VC; cheesehead; technology, start-up and hoops junkie; inspired by my wife and 2 kids

Seattle
Joined October 2008
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42 is the answer to everything. This is @EntireHQ’s answer to Git in the era of agents: fast, independent, distributed. Mirror your GitHub repos, let your agents clone and pull from the region(s) of your choice, and…we're open sourcing it. 🤖
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In 2007, Linus Torvalds said "If you're not distributed, you're not worth using." For Git hosting to sustain through the era of agents, we must now return Git to its original promise: Decentralization. My thoughts 👇 entire.io/blog/how-version-c…
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Today I'm excited to announce that we are launching @hyperparamapp, an AI-powered Swiss Army knife for massive LLM datasets. It lets you view, score, filter, label, and transform LLM data directly in the browser. I started Hyperparam one year ago because I knew that the world of data was changing, and existing tools like Python and Jupyter Notebooks were not built for the scale of LLM data. The weights of LLMs may be tensors, but the input and output of LLMs are massive piles of text. The training set of LLMs is a large corpus of text from various sources, meticulously cleaned and preprocessed. The output of LLMs is also text, and it’s being produced in even greater quantities than the training data. No human has the patience to sift through all that text, so we need better tools to help us understand and analyze it. That's why I built Hyperparam to be the first tool specifically designed for working with LLM data at scale. To accomplish this required rethinking how data analysis tools work. I started Hyperparam as a side project and wanted to see if I could build it entirely in the browser. No Python, no servers, just pure interactive web experience. I'm pretty excited about how it turned out. Hyperparam is fast, powerful, and easy to use. It can handle datasets with millions of rows of text and provides a rich set of tools for exploring and analyzing that data using LLMs agents for assistance. Every company is now producing volumes of LLM data. Chat logs, agent traces, coding agent logs, and more. Hyperparam is designed to help you make sense of all that data. If you're working with LLM data (and let's be honest... every company is producing LLM data now), I encourage you to give Hyperparam a try. It’s free while in beta. 🚀
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We're excited to share that @RavennaHQ has raised $15M from @MadronaVentures @khoslaventures and @founderscoop to reimagine internal support for modern teams. 💪 🙏@adinatecklu @tmporter @aviel Read more on the Ravenna blog: ravenna.ai/blog/ravenna-rais…
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Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: Runway’s new base model for video generation. Gen-3 Alpha can create highly detailed videos with complex scene changes, a wide range of cinematic choices, and detailed art directions. runwayml.com/gen-3-alpha (1/10)
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List of Cities With Multiple Trillion $+ Companies Seattle
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Made for these moments. #USvsUS
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It is widely understood that revenue growth is crucial to the success of a #startup. But at what point should a startup be thinking about long-term #revenue growth and, in turn, hire a #ChiefRevenueOfficer? @LorenAlhadeff breaks it down here: bit.ly/45xQk51 #CRO
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Hey OSS maintainer friends! We are looking connect and talk a little about your supply chain security requirements and practices. Please DM me if you are up for a discussion with @eryn_muetzel and myself. We will try to make it worth your while. :)
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Don't miss @tmporter's chat with @NumbersStnAI Founders @chamii22 and Chris Aberger. We are excited about the unique work Numbers Station is doing applying #FoundationModels to #datawrangling. 👂👉 bit.ly/3N3BxIT #ai #data #analytics #founders #dataanalytics
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Let's build! 6/10 Seattle AI Hackathon, from @awscloud and @MadronaVentures, sponsored by @OpenAI, @pinecone, @weaviate_io, @statsigio, @getblueprintai. Prizes and early access to tech not publicly available. Judges incl @1vnzh @vijayeraji and @tnachen. Bring yourself or a team.
🚀 Join the AI Tinkerers Seattle Summer Hackathon on June 10th! Sponsored by @awscloud, @CohereAI, @MadronaVentures & supported by @OpenAI, @pinecone, @weaviate_io, @statsigio, @getblueprintai. Amazing prizes, networking, food & drinks await! 🏆🍻 🤖 Sign up & spread the word: seattle.tinkerer.ai/p/ai-tin… #AIHackathon #AISeattle
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Had a wonderful time at the AI for builders podcast where I talk about the need for Guardrails when building with LLMs! Huge shoutout to @jturow and @doppenhe for inviting me and some amazing speakers like @laurel_orr1 and @GrantSlatton
Prompts are the way humans talk to LLMs, and they are also the "new APIs" for apps to set context, establish guardrails, inject data, and more. Fun chat with @ShreyaR, @Laurel_Orr1, @GrantSlatton, and @doppenhe. New AI For Builders now on Spotify and Amazon Music.
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Numbers Station is bringing the power of foundation models to data analytics. Incredible team and amazing product. Super excited for @MadronaVentures to lead their Series A. @tmporter @jturow
Numbers Station raises $17.5M to bring AI to your data stack tcrn.ch/3Jwenb7 by @fredericl
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This new era of storytelling will know no limits. Whatever you can imagine, you’ll be able to create. Tomorrow we gather to celebrate those pushing the boundaries of storytelling. aiff.runwayml.com
Congratulations to the finalists of this year's AI Film Festival! We're just one week away from discovering who will take home top honors.
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1/ Introducing Spice AI Flow: Your Database Query Superpower🚀 We get it - ✅Querying and leveraging data, important ❌Mastering SQL as a developer, less so Flow autocompletes SQL queries in realtime and suggest #web3 datasets and tables directly in app See it in action🪄
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I’m super honored by the ACM Fellow recognition and am extremely grateful to all my Ph.D. advisees and collaborators for contributing so much to the work involved, and to my career and to my personal growth! Huge thank you!! ❤️
DNA data storage, approximate computing and deep learning optimization across the stack: @UW #UWAllen triple threat @luisceze was named a @TheOfficialACM Fellow for advancing new paradigms in computer architecture and programming systems: news.cs.washington.edu/2023/… #ACMFellows
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“Organizations with large server farms, data centers, and potentially cloud and hosting providers are particularly vulnerable for this kind of exploit." duo.sc/3Fwiqn2 via @DecipherSec
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Introducing AI Training You’ve seen the magic. Now, make it your own. Train your own custom AI model in just a few minutes and turn anything into everything. Available now: bit.ly/3Fc7kU1
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