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cofounder @Sandbar_inc 𓊗 grounded idealist @Meta #CTRLlabs @MagicLeap @KernelCo @MediaLab @MIT

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I created a wearable that lets AI see the world Project Ring consists of a hand-worn camera & joystick. It can: - 👂 hear using @OpenAI Whisper, - 👁️ see using an image-to-text model, and - 👄 speak using text-to-voice @elevenlabsio The punchline? It was *100%* coded by GPT-4
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incredible design & engineering from Brilliant Labs - OpenAI + Perplexity built-in - 20deg FOV display - camera - prescription inserts - open source
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Introducing AutoCorp, a fully autonomous company 🤖 AutoCorp automatically creates ads, branding, and product designs for a D2C t-shirt company As customers request new shirts, AutoCorp updates its thesis & generates new assets - continually evolving towards a better business
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I'm thrilled to announce Sandbar @sandbar_inc , a human-AI interface company Existing interfaces—and the devices which power them—often create gaps between us We envision a new interface; one with telepathic-like speed & privacy, designed as an extension of yourself
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We have: - Incredible LLMs - Fast, accurate ASR - Natural text-to-speech Yet there are no good conversational experiences I want to *just* talk and listen. Why hasn't this been built? The gap is purely in execution quality
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We built an AI that reads Twitter so you don't have to🐦 And won 2nd place at the NYC Generative AI Hackathon!🏆 "Debrief" is an AI tool that filters Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News, RSS, and other sources based on your preferences & creates personalized summaries. More below👇
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Thankful to have worked on Orion & the neural wristband, magic at your fingertips ✨ All my ❤️ to the CTRL-labs/Meta team
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Cyborgism🤖 "Instead of trying to turn GPT into an agent, we can... design human-in-the-loop systems which enhance a human’s abilities without outsourcing their agency to a machine" Many key ideas here including 👤 Simulacra 🐝 Hive Minds, and 🧠Neocortex Prostheses:
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new AI device: 💳 credit card w/ OpenAI Whisper leave your phone on a table during conversations & record for later makes a lot of sense -- just wish the indicator light was brighter to avoid unwanted recording
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🧬 DNA nanomachines 🧠 Living computers 🚀 Rocket catapults ⚡ Fusion energy I created a list of >125 companies making science fiction a reality Check out to explore teams building the future
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Most LLMs are used via screens. I wanted to explore how wearable, multimodal AI could enable new forms of human-machine interaction Project Ring feels like having a curious friend on your shoulder - one who sees the world as you do and unobtrusively whispers thoughts in your ear
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@davefontenot Alternatively: a train that goes really fast so you get 8 hours of sleep + 1 hr settling down & waking up
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WIP thoughts on forms of human-AI interaction
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All my ❤️ to the CTRL-labs team. So excited for people to try! Handwriting was my favorite demo ✍️ Literal magic
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Meta's neural interface works by electromyography (EMG), which tracks signals from the brain that pass through the wrist
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GPT-4 wrote 100% of the code for this project, including ~750 lines across a Raspberry Pi, cloud service, and Android app It's possible - but not yet easy - to create prototypes entirely using AI. I just needed to deconstruct the problem, read error messages, and copy + paste
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I grew up in farmland, dreaming of sci fi. I thought about humans, AI, and what meaningful interactions looked like. CTRL-labs / Meta was at the intersection of all my interests. And as this chapter of my life comes to a close, I'm thankful to have learned from the best.
