Christian Vestergaard

Work: Founder (YC backed). Escape: Cycling. Personality: Simple.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

this is the quant level I’m aiming for btw. keep me accountable

[amrit @amritwt]

cognition's ceo is my benchmark for being qualified as a smart person

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

a moat in data that is not talked about is talking closely to the customers of labs

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

"and our best engineers push 60 PRs/day" --> this is corposlop larping. vanity metric

[jun @hyojun_at]

we got carta pivoted to coding agent before gta 6

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

Morning SF! Beauty of Fall, weather of Summer.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@_josh_meyer_ The pace things move at is insane!

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

the current research I'm doing will make waves.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@anarchyco Im sure we’ll get there! We’re building every day to get there in fact. But im not sure I’m as impressed as you. Our next research is looking into prod failures and boy is it not as pretty as the demos on X 😇

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@anarchyco Thanks! We built the #1 model on turnbench 😊

[Thariq @trq212]

I think most people multi-tasking with agents could benefit from slowing down

most of the stuff you're doing wont really matter- what's your P0? what would it look like if you gave it your full attention?

[Penny2x @imPenny2x]

Nobody talks about the dangers of not developing superintelligence.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

In the times of LLMs, there's so much delta in spending the time it takes to become an expert. Sounds nonobvious though.

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

We're back as the #1 trending audio dataset on @huggingface 🤗

We held the top spot for 17 days in September, and interest has picked up again since we released our turn-taking model trained on OpenYap-1k.

Soon we can reveal some very interesting work. Keep building!

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

just show up every day :)

[shipra @shipranotes]

Sure, you’re smart, but imagine if you were consistent.

[EP @eptwts]

every breakthrough in my life has come from a bout of obsession...

1-2 months where i lock myself in the office, eyes glued to the screen, forgetting to eat

i've never found balance to work for me - in my eyes balance = maintenance, growth comes in bouts of obsession

i wish i could consciously trigger this obsession for anything i wish, but it seems like it's a force that takes over when it needs to

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@beayushb @sesame @juberti @aika_labs Interesting!

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

We trained a small turn-taking model and it’s #1 on @sesame's TurnBench.

We don't really believe in the future of turn-taking models, as conversation is too complex a dance to be learnt by a low-parameter endpointing mechanism.

Instead, as @juberti correctly quoted the other day: "it needs to be done by a large model that has significant conversational context and strong priors about human interactions".

However, we wanted to demonstrate what difference data can make. Most "natural" conversational speech data available today comes from strangers paired up on a gig platform and given a topic.

Our top spot is mostly earned by training in it on real conversations between friends and family, rather than implementing clever algorithmic ideas.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking:

[Christian Vestergaard @CVestergaard_]

@sesame @juberti Read the full write-up here: https://t.co/ejepy1ROGn

[Matias Voldby Drejer @matiasdrejer]

Our OpenYap Turn model takes #1 for end-of-turn on @sesame's TurnBench

Trained on 1,984rs of real conversation between friends and family.

Read the writeup: https://t.co/6W1qM0BkfB