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it's pronounced locky. lachygroom @gmail .com. π.com

San Francisco

https://t.co/vB65MQNTUO

Joined May 2008

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@lachygroom

Lachy Groom

5 years

Since leaving Stripe I've been spending a lot of time helping friends, and friends of friends think through career decisions (and very often comp negotiations). It's something I really enjoy doing—if you know anyone who needs help, DMs are open and my email is in my profile!

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Lachy Groom

4 years

Was just chatting with @delk about how I joined @stripe —I was (politely) rejected after interviewing. We had a process where you could "champion" someone & overrule the hiring committee. @ricburton championed me at Stripe, a few weeks into a 30-day trial I got my full time offer.

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Lachy Groom

5 months

I'm starting a company with @brian_ichter , @chelseabfinn , @svlevine , @hausman_k , @QuanVng , and @SurajNair_1 called Physical Intelligence (π.com!). We're bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.

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Lachy Groom

3 years

@patrickc @_TamaraWinter @mollyfmielke @salonium what happens to us (or our families) if we don't reach out

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Lachy Groom

6 years

Incredible Black Friday sale on Bitcoin!

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Lachy Groom

1 year

founders, do not be surprised when the VC that was very very very excited about your company passes. it's their job to convey excitement right up until the moment they pass! do not let yourself believe it's real until you have a signed termsheet in hand.

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Lachy Groom

4 years

been pondering this a lot since this morning... is baklava dessert lasagna?

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Lachy Groom

9 months

sam is the most supportive, generous, inspiring person i know. openai has forever changed the world, and i know whatever comes next will be even greater.

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Sam Altman

9 months

i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later. 🫡

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Lachy Groom

2 years

recently i've found it hard to keep up with the pace of developments in AI. i found myself wanting a curated source of all the most noteworthy developments. so i built it!

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bleedingedge.ai

@bleedingedgeai

2 years

hello, world!

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Lachy Groom

2 years

there’s no free lunch in business but being extremely responsive on email is pretty damn close

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Lachy Groom

5 years

This is incredibly well designed.

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Lachy Groom

8 months

very bullish founder signal: actively (and genuinely) soliciting feedback, ack'ing it promptly, and closing the loop when its fixed. even better if done broadly with customers. the positive feedback loop is a great experience and instills patience when things inevitably do go

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Lachy Groom

4 years

This was maybe the coolest product demo I've ever seen.

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Humane

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"Humane Inc., today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series A round led by @sama and @lachygroom ." More in the Press Release:

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Lachy Groom

4 years

Hugely grateful to Ric as I wouldn't even be close to where I am without Stripe. Take a risk and hire young unproven talent!

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Lachy Groom

4 years

i've always wanted to write more, but i struggle to come up with anything that isn't well trodden ground or trite thinkfluencer bullshit. what do you wish was written about that's not adequately covered? (particularly if i might be in a position to talk about it!)

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Lachy Groom

6 years

Stripe Issuing is going to be a team that's comparable to early Stripe in calibre and compounding impact. If you're interested in joining me, email me: lachy @stripe .com.

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Stripe

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Introducing Stripe Issuing:

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Lachy Groom

3 years

literally if you don't use these products you'll wake up with a severed horse head in your bed

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edwin

3 years

1/ In the past 10 days, there have been some headlines about Spotify, Ford, and Shopify signing up for @Stripe Issuing, Treasury, Connect, and Billing. The thing is, these products aren't just built for big companies—you can sign up to use these very same products too.

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Lachy Groom

1 year

there needs to be a short hand for when you text "(this is confidential)" but then need to follow up with "i trust you obviously and know everything sensitive we talk about is confidential but just want to state this particularly thing is v confidential"

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Lachy Groom

6 years

Finally get to show what we've been working on for the past year!

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Stripe

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Introducing Stripe Issuing:

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Lachy Groom

4 years

Google Reader comes up all the time as a beloved product to the same degree as Notion, Figma, etc. I never used it -- what was so great about it? Has no one made anything of similar quality/appeal?

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Lachy Groom

5 years

I've been fortunate enough to have a great group of smart, well connected, and knowledgeable friends to help me think through major professional life decisions. It's hard to understate the enormous, compounding difference it has made.

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Lachy Groom

5 years

If anyone has built a personal financial dashboard, I'd love to chat! lachygroom @gmail .com

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Lachy Groom

3 years

"being a founder is mostly simping for great engineers" - @KishanBagaria

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Lachy Groom

2 years

so much opportunity to build a better calendar if you could own the network (or if a better protocol) existed. - i'm running late - i'm free earlier - dynamic re-balancing if you're both free at different/better times also why do private notes on events not exist!!!

