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Amit Kumar
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Founder/CEO Dragonfruit.ai: Enterprise Video AI.
Past: Founder Trimian (acq NW), VP/GM Yahoo Small Business, Founder Lexity (acq YHOO) @akumar@sfba.social
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Why are your occupancy metrics typically higher than they should be? Chances are it's just your cleaning and maintenance staff doing their jobs.
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No, Evolution Is Not Always Dog-Eat-Dog j.mp/2LaRJHe
“It’s just an OpenAI/ChatGPT wrapper” is the new “It’s just an AWS wrapper” that would have made you miss a generation of cloud-native companies.
AI-native is the new cloud-native.
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The challenge with this kind of thinking, which might it might not end up being right, is that companies can always sell the future to the present.
Today’s R&D won’t hit the bottom line for years. Companies that are cutting the wrong stuff will feel it eventually.
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This chart shows the relationship between planets' distances from the Sun and their orbital period
It visualizes Kepler's third law or the constancy of the ratio T²/R³
[credit, u/data_n_stuff: buff.ly/3izqyEN]
[read more: buff.ly/3jpTIr6]
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i'm looking forward to seeing what happens with the favorite account when the free API gets turned off
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Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity
in 20 years - from zero to hero. this is not a long time for that to happen...
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Wind and solar now generate more power than coal or gas in the European Union bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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my goal is life is to succeed enough that i start showing up on these threads as someone he also used to share office space with ;-)
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And then both WhatsApp and Altos got booted from that space because @plibin was growing Evernote so fast he wanted the whole building.
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by the nature of things, drones get intercepted, so the origin of the drone will be quite clear to iran very soon... and can easily be used for propaganda to distract from the internal situation - why would a state entity want to let them do that?
anyway, quite interesting.
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and if it's a western country, as seems intuitive, they presumably have other ways to hit the target instead of using drones - which is a very recent introduction to theaters of war.
so what is this? a message? a warning shot?
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there are no obvious recent conflagrations with countries it shares its border with where a state entity would initiate such an attack - esp given the success of iranian drones that would spark a counter-attack - certainly ukraine is _too far_ to do so
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maybe it's blasé for those in the trade, but the iran drone attack is mind-blowing. this isn't ukraine jerry-rigging consumer drones or sending russian-era drones within russian territory; or russia launching them from crimea; it's an attack to the _middle_ of the country 1/n
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“In this charming short film, The Magic of Chess, some young competitors at the National Elementary Chess Championship explain what they find so intriguing about the game”
🏆 Introducing ShelfScout: Dragonfruit's shelf stock-out detection solution in partnership with Google 🏆
Read more here: buff.ly/3WA0OvR
#retail #computervision #stock-outs #ai #artificialintelligence #ml #machinelearning #google
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A profile of Lauren Sanchez and chooses a pull quote on Bezos’s workout ethic? Really guys? Is that the most interesting thing she said?
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These boxes aren't rotating. It's an optical illusion. Really.
Or those who understand that this, not just raw model building skills, is the real differentiator, will be the ones that build it, hoard it, and truly blow out in a defensible way…
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There's a pretty big gap in a product that helps you understand your datasets better before AI training. Things like rapidly seeing similar or outlier samples across huge datasets, deduping, letting you label some of your own data to build intuition, etc. Someone should build it.
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DARPA remains underrated as a driver of innovation
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So, the guy who said he found no link between Trump and Russia was actually on the Russian payroll at the time. Damn. twitter.com/KaivanShroff/s
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lobbyist: what's our budget?
functionary: oh i don't know... $10mil? $20mil? let's throw a dart
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The core strategy for Apple to win the AR/VR race was to keep its tech in the lab just long enough to see Google, Microsoft and Facebook implode in the marketplace before it unveiled its own product, sources say.
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Why Some People Are Always Late to the Airport - The Atlantic
Unfortunately for my grandchildren it seems like awesomeness runs in families :-(
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My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created
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Hot take: people get talked into doing startups who in their hearts don’t want to & aren’t good at it.
If Corporate America is where you thrive, don’t let the startup people badger you into occasional paychecks in Aeron chairs.
Startups are for people who can’t not do them.
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I have tried and failed to find fault with any of these comparisons.
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Sodium Citrate is the secret ingredient to make any cheese into smooth, creamy nacho cheese sauce. Coincidentally, Sodium Citrate's chemical formula is Na₃C₆H₅O₇
[read more: ow.ly/JYzH30npn62]
#FoodScience
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If Apple designed iPhones in the 80s and 90s / Boing Boing
Behold the glowing Yooperlite rocks of Lake Superior
“We’ll take Kyiv in three days”
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![Financial Times: ‘Peter Thiel's fund wound down 8-year bitcoin bet before market crash // […] // In April 2022, about the same time that Founders Fund sold out of most of its cryptocurrency holdings, Thiel said he was optimistic about the future of bitcoin. He told a cryptocurrency conference in Miami that "we're at the end of the fiat money regime" and suggested its price which was then trading at about $44,000 could increase by a factor of 100. // Thiel said JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon and BlackRock boss Larry Fink "need to be allocating some of their money to bitcoin". adding: "We need to push back on them.”’](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmzwQ44WQAAa4cu?format=jpg&name=medium)
Don't know how it hasn't gone more noticed over the years, but the guy in this video that Elon tweeted out to show the safety features of Tesla autopilot...? He died in a Tesla autopilot accident two months later.
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What Does Huffing a Sharpie Really Do to Your Brain? | MEL Magazine
