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Ben Scharfstein

@scharf #134

making data useful with AI. Previously built @stelo to keep you safe from phishing benscharfstein.twitter https://nf.td/ben
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Anyone in NYC or SF interested in "renting" their Nikon Z camera for a few weeks? Going on safari and would love to bring a second body.
Writing a personal blog (ever just for yourself) is seriously underrated
What’s the best plug in hybrid crossover?

Or just crossover in general?
Remember chainrunners? tbt
Farcon fomo is real
Lost 10 lbs and my "smart" scale thinks I'm a different person 💪
Anyone actually recording “life events” with AVP?

Seems incredibly after the fact but terrible in the moment.

Alternative is just the vr mode on iPhone 15?
SSBM is still goated as the best video game ever
Getting married in two weeks.

Last minute wedding tips?
Who writes the best docs?
Excited to launch Superpipe, a framework to build evaluate, and optimize LLM pipelines for structured outputs.

Using Superpipe, we've been able to build 10x cheaper pipelines, 10x faster.

Latest project with @aman

superpipe.ai

https://twitter.com/amansplaining/status/1772658940821602700
Have no idea what a power badge is but I feel like an epic adventurer in a high fantasy book
`pip install superopenai`

✅ all LLM inputs and requests logged locally
✅ includes token usage, cost and latency
✅ responses cached in-memory, never wait when re-running code

https://github.com/villagecomputing/superopenai
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First non-company hackathon since college this past weekend with @aman @ryo and Andrew Yu (not sure on fc).

Builder energy so fun.

Built a bot that bids and messages sellers on fb marketplace that are similar to reference images you provide

https://youtu.be/Q_XMceMmbak?si=l6ArHqmyR7XlzaQn
Way more excited about farcaster DAU than bitcoin price.

But number go up is chill too
Evaluation is all you need.

If your goal is to build good AI software, you need to switch from thinking like an engineer to thinking like a scientist.

Would love to hear feedback and thoughts.

https://www.scharfste.in/evaluation-is-all-you-need-think-like-a-scientist-when-building-ai/
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Going to be in SF next week for the OpenAI x SPC hackathon.

Any AI folks want to meet up?
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What is best color le Creuset?
What are other S tier kitchen items?

My sleeper pick is fish spatula for everything (aside nonstick which doesn’t have a place in my kitchen anyways)
hot take but i believe that “venture math” is based on bad assumptions, bad advice and poorly run companies
I’m surprised no one is talking about the motion blur when using AVP. The pass through is good but it’s not nearly as seamless as expected given everything I was hearing online before I used
Tried to cast from Vision Pro but find keyboard very hard to use, especially for longer sentences.

It’s both remarkable how intuitive some things are and how finicky others are