Nicolay Gerold

Flow isn’t a state of learning it is a state of expression for already learned skills.

Enterprises move slow. The beauty of it is if you crack the code and you get in, it’s harder for them to throw you out. So that’s 1, they just move slower. Second, they’re super freaked out about the privacy and security of their data. Everybody’s been talking about data for 10, 15, 20 years. I just realized how valuable my data actually is. I’m... See more

• ClickHouse: It's a high performance columnar database that's great for real time queries. It enables querying and storing large amounts of data on commodity hardware. Some of my customers have millions of page views and I don't have an unlimited budget, so it's been very handy.


• PostgreSQL: My favorite database. Sane defaults, battle-tested, and well

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Emotions are mostly made up of three axis:- Autonomic arousal scale: alert to calm.- Valence: good to bad.- Focus: interoception to exteroception (making predictions about the outside world).

Who is your customer? Do you already know 5 actual people who are interested in your product? 1. Who in your network could be a potential customer? How could you quickly build a network?2. Who are your target customers, and where are they currently spending time, online or offline?3. What’s a unique and untold story you can pitch press?Find them... See more

AI wrappers and plugins

An AI wrapper is a simple application that sits between the AI and the user. The wrapper fulfills a specific function to augment the AI’s ability, for example, browse online, summarize a PDF, send an email, etc. It is a common way to simplify the interface for the end user instead of using the ChatGPT chat interface... See more

Ultimately, your goal in a 1:1 meeting is to build a relationship with another person and have vulnerable and critical conversations that enable you to help them do their best work. If your direct report has a broad agenda, that s great, start there. However, if their agenda is consistently limited to tactical in-progress work items and you're not... See more

Think about emotions as elements of the brain and body made of these three elements. Around these center most theories of emotion.

For example, if you ask a model to “return all active users in the last 7 days” it might hallucinate a `is_active` column, join to an `activity` table that doesn’t exist, or potentially get the wrong date (especially in leap years!).

We previously talked to Shreya Rajpal at Guardrails AI, which also supports Text2SQL enforcement. Their approach was... See more