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Steven Li
4 months
@asanwal i could be wrong, but their biggest expense is lack of loan repayment (a loss/expense category) and not employees. these ai improvements are probably not relevant and ceo just trying to hype up their lackluster business model. they aren't a tech company, just a payday loan biz
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Steven Li
2 years
Dev tip: The fastest stack I found to code up and ship a web app quickly. Use typescript nextjs for the apis/frontend. Deploy to production and custom domain with vercel. Then use supabase to manage your database/auth/login. I haven't found a faster code -> working product th
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Steven Li
3 years
@SlingshotCrypto is amazing, its my 20th or so time using them on polygon and they always have the best rates and fastest execution. Even better than the aggregators I use
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Steven Li
5 months
this is one of the fastest way to learn - quote from balaji
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Steven Li
3 years
I recently interviewed with @sell9000 on the formation @friesdao . It was amazingly insightful and might be a sneak peak into the future of DAOs and how we can bring real world businesses and assets on chain. Video here:
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Steven Li
2 years
@slashdot Stopped using @Paypal @PayPal4Business years ago after @eBay stopped using Paypal. If any fringe/woke employee have this much control there, do you really trust them to handle any amt of money? Just one "accidental" keystroke and your acct bal goes to 0.
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Steven Li
11 months
I'm looking to hire a mobile app designer who can work on a project basis. would love any recommendations :)
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Steven Li
3 years
@DomSchiener are there any apps or use cases that developers can build on iota? would like to test it out or build on it. thanks!
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Steven Li
1 year
It's always an amazing feeling when you realize people actually want what you are building. New signups and leads coming in daily.
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Steven Li
1 year
Chrome extension for scraping linkedin and analyzing profiles is starting to finally be fairly stable. I am able to scrape several thousand profiles from a general search or recruiter search page within just a few minutes. But the issue is that the profile scraping is super
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Steven Li
6 months
started hacking on stable diffusion. is this too much? 😂
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Steven Li
3 years
Doing a talk with @sell9000 , one of the initial organizing members of @friesDAO , tonight. Anyone have any additional questions they would like me to ask?
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Steven Li
1 year
contrarian idea: cancer is actually largely solvable if we rethink the approach from “treatment” to “diagnostics” A huge percentage all deaths from cancers could be solved if every did 1 mri scan every year or few years Almost everyone can survive cancer if it’s detected at
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Steven Li
8 months
this might be harsh, but indie hacking really isn't that great and most people should stop. i see people wasting their lives on indie hacking vs. improving their career or starting a new career where they can make 10-1000x the results. i see a bunch of my friends who join a
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Tomorrow will be 2 months since I started working on @SocialKiwiHQ And I'm still at $0 in revenue (-$250 to be precise). I feel like I've tried everything: - PH Launch - Paid Ads (Google, Meta) - Cold (Email/DM)s - Affiliate Program - SEO (Blog, free tools) although it takes
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Steven Li
1 year
Made a AI tool this weekend that takes my insurance policy + a medical bill I had and lets me know if I got overbilled or how to work with the insurance provider/hospital to reduce the billed amount. What do folks think of this? Also if anyone wants to try it post a comment and I
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Steven Li
9 months
launching another app. this is probably the fastest i ever launched an app. design done in 5 days. dev planned for 1-2 weeks. then launch -> gtm & iterate feature set until figuring out what resonates with users stack: - figma for designs - flutterflow for app ui - nodejs for
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Steven Li
2 years
Just used #GPT3 to write up a web scraper for me. Saved me an hour of work haha. And the code it made worked great! Thread on how I did it/
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Steven Li
1 year
Made a tool today that extracts leads lists and uses AI embeddings to sort them by most relevant (most likely to buy) to least relevant. It will take a look at each lead and let you know if they are relevant to what you are selling. Then just load the results into your email
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Steven Li
1 year
Realized today that GPT4 has amazing knowledge of the Azure UI and resources. It knows its way around Azure much better than GCP / AWS and haven't found any issues with its instructions so far. I wonder how that is going to affect Azure usage in the next few years... 👀
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Steven Li
6 months
Someone should build the midjourney/sora for CAD. Huge opportunity in this space.
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Steven Li
6 months
xgboost + scraping + a little bit of LLM can do the work of 10 sales reps.
