Nicolay Gerold

Why is Discord such a good GTM for AI applications?

Text interface. Most users are just generating images, videos, and audio in these Discord servers. Prompts are easily expressible in simple text commands. It’s why we’ve seen image generation strategies like Midjourney (all-in-one) flourish in Discord while more raw diffusion models haven’t grown... See more

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We had a CLI tool, written mostly as a bunch of shell scripts, with a ton of available commands that performed all kinds of utility functions related to observability and operations.

It was mostly written by an excellent coworker, and working with it is where I learned to write effective shell scripts. (Thanks to Nathan and shellcheck for this vital... See more

Macaw-LLM: Multi-Modal Language Modeling with Image, Audio, Video, and Text Integration

1 2 Chenyang Lyu, 3 Minghao Wu, 1 * Longyue Wang, 1 Xinting Huang,

1 Bingshuai Liu, 1 Zefeng Du, 1 Shuming Shi, 1 Zhaopeng Tu

1 Tencent AI Lab, 2 Dublin City University, 3 Monash University

* Longyue Wang is the corresponding author: vinnlywang@tencent.com

Macaw... See more

data needs to be managed for quality, timeliness, consistency, reusability, and business relevance

In your sport of choice:

Perform a 5-minute Zone 5 effort. Make this a Very Hard effort but leave yourself room to improve next time.

Calculate the average power, or pace, of this effort.

The following week, perform 5x one-minute efforts at that power/pace.

Rest duration is equal to work. So 5x 1/1 will take you ten minutes.

Because of the rest, you... 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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Towhee is a cutting-edge framework designed to streamline the processing of unstructured data through the use of Large Language Model (LLM) based pipeline orchestration. It is uniquely positioned to extract invaluable insights from diverse unstructured data types, including lengthy text, images, audio and video files. Leveraging the capabilities of... See more

The best vertical AI solutions will be like a functional worker who is also a team player: expert in their core task (summarization, for instance), but also diligent in updating the horizontal systems of record that the broader organization relies on