zachthewf

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by zachthewf 2y ago
Congrats on the launch!
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by zachthewf 2y ago
He went to Yale and worked at a prestigious VC firm. Most people with those credentials are at least reasonably smart.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
what do you think people should do when their countries experience hyperinflation?
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by zachthewf 2y ago
What company are you at? I've been working on a product to solve this problem. If you're up for a chat my email is on my page here https://www.zachocean.com/contact/
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Were you able to find good candidates from your post eventually?
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by zachthewf 2y ago
I mean, inference costs have decreased like 1000x in a few years. OpenAI is the fastest growing startup by revenue, ever. How foolish do you have be to be worrying about ROI right now? The companies that are building out the datacenters pro
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Exactly right. Traditional VCs come up with a thesis and then buy 20% of the company they think will be the winner who fits that thesis when they're at like $1M to 10M revenue (series A) YC can instead get ~10% of every plausible winne
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Notes on Google's new dialog generation model(zachocean.com)
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by zachthewf 2y ago
What's your use case?
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Can't wait for them to move up to Seattle. We're basically San Francisco with slightly easier hills and more rain/occasional ice, so seems like a good candidate.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
I love Tesla, I own the stock, but I don't think they can be considered comparable until they have a live autonomous taxi service that regular people can call from their phones and regularly rave about.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Ginormous market, 10x better product, no competition is currently close. Plus although they have the capital cost of owning the cars they don't have the COGS of paying the drivers so presumably much higher margin per ride.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Cool, looks like this is trained on 16 million hours of audio (500B tokens at ~.11 seconds per token). Even the large open source TTS models (see F5 TTS, Mask GCT) are mostly trained on very small audio datasets (say 100k hours) relative t
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Superhuman Speech(zachocean.com)
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Pedantically, literally everyone can be a founder. At this moment, you can decide that you are starting a company. You are now a founder. (This is why Founder is historically an unprestigious job that smells a lot like Unemployed, though th
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by zachthewf 2y ago
I don't remember exactly, but somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
We had a great experience doing this in a much less hardcore way through this company: https://withtheseringshandmade.com/ I'd recommend to anyone who is interested but does not have the skills to make a ring on your o
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by zachthewf 2y ago
I think the only way to avoid race to the bottom is to offer relatively high end services, competing on price is a recipe for disaster.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
What do you mean by selling Education?
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by zachthewf 2y ago
(I'm the author) The "why now" is any significant new efficiency gains that are available without a ton of cash.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
> "Is the kernel of this advice to start with a known problem which is already solved with a paid service, and then just sell that service more efficiently?" Yep, this captures what I'm saying. > "why is this a bet
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Even if AI doesn't help with any aspect of the service itself there are a ton of efficiency gains to be had from "the rest" of the work, which will make service margins less ugly. Every business still neeeds some form of sale
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Nice, what do you guys do?
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Now is a good time to start a service business(zachocean.com)
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by zachthewf 2y ago
I wonder what (if anything) is the impact of the leading spaces on each line of the multiline string, which are an artifact of wanting to keep the prompt pretty within code. Hopefully not much, but I've heard horror stories about trail
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by zachthewf 2y ago
Don't get it twisted—the MIT Startup is still based in SFBA
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by zachthewf 2y ago
The publicity might be a short term win but there is a dangerous narrative for Apple that it feeds: that they are no longer a design-obsessed company that prizes art and creativity and channels that obsession to build the best products.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
How cool! It's like Foldit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit ) for surgery videos.
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by zachthewf 2y ago
GPT3.5-level models are now insanely cheap: $1 buys you something like a Moby Dick's worth of text. STT and TTS models are getting cheaper too. I'm guessing that they are betting usage over the lifetime of the device (maybe 2 year
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by zachthewf 2y ago
what do you think should happen when you start a company that grows to $30b market cap like cloudflare?

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