Opens profile photo
Follow
Click to Follow vijayp
Vijay Pandurangan
@vijayp
Investor & Engineer. Adjunct Prof teaching "Software Eng for Scientists". Formerly EIR , NY site Eng lead ;. 🇨🇦📸🎹🏊🏾
Science & Technologyvijayp.caJoined April 2009

Vijay Pandurangan’s Tweets

Winner fights bezos?
Quote Tweet
UFC president Dana White spoke to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg about their cage fight and says they're 'dead serious' "This would be the biggest fight in the history of the world" PPV would cost $100 and all proceeds would go to charity
Image
2
What’s the best/easiest open source text to speech system that sounds like a real human? Doesn’t need to be trainable on a specific person. Bonus points if it has a simple python interface
1
3
Every single time I edit text in a slide (I'm looking at you ), I think back and remember WordPerfect 5 so fondly. You could easily see the markup and insert text with the right style the first time, every time. How are things so much worse 30 years later 😭
Image
2
Wired up a new post-meeting workflow: 1. Dictate notes to google docs stream-of-consciousness 2. Chatgpt + custom prompt: fix errors from context, extract TODOs, small edits for clarity Shocked how well this works for deep domain tech & biotech meetings Anyone want to try it?
3
4
If you don’t think there are large risks to using generative ai in medicine, read about what happened when someone used it in a legal case: dair-community.social/@kendraserra/1. These models have tons of promise but we really have to understand and mitigate the risks /cc
4