Sharvil Nanavati

I build things. Engineer. Founder. Previous sightings @ Google[x].

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

🚨 Hey folks I got something to announce:

I am launching a new investment fund brand:

Prototype Capital 🦾
A globally-active first-check investment fund.

We focus on cool stuff that's technical hard to achieve, but also still new enough to be a bit weird – globally.

Think Robotics in Eastern Europe, AI in SF, Software remotely, OpenSource SaaS, Space-tech in India, Reindustrialization of Europe, AI Agents in Brazil, among many others…

- $100k-$200k
- we say we invest early and we actually mean it
- with every 5th investment we are the first to commit
- only 6% of all ivnestments were after seed
- the brand will be a larger umbrella for all kinds of stuff from our own prototypes 😬, to streams, to communities, to investinpublic transparency efforts
- this is legally speaking a rebrand of my previous solo GP fund so we got track record to proof
- we do about 15-20 investments per year

Link in thread! 🔥
Please RT if you got a sec – Appreciate your launch support 🙏❤️

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@OfficialLoganK What's the quota on Gemini Pro Exp-0801? The experimental model is sooooooo goooooood!!

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@OfficialLoganK The experimental 0801 model is a huge leap forward – what are the quotas on that? I keep getting rate limited and don't know which limit I'm hitting.

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

Whoa did @GoogleDeepMind silently drop their new Gemini model? It's already topping the lmsys arena! https://t.co/fBCvzBqhwq

#LLMs #ai

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

Chatted with @cerebral_valley folks. You know the drill. We're hiring, so hmu!

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@unilightwf Why is point 1 not surprising? I assume it's because of limited labeled data, but it seems that in principle it should perform better... what am I missing?

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@unilightwf Agreed, seems unlikely even in the case of masked autoencoding models since the masks don't always span semantic boundaries (and even if they did, you'd still have an alignment problem?)

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@rezmeram Which kinds of personalities would you want him to chat with? I presume it wouldn't be a generic assistant.

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@erogol Any experience with Schrodinger Bridges?

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@fchollet Given the long and expensive road to AGI, performing economically valuable tasks along the way may be a commercial prereq to building it.

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@MrCatid Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up...

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

Richard Hamming (of Hamming distance fame) wrote one of the best books on critical thinking and problem solving I've come across. And it has a whole section dedicated to AI (in 1997!). Highly recommended!

https://t.co/tja6usaq8I

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@Marktechpost @MSFTResearch They highlight one of the key reasons I work on speech synthesis:

"The advantages of this work could contribute to valuable endeavors, such as generating speech for individuals with aphasia or people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis."

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@dorienherremans @ArxivSound @Women_MIR Nice! Do you know of other accent datasets that can help your technique scale up?

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@aipin_io Pretty sweet, what are you using for TTS?

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@Project0dyssey Love this! Are you hosting an in-person event?

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@ithinkimrishi Pretty much all configuration-based languages. Ansible was one of the more recent ones.

[arXiv Sound @ArxivSound]

``CLaM-TTS: Improving Neural Codec Language Model for Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech,'' Jaehyeon Kim, Keon Lee, Seungjun Chung, Jaewoong Cho, https://t.co/SBqg4R3S1g

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

@MrCatid @knuth is a legend. He wrote about surreal numbers in the 70s!

[Sharvil Nanavati @snrrrub]

Surreal number is a real thing.

[Duane @DuaneKing]

Surreal number

https://t.co/0zfErzSQTr