forensics_." - @JYCabello This encapsulates why we can offer free bug fixes and others can't.
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Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick@emollick·
Wow, diffusion models (used in AI image generation) are also game engines - a type of world simulation. By predicting the next frame of the classic shooter DOOM, you get a playable game at 20 fps without any underlying real game engine. This video is from the diffusion model.
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Michael E. Driscoll
Michael E. Driscoll@medriscoll·
Snowflake may soon find itself in the uncanny valley of database price-to-performance, serving neither the cold nor hot tiers of data well. To wit: * Snowflake isn't cheap enough to compete with @databricks for "cold tier" data that belongs in a data lake, for slow reporting / batch processing use cases (the @tabulario acquisition further positions Databricks as winning here), and yet... * Snowflake isn't fast enough to compete with databases like @ClickHouseDB for the "hot tier" of data that powers user-facing applications / real-time ML systems and requires high performance. Snowflake is serving the "lukewarm" data tier, and unless they make some strategic moves, I predict more and more companies will decide to take their data elsewhere.
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Sahil Lavingia
Sahil Lavingia@shl·
Future of work prediction: People will work.
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Jaya Gupta
Jaya Gupta@JayaGup10·
We at @FoundationCap believe there is $4.6T of work to be automated. AI companies are leading a transition from Software-as-a-Service to Service-as-Software, turning the table on the very essence of SaaS. We look at the areas to be automated in two buckets: 1.) Salaries of jobs globally ($2.3 trillion in sales & marketing, software engineering, security, and HR) 2.) The amount spent on outsourced services and salaries—both IT services and business process services ($2.3 trillion, per Gartner) In the software business, a company may sell access to its platform or tool, but customers are still responsible for using that tool to achieve the desired outcome. In the services business, responsibility for achieving the desired outcome sits with the company selling the service.
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Santiago Ortiz
Santiago Ortiz@moebio·
Interactive visualization of chatgpt completion probabilities, I ask it to to complete the prompt "When " hundreds of times.
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Orion Reed
Orion Reed@OrionReedOne·
Maybe it’s time to start an open working group with @tldraw, @obsdmd, @excalidraw, @MuseAppHQ, +others to develop a minimal, open and interoperable format so canvases can approach the longevity of text files. I’d be happy to organise this. Done it before. And I’m very invested.
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Dang. Bit of a shame that this model is getting a head start as the basis for open canvas standards when (imho) @tldraw has at its core a simpler, more principled, and extensible model. I think somewhere in between there is a good JSON-compatible model for the next decade.

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brett goldstein
brett goldstein@thatguybg·
I worked on Google's M&A team when we were doing 40+ acquisitions a year 21 things founders should know about getting acquired 1. your team will likely have to pass interviews at the new company, so hire well. 2. every time your valuation increases, the number of potential acquirers decreases. 3. deals that come in through the corp dev team have a <1% success rate, so talk to actual product people. 4. build relationships with product teams years in advance of a potential acquisition. 5. your largest customers and partners are the best potential acquirers. 6. M&A is a FOMO game, so it's good to play acquirers off each other (when you are legally able to). 7. the deal isn't over until the $$ is in the bank (lots of deals dying very far along these days). 8. don't let your team know you're running a process until the very end. they'll leak the news or become wildly unproductive when they find out and even more unproductive when the deal falls through. 9. the best time to get acquired is when you don't need to or want to be. 10. when you talk to acquirers, you need to show them how you will supercharge their product/business – this can involve actual design and code. 11. full acquisition prices you see in the headlines often come with strings attached – usually integration, revenue/user growth, and employee retention milestones. 12. decide with your cofounder what the conditions would be (e.g., $$) for you to accept an acquisition offer before you have your first conversation. cofounder misalignment here can really really hurt. 13. running a fundraiser at the same time as an M&A process can help both – buyers can offer more if your fundraising options are good and investors love to see real exit opportunities. 14. there are 3 types of deals: acquihire (just the team), asset (just the tech), and full (entire company, team & assets). 15. acquihires can range from just getting a normal job (and the ability to say you were "acquired") to also including $10M+ payouts. don't trust folks bragging about getting acquihired because it's usually the former. 16. your liquidation preferences will largely determine your financial outcome. your investors get their money back before you get your payout from an acquisition, so if you've raised a lot (on bad terms) and you don't have traction, you're probably not going to make much at all. 17. some acquirers will hold back equity you've already vested as part of the deal. some will accelerate unvested equity AND throw in retention bonuses. 18. falling into depression after an acquisition is not uncommon. take care of your mental health and make friends who have gone through it. 19. make sure you're clean legally and financially. investing in good bookkeeping early on can save you tons of time and prevent your deal to get derailed. 20. acquisitions have complex personal tax consequences. hire someone good for that. 21. the best acquired founders at Google only stayed an average of 2.5 years before leaving to start their next thing. life isn't over after you sell!!
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Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch@rauchg·
We’re still in the “let’s retrofit AI into existing UIs” phase. The future is AI-native UX.
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Maxime De Greve
Maxime De Greve@MaximeDeGreve·
Today, we're excited to launch @github code search - a new way to search and navigate code. We’re introducing a brand new search and code navigation view and they are jam packed with new features. Here are some I’m excited about.... 🧵 1/6
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Renee Shah
Renee Shah@reneeshah123·
🧵Here are some quick observations on what I’m seeing within distributed systems in 2022 -- largely focused on edge computing, Rust/Wasm, and databases
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Continual
Continual@continual_ai·
Data-centric AI requires keeping data secure. Today we're proud to announce that Continual is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant with help from @DrataHQ. hubs.ly/Q01jdZlz0
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Davis Treybig
Davis Treybig@TreybigDavis·
Excited to announce our investment in @continual_ai! The rise of the modern data stack has laid the foundation for a new massive company to be built in the MLOps space, and we think @tristanzajonc and Tyler Kohn are the right team to go after it. medium.com/innovationende…
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Gwen (Chen) Shapira
Gwen (Chen) Shapira@gwenshap·
Exciting news! The stealthy startup that @sriramsubram and I started in Jan is looking for a senior backend/infra eng with expertise in building API products. If this is you, and you want to join us in the exciting "under 10 people" stage of a startup, DM me.
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Carl Schmidt
Carl Schmidt@schmidtdisturbr·
Today is my last day as an @Unbounce employee. It's been an amazing 13 years, and I count myself lucky to have come to know so many amazing people (employees and customers!) through this journey. Not sure what's next for me yet, but excited to explore!
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