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var_cw

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About var_cw

floating on a pale blue dot; bits and neurons; founder @ dubverse.ai

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    Comment #44420928

    The point is how much non-vision sensors vs pure vision, helps humans to be humans. Don't you think this point was proven by LLMs already that generalizability doesn't come from mu…

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    Comment #43543947

    have few thoughts on this, esp after working in voice AI since couple of years 1. > "What’s the voice equivalent of a thumbs-up or a keyboard shortcut?" Current ASR systems are muc…

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    Comment #42772493

    there seems to be a common theme around not believing in the idea/product/people too deeply, thus leading to faulty or mis-step execution. would it be right to say that? a contrast…

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    Comment #42572575

    yeah well his 2024 "predictions" were nothing but regression to mean

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    Comment #41106529

    this almost seems like win-win, leonardo ends up as amassing compute and licensed data and canva gets to expand their revenue by offering better a stack for image gen, what am i mi…

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    Comment #40643225

    imo most of the software play is going to be an infra play where the max of value is being provided/captured by the big tech there will def be some opportunities for mid-tier softw…

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    Comment #40207742

    > Software has been and always will be fundamentally a problem of communication. its a problem of communication with a system. that system can be a human, a group of humans, some e…

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    Comment #39665493

    P(are we alone) = more less

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    Comment #39660551

    I see alot of new founders just jumping into AI cause it's cool, all of them should give a read to get the reality of being an "AI startup"

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    Comment #39052925

    AI's matching hit rates in drug discovery is a game-changer. It's like AlphaFold just gave us the GPS coordinates for the biochemical treasure we've been blindly digging for. LSD's…

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    Comment #34228407

    Founder of dubverse.ai here. As someone who has done production level TTS(deployed on India's largest news network) I can say there is alot of room for improvement in terms of inte…

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    Comment #33309030

    wow this is such an incredible idea reminds me of the earth-moon fire pole https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/

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    Comment #33308996

    i think this type of beaming tech would be a prior to dyson sphere dyson sphere still needs a lot of huge engineering upgrades at scale in order to reach there humanity will have g…

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    Comment #33272478

    > How’s AI going to do that better than a fellow human? The idea of AI getting better than a fellow human is flawed at the definition itself. Instead of focusing of AI being genera…

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    Comment #30311323

    I wish a day comes when the compute at inference is more optimized than the raw camera sensor processing Is this too much to ask for? :/

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    Comment #29791695

    Pretty soon. But won't you prefer subs over dubs for anime?

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    Comment #29791660

    Don't you think thats more of a translation problem rather than how well it was spoken?