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"AI as an assistant" is a limited framing I don't want an assistant, partner, or tool. Having a separate entity results in divergent goals I want co-location: an extension of my intention To co-locate, we need high-bandwidth, contextually aware, intention-aligned interfaces
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internal demo culture > external testing culture user interviews have their place, but you can't A/B test your way to good taste you get there by building a lot, staying grounded, and being super honest
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Geoffrey Litt
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I don’t think about the Roman Empire very often, but I do think at least weekly about how the iPhone shipped without any user testing or focus groups
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For more, check out the full write-up here:
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"See, hear, and speak" The future will be embodied
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💌 @thesephist , @gytdau , and I built Integral, an AI-powered assistant that lets you ask questions about your network using Slack, email, and contacts Unlike traditional search, it summarizes info from multiple sources and provides in-answer links More on what we built 👇
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handfeel
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GPT-3.5 (text-davinci-003) is non-deterministic when temp=0, Top P=1. Observed within multi-step CoT prompts. This seems like a regression. Have others observed this? @OpenAI @goodside
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"Make things happen with your friends" NYC 2024 @HipCityReg @freddyanzures
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"Deep learning worked"
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Thankful to have worked on Orion & the neural wristband, magic at your fingertips ✨ All my ❤️ to the CTRL-labs/Meta team
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Bit more pondrous email dispatch this week than usual. Didn't get much research/writing done, but did a lot of thinking. On building technology without losing humanity, etc. 🔗
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AI may automate a majority of knowledge work in a relatively short time period We will soon share the world with a new class of entities - ones which live in servers, phones, and wearables that dot our bodies Whether oracles, companions, or cyborgs - the future will be plural
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v2://in-progress
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Precision Neuro (started by neurosurgeon & ex-Neuralink cofounder Ben Rapoport) recently announced their first product, Layer 7 They have one of the most impressive surgical approaches I've seen: A 1mm slit and easily removable electrodes
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Daylight Computer NYC 2024 @AnjanKatta @HipCityReg
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There are two consensus paths for the future of personal computing: 1. We end at the phone 2. We get AR glasses that fill the world with holograms If we want another option, we need something new
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“Beautiful things, beautiful people This is what it's all about“
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Just came across this imaginary Apple ad from a school project (2022)
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Last year, @gytdau and I built an AI-powered journal, Linen After 10s of users, 100s of prompts, and 1000s of entries, we shut it down Here's what we learned 📝
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incredible motion-to-photon latency
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cooking is just vibes-based chemistry
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@thesephist "show me how many tasks are in your Most Urgent sub-section"
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A sandbar forming by the water 🏝️ @sandbar_inc
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Grace Isford
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Today I’m thrilled to announce @Lux_Capital 's NYC AI Directory & NYC AI Map - 2 resources for the burgeoning AI talent ecosystem READ MORE👇 NYC AI Directory: NYC AI Map:
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"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware”
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OpenAI NEWS: Sam Altman, Jony Ive, and Masa Son working on a AI hardware device, per @Jessicalessin @steph_palazzolo
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Thrilled to share my first published sci fi story, "To Whom No Explanation Is Possible" Many are worried by the impact AI might have on humanity. But what if the truth lies beyond our wildest imagination? Many thanks to @danshipper and @every !
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Dan Shipper 📧
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Sci-fi is important because it inspires the future. @minafahmi_ 's piece in @every today is an example of the best of that ethos. It's a story about science and faith in a world governed by a superintelligent AI. You should read it:
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A generic noninvasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction Uncovering some of our work at CTRL-labs 🧠 All demoes are real & feel like magic Thankful to have played a small part in this massive effort
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David Sussillo
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1/7 For the past decade, our team at Meta Reality Labs (previously CTRL-labs) has been dedicated to developing a neuromotor interface. Our goal is to address the Human Computer Interaction challenge of providing effortless, intuitive, and efficient input to computers.
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from earlier ~ What keeps me up at night isn't worrying about competitors. It's wondering what future won't happen because no one's building it Thankful to have participated in the Betaworks Augmentative AI Summit alongside @softspaceninja @btavangar @nbaronia1
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wow this book was wild
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Siri is pretty limited, and that's a reflection of Apple's business incentives A powerful 1st party AI would let you get things done quickly through a single interface That leads to less 3rd party app usage & revenue + tension with existing developers The innovator's dilemma
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Apple will probably win LLMs. They'll release a model that runs locally/native on your iPhone, is good enough, has great privacy/security and has access to all your personal data. The advantages of larger foundation models will be negligible for 99% of tasks.
