This is so close to the truth it's scary -- Rubber Ducky Labs's name was inspired by the giant rubber ducky art exhibit that visited Pittsburgh in 2013, almost exactly a decade ago!

Personalization and recommender systems LFG! Think through how you can personalize every surface of your product to reflect your users' preferences, from copywriting to product recommendations.

The incredible @Alexandraj777 CEO of Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23) back at CMU School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University for her 10th reunion during Spring Carnival visiting Women@SCS students in front of my old office in Gates! None of the undergrads here were born when I started Women@SCS 25 years ago!

At the last Heavybit summit, Stefan Krawczyk let me drag him into leading an MLOps session together. This snowballed into a longer conversation musing on the nature of MLOps over the last decade 👇

What makes some RecSys teams operate so much more effectively than others? It's all about unblocking the fast iteration loop.

New post on Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23): Alexandra Johnson and I have heard a lot of horror stories of ML and senior leaders completely talking past each other when it comes to metrics. To optimize on CLTV, stop trying to iterate on CLTV! Use tactical goals instead.

Orrick’s Laura Barr connected with Alexandra Johnson, the CEO and Co-Founder of Y Combinator-backed Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23), for an inspiring conversation about deploying AI to improve recommender systems. Watch the video to learn more.

Startups launch regardless if its near Christmas or not.

Praying for a full recovery 🙏 This attack is terrifying

Announcing: 🎨 Rivet Studio v1.0 A powerful development environment for Rivet Actors & Cloudflare Developers Durable Objects for realtime apps. 🧠 View/edit actor state 📞 Test RPCs like Postman 🔍 Explore live connections 🔥 Hot reload everything → studio (dot) rivet (dot) gg

RTing for reach

Very excited to be onboarding with Calvin Chen at Fetchr -- AI has brought so much energy and optimism to online shopping! Can't wait to see the clothing picks.

Congrats to the Bauplan team on the their launch!!