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techgeek, interested in anything to do with technology, startups, sci-fi, travelling and of course cricket!

Joined June 2011
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ” ― Immanuel Kant
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Once the production gets optimised, will this crash the price of gold? Lab grown diamonds did it for real diamonds. Aluminium used to be really expensive as well before industrial production got its price down.
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10. Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years. Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
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This is amazing tech. But also really scary. I feel like we’re getting to a point where, people might eventually stop trusting anything they see online. At least Millennials and Gen Z. Maybe that’s a good thing? Less screen time?
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard. cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri… research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj… tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
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Compilation of 16 USEFUL things people did with GPT 4o native image generation can do (aside from Ghibli images) in the last 48hrs! They include — Full video movies / podcasts / ads — UI design loop — 3D model gen Full Lord of the Rings in Ghibli 1/16
What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings? I spent $250 in Kling credits and 9 hours re-editing the Fellowship trailer to bring that vision to life—and I’ll show you exactly how I did it 👇🏼
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Iconic movie scenes, Studio Ghibli style. This is so much fun!
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Ezekiel 25:17
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Y Combinator's 20th birthday is tomorrow. Here's what was happening on March 11, 2005: paulgraham.com/ycstart.html (Yeah, I know this tweet will get hidden because it has a link in it, and that I'm supposed to put the link in a reply. But that's so stupid that I refuse to do it.)
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One of the most unexpected things that I’ve been using @Replit for is to create charts, graphs and other visuals for presentations. It’s like talking to a junior analyst; and telling him what kind of chart or visualisation you want.
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TSLA! So close to the magical 420.69
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An Olympic record and Pakistan's first-ever athletic gold 👏 Arshad Nadeem has made history! ❤️ #BBCOlympics #Olympics #Paris2024
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Game changer, wonder if this is what Apple will be integrating in their upcoming LLM update. One could only hope.
Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4… Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.
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Horrible service @flydubai @askflydubai, please make this right.
This is the response I have received from @askflydubai and @flydubai regardless of the fact that we were at the airport at 12:30pm for a flight due at 5:45pm. We were #denied #boarding! I have proof that we were there! FlyDubai please book us on the next flight
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We promise this is not a person in a bodysuit. bit.ly/3w5XRvH
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You and your ragtag team of engineers likely won’t be able to create something that is competitive with any big incumbent product. However, you can build features, seed content, and brand it in a way that is so obnoxiously relevant for a particular group of people that their only possible reaction is “Well, fuck. You got me. I have to download this now.” So, if you ever find yourself overwhelmed by all the things you need to build to make something worth switching, you should just try narrowing your audience. Sure the initial market will be smaller, but you can use it as a wedge to make it incrementally more useful to a broader audience. After all, Airbnb was initially a way to find air mattresses to sleep on while at design conferences. Now you use it to rent a castle in the South of France.
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How to Deploy your LLM App 101 ⚙️ Here’s a fantastic primer by @wenqi_glantz on how to deploy a @llama_index app to a full-fledged service on AWS Fargate, with Terraform (@HashiCorp) and an automated CI/CD pipeline with @github Actions. This is a must read for literally any AI engineer looking to productionize their LLM or RAG application - will save you lots of time in the long run ‼️ The guide walks through every step: 1. Adding Terraform yaml files 2. Adding @github Actions workflow to provision a cluster 3. Containerize your LLM app with @Docker 4. Setup secrets in your @Github repo, propagate to Terraform 5. Integrate deployment into your CI/CD pipeline Blog: towardsdatascience.com/deplo… Repo: github.com/wenqiglantz/reusa… The project in question is a RAGs app built on top of @streamlit: github.com/run-llama/rags
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Great analysis by @sturgeoncapital on the addressable size of the Pakistani market. “addressable market is perhaps only 10.6m if we include all of Groups 3, 4, and 5. While still a $43bn opportunity….. the number may be only half of that” sturgeoncapital.substack.com…
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For a market with 250m people, there is still potential for growth; but might take many years before social mobility creates a larger base.
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