Startup Attorney at Accelerate Legal. I advise startups, entrepreneurs and emerging companies on business formation, investment and M&A transactions.
San Francisco, California
Joined September 2012
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David Raynor retweeted
To be more clear, Israel is not Netanyahu (just like the US is not Trump) and criticism of the Israeli government is not antisemitism (I do it too).
But when you associate Jews with what the Israeli government is doing simply because they are Jewish, you are being antisemitic.
Wow. I’ve heard this guy is the real deal, so I am pretty excited about this. Looking forward to having the smell of hops wafting across the hood again!
I am honored to work with the people of San Francisco to bring @AnchorBrewing, this dream, back to life.
David Raynor retweeted
At this point I feel like we understand pretty well what's going on with LLMs:
- Outputs are roughly equivalent to kernel smoothing over positional embeddings (arxiv.org/pdf/1908.11775.pdf)
- The learned computation model is *probably* bounded by RASP-L (arxiv.org/pdf/2310.16028.pdf)
- LLMs learn structure primarily from human generated content (text, images) which is far more structured and predictable than the universe.
- LLaMa3 shows us that the higher quality the annotations on the human generated content, the better the LLMs do (10million messages is a lot!)
- Multi-turn labeling is currently very expensive and so likely driving the costs of the models.
- Right now we're likely bottlenecked not on CPU, or size of data, but number and quality of annotations.
So tl;dr. Great at predicting what a human would do or say by averaging in distribution data in the corpus. No emergent generality. Currently bottlenecked by high quality annotated data.
@hausdorff_space did I miss anything?
David Raynor retweeted
This is crazy!!
Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has reached #1 on US iTunes after a live performance with Luke Combs at the #GRAMMYs, nearly 36 years since release.
Garry captures what we see regularly with founders in LatAm: that because Edrizio didn’t come out of “central casting” for founders, he was interested in solving a problem that was largely unaddressed. That often means a bigger addressable market with less competition.
At age 11, @EdrizioCruz moved from Santo Domingo to Harlem, bagging groceries to help his parents. He worked as an aircraft mechanic, went back to college at age 25, then JP Morgan, Wharton and eventually got into YC, and that's when I met him in 2013 for his startup Regalii
This is the closest distillation of my views on various fronts that I have read. I have some quibbles, but I endorse this.
THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy
“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?”
— Marian Tupy
“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
— Thomas Edison
Lies
We are being lied to.
We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.
We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.
We are told to be pessimistic.
The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.
We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.
We are told to be miserable about the future.
These definitely aren’t the only kids that are sad today. Thanks for the memories, BCraw. That ball you tossed to my boy four years ago is still one of our greatest memories.
David Raynor retweeted
👉AI Rising in Latin America👈
Terminamos con 87 startups #AI *. Con un mix muy interesante de países; MX 31%, BR 18%, CO 17%, CL 13%, AR 8%.
¡Muchas gracias a todos por su colaboración!
* Criterio para definir una empresa de AI:
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#PO1135809 Donnie
Donnie Donnie who can I turn to?
You give me something I can hold on to
I know you'll think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
One one three five eight oh nine
One one three five eight oh nine
One one three five eight oh nine
Dark Brandon is excited about the indictment, too. #TedLasso #IndictmentWatch
David Raynor retweeted
Andrés Cantor was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷
His POV of calling Argentina's World Cup victory is incredible 👏
🎥: andrescantorgol / TikTok
It bugs me when this City puts the bureaucracy’s needs above residents needs. If Parks and Rec can no longer deliver a basketball league for the City’s kids, then it should plan a solution with an organization that can instead of cancelling basketball season for hundreds of kids.
The city’s Junior Warriors program has failed to meet demand, leaving parents and potential players frustrated. sfstandard.com/community/hun…
Jack Smith has a steely gaze. Straight outta central casting. sandiegouniontribune.com/sdu…
