Founder @ AI Study Camp. YC alum. Writer. “I seek to understand.”
London, UK
Joined February 2013
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Apple Calendar has one tab missing - "Decade." Would be really useful to look at it once in a while, reflecting on where things are going and whether that's still the direction that makes sense
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Interesting! Is this discrepancy - a) the data problem, b) the training problem, or c) both?
Speech-to-text is solved. Unless you have an accent.
Over 1 million people from 180 countries have spent 580,000 hours speaking with Fluently AI tutors while learning a new language.
Nearly all of them have an accent, and transcribing their speech is still hard.
So we benchmarked streaming speech-to-text systems on spontaneous, accented English from our learners. Leaderboard and methodology in the thread.
English is the easy one. Our learners study 14 other languages too.
Working on tough speech problems? DMs are open.
Many of our students come back for their 2nd or 3rd course. I guess it's a sign of PMF 🙂
I have completed 2 AI courses with AI Study Camp!! Last November it was "LLM fundamentals", and this March it was "AI for Building"!
Real impact for today? Just built an #aiagent for @deel yesterday in 10 min, and running a new app for a few hundred Ops for Deel in the background all night.
Great to connect with course founders @flreln
Good question to ask yourself re social media: are you a user, or are you being used? It’s obviously both, but which one dominates? And do you like this dynamic?
I wish there was an AI that would reply like the smartest humans I know - in a few words/sentences, clear & concise, and yet very dense information-wise and deeply meaningful. Humans are not built to effectively process walls of watery, abstract text that Claude/Chat/etc. output; almost everybody I know has an "ughh" response when they see such a thing. This might be a great opportunity for @bot and others building in the space
I noticed that whenever I’m outside, I am intuitively positioning my body to face the sun instead of the sun being on my side or on my back. Is there a scientific explanation for that? @hubermanlab
Pursuit of goals is a rational process, the choice of goals is not. In some deeper sense, there isn’t really any choice at all; there’s just something you’re ought to do, and your job is to sense that thing, grab it hard, and don’t let go.
I’m starting to be less impressed with AI capabilities and more impressed with human ones; just how much civilization progress we were able to make with our little, biased, forgetful brains, not designed for this sort of thing at all.
Vasili Shynkarenka retweeted
If you are consistent, the answer is letting go and being more playful; fucking around more.
Esp. relevant for people with sports background!
Once you learn discipline, it becomes the proverbial hammer and sometimes you have to unlearn it to go to the next stage.