Autocorrect makes it almost impossible for me to text in my dog’s voice

Not a single women’s college basketball podcast (that I can find) is made with equipment any better than AirPods it seems. Gap in the market?

Introducing Sidecar! Recall is now available outside your browser with our new native Mac app. Upgrade any workspace by bringing your ideas wherever you go. Simply peel and place the cards. As a bonus, re:collect now works with Apple Notes and Safari.

8 minute meeting time will be a default option in the upcoming Roam Virtual Lobby booking system.

Just met with an awesome set of ambitious founders at Betaworks with John Borthwick Jordan Crook.

I wished upon them great pain and suffering, as that is what builds character, and ultimately ... greatness.

Name a better feeling than getting on a hotel elevator and being on the highest floor?

Business Travel Dudes (TM) who leave their trays on the conveyor belt at security are the same guys who want their wife to act like their mommy.

Do you think Kate Winslet is tired of talking about Titanic?

Hard to think of an AI-powered product that wouldn’t benefit from personalization infrastructure like this…

Extreme voices have long dominated the AI conversation, but a majority of researchers and practitioners have more nuanced, reasonable takes. I'm reductively known as one of these extremists, but today I set the record straight on my personal blog. (1/idk)
ifor.one/blog/2024/3/13…

My friend Sarah Perez is also on Threads, Mastodon & Bluesky lived out a worst nightmare for many of us. If you can spare the time and resources to help her, please do: gofund.me/d8ab08c5

Beware of the word “family” being tossed about where there are also financial entanglements (employers, investors, etc) … you can care about people and be close to people with whom you are in a financial contract. But they aren’t your family.

Maybe this is a hot take but hard to believe someone hasn’t stepped in to dethrone DoorDash. The product is garbage, the fees are memably insane, and the workers don’t get paid enough or treated well. How is this the category winner?

Excited to share that I’ve joined OMERS Ventures! Building on my decade at TechCrunch, I’ll be taking on a new role at the firm designed to help grow our network, as well as maximize its reach and impact.

It’s a thrilling new challenge, and one that will mean I spend a lot of…

LFG 🚀

User State is State of the Art

## TL;DR
LLM apps can embrace the complexity and plasticity of human identity to deliver unparalleled personalization.

We're introducing a framework for modeling your users automatically and dynamically. And today we have a DSPy demo to illustrate…

Drink up me hearties, yo ho! 🍻🏴‍☠️

A lot of the Betaworks portfolio companies are seeking their very early hires -- roles include a full stack dev focused on UX, a cofounder in the productivity space (with a bent towards the bizdev side of things), a community organizer... the list goes on. If you or someone you…

2030 Predictions for Open/Closed Source AI Model Usage

Last month, I sent out a survey on what future comparison points for open/closed models might look like.

Will devs care about speed more? Or latency? How important will finetuning be vs using a model out of the box? What…

A kid in my neighborhood comes by after every snow and offers to shovel the driveway. He doesn’t ask for cash but we give him $20. Assuming others give him between $10-$20 too.

There are 184 homes. My guess is more than 60 percent are either older folks or lazy folks like me…