Oana

building tech for impact • engineer turned founder • @daliasbook • globe trotter 👩🏻‍💻🇷🇴 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 🐾

[Daave “3 and 30” Tepper @institLPGP]

dylan is the best follow on this website

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

I remind myself of this quite often.

[Yusan Lin @yusan_lin]

Today @mirrormirror_ai is launching the marketplace where fashion models license their likeness and brands get stunning AI-generated imagery featuring real people. Commercially licensed, model-approved.

Try our platform: https://t.co/7u72P5xvmq

As a fashion model I used to spend hours on fashion photoshoot sets. I later did my PhD in CS and became a Research Scientist on AI for fashion. I can see clearly that AI image generation is replacing a large portion of my old job. But brands that use AI recklessly have already paid the price. It damages reputations and hurts the bottom line. Putting real people at the core of AI-generated imagery isn't just about avoiding backlash. It's better business. That's what Mirror Mirror AI is built for.

Right now, Mirror Mirror AI houses agency-signed models who have graced the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. You can digitally book them using our fashion-centric AI software, get your campaign done in hours instead of weeks, and never have to fly anyone in. You purchase a license for commercial use upon approval, and the models get paid.

Mirror Mirror AI is also opening a global call for independent models from anywhere in the world to apply to be featured on the platform. Work with fashion brands internationally, choose the projects you take on, and earn from your own likeness on your own terms. Selected models will be announced at an exclusive event in New York during @Techweek_ this June.

Apply for the open call: https://t.co/NutihoE9qO

A huge thank you to our incredible team for pouring their hearts into this launch, and to a16z @speedrun for believing in our vision from the start. We're just getting started.

[Oana @alllegna]

@Hartdrawss This article is AI generated and the “author” didn’t even read it once to remove the AI text placeholders 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Aryan @aryanlabde]

Hot take:

Vibe coding only works well if you already know how to code.

[Oana @alllegna]

@atmoio Most devs using Claude

[Mo @atmoio]

AI is making CEOs delusional

[The Rundown AI @TheRundownAI]

An AI consultant with no biology training used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to create a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his rescue dog.

Tumor shrunk by half.

UNSW structural biologist Dr. Kate Michie: “It’s exciting to me that someone who’s not a scientist has been able to do these things.”

UNSW genomics director Martin Smith: “If we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to all humans with cancer?”

Via The Australian

[Oana @alllegna]

@levelsio In Romania you can just walk into a blood testing clinic and ask for what you want. Results are sane day to 1-2 weeks, depending on tests requested.

[Dan Turner-Evans @DanTurnerEvans]

I worked on the fly connectome for over 6 years, and let me just say that y’all have to slow this hype train way down.

Connectomes are amazing. Biomechanical models are amazing. Linking the two is awesome.

But scientists at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Princeton, and other institutes have been working on this for years now, and it’s not clear to me what’s new in the below.

And connectomes are still missing a LOT of information. We’ve had the connectome of the worm for over 30 years now, and we still can’t reliably simulate a virtual worm.

For example, connectomes don’t capture information about neuromodulator or neuropeptide release sites or receptors. These molecules are constantly changing the properties of neurons in the brain in ways that we have yet to really understand.

And we don’t yet understand animal behavior well enough to refine and/or evaluate whole-brain simulations effectively.

@AdamMarblestone and @doristsao already made many of these points, as well as many other good ones, but I just wanted to also add my two cents.

[Aurelien @Aurelien_Gz]

show me a cooler pull to refresh than this one.. i’ll wait

wizard » @javoliver88

[Michael Witbrock @witbrock]

Computer science will stop being taught as a useful craft; it has become an explanation of how the world works, like physics, biology and chemistry. This change is long overdue.

[Oana @alllegna]

This is fascinating! I spent the last hour talking to grok to understand how it works.

Basically, they sliced open a real fly’s brain, copied its neurons and synapses into a digital model, then they connected it to a virtual fly body in a physics engine simulation. The digital brain received inputs through virtual senses simulated in the physics engine and produced fly-like behaviors through its own internal dynamics.

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/N2AwpI9f8m

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

this is one of those stories that sounds fake but is inspirational

teenagers frustrated with calorie tracking build cal ai, use chatgpt to teach them code, lean into viral short-form content instead of fundraising, grow to ~15m downloads and $30m+ in revenue, and sell to MyFitnessPal while one of them is still in school

this story breaks brains because it goes against the script you were handed: get credentials, raise capital, move to silicon valley, wait your turn

- ai removes the skill excuse
- the internet removes the geography excuse
- distribution replaces the funding round

the onus shifts back to the individual

please don't wait

this is the best window in history to ship your ideas, learn in public, and keep the upside

[Hernan Cortes @CyberPunkCortes]

This is the cyberpunk I asked for.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Jetson ONE personal air vehicle.

It costs $128,000

[Kritika @kritikakodes]

Same ≠ Same.

[Oana @alllegna]

It’s about the quality of those lines of code, not the quantity. Beginners tend to generate more code because they don’t understand what the code does: they don’t see it’s slow, duplicated, can’t be extended, has memory leaks, and so on.

An experienced dev will always measure their craft by the functional results, not the lines of code. The true craft is in building more with less, not building less with thousands of lines of code.

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

Wait, so the founder of Anthropic is "Amodei," as in "loves god"?

And he leads Anthropic, meaning "human-centered," which is being used in military strikes?

And the creator of ChatGPT is "Altman," as in "an alternative to humans"?

And he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed?

And then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that promised to do no evil?

And the whole global AI arms race is being driven by people who claimed to be worried about AGI taking over the world?

Either the universe is an extremely cliché writer, or has a brilliant sense of humor

[Oana @alllegna]

@steipete Why not have an isolated AI call that classifies if the message intent is abortion?