Amit Kumar

Founder/CEO Enterprise Video AI.
Past: Founder Trimian (acq NW), VP/GM Yahoo Small Business, Founder Lexity (acq YHOO) on threads

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“GQ profiled master counterfeiter Frank Bourassa. Bourassa made $200 million in nearly flawless fake US twenties in a barn in Canada, got caught, and, you get the feeling pretty early on in the piece, didn’t really do any time for the crime.

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The Spielberg Light
The backlight of a setting sun. A harsh artificial light coming through a window and the air full of dust. A t-rex peering through a car window lit by flashes of lightning. Steven Spielberg is a master of light
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“The opening scenes from dozens of movies, including 2001, There Will Be Blood, Lost in Translation, Seven Samurai, and Star Wars.

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8-minute video - gorgeous Antarctica https://t.co/MWPSE1KGvR

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“The New York Times profiles 29 year old Alex Honnold, who climbs sheer cliffs without using ropes.

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“This is silly and I loved it: someone took the clip from Aladdin when he and Jasmine sing A Whole New World while riding the magic carpet and dubbed realistic audio over it.” https://t.co/iygBqfLEcj

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Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale https://t.co/bghFV5PSKq
// interesting problem and problem-solving at FB scale

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What happens when you shine world's strongest flashlight at world's brightest paint? Watch. https://t.co/8httQMWwaN

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The Cranberries' searing acoustic version of "Zombie" https://t.co/SgZAVF7bnY

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“When producing their claymation-style feature films or Wallace and Gromit & Shaun the Sheep animations, Aardman Animations goes through 100s of pounds of modeling clay” https://t.co/ooXEU568UV

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Game Theory for Parents https://t.co/P0uT6iwbHU

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Just a chicken playing an operatic aria on a piano keyboard https://t.co/g0OajVJcq8

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An Instagram feed of fun illustrated facts https://t.co/kEc6ARtMQ5

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Photography: the weird dreamy world of wet ground https://t.co/45jqRev99H

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Ray Kurzweil's Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years https://t.co/qbUvCJSBw3

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University band pranks director by playing Mii Channel theme song instead of Bach https://t.co/k2YTvkuHin

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Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy https://t.co/TQL9QdAYck

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Classic superhero bodies photoshopped for believability https://t.co/eZYYX15sNM

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Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months https://t.co/lkyc80vSGM

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I Asked 12 Scientists: What Is The One Fact Humanity Needs To Know? https://t.co/nbidRykynl