Interested in energy, food, and cats... combined. Head of Carbon Markets @ToucanProtocol Helped start @getcloverly and @mangrovecarbon former @techstars
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I imagine in the interim the new video Turing test will be to ask it to interrupt you while speaking with the last word it heard you say.
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
.@ScottHickle is building something awesome and this also contains some great fundraising advice.
Raising almost $18M to build a smart toilet took 178 rejections. 102 for the seed. 76 for the Series A.
And honestly, I get it! Most investors are allergic to hardware, healthcare, or consumer. We're all three.
Some rejections hurt more than others.
The best thing you can hear from an investor is yes.
The second best thing is a quick ‘no’.
One investor showed up to an intro call and the first thing he said was, "I would never invest in this but I just had to hear the pitch."
The worst, though, is when someone drags it out for five meetings, then says, "Unfortunately I just couldn't get the partnership there. I'll be rooting for you from the sidelines!" Boooo.
I’m glad we found amazing investors who see what we're building as important and inevitable. Their conviction has allowed us to build a product I genuinely believe will change the world.
This is a monopsony not a monopoly.
#BREAKING: New Report Exposes How Medical Residency Hiring Monopoly Harms Patients and Doctors
Newly obtained documents reveal how the Match placement system for resident physicians operates as a monopoly in the medical residency hiring market.
Its monopolistic practices harm resident physicians, impede patients' access to care, and constrain the growth of America's physician workforce.
A special-interest antitrust exemption currently shields the Match’s anticompetitive conduct from scrutiny, allowing it to harm the public while avoiding judicial oversight.
Read the full report here: judiciary.house.gov/sites/ev…
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Every $1 spent on research yields $2+ to the U.S. economy. Why do these fools think it’s a handout with no return? Grants are contracts for work and the work feeds the US innovation economy, which has helped put us in the global leadership position we’ve enjoyed for decades.
Trump Commerce Secretary: "We have billions to universities for them to do research and they invent things and who owns those patents? Universities.
...If we give them the money, don't you think it is fair that the US get a piece of that?" @Acyn
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New study: researchers looked at hospital visits immediately after a coal plant was closed near Pittsburgh
--> immediate 20.5% decrease in weekly respiratory emergency dept visits
--> immediate 41.2% decrease in pediatric asthma ED visits
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4069…
Yeah we wiped out a few trillion dollars in market value, but we also pushed foreign investment offshores, and sure we increased inflation but we also decreased manufacturing here; but most importantly we were able to have no coherent plan and publicly capitulate to China.
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one of the true differentiators of the US economy is the constant arrival of brilliant kids in search of a place to build things. targeting immigrant university students for deportation is not only morally reprehensible, and a national embarrassment, it's bad for the economy.
I’d say we live rent free in UABs mind, but they pay rent to us through the system*.
*I have no idea how the BoT works
Could a lottery be the answer to carbon markets? Helping a team working on this, they're looking for people to interview and answer a few questions. Drop your thoughts in the survey if you could to help some early stage founders out: form.typeform.com/to/wrRPZsC…
In the future no one will know one another. We will all just create and consume chalk crushing TikTo…
You bolt awake at the Soviet Early Warning System. It is 1983. You are Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass.
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It would be awful to be an Alabama fan living in Nashville on Tuesday when the Vandy alums find out they won.
What the hell is going on with the vents, or lack there of, in Trump’s suit @dieworkwear