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TIL about Paragraphica, a generative AI "camera" Instead of taking a literal photo, it synthesizes an image using a description of a place & time Plus, it looks like a star-nosed mole ⭐
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UI research? More like U and I research
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Sean X
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Nobody comes close to @OpenAI on voice mode. It’s the best widely-available consumer AI product for intelligent & natural oral conversation The only real competitor isn’t publicly available, but it’s the most stunning product that I’ve ever experienced… and it involves hardware
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Our species name, "Homo Sapiens," implies that intelligence is what defines us Soon, we'll need to realize that intelligence isn't what makes us special, but something much more intrinsic
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I finally felt something close to "just talking and listening" The simplest way to describe it: the machine melts away
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We have: - Incredible LLMs - Fast, accurate ASR - Natural text-to-speech Yet there are no good conversational experiences I want to *just* talk and listen. Why hasn't this been built? The gap is purely in execution quality
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Sandbar is sponsoring an AI demo night tomorrow (6/5) w/ @promptlayer & Fractal NYC We're also hiring founding software engineers & AI engineers If you want to join an early team working on new interfaces, LLMs, and consumer devices, send me a DM!
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Every product I've tried suffers from one of many problems, including: - If the AI automatically replies, you can't pause or the LLM will assume you're finished speaking - If not, you have to explicitly press a button to continue - The AI's voice can't be interrupted
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AutoCorp was made in 5 hours during the NYC GPT/LLM Hackathon alongside @barry_zyj @Bfaviero @chuanyang_jin @DonnyGreenberg @sergioprada666 🚀 Thanks to @davederiso @agihouse_org @volokuleshov @cornell_tech @LererHippeau and all the sponsors!
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all my homies love dieter rams
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A week filled with friends creating awesome things ❤️ @AliceAlbrecht @thesephist @tylerangert demoing new interfaces at Malleable Software NYC @jimmyeatcarbs presenting Autobiographer, a beautiful app that learns your life story & creates printable books
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me: mom can we have a decision-making framework mom: no, we have a framework at home framework at home:
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@batwood011 @OpenAI @elevenlabsio I showed the AI a building it mistook as a clocktower - it became really excited & started asking questions about where I was Loved the combo of its verbal inflection (thanks @elevenlabsio ) & it asking curiosity questions!
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Rest in peace Richard Serra I'd always feel lucky stumbling across one of his works
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@tszzl if you haven't read it, you might like Accelerando! autonomous companies were a key idea
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"something something Conversational AI" I have yet to have a conversation with an AI
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the goal of human-computer interaction is to align computers with human will alignment requires effortless, meaningful interactions this is sometimes translated as "low-latency & high-bandwidth"
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I just wanna make Soho Cyborgs
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🤗 sunny day, happy day
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First, AutoCorp develops a thesis for a t-shirt brand based on an initial idea. This thesis is used to generate company assets and default style guides As customers make requests, AutoCorp determines how to update its thesis. If a thesis leads to fewer sales, AutoCorp pivots
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@winterblooms
Ethan Edwards
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Excited to join @sandbar_inc , a human-AI interface company, as their Founding AI Engineer. I’m joining an already incredible team and am so stoked to be building new paths for how AI can meaningfully enrich human life and thinking.
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in another timeline fukuyama opened a glass shop in the west village
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somebody: wow this is just like 1984 NYC AI scene:
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@mhdempsey I expect new companies will increasingly be based on deep tech (i.e. non-deterministic, high risk tech) Research is best suited for derisking fundamental Qs, while product provides constraints that can bound an infinite search space. Few have experience balancing the two
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AI devices are having a hard time because most focus on utility use cases. Hard to compete with devices that are already great at this Increasingly seeing the importance of value derived from interactions with AI in-and-of itself, and the connection formed with you over time
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Archetype is one of the most interesting companies few have heard of. A foundation model for: - Images/Video - Radar - Position - Temp - etc. All-in-one, interfaced through natural language in real-time. Super cool!
@PhysicalAI
Archetype AI
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[1/5] Today we are taking the wraps off of Archetype AI: a physical AI company helping humanity make sense of the world 🌎
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Ultrasound can potentially induce "equanimity" (a mental state of openness) in non-meditators. This can be life-changing, but it hints at something even more profound; the potential to instantly access states which would otherwise require years of practice
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Fred Ehrsam
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I founded @nudge with @quintinfrerichs . We’re building an ultrasound headset to enhance human experience. Press a button to shift your brain state: go to sleep, boost focus, break habits, elevate mood, etc. We believe this device has the potential to improve people’s daily lives
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In the future, many believe that humans will relate to computers as companions, assistants, or tools. These will exist, but they miss a more intrinsic lens: computers as an extension of oneself. I'm off to pull that thread, and I'm so excited to share more soon ~
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"In the mid-1960s it was unusual... to hang a hi-fi system on the wall like a painting."
