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ar7hur

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About ar7hur

Working on healthcare & ML at Nabla. Prev founder of Wit.ai W14 (FB) & VirtuOz (Nuance).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48553178

    I emailed Fabrice in early 2013 when I was starting wit.ai. He replied quickly with a very nice, humble, valuable response.

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    Comment #44586499

    I've been using InstantDB for two projects for one year and it's awesome.

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    Sober from VCs

    This year I did my first "VC-dry Q1" — a quarter with zero VC meetings. Refraining from interactions with VCs (it's hard to resist! "hey {first_name}, we love what you are building…

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    Comment #40709144

    > Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a huge corporation. There are only two exceptions in the last 25 years that come cl…

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    Comment #40677519

    They should also hold prescribers accountable. As a certified physician you hold powers and responsibilities. In many countries these prescribers would lose their licence.

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    Comment #39317186

    This is why I read HN every day.

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    Comment #36177265

    https://archive.is/20230603023911/https://www.bloomberg.com/...

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    Comment #35925579

    I don't understand how a hardware company who just reported its largest quarterly loss in history with revenue down 36% year-over-year [1] is working on fonts. Or maybe this explai…

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    Comment #35249412

    +1 I came here to write this comment word for word. The speed of IBM-ization of Google is astounding.

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    Comment #35155841

    I understand your concerns. Our objectives are, on the contrary, to reduce the doctor/patient distance that was created by EHRs and all the required administrative processes. We al…

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    Comment #35155735

    Yes we are! https://www.nabla.com/careers/

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    Comment #35155715

    Thanks for your comment. We plan to offer an on-prem option eventually. In the meantime: - we offer a GDPR compliant EU-based hosting option - we don't store anything (no audio, no…

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    Comment #35152841

    Yes absolutely.

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    Comment #35152824

    Thanks for your comment. We clearly show a diff to the doctor before updating patient records. We are very explicit that they should check it (and edit if necessary).

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    Show HN: Using GPT-3 and Whisper to save doctors’ time

    Hey HN, We're Alex, Martin and Laurent. We previously founded Wit.ai (W14), which we sold to Facebook in 2015. Since 2019, we've been working on Nabla ( https://nabla.com ), an int…

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    Comment #35151167

    "[...] garbage collect unnecessary processes [...]" At least we know some parts of the post were actually written by Zuck himself, not the PR team.

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    Comment #33083963

    We built Wit.ai on Clojure and it was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. Most engineers we hired has no prior experience but learned quickly. It gave us a great advantage t…

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    Comment #32604708

    I would really use this for many of my projects! For project A, I used Firebase which was great initially but eventually ran into the limitations well described in Stopa's essay. F…

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    Comment #31856497

    Can’t wait for the even more bizarre « about the last week second announcement » next week. Seriously who can remain a customer after this?

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    Comment #30998584

    We started Wit.ai from Pebble's offices in 2013 in Palo Alto. We didn't know anyone in the Valley, but Eric had read our "Show HN" and kindly offered us to hang out there. We grew …

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    Comment #30965864

    I visited Persepolis in 2016 -- having this experience before the actual visit would have been incredible!

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    Comment #30249513

    I think Nuance bought most of the assets. And 20 years later MSFT bought Nuance. Full circle!