Head of Software and Product at Waabi. Repeat founder passionate about making lives better (and all things food).
Bainbridge Island, WA
Joined March 2007
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You're inside of a self-driving truck (🤯), that truck is "wearing" augmented-reality goggles (🤯🤯), and it's interacting with virtual actors performing tests in the real world that would be impossible to do in a traditional closed course environment (🤯🤯🤯)
Introducing Mixed Reality Testing: The comprehensive safety solution the AV industry needs.
We've developed a totally new paradigm that combines real trucks with virtual scenarios generated in real-time by Onboard Waabi World. Like augmented reality goggles that blend physical and virtual worlds, MRT enables the Waabi Driver to drive autonomously down a real test track while simultaneously sensing and reacting to intelligent, simulated actors that create complex safety critical situations.
MRT eliminates the traditional constraints of closed-course testing. We can conduct exponentially more tests than ever before and in a continuous fashion, with extraordinary levels of diversity and realism. Traffic jams materialize instantly, pedestrians jaywalk unpredictably, aggressive drivers weave through traffic, children dart into the street - all tested safely without real-world consequences.
This breakthrough builds a foundation for AVs we can truly trust and accelerates the path to safer roads for everyone.
See MRT in action: waabi.ai/mixed-reality-testi…
Classic post and great reminder to all founders from @bryce
Choose your “lifestyle” wisely medium.com/startup-grind/eve…
Many fond memories of Dino from the early days of Salumi - meatballs, porchetta, all of the salumi sandwiches, and watching his sister Izzy making gnocchi in the original storefront window. Rest in Peace! @Mariobatali
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In 2007, my startup had an office upstairs from the shop. Pro: could always get in line early for a sandwich, Con: the entire building smelled like warm aged meat in the summer.
By that time, the evolution from unknown mom-and-pop salumeria to a nationally known shop with lines out the door every day, run by the family of @Mariobatali, the biggest celebrity chef of the time, but those early days and Dino’s hospitality will forever live on in my memory
Some of the absolute best (and none of the worst) coworkers I’ve ever had with came from seeing the potential in inexperienced folks.
The inexperienced person you hire today could become the leader who carries forward everything you've built. @jerrycolonna on investing in potential over résumés: buff.ly/uG5RViM
This was the ideal “spare five” minutes we always talked about at @spare5/@mighty_ai.
Great for micro-labeling, even more powerful for location-based crowdsourcing where Uber has a massive and unique position compared to any other player in the space.
Good take from @treiner5
"~33M trips per day * ~8.8M drivers and couriers = An ocean of micro-idle windows the company already optimizes with heatmaps and batched dispatch.
Even single-digit participation and minutes-per-day can translate into millions of labeled units at U.S.-grade quality, a supply pool that rivals specialist shops and Mechanical Turk while avoiding their cold-start and QA headaches. If ads became the high-margin “second engine” for delivery networks, RL/labeling can rhyme for mobility: a capital-light, counter-cyclical revenue line that monetizes the long tail of driver downtime without cannibalizing trips. Turning operational exhaust into P&L is the same discipline I’ve highlighted in marketplace S-curve stacking and incremental margin engines before."
I’m so excited for this product. The e-bike of knives! (Disclaimer: I’m an investor, because it is so freaking cool)
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You HAVE to at least watch this video and be blown away by the sorcery: youtube.com/watch?v=cXjbSVt9…
Welcome to Waabi @lioron!
Huge thanks to @lioron for following his vision and building @UberFreight for us. Moving onto another BigBoldBet @Waabi_ai. And am v excited for @RebeccaTinucci to take Freight to the next level⤴️!!
I’ve tweeted this before, but nothing gives me the ick more than automated “handwritten” notes, especially in email (uhh, it’s already digital…)
I’m sure there is data that it is effective, but to me it is no more personal and feels very disingenuous
So exciting to see @Uber grow in this space. It’s a perfect match, and Megha and team are world-class!
Excited to be at the @Uber AI solutions big coming out party. We are extending the tools we’ve built to scale our own systems over the last 10 years to help the community build amazing AI tools and agents!
I’m not usually impressed by email campaigns, but this one made me laugh. Nicely done @Uber!
Daryn Nakhuda retweeted
This reporter unwittingly proves why self-driving cars and taxis will be much, much safer than humans in the long run... the distracted driver rear ends someone while looking at the Waymo.
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Every article like this is going to seem like defending horses.
Daryn Nakhuda retweeted
“We have built a solution to the data problem, a simulator that mimics reality, enabling us to be even faster in development and able to handle all the safety critical situations that are otherwise impossible to capture in the real world.” -@RaquelUrtasun on @found @TechCrunch
Daryn Nakhuda retweeted
Congrats to our CEO @RaquelUrtasun, who was just named a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada for her contributions to computer science! 🇨🇦
We’re so proud to see her recognized for bringing AI into the physical world with the nation’s most distinguished academic honour.
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