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Disappointed by the lack of ancient egyptian emoji. We started this, can't we at least get an eye of horus?
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Excited to give a talk on prompt engineering best practices! NYC April 25th w/ @nathanbenaich @_willfalcon Sneak peek:
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Nathan Benaich
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Join our LLM best practice meetups! LLM tooling, infra, design and best practices are rapidly evolving. Making long-term decisions today can feel like building on quicksand. NYC 25th April: w/ @LightningAI SF 27th April:
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Perhaps instead of AI-Generated, we should say AI-Enabled I've coded many projects, but Project Ring was just beyond my abilities at the time. It wouldn't have been possible without GPT-4 Humans + AI = more than the sum of our parts
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mina fahmi
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I created a wearable that lets AI see the world Project Ring consists of a hand-worn camera & joystick. It can: - 👂 hear using @OpenAI Whisper, - 👁️ see using an image-to-text model, and - 👄 speak using text-to-voice @elevenlabsio The punchline? It was *100%* coded by GPT-4
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"We're building the face of god, and we're going to interact with it by texting it?" @thesephist According to the bicameral mind theory, early humans believed that their thoughts were voices from gods who advised and guided their actions AI should not feel like a machine
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Ali Rohde
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We talked Notion AI, LLMs, and the future of human-AI collaboration with @thesephist @NotionHQ . Some top takeaways... 🧵 On the shortcomings of chat interfaces for AI: "We're building the face of God, and we're going to interact with it by texting it? Doesn't seem right... "In
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We're excited to share more soon. Meanwhile, we're hiring across founding roles in New York City. See below, and feel free to dm!
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Today I got a full-body massage from a robot The future is wild
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I spent the day stamping thoughts into silicon When I stumbled, a digital daemon was there to catch me And when evening came, an electric chariot brought me home
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Would love to see a prompt engineering tool which includes: 1. Defining pass/fail criteria for LLM outputs 2. Using an AI judge to evaluate LLM outputs according to those rules (e.g. @AnthropicAI Constitutional AI) 3. Tracking & optimizing prompts based on the pass/fail metric
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Linus
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There Are So Many PromptOps Tools And I'm Sold On None Of Them
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@danshipper Unfortunately its difficult to prevent repetition via prompt eng. A few options: - Explicitly tell the model what to "focus" on. For example: "Focus on this conversation. Use prior context if relevant." - Use a separate prompt to check embedding relevancy, at cost of latency
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How computers should feel
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Working on this taught me that computing revolutions are defined by their interaction models, from command lines to the GUI and beyond. And for the neural wristband in particular, a recent quote comes to mind: "In three words: deep learning worked."
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mina fahmi
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Interact has been a treasure in my life. Through it, I've met some of the most thoughtful, actualizing, and multi-faceted people I know. If you're 18-24, you should apply!
@joininteract
Interact
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Applications are now open for the 2022 Interact Fellowship! Learn more and apply here by February 15th: .
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"the importance of zero friction." Teenage Engineering gets it @jugendingenieur
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We built AutoCorp to push the concept of autonomy to its limit The flow above worked end-to-end and could feasibly be connected to ad APIs like @GoogleAds & custom t-shirt APIs like @Teemillstore for deployment in the real world Below, from Accelerando by @cstross
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"Cooking doesn’t start in the kitchen, and art doesn’t start on the canvas"
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Erick Enriquez
1 year
When I go to write or to code, I rarely start with a blank text file. By the time I’m ready to produce, I usually have the ingredients already in hand- notes from content I consumed, ideas I came up with on a walk, or product specs from customer research. Collecting these in
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"But true art is disinterested. True art doesn’t care to be appreciated, obsessed over with, or owned. It holds a certain self-respect that knows enough of its own value to not plea for attention." @WendiYan5
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@minafahmi_
mina fahmi
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no babe your green bubbles are perfect the blue ones scare me
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@minafahmi_
mina fahmi
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Revenue trumps most arguments
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