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Steven Li
2 years
Problem with $BTC that gold doesn't have. The metadata. Gold is inherently private, doesn't care where it came from, no traces. Bitcoin is not, every denomination bitcoin is tainted by past owners/addresses. Maybe #zk chains fixes this, but will have to see adoption
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Steven Li
2 years
Awesome guide for one approach to prioritizing some of your SaaS ideas to work on building
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Steven Li
2 years
@heydave7 Do they have a viable internet connection/computer? I can provide some simple admin work for some folks and pay them crypto, most likely USDC if that helps
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Steven Li
5 years
Recently tested out the zillow rental manager for listing my real estate properties. Fantastic tool and mobile app! Been getting a ton of applicants. Props to the @zillow team who developed it. (And this is coming from a mobile dev 🙂)
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Steven Li
2 years
@railgun_project do you have a fast "getting started" guide for people to start using railgun to replace their metamask wallet?
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Steven Li
1 year
Here's a demo on how you can extract a list of thousands of angel investors using the Linkedin Scraper chrome extension (I need to think of a better name for this tool haha)
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Steven Li
2 years
Would anyone be interested in a master list of all the most time-saving #GPT3 prompts I've used? #AI tooling & #GPT3 prompts has personally saved me at least 10 hours in time-consuming programming and non-programming tasks this month.
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Steven Li
1 year
@DanielleFong pip install amazon amazon buy copper phosphate 😄
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Steven Li
2 years
Literally got saved today from a phishing attack today because I used @CoinbaseWallet vs. metamsk wallet. The screenshot below was the attack (the entire site, + mm popup was fake and part of the attack). I used cb wallet and not mm so made me realize it was phishing attempt
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Steven Li
8 months
Built an LLM chatbot in a couple of days. Stack used to build this fast: - pulled some GH projects that had most of the UIs so I can skip coding the UI - langchain for doing RAG + GPT4 calls - flask backend to wrap all the langchain code to deploy on Render - coded a puppeteer
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Steven Li
8 months
how is this even legal
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Steven Li
1 year
We made Dynaboard AI to allow for the AI to complete most of the tasks needed for building internal tools while allowing the developer to act as a manager to drive/edit the AI's work. Here's the AI making an order form UI, deploy to a new site, and coding out the typescript code
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Steven Li
1 year
You can now use @dynaboard to generate apps and app components for you. Here's telling Dynaboard AI make a "connect 4 game" component.
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Steven Li
4 months
pretty cool that grok outputs are now shareable
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Steven Li
11 months
This is an app that only made 50k in revenues. 0 profits. Trying to sell. No wonder they are trying to sell, this tech is a mess. Hadn't even hit PMF and has multiple backends, multiple cloud providers, web + ios + android app. Guess what this app does? It's a CRM, which is
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Steven Li
1 year
A startup that is DoNotPay but for healthcare. Can do tasks powered by AI/s for $20/month including: - negotiating with providers on medical bills to bring down the cost - emails/phone calls doctors & therapists in your area to get info, rank them according to your condition,
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Steven Li
1 year
I just ran a video through @swellai and got an article piece that I would have need to pay hundreds for an experienced writer (with domain expertise in healthcare!) to make. @codyschneiderxx @maxchehab are going to destroy the seo content game...!
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Steven Li
2 years
@Jomari_P @CoinbaseWallet Yep! Had a limit on twitter chars. But clarification: I don't use metamask, but got a metamask popup from a discord verification bot for a group I joined. Thought it was weird and double checked the site. Was actually a phishing site and a phishing metamask popup.
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Steven Li
10 months
first sale for a new product I'm launching!
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Steven Li
9 months
brushing up on linear algebra and multimodal LLMs are a game changer as a tutor. i literally just screenshot problems and ask it to solve. if I don't understand, i prompt it differently or just rerun the LLM to have it generate new variations (stochastic systems for the win!)
