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Discovery calls are the initial stage in a selling process. I am biased but "selling" to a customer provides a much more honest picture of the things they truly care about then a g…

@williamcotton - saw this the other day in the prompt engineering post - I enjoyed it. Sent you a message on your site but something looks broken. If you use linkedin I requested t…

The "model" is not the hard part! If a pretrained model is generalized enough and valuable enough then it can exist as simple API or a runtime, it stops being a "model." If you hav…

Kudos to her. Conservation tech is a challenging and exciting test bed for "hackers" because it's a hyper dimensional chessboard of constraints and strategies. It's easy to reduce …

The measure of VC is growth and if you are a component to larger systems or programs you will inevitably be throttled. If you are a platform and can own the end to end then you sho…

"Over the years I have come to the conclusion that the real heroes of ideas are not the people who have them – they are the people who buy them." Absolutely love this.

As a thought experiment this is cool but from a practical perspective it’s too focused on a specific architecture and if anything adding perturbations might (slightly) help the tra…

Kudos to whoever thought of this at sfdc. This is a visionary acquisition and it makes sense on so many levels. From the fabric of slack's unique sales model to what this means for…

great perspective! the specific models might not be better but the people building them and the system will be getting better with more "data."

In the section around core technology. I'm curious about this statement: "As we continue to collect data over time, the system will become more robust." This is one of these statem…

Fully Agree with this insight. Superior UI/UX will make a crappy model look like the magical future we imagine. When you flip on a snapchat face filter nobody thinks about the qual…

Great engineers are also really great salespeople. The problem is that engineers often feel like they have to put on their salesperson hat on and it all goes out the door. Sales is…

My favorite joke on this is "The answer is deep learning, now whats the problem?"

I'm happy a VC is providing these insights. If the economics of AI don't make sense by helping increase profits or cutting costs... it's going to be a long road to reaching the "pr…

Can anyone provide the background or framework of how I should see the business value of gpt3. Are there businesses that have a tremendous needs for the possibilities it provides? …

(Disclosure: I work at one) There’s a few working specifically on simulating the autonomous vehicle domain. air sim is unique because you can do both ground and air. From the busin…

What's the current sentiment on synthetic data? It may be a self serving question since I work at synthetic data company but I'm curious for fear of being stuck in an echo chamber.…

What kind of sales? What's the product? Is it Software? Hardware? B2B? B2C? Self serve or high touch? Have you found product market fit or are you still trying to figure it out? A …

Can customers receive a print copy or is it only in PDF?

Why the log in? I don't trust you enough to give you all of my information. Let me play with it first then ask me to sign in after we trust each other.

You should be selling the benefits of poker, not poker itself. Poker education is a pretty competitive field. Since it seems that you are involved in the start up world why not giv…

Do they have guarantee? If you aren't satisfied we will give you back your tweet all you pay is shipping and handling.

That's an outstanding list of problems that are all amazing start up ideas. This is where real estate can really be disrupted. These guys, http://bermanvc.com/ are really smart. Th…