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PaulMest

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About PaulMest

I help startups with product, engineering, and strategy. Currently building an AI Assistant with a small team in Los Angeles.

Email: paul+hn [at] CleverPoint.co

Interests: ML, React, React Native, NodeJs, Python/Flask/Pandas, Data analytics, product management, startups, mobile

Formerly...

Started first business when I was 15 building software for fortune 500 companies. Acquired by largest customer. I worked for them through high school and college.

Cofounder/CTO: Circadian Risk

Head of Product: Early stage startup in SF (Close.co)

Founder: Mythly Studios

Microsoft life: System Center Advisor

Part-time Video Blogger: channel9.msdn.com/shows/PingShow/

Recent public activity

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    Maybe you're experiencing normal usage rates now that the 2x March promotion is over? > From March 13, 2026 through March 28, 2026, your five-hour usage is doubled during off-peak …

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    Sadly this is still the case. Cloud Run helped us get off the ground. But we've had two outages where Google Enhanced Support could give us no suggestion other than "increase the m…

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    This sounds like my exact scenario. Can you outline in a bit more detail how you traced it back to the origin to ask to be put on a blacklist?

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    Congrats on the launch! How does this compare to BoxyHQ's SAML Jackson [1]? [1]: https://github.com/boxyhq/jackson

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    Very cool! I built a no-code version of this for my friends' birthdays where all of the clues were about them (inside jokes, dumb bets, catch phrases, etc). I just printed out cate…

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    It's pretty rare to give someone 10%+ equity after a business has been operating for several years. Even if you brought on a professional CEO, I wouldn't expect to see that. I've s…

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    For anybody else who also hadn't come across the term RVC before: "The RVC model is a Retrieval-based Voice Conversion system using AI for high-quality voice cloning. It utilizes a…

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    I enjoyed this blog. I think it provides a great succinct overview of various approaches native to Postgres. For the "capture changes in an audit table" section, I've had good expe…

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    I didn't watch the whole video, but found the summary to be helpful. You can see it at 37m21s: https://youtu.be/fvwOa7TCd1E?t=2241 spoiler: Of the 6 cars they tested, Tesla Model Y…

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    I rarely have to use Superchargers because I have charging at home. But when I do, it's about $25 for an 80% top up (e.g. going from 10% -> 90%) in my Model Y. Just looked it up: $…

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    I don't use Svelte, but I appreciate the principled approach and the clear explanation. I primarily coded in Python for 4 years. Then I founded a company that didn't need as much d…

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    I was a huge fan of Scrabble growing up. I like how simple this is and would probably be fun playing with my mom daily for a bit (similar to Wordle). I like your game for what it i…

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    Comment #35178868

    This is the master tracking list for MPS operator support: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/77764

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    I created a callbox bot using Twilio about 10 years ago. It started as something simple: when my callbox bot is called, play dial tone 9 (to signal the callbox to open the door) an…

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    I'd guess that https://neon.tech/ could help with this. Neon is branded as "Serverless Postgres". They have APIs to create branches of your database. So you could effectively: 1) C…

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    I've played with several of these Stable Diffusion frameworks and followed many tutorials and imaginAIry fit my workflow the best. I actually wrote Bryce a thank you email in Decem…

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    There's a 2 week Whisper Fine Tuning event put on by Hugging Faces going on right now [1]. The new "large-v2" model was announced as part of the kickoff [2]. It's supposed to offer…

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    Show HN: Advent Calendars Created by Stable Diffusion

    Whenever I learn some new set of technologies, I love to build fun things for people in my life. I am currently diving into AI/ML and found myself drawn to Stable Diffusion for the…

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    I saw this in a Twitter thread a couple of days ago: https://twitter.com/lennysan/status/1591470516178948096 . In that thread there are also links to related podcasts and more endo…

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    This reminded me of a project from long ago. When I was growing up, I was not particularly good about expressing gratitude to my family. I recognized this in myself and in college …

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    In case you're not familiar with DBT, it helps with the "transform" in ELT https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/introduction .

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    I was just in the DTW airport a few weeks ago and experienced this firsthand! The representative said there can be up to 100 people in this large-ish rectangular area and each pers…

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    Comment #29628733

    The biggest gains I'd recommend for just about everybody in a tech field: 1) Continuing to stoke the flames of curiosity and discipline within yourself so that you genuinely love t…

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    I haven't followed this closely, but have seen a few headlines and tweets in passing. This is the first I've heard that people can optionally add test scores to help them stand out…