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Steven Li
1 year
Prediction: One of the core user interfaces to AI agents will be through email (vs solely web apps, mobile apps, etc). Remembering domains or even mobile app names is hard. Searching your emails is easy and will become even easier with new AI search techniques (embeddings,
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Steven Li
8 months
here's how you can get really good at math (and reading any research paper that has a lot of math). every time you run into a math formula you don't understand screenshot and throw into chatgpt or perplexity. prompt with "explain & simplify". it should give you a quick
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Steven Li
7 months
if youtube gave a algo boosted math videos over thirst traps, us gdp would double in a few years haha
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Steven Li
1 year
Sales > Demos > Writeups > Pitch Decks Decks aren't something magical, no amount of feedback on decks will move your business forward. Talk with customers more, build more, sell more. That's the only way to build a business.
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Steven Li
1 year
Going to start using just 1 thread for all startup ideas. Copying @asanwal ;) Check out his list here!
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Anand Sanwal
4 years
Is there a Glassdoor for tech cos to evaluate and see ratings of advisors/service providers like lawyers, bankers, accountants?
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Steven Li
1 year
Stat: 66% of bankruptcies in the US are caused by medical bills. There were 387,721 bankruptcies in the US last year. That means every year the US medical wipes out the savings of over 255,000 individuals/families.
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Steven Li
2 years
@BrianGitt @siddharthkara Zero cobalt in most of tesla batteries:
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Steven Li
4 months
So tempted to buy this for my personal AI projects
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Steven Li
1 year
Been doing a lot of customer conversations lately so I built out a linkedin scraper chrome extension to scrape thousands of linkedin profiles for me. Combining this with my old leads "ranking" setup to figure out the most relevant leads. … Now
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Steven Li
1 year
Made a tool today that extracts leads lists and uses AI embeddings to sort them by most relevant (most likely to buy) to least relevant. It will take a look at each lead and let you know if they are relevant to what you are selling. Then just load the results into your email
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Steven Li
4 months
local newspapers once had a geographic advantage until the Internet made them obsolete, with a few survivors local currencies has a geographic advantage until Bitcoin makes them obsolete.
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Steven Li
6 months
One of the best overview of autonomous vehicle capabilities/features. Amazing how many common driving capabilities turned from 1 to 6-8 in various Tesla FSD version updates.
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Troy Teslike
6 months
Here's a table by @edgecase411 that compares FSD V12.3 to older versions. The scores show a big improvement, but it's not perfect. There are still 6 categories where it scored only 1 point, meaning it was never successful. Therefore, it's clear that FSD still needs more
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Steven Li
7 months
fun fact: as amazon alexa got more usage the training costs essentially became minimal compared to the inference costs. we can probably expect the same for LLMs and most new models. the market for improving inference is going to be huge.
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Steven Li
4 years
@heydave7 @Tesla @heydave7 thought I bring this up onto your radar. Ark invest has been buying a lot of $NNOX and their CEO is like Elon Musk, built and commercialized a lot of new technologies, perhaps might be a good YT analysis video 🙂
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Steven Li
3 years
Just made a video on how to participate in friesDAO and how to obtain the $FRIES token. Check it out here: #defi #crypto #fries #friesdao #friestoken
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Steven Li
1 year
Been working on Dynaboard AI for a while! Check out it's launch last week: . Have an AI code & build your web apps for you on Dynaboard's no-code platform. UI components, SQL, Typescript, CSS all generated using AI. Minimal dragging and dropping needed :)
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Steven Li
6 months
i started hacking on a laravel/php project, the project was bought from another indiehacker. i think i'm in love. so so well organized. it's like ruby on rails but so much more stable. first time coding in php.
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Steven Li
4 years
@IOHK_Charles @TysonQuick What the existing use cases for Cardano? Genuinely trying to understand. I'm new to Cardano, used a ton of ETH apps over the years and trying to learn new protocols
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Steven Li
4 months
this could be the catalyst for the next ai winter. there really isn't sufficient energy infrastructure anywhere in the entirety of united states to power the next generations of gpt models after (or a model or two after) gpt-4. to scale the next model it'd require 100,000
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Steven Li
1 year
Voice AI models are getting very good, fast. Below is an audio clip from a AI model that I tuned to sound as human-like as possible. 100% of the audio was generated from training off of audio I stripped from podcasts on Youtube until I found a person who's voice worked well
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Steven Li
1 year
Interesting. Just learned that you can use SBA loans to acquire saas businesses. Why don't more people use this option? Seems like a safer bet to purchase a saas vs a retail location especially if someone can code or do marketing.
