Dheeraj Thankachan

I write about life, Product, AI & Engineering. EX-BigTech Product & Applied ML / @UniofOxford CS.

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@_aaronpaul25 warmup

[a16z @a16z]

Why are hyperlinks blue?

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@mwseibel You should use @foodlyco

https://t.co/amtrD6I61p

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Never bet against yourself.

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The greatest investment is always yourself & your people.

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Figma's $50m Series D funding in 2020, led by Andreessen Horowitz, brought its valuation to $2bn, overshadowing InVision. The industry's perception shifted, signaling a new leader in the making.

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Figma's success wasn't just about UI design; it integrated prototyping seamlessly. InVision's response, Freehand, aimed to unite teams but reflected a reactive strategy, not a proactive shift towards collaboration.

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The failure to pivot towards collaboration. As the design industry evolved, InVision's focus on traditional design tools became a liability rather than an asset.

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InVision, once valued at $1.8 billion in its 2018 Series F funding round, is shutting down! My thoughts 👇

#InVisionVsFigma #DesignIndustryShift #InVision

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The rise of Figma played a pivotal role. InVision soared during a design era, but Figma's 2016 entry changed the game by integrating UI design, collaboration and prototyping.

[marty.com @martymadrid]

@nikitabier Almost* every four years there is room for a new player. Generally follows US high school/college cycle of new generational adoption trends:
95-99 - AOL
99-03 - Yahoo!
03-07 - MySpace
07-11 - Facebook
11-15 - Instagram
15-19 - SnapChat
19-23 - TikTok
23-27 - ?!?!

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How we now compute nutritional information & nutritional tags.

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I just deprecated two of our classification models at @foodlyco that were used to label agnostic synthetic data, and moved over to @OpenAI GPT-4. Let the era of prompt engineering begin.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@RealFade - The R done primarily at FAIR & Google + DeepMind is what made chatGPT possible.
- The D done at Meta & Google around large transformers pre-trained with Self-Supervised Learning has been deployed in services for years (content moderation, ranking, translation....).
Huge impact

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https://t.co/w4R6yGknmJ

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Building good tech is hard.

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ETH = Hummer H2

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@adidasoriginals @gmoneyNFT @punkscomic @BoredApeYC I just lost $700 on gas fees rn, trying to mint one and didn't get one :(

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

It’s cool looking back at 30 Under 30 alumni.

I think these two will go on to do great things 🚀 🚀

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Iceland: 1, tech industry: 0