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Lachy Groom

2 years

after a few weeks of hard work, excited to release . huge thanks to @____brock____ @brotzky_ @tcosta_co and @davidtsong for all the help. (and @josephofiowa , @karrisaarinen , @amasad , @tszzl for feedback.)

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bleeding edge is a feed of noteworthy developments in AI.

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Lachy Groom

5 years

In Montana airport customs hall with @jaltma ... Customs and border patrol agent: what do you do for work? @jaltma : I run an HR company CBP: Is it just you? @jaltma : No, I have a co-founder CBP: _looking *extremely* perplexed_ No, I mean traveling in your party...? 😂🤣😂🤣

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Lachy Groom

4 years

Very excited to see this launch—the final thing I worked on at Stripe!

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Stripe

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Stripe Issuing is now available for all US businesses! 💳 Instantly create your own virtual and physical cards.

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Lachy Groom

4 years

wholeheartedly agree with all of this. recommended reading for prospective early employees.

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Pete

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If I were approached with an opportunity to be an early employee again, here's how I would do it. A thread 👇

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Lachy Groom

4 years

best guide to testing out Roam? i've tried a few times and it never stuck

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Lachy Groom

6 years

After an *incredible* 6 years at Stripe, this week will be my last. What should I make sure to do in my last week? (What's next? A break! Would love suggestions, though. The currently plan mostly just includes cliches like traveling, reading, exercising, etc.)

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Lachy Groom

3 years

you know, it's funny, whenever people say "it's funny" at the beginning of a story it's literally never funny

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Lachy Groom

7 months

@sdamico @ImpulseLabs_ it's time to cook

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Lachy Groom

9 months

can we please start a movement to abolish the current formatting standards for technical papers? who thought this was a good idea? is there something i don't understand? is there any logical reason for it?

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Lachy Groom

5 years

I just finished a book that closed with recommendations from the author on what one should turn to next to read further on the topic. More books should do this.

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Lachy Groom

1 year

can someone please create an agent that responds to these emails with what was actually in the order

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Lachy Groom

1 year

some of the most gratifying work I've done lately is working closely with @sjwhitmore on her new company. if you're an engineering founder, or an engineer considering founding a company and want to talk through product (or really anything!) just email me! lachygroom @gmail .com

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Lachy Groom

5 years

Christmas came early!

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Lachy Groom

3 years

just a friendly warning... if you spoil a worldle you will end up without kneecaps

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Lachy Groom

3 years

Wordle 209 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Lachy Groom

5 months

There's been so much progress in AI, but it's been largely constrained to the digital world. At Physical Intelligence, we're developing foundation models to power any and all physically actuated devices, with an early focus on dexterous manipulation. We're spending most of our

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Lachy Groom

7 months

relentlessly removing inefficiencies is a fantastic startup strategy

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evan conrad

7 months

for folks not-in-the-know the general process of buying large training clusters is talking to 20 different vendors to get a quote and see if they have availability afaik we're the only provider that's just like "yo, here's the whole cluster calendar"

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Lachy Groom

4 years

just realized my name is an emoji 🔐

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Lachy Groom

5 months

We are _extremely_ early in setting out to create a world where atoms are (almost!) as easy to manipulate as bits. I'm excited to share a lot more soon! Also, a big thank you to @khoslaventures , @Lux_Capital , @OpenAI , @sequoia , and @ThriveCapital for their support to date.

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Lachy Groom

4 years

feature request of email clients: a search modifier of from:human. currently i do -"unsubscribe" which is a reasonable proxy (cc @superhuman )

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Lachy Groom

5 years

ok glad everyone has posted their 2019 reading lists but please post movie and tv show stack ranks now

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Lachy Groom

1 year

this thread sums up my current outlook (and advice) well. if I was to add an 8. it would be to form a strong opinion on what it would take to get your current investors to put more $ in and ensure your plan gets you there

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Tom Loverro

1 year

PREDICTION: There's a mass extinction event coming for early & mid-stage companies. Late '23 & '24 will make the '08 financial crisis look quaint for startups. Below I explain when, why & how it will start & offer *detailed advice to founders* on surviving the looming die-off. /1

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Lachy Groom

4 years

@HarryStebbings We're onboarding a few more people to now if you're interested! Just need to promise to give a lot of feedback :)

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Lachy Groom

4 years

favorite app of 2020 gg @kishanbagaria

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Jack Cohen

4 years

This Week in Apps: 💬 👤 @KishanBagaria 📜 The ultimate messaging app 🏡 One home for iMessages, DMs + more ⚡️ Super-fast interface & onboarding 😴 Snooze specific messages/threads ⌘ Strong shortcuts (search, filters, etc.) 🧙🏼‍♂️ Truly feels like magic 🙌🏼

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Lachy Groom

6 years

CNN providing *excellent* coverage of the Manafort trial.