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Steven Li
8 months
why SF is still the place for startups. or LA for hardware. just doesn't make much sense to build outside of these areas if you need capital.
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Landon
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Seed funding in Chicago is on the rise. We were one of only three major metros on this list that had a positive % change in funding from 2022 to 2023. Rome wasn’t built in a day. BULLISH. Data from @PeterJ_Walker
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Steven Li
8 months
The age of robotics is coming fast.
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Steven Li
1 year
Founder friend just told me she had used the chrome extension to extract almost 1000 angel and VC leads. She already got a verbal commit on a term sheet for her startup's pre seed round She filtered the linkedin profiles using the built in ranker feature to sort them by
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Steven Li
1 year
Chrome extension for scraping linkedin and analyzing profiles is starting to finally be fairly stable. I am able to scrape several thousand profiles from a general search or recruiter search page within just a few minutes. But the issue is that the profile scraping is super
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Steven Li
5 years
realized angellist didn't have a mobile app yet - anyone else interested in something like this? if I get 40 likes or comments on this post, i'll build one out and release it on the app store / play store. let me know what features you want :) #startups #angellist
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Steven Li
11 months
follow up: please include your past mobile designs/past work in your DMs! Will not reply to anyone saying "hi/how are you"/etc. Only replying to people who send in their past work. Thank you!
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Steven Li
2 years
Love this quote from James Dyson (abbreviated): "If you build a product that is useful to people and much better, no matter the market, recession or otherwise, people will pay for it, even if it's 3x more than other similar products"
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Steven Li
2 years
Another use case of @openai #GPT3 : if you have a pesky un-typed #js array/object that you want to create a #typescript type, instead of spending a bunch of time coding the type. Just have gpt-3 code it for you! Heres how I did it:
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Steven Li
3 years
Has anyone researched/looked into most of the stablecoin protocols ( @terra_money , @fraxfinance , @feiprotocol , others) out there? Was thinking of doing a video exploring most of the major defi stablecoin projects. I am researching on this topic rn - would love to chat with others
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Steven Li
7 months
it's crazy to think that if the founding fathers were alive today almost all of them would be hardcore bitcoiners.
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Steven Li
8 months
I'm starting to think that game engines will soon become the training set for robotics. Generate millions of variation for a job, e.g. flipping a burger and build a model that works for a robot to "flip a burger". Currently this takes a time to do training, but I can imagine a
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Chenhao Li
8 months
✨ICLR 2024 Spotlight Still hand-labeling phases or tuning GANs with your trajectories? We propose FLD, a self-supervised representation method that extracts spatial-temporal relationships in high-dimensional trajectories. RL policies informed by FLD show extended generality.🧵
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Steven Li
2 years
Afterwards it worked! I tested the code it generated on the chrome inspector console and it worked great. Saved me like an hour of work to manually dig through the html to find all the tags I needed :)
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Steven Li
1 year
@asanwal startup idea Make an agency or a generative ai/product/dev agency - hit up all the top newsletters in the space (Hustle, MorningBrew, Milk Road, etc). Charge them X per month, help them write the same great content in 5-10% of the time with AI. Code it out with langchain.
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Steven Li
8 months
whose going to be in eth denver? would love to meet folks in person!
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Steven Li
2 years
I initially tried to plop in the entire html file and have it write me a web scraper. Unfortunately that was too big and caused the #GPT3 playground to crash/
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Steven Li
9 months
a founder friend sent over a partnership contract, they needed their attorney to review it. costs 10k. AI products would solve this so easily. it's crazy how many business deals fall through a year because of a shitty legal team.
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Steven Li
2 years
Recently been working making diy radvac covid vaccine for ba.5 and ba.2 variants. Learned a ton about bio! For the sake of open source, I'm posting my notes on github:
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Steven Li
1 year
You can connect any database to Dynaboard AI and have it write all the queries for you. And generate all the UI to deploy to a new site. Perfect for maintaining and updating SQL queries. You can try out Dynaboard AI here: Hopefully my video skills are
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Steven Li
2 years
How is $APE still at a $1B+ market cap? Thats the same market cap as $LMND insurance which actually make a lot of revenue and is a great product for millions of tenants and landlords. I think this is still just the start of the crypto bear market.... stay safe 🙏
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Steven Li
2 years
@LimitingThe @elonmusk Was there a recording for this twitter space?
