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Bill Gurley, Jack Altman back startup Pursuit, which helps companies sell to government techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/bi…
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My goal when I became a full time investor was to be the type of partner I would have most wanted during my time building a company: someone who had done the work I was doing before, who had the network to help me reach my goals faster, and who had my back no matter what.
I’m really happy to share that we’ve raised Alt Cap II, a $275M early stage fund.
We backed ~20 companies at Seed and Series A in Alt Cap I. The new fund will be the same structure with a bit larger checks. But mostly we just want to be in business with people who inspire us.
There’s no way to say it without sounding cheesy but it’s true; I feel unbelievably lucky to do this job in the way I get to do it.
A special thanks to the founders that let us back them in Alt Cap I, you all are what it’s all about for me!
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High agency has many great upsides, although a significant downside is that it is also highly correlated with high anxiety.
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"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." @sama
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PSA: @Google is quietly killing 3rd party appointment booking services like @Calendly in favor of their own newly launched competitor...
And of course this "spam prevention" measure doesn't apply to meetings booked through their own new competitive software, which naturally doesn't support any video meetings options but Meet... 🙄
What changed: Google recently auto-opt-in'd most user's to default to NOT show 3rd party invites in calendar UNLESS the booker has previously emailed the host (defeats the point of booking software) or they explicitly accept the invite in email (massively more friction).
It's causing major issues for us @GrainHQ where users book time and assume all is well, but accidentally miss meetings b/c it never appeared on their calendar. It still shows as normal on the booking owner's end...
These moves are so blatantly anti-competitive and anti-consumer... all under the guise of "spam prevention"... which they could easily manage for google accounts using 3rd party booking software.
Any chance @FTC / @TheJusticeDept gets involved to protect consumers?
nitter.gq/rachel_l_woods/s…
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The quickest way to level up as an engineer
level 1: Read the docs
level 2: Read the entire stacktrace
level 3: Read the source code
You'd be surprised how often people never get past level 1.
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Today we’re launching a repo that lets you setup a production ETL pipeline for your RAG/LLM app 💫
Index thousands of documents in seconds ⚡️ (and orders of magnitude faster than running on your laptop).
It’s a full architecture which bundles LlamaIndex with other popular backend services:
✅ Deploy @huggingface text embedding inference server for fast embedding inference
✅ Deploy @RabbitMQ to process massive volumes of incoming data + distribute to consumer workers
✅ Deploy @llama_index ingestion workers to ETL data into @weaviate_io
✅ Deploy on AWS EKS clusters with replicas and load balancing ⚖️
✅ Get an API endpoint via AWS lambda
Results: Get 4x speedup times vs. running on your laptop.
We are fully open-sourcing this project. As your RAG app moves from notebook to production, this will be a great resource (especially if you’re using AWS!)
Full credits to @LoganMarkewich for driving this idea.
Check out our blog: blog.llamaindex.ai/scaling-l…
Repo: github.com/run-llama/llamain…
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Structuring LLM outputs is not new, but how do you efficiently structure outputs from a RAG pipeline?
Thanks to @bmaxhacks+@LoganMarkewich, you can now get native Pydantic outputs from all our queries, without an extra LLM parsing call!
Full 🧵+ guide: gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/…
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(1/5) 🎧🚀 Exciting news! I'm thrilled to announce the launch of Listener.fm, a new AI podcasting tool designed to streamline your post-production process with AI-generated titles, descriptions, and show notes.
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a great achievement is just what a long series of unremarkable tasks looks like from far away.
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Why does software need so many people and take so long compared to the recent past? Let's compare! 🧵 cc @realGeorgeHotz
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In pursuit of our mission, today we are opening up our EV connector design →
tesla.com/blog/opening-north…