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Lachy Groom

5 years

Unclear if LinkedIn's job recommendation AI is really good or really bad

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Lachy Groom

4 years

@patrickc what about Stories?

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Lachy Groom

6 months

apple vision pro review: crashed twice, now giving errors i don’t know how to resolve 🥲 otherwise a stunning piece of hardware…

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Lachy Groom

4 years

@shl a problem only crypto can solve

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Lachy Groom

2 years

@zoink I'm sorry, but as a large language model trained by OpenAI, I don't have the ability to stop sending you ever so slightly personalized cold emails.

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Lachy Groom

5 years

For those that use Docsend, why? It sucks to be on the receiving end: can't save decks to review later, no ability to review when offline, and can't share privately. Seems immediately distrustful and starts the relationship on a not great note.

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Lachy Groom

4 years

@rabois @sama the tweet seemed pretty clear tbh

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Lachy Groom

4 years

@genuinfo @TurnerNovak what is an lgf

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Lachy Groom

5 years

when the branding department gives up

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More flavors, more variety, more fun.

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Lachy Groom

1 year

+1, first republic, and more specifically garret spiecker, have been phenomenal partners -- helping me navigate some of the complexities of leaving stripe, starting my first fund, and the insane level of support they provided during the craziness of the past few days.

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Ivan Zhao

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As a 1st time founder, @firstrepublic believed in the business I was trying to build, helped me get my 1st mortgage (and offered the same my employees.) They stood by me through the highs and lows. This is a great bank with unparalleled service. You should work with them

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Lachy Groom

3 years

9:41pm musing: why aren't _internal_ recruiters comped like enterprise salespeople? Is it just due to limits around recruiting that aren't inherent to sales (infinite sales = good, infinite people = bad)?

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Lachy Groom

4 years

@jonathonbarkl a friend does something i absolutely love. if an investor doesn't respond to a few updates he emails them saying that they have a lot of interest from other investors that want to get actively involved and help out—would they be interested in selling their position?

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Lachy Groom

4 years

@shl (responding to all the DMs here: this is sarcasm)

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Lachy Groom

5 years

Probably one of the last sets of countries launching from Stripe that I was very involved with 😢 Launching Stripe in a new market is such an incredible undertaking. The people involved in a launch are uncompromising—it takes a long time, but it's worth it.

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Patrick Collison

5 years

We're kicking off our betas—and seeing our first customers go live—in 6 new countries today! Delighted to take our first steps in Estonia, Poland, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, and Malaysia. 🇪🇪🇵🇱🇬🇷🇱🇹🇱🇻🇲🇾 You can sign up for these betas at .

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Lachy Groom

2 years

“If you want a task done quickly, ask a busy person to do it.”

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Lachy Groom

3 years

@jaltma Don't agree with this take -- most employees aren't investors, nor do they have the market data to make a determination of a fair valuation. I think better advice may be to index on the quality of the investor that set the price.

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Lachy Groom

5 years

@collision I'm so used to people coming up to me and saying "John, love what you're doing at the Stripe!"

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Lachy Groom

5 years

Probably the last thing to ship at Stripe that I had some part in 😰 Congrats to everyone involved!

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Stripe is now available in Malaysia. 🇲🇾

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Lachy Groom

5 months

thank you @ashleevance for writing about us!

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Ashlee Vance

5 months

It's a two scoop kinda day. Welcome, world, to Physical Intelligence - a team of robotics and AI all-stars out to build a universal AI for machines. $70 million in !seed! funding from Thrive, Khosla, Lux and Sequoia

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Lachy Groom

5 months

If this sounds exciting to you, please get in touch: join @physicalintelligence .company.

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Lachy Groom

8 months

classic @jarredsumner

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Lachy Groom

5 years

Very happy to do mock YC interviews too!

@lachygroom

Lachy Groom

5 years

Since leaving Stripe I've been spending a lot of time helping friends, and friends of friends think through career decisions (and very often comp negotiations). It's something I really enjoy doing—if you know anyone who needs help, DMs are open and my email is in my profile!

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Lachy Groom

2 years

Fantastic essay by @zebriez . Captured my experience perfectly (despite how painful the 2015 era she cited was, it remains one of my favorite periods at the company too.)

