doing stuff at @modal
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i think a good chunk of the population is now experiencing life as brief moments in between looking at their phone
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wow congrats to the Sky team. Amazing get by @OpenAI — incredible craftsmanship in everything they do
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Given that the US economy is now “one big bet on AI”, it’s all of our patriotic duty to create and consume AI slop.
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OK, I got sucked into a rabbit hole yesterday with trailing slashes and I finally got out of it! justoffbyone.com/posts/trail…
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not that i believe this too strongly but Uber isn’t doomed because uber is more of an ops company rather than a tech company and keeping all these cars running is an operational mess that Google won’t want to do.
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I was writing a post about building hiring pipelines and needed some math. So I built a calculator, which became its own post. justoffbyone.com/posts/inter…
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a good reminder that most people won't read your stuff before they blast it, you just gotta learn to ignore that noise
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apparently @alexisohanian is teaming up with his former nemesis (and my former boss!) @kevinrose on bringing back digg. well, on the heels of that news, i brought back my 2012 blog post: what was it like to work at digg during *that* v4 launch?
justoffbyone.com/posts/worki…
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i get almost zero value out of any zoom intro at this point, unless it’s for a specific reason like job or investment.
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even though it is home to academic powerhouses like tufts and bc, Boston remains an intellectual wasteland
Today at 2pm EST, Boston will consider becoming the first major city in the world to ban fully autonomous vehicles based entirely on vibes.
Waymo is involved in 5X fewer injury-causing collisions than humans, and employment in SF's taxi and limo industry grew by 7% last year!
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it seems very unlikely to me that someone somewhere cloned some people already if this tech is this readily available
Tom Brady reveals his dog Junie is a clone of his late pup Lua, who passed away in 2023:
“A few years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw of our family's elderly dog before she passed.”
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“slack for ai” should look like the client intercepting any message you want to send and be like “are you actually saying anything of value or just creating work for others?”
I actually think that for programmers, AI-native Slack won’t be a chat app at all. Conversations about code will happen in the same place whether they’re with an AI, a fellow engineer, or a PM.
So that’s the editor, terminal, VCS, or project management tool. Or some amalgam.
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just utterly crazy that a few years ago this would be sci-fi but now it works — you talk into a computer, and it generates code, it generates perfect english, it generates perfect pronunciation. there are no APIs other than your imagination. sorry not sorry.
Build a conversational voice bot with 1 second voice-to-voice latency with Modal, @pipecat_ai, and open models.
Modal works seamlessly with WebRTC, WebSockets, and tunneling to squash latency to an absolute minimum.
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i just blogged about this here too justoffbyone.com/posts/measu…
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you take a look at this and openai hiring bankers to automate them away makes sense all of a sudden
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Are you a tech founder in NYC who wants to attend a panel I'm going to be moderating on building tech companies on Nov 10? Slide into DMs!
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as far as i can understand the “ai scene” in sf is 1% ppl doing work and 99% ppl going to partifuls
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8:10am in Williamsburg and two guys are talking about OpenAI API keys. Welcome to Zohrans America.
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two “unfair” ways to create advantage in recruiting: answer to candidates’ emails faster and spend more time than looking for candidates than the competition
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I’m 99% joking but given how American economy is also now a singular bet on AI, I do think it’s time for The Big One to hit the Bay Area sooner than later.
Meditation guru, life coach, and enlightened blogger Sasha Chapin writes article “The Bay Area is Cursed.” Reddit user Scott Alexander writes this in response.
Well folks, the good news is we’ve identified two of the people responsible for making this place cursed.
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kinda weirded out by finding out that almost 40% of the take-off weight of a commercial airliner on a long-haul flight is fuel. not the payload weight, the entire take-off weight.
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someone already sent this to their recruiter!!
I was writing a post about building hiring pipelines and needed some math. So I built a calculator, which became its own post. justoffbyone.com/posts/inter…
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an interesting free markets problem where I can’t think of how you’d prevent people from making billions out of this.
A new meta analysis of millions of online posters finds that moral-emotional language is perhaps the number 1 rocket-booster for traffic.
Most ppl who spend time building an audience by posting online about politics (or anything) come to the same realization: high dudgeon outrage and out-group condemnation are easy tickets to going viral.
We're not ourselves here. The physical-world upholds a principle of kindly reciprocity (If you're nice to me, I'm nice to you) and negative punishment (Removing ourselves from ppl and places that are mean to us). Social media, for a variety of reasons, inverts this principle and encourages ppl to actively seek and fixate on out-groups who can serve as fuel for outrage, condemnation, and other moral-emotional communication. I think this is somewhat obvious, and I have no plan to fix it, but sometimes it's just worth pointing out the obvious.
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i switched to ghostty out of curiosity and now my regular feels jank / slow — gg @mitchellh and the ghosty team!
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genuine question, not a diss: do people watch these interviews or solely consume them via twitter clips like I do?
Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) is getting into nicotine.
"Basically, America smoked its way to being the dominant hyperpower. It kept people focused, it kept people fit. It's an appetite suppressant.
"I'm becoming more and more convinced that the health benefits of not smoking have not been properly traded against the health problems caused by the resulting eating."
"I think the crazy version of this is we'd all be better off with lung cancer eventually, but fit until then."
"Is vaping worse than being fat? I don't know. I struggle. Based on the evidence I've seen."
