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michael

@akilian

helping founders start new companies

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Come work with me! My company Convoke is growing and hiring across software development, machine learning, and life science experts. If you're based in the bay area and interested in building better data infrastructure for biopharma get in touch. (Jobs website in replies)

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the real benchmark for an early stage startup is landing your ~tenth customer because you can finally make your customer logo reel animated so as to create the illusion you have way more

Luke Igel (@lukeigel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I edited this hiking video with a Claude MCP. I asked for a compilation of all the animals we saw in Point Reyes, then Claude sent it to Davinci Resolve. I can easily bring this simple timeline into a larger edit.

Exponent (@exponent_run) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Introducing Exponent, a highly capable programming agent. You can get early access today to start using Exponent's clean, developer-focused UX for any software engineering task from exploration to deployment.

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“we like to really roll up our sleeves with the founders we back” the GP says, “every investment comes with 1M AI credits”

Dante (@camutodante) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We, EZKL with MIT and Microsoft Research, have published a methodology to cryptographically prove that closed-source AI models achieve claimed performance metrics without revealing model weights.

We, <a href="/ezklxyz/">EZKL</a> with MIT and Microsoft Research, have published a methodology to cryptographically prove that closed-source AI models achieve claimed performance metrics without revealing model weights.
Zac Townsend (@ztownsend) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We at meanwhile | Bitcoin Life Insurance have closed a $40M Series A co-led by fulgur.ventures and Framework Ventures with participation from Wences Casares This round gives us significant capital to power our journey of building the world's largest long-term insurance and savings company. 1/

We at <a href="/meanwhilelife/">meanwhile | Bitcoin Life Insurance</a> have closed a $40M Series A co-led by <a href="/FulgurVentures/">fulgur.ventures</a> and <a href="/hiFramework/">Framework Ventures</a> with participation from Wences Casares

This round gives us significant capital to power our journey of building the world's largest long-term insurance and savings company. 1/
Tyler Angert (@tylerangert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

im gonna be in SF may 5-11! if you are (or know someone who is) interested in building "conforming software" and consumer products please reach out! id love to chat and grab coffee. we've spent the past 2 months building the foundation of a personal search engine, and are

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the chakra, crystal, and witch people will turn out to all be correct -- we'll soon all be able to harness electricity to manipulate the world (digital, human, biological, and others) at all scales of the universe, effectively doing what past humans thought of as 'magic' the

Dante (@camutodante) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Prod AI systems face a fundamental reality: they’ll eventually encounter the worst possible conditions. Hardware failures, adversarial attacks, cosmic rays flipping bits in memory. If it can break your system, it probably will. We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer who gets this. 🧵

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'superintelligent ai will solve it' is a new kind of fatalistic optimism and increasingly a potential flag for a lack of clear thinking

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most of what people call 'contrarian' tends to be some other thing, the word is losing it's meaning contrarian: explicitly going against the grain of what is popular non-consensus: not against the grain, but not yet agreed upon as the right/popular thing heretical: explicitly

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the first few companies to fundraise in a category can often pollute the narrative waters by anchoring investors’ beliefs about what matters, but they’re rarely correct