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Steven Li
4 years
@awilkinson thanks for sharing! i've been on the edge getting one as i wasn't sure if it would be safe to have it hooked into my bloodstream all the time / keeping it clean. but it seems extremely useful of a tool
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Steven Li
2 years
The @RADVACproject white paper is literally one of the most amazing & exciting things I've read in my life: I've haven't felt this excited about a tech perhaps when I first started programming. Bio is coming to the internet-age
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Steven Li
1 year
@codyschneiderxx sorry Cody, I was one of the churned folks. but you are on the right track. if I could set it and forget it, that would help with drafthorse/swell usage a lot for me. right now it takes several hours for me every week to find keywords, drafthorse/swell it, and then post it to
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Steven Li
6 months
Decentralize and encrypt all messaging, social media, VPNs, all internet traffic and monetary transactions. As more institutions (Brazil, Australia, China, ...) join the global world order of censorship and thought policing, the norm will be full encryption, full decentralization
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Steven Li
6 years
getting startups to clean up haha @Skydeck_Cal
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Steven Li
2 years
Prediction: Musicians will probably be out of jobs soon with the advent of #AI . It's only a few years away before there's a #DALLE for audio/music production that will make music perfectly tuned to your tastes from your @Spotify playlist.
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Steven Li
9 months
Coding a linkedin job posts scraper to OutreachWalrus! Why? The companies who have funds to hire new roles usually have funds for a lot of other things as well (products/services). It's one of the easiest hacks to find good leads. Releasing this soon to the public chrome
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Steven Li
1 year
Chrome extension for scraping linkedin and analyzing profiles is starting to finally be fairly stable. I am able to scrape several thousand profiles from a general search or recruiter search page within just a few minutes. But the issue is that the profile scraping is super
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Steven Li
2 years
Had a research paper I was digging into that I got tired of reading. The paper was written very boringly :( So I had GPT3 read it for me, then teach me the contents instead. I fed it the text, and asked it questions to get the info I needed!
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Steven Li
2 years
For all the advances in decentralized orderbooks why hasn't anyone worked on P2P trading of crypto + arbitration? A decentralized version of localbitcoins/paxful. Quite odd since the tech is all there.
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Steven Li
4 months
@Suhail Perhaps a more contrary take, but I found that it's good enough for a lot. I've placed in a bunch of industries with 2-5x improvements in many workflows and personnel output. Just need more imagination for places to apply it to!
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Steven Li
2 years
@VitalikButerin @lawmaster @Galois_Capital @ChandlerGuo @VitalikButerin would be great if you evaluate on the idea from @Galois_Capital instead of an ad hominem. His tweet here may be facetious, but people in the community are concerned. But here's his idea on the ETH1 vs ETH2 fork issue:
@Galois_Capital
Galois Capital
2 years
Here’s how I see the bet. If the resting balances of USDT at the pre-fork merge block, is later redeemable for USD on ETH2 (PoS) rather than ETH1 (PoW), you win. Otherwise I win.
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Steven Li
11 months
one of the core role of a founder is to figure out how to shorten the feedback loops for your team. if your feedback loops are weeks or months then the next startup that has a few hours feedback loop is going to destroy your company. appointments, rapid fire pitches, effective
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Steven Li
6 months
tesla autopilot is getting impressively good. did a 15 minute ride to a shop that i usually take with 3-5 interventions. did it again today with the latest update and had 0 interventions (other than parking)
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Steven Li
2 years
Instead I found the chunk of html that had the data I needed using chrome inspector. Plopping that into #GPT3 playground worked. However that only grabbed the html from that block. I wanted it to be general purpose enough to grab the full list in the html/
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@realstevenli
Steven Li
1 year
@joe_dirico @codyschneiderxx @yoannpavy scale this up. post on craigslist and fb marketplace, pay 40-100 bucks for people to go to their nearest apple store/mall and repeat this for every major city in the world. have them snap photos for proof. better than any ad spend :)
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Steven Li
2 years
@Suhail What are your signals for figuring out if something is worth pursuing?
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Steven Li
2 years
@vincent13031925 Love the tweet. How long do you think the recession will last and its effect on new car purchases? I think $TSLA will do great long term but curious if you have any thoughts on these areas
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