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it seems a bit gauche to say this given ~~ all that’s happening ~~ but at this point, I’ve made conscious decision to stop following people who are habitually negative on social media.
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Good luck! Randomly popped up on my timeline, had no clue you were the Tuple guy. Incredible software. I’m sure your personal life will be another success story.
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reading all this stuff makes me as excited like it's the 2010s when it felt like people were re-building the internet to be mobile. i think the "ai" stuff is interesting not just b/c of the tech because now the inputs and outputs are voice / physical vs. buttons. p cool.
Real-time voice AI isn’t easy. It needs sub-second latency, natural turn-taking, and conversational quality all at once.
Here’s how @DecagonAI and Modal built a real-time inference system using:
• Supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning
• Speculative decoding with custom draft models
• Runtime-level GPU optimizations
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Created a way to subscribe to my posts. justoffbyone.com/subscribe/ -plz consider
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Love the comedian list! One thought: consider adding some films, books, or other cultural items as conversation starters. You’ve got the important stuff (family, fitness) covered, now let the personality come out too. Give people something to hook on to, as basic as it might be.
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this reminds me of my upstairs neighbor in SF who threatened to report me to "the immigration office" when i kindly told her, when i ran into her in the elevator mind you, that her dog is very noisy at night
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Yes but you can also put that money you’d have put in an home to something else and get returns there. Maybe more money than you’d have had after selling a house. That’s what you are missing.
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you haven’t lived in SF during covid if you haven’t seen stytch billboards. what a journey! congrats to @juliannaelamb and the team!!
We started Stytch 5.5 years ago to build the next generation of identity infrastructure. We’ve come far in that time, but there’s still so much more to do as the way we interact with applications and the threats to identity security are evolving rapidly with AI. Today, I’m excited to share that we’re joining forces with Twilio to accelerate our roadmap by bringing identity and communication infrastructure together to help you build a new generation of AI-driven applications.
I vividly remember sitting in the backyard of my mom’s house one Saturday amidst the 2020 lockdowns, working on what would become the Stytch API. One of the very first pieces of code that I wrote was a Twilio integration for doing SMS OTP login. It was the first end to end auth product that I built as part of the initial POC for Stytch. I remember sending my mom an OTP code and running in the house to make her finish the login, one of the first end to end Stytch authentications.
The next product I worked on was email magic links, and as I was going through the setup, I excitedly sent @McStempel the onboarding flow for SendGrid (by then a part of Twilio), impressed with how thoughtful their developer experience was. Twilio has been a cornerstone of the Stytch product from before it was even a product, when it was mostly an idea and a little Go server running on my laptop.
So it feels incredibly full circle to be joining forces with Twilio to double down on building identity infrastructure that makes securing applications simple for developers.
Building Stytch has been an amazing journey, I’ve gotten to work with incredible, customer obsessed people, been challenged in ways I could never have imagined, and I’m so proud of the work we’ve done. But we’re just getting started. I'm excited for this next phase of the journey, to build even better products at a scale that we couldn’t even dream of when those first OTP codes were sent.
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we kinda normalized zoom meetings during Covid but there’s a reason people travel and see each other in person. meeting a person over zoom to “hear what you are working on” or anything vague just doesn’t work
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do i know anyone in NYC looking for a chief of staff kind of role? ideally someone with a tech / consulting background. for a friends co that I can vouch for!
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I get it’s a remarkable addition to the skyline and it cost $3B but JPMorgan putting out ads for its new building has a weird small town energy. It’s just a building bro. Have you heard of Stargate?!
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turkey mentioned 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
Congrats to our new, in house Pentagon press corps
The Federalist, the Epoch Times, OAN, Turkish newspaper Akşam, three individuals from the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, two Turkish freelancers, a reporter for the Australian, an Afghan freelancer; and three lesser-known operations, AWPS News, the India Globe and a blog called USA Journal Korea.
washingtonpost.com/business/…
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at this point im pretty sure im half fairlife as i put it in everything. i also recognize that makes me quarter microplastic.
NEW ODD LOtS:
The viral milk that helped set off the protein craze.
@tracyalloway and I talk to dairy economist Corey Geiger of CoBank about Fairlife, protein, fat, and all of the various products that you can make out of milk podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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once again, i remain convinced that a phone free gym is a great idea where everyone’s workout takes 1/3 the time
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the most annoying person ever at the gym today was wearing a @claudeai “thinking” hat
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not sure if it’s my media diet or if those people left for blsky / thredz but i almost see none of the tech journo people i used to follow mid-2010s anymore
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Agree that it’s not definitive and generalizable but I can anecdotally confirm the premise of the chart
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timely
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can’t shake the feeling that a good chunk of new companies exist so that people can justify spending money on launch videos
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while i don’t really have strong feelings for zohran either way, i have strong feelings against the ideology that turned sf into a very rough place to live and i don’t want the same to happen to nyc so I recommend not voting for that
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One nice thing is that with the new twitter algorithm, it’s very unlikely anyone will see anything I say anymore
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with modern gpus, these effects are practically “free” so it’s in your head if you think it’s slower or they use more battery
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yeah people there seem to like the mayor and there’s a “we are so back” mentality but some of it is also Stockholm syndrome imo
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I got so many warnings for tomorrow’s rains that at this point I would be more upset if there wasn’t any flooding.
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