Using AI to help build the physical world Co-Founder, Ralco AI
New York, NY
Joined December 2011
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Elite fall Sunday:
- Central Park run in the am (foliage 🤌🏻)
- Scrambled eggs over sour dough
- Premier League games
- Scott Hansen
- Getting dressed like something out of the A&F fall/winter collection
- Roast dinner
Life is amazing. Amiryt @fadule_
Construction operations are chaotic.
We’re building construction’s intelligence layer to turn that chaos into clarity.
ralco.ai
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Court is back in session.
ALT Aaron Judge on deck with a bat. "Court is back in session."
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"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹-𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗴𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼... 𝗦𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻"
The Cork corner-forward had a stormer at Croke Park as the Rebels held off Galway by a single point... #RTEgaa
Yes it’s preseason, and yes it means little 😂 but I built a machine learning model to try and predict ‘success’ as an NFL QB against college data, against success metrics I defined. Haynes King was the biggest outlier ever 😂 great to see him make big time plays. Receipt I sent to @scoutdnfl :
‘Hi, I took a quick look yes. Interesting projects listed no doubt.
Now for this coding round (interview #8) can you reverse this Linked List iteratively and recursively?’
We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experience!). Here’s a few slides about our background and some of the things we’ve worked on from the pitch deck (it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have gone on to found a whole range of exciting companies). We are delighted to have selected @radicalvcfund
and @khoslaventures to lead our initial funding round, along with participation from @lightspeedvp, @kleinerperkins, Doerr Capital (@johndoerr), and Alphabet (@Google). We’ll be working with them to close our seed round over the next few weeks.
One year off the beer today
Doesn’t help that NYC is like the gif below for trying to avoid 🍻 🍻 🍻
But it can be done! 😎🤌🏻
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# on shortification of "learning"
There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.
Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.
I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.
So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.
And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.
