I'd imagine the author knows that you can't just sidestep customs, and it does feel a bit disingenuous that they didn't call that out. But hey, it's a pitch for money first and foremost. I'd imagine that they're just giving a complete list of things that slow down air freight and that internally they have plans for tackling each one, like not having to unload cargo to get it through customs and so using the airship as its own trucking vehicle post-customs.
I last went in 2022, and it's still a place with amazing art and weird experiences. Being somewhere that's decommodified from advertising is, I think, something everyone should experience. I just think of it more like a really fun and interesting city that I like to visit sometimes, like New York, that's kinda expensive to get to. There's a bunch of gentrification from Silicon Valley, and the tickets not selling out makes me think that the tech recession is still very much on, but there's more to Burning Man than just tech bros.
> There's a bunch of gentrification from Silicon Valley, and the tickets not selling out makes me think that the tech recession is still very much on, but there's more to Burning Man than just tech bros.
I suppose the irony, if you're right, is in how much the event depends on advertising revenue and the residual wealth it is/was creating. In the first talk by any googler I attended, he mentioned his burning man project.
Location: Portland, OR
Remote: Yes, comfortable with primarily remote work but want some in-person
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Technologies: Python, Django, Nextjs + React, EHR, lab automation
Resume/CV: on request
Email: hi@rowan.earth
Hi there! I'm looking for a company in the medical or biotech that needs someone with demonstrated technical leadership. I've built teams of engineers and have a track record delivering software products for scientists and startups spinning out products from universities, mostly in the biotech and medical spaces.
Previous work includes building an engineering team a molecular diagnostics lab, fixing medical data integration at Stanford, and helping drug discovery startups visualizing the entire human metabolome.
Location: Portland, OR
Remote: Yes, comfortable with primarily remote work but want some in-person
Willing to relocate: Yes, to NYC, Seattle, or SF
Technologies: Python, Django, Nextjs + React, EHR, lab automation
Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SEBf9poZecY0aM6NFIRUMbqdpEEpYIhv/view?usp=sharing
Email: hi@rowan.earth
Hi there! I'm looking for a company in the medical or biotech that needs someone with demonstrated technical leadership. I've built teams of engineers and have delivered software products for scientists and startups spinning out products from universities, mostly in the biotech and medical spaces.
Previous work includes building an engineering team a molecular diagnostics lab, fixing medical data integration at Stanford, and helping drug discovery startups visualizing the entire human metabolome.
Hi there! I'm Rowan. I recently built the in-house team for a molecular diagnostics lab and set technical direction there. Previous projects include working with health researchers at Stanford, drug discovery startups visualizing the entire human metabolome, activists monitoring Chinese Internet censorship, Microsoft's edtech division, and investigative reporters. I'm most interested in early engineer roles in small companies in biotech or healthcare, but open to roles at larger companies.
Hi! I'm part of a team working on an open-source pipeline language for prototyping with LLMs. We're building an on-prem product that helps prototypers move past the n=1 of having a back-and-forth with a chatbot while keeping bounds on hallucinations. Our backgrounds are in open source, data science, and academic research. Our primary goal right now is to talk with people who have built their own bespoke LLM pipelines to see what problems they're trying to solve right now. If this is you, we'd love to talk! My email is in my profile.
Hi, I'm Rowan. I'm part of a team working on an open-source pipeline language for prototyping with LLMs. As part of that, we've started building bespoke evaluation pipelines for clients interested in testing ideas simultaneously on a range of open source LLMs over different variations to quantify tradeoffs between accuracy, cost, speed, etc. Our backgrounds are in open source, data science, and academic research (UW, Stanford). We're open to taking on small jobs if you're just looking to send a list of prompts through some open source LLMs.
I'm happy to chat for half an hour's information session or provide more info, feel free to reach out: hi@rowan.earth
One disappointing design decision is that they've organized your previous chats into "Bard Activity" which just shows each message you've sent in sequence. No differentiation between different conversations, which can have very different contexts built up over lots of messages. I definitely prefer ChatGPT's approach here.
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