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Paul Graham

2 years

A really insightful (and bravely unconventional) essay by Brie Wolfson about the excitement of working hard.

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Lachy Groom

6 years

I’m looking to talk to a handful of high potential college students across all majors who are great at internet research (i.e. answering hard questions related to their major). Are you one, or know one? Email me: lachygroom @gmail .com. (To be involved in an interesting company.)

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Lachy Groom

5 years

earthquake twitter checking in

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Lachy Groom

6 months

something that continues to perplex me on a daily basis that i wish i understood better: why is the cellular to wifi hand-off so difficult/fraught/not solved? every time i walk into my house (with bad cell coverage) i lose any ability to have a conversation for a good minute

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Lachy Groom

11 months

how quickly VCs *and* lawyers jump on the current thing

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Lachy Groom

5 years

thank you twitter

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Lachy Groom

8 months

some people that do this really well: @KishanBagaria , @jarredsumner @sjwhitmore @josephofiowa @grinich

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Lachy Groom

2 years

@maccaw probably too many RPCs (> 1200 is bad)

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Lachy Groom

6 months

i noticed this a while ago and built something to help catch it (working surprisingly well!) if anyone wants to contribute, my next project was to distill a small model to see if i can reliably infer intent—minimizing contexts vs. time cc @TodePond

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GitHub - LachyGroom/smart-aleck

Contribute to LachyGroom/smart-aleck development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tyler Angert

6 months

So good. This here is the level of self awareness all technical people should aspire to. It takes introspection like this to actually improve computers, since most people who happily tolerate esoteric tools usually forget how much pain they went through to become proficient.

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Lachy Groom

2 years

If you're an engineer that is excited by what Chris is talking about, please shoot me a DM. I am spending most of my time on this.

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Chris Anderson

2 years

While AI is having a summer, robotics is stuck in winter. While the perception problems have been largely solved (thanks to AI), the other robotics problems -- understanding, planning, grasping, energy, flexibility, judgement, etc -- need breakthroughs.

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@semil 😲

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@zachtratar 10 years!? would you have been hired 😂

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Lachy Groom

5 years

I wish I could view a store’s real-time inventory to spare a wasted trip. I assume there is a good reason why this doesn't exist?

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Lachy Groom

1 year

rarely am i surprised by the pessimism of hacker news comments, but this is particularly bleak: the impact large language models will have on education is extremely exciting, particularly in language learning (shout out to !)

Speak - The language learning app that gets you speaking

Speak is the first & only app that lets you get real conversational practice without needing a live tutor on the other end. And we build some serious AI tech to make that possible.

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Lachy Groom

2 years

what college course do you wish you could take today? bonus points if it exists

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Lachy Groom

8 months

@gravicle (i have an Ai Pin) i think this video is just to demonstrate the interface if you want to use it. the Pin is a voice forward device. for me to send a text it's literally a few seconds and all voice.

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Lachy Groom

2 years

take two -- favorite course you took in college? most interesting or paid the greatest unexpected dividends later in life? looking to spend some time learning about areas that i (ideally) have no existing foundation in

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Lachy Groom

2 years

what college course do you wish you could take today? bonus points if it exists

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@awilkinson Try

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@collision @amyngyn you all know this site is public right?

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4 years

@celinehalioua

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@bella_bongiorno i'm so impressed by what you, imran, and the team have accomplished and i can't wait for everyone to get their Pin! using Interpreter in Mexico City was 🤯

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Lachy Groom

2 years

linkedin trying to filter out all the wordcels

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@seanrose @BrandonMChu We're doing this at -- come join us :)

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@harryhurst this is pretty funny

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Lachy Groom

6 years

I think the main reason I didn't come out until I did was that I didn't have gay role models growing up. It was hard to visualize a life being out and gay that I was excited about. I love this.

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Lil Uzi Hurt 🥺

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I never saw images of gay black men in love growing up, and this lack of representation has always haunted me. So, I sought out queer couples of color, looking for inspiration. I got so much more. I'm very proud to present my first piece for @NYTimes

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Lachy Groom

2 years

@jaltma we're both just hungry for some twitter drama post the whole stripe mafia debacle 😪

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Lachy Groom

6 years

There were more people in todays onboarding class than were at Stripe when I joined. (Also, onboarding for me was a list of people to ping on gchat to ask about things to work on and instructions to go buy a laptop from the Apple store...)

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Lachy Groom

5 years

OH: "i spent a lot of my meditation today trying to think of how to talk about burning man"

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Lachy Groom

1 year

@stanine @bling0 @Zoom @Rippling thought you would have said time for Rippling to replace Zoom with Rippling Meet

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