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I am Dru Wynings.

http://druwynings.com

Feel free to email me about anything: dru@druwynings.com

Head of Marketing @ Sensible.so. Previously Head of Marketing and Business Development at Diffbot (http://www.diffbot.com/), BizDev @ Heyzap (YC W09). Self-taught programmer & designer.

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www.sensible.so 2y ago

Beyond embeddings: Navigating the shift to completions-only RAG

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www.sensible.so 2y ago

Scaling document question answering using LLMs

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www.sensible.so 2y ago

Enterprise AI, driverless cars, and the road to AI adoption

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www.404media.co 2y ago

University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10k Prize to Make

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www.propublica.org 2y ago

Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science to Decide 911 Callers Were Liars (2022)

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withshepherd.com 2y ago

Underwriting with superpowers: parsing claims data with OCR

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www.sensible.so 2y ago

History of the PDF

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History of the PDF

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www.irs.gov 2y ago

Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states

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www.sensible.so 3y ago

How to scale document question answering using LLMs

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www.sensible.so 3y ago

Direct Text Extraction from PDFs

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www.forbes.com 3y ago

Twitter Backed Underrepresented VCs. Under Elon Musk, It’s Trying to Dump Them

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www.cnbc.com 3y ago

Silicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators, FDIC to protect insured deposits

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techcrunch.com 3y ago

Carta, previously sued for gender discrimination, is now suing its former CTO

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scottaaronson.blog 3y ago

AI Safety

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www.semafor.com 3y ago

Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a Secret Text

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twitter.com 3y ago

Sequoia has marked its investment in FTX down to $0

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npjohnson.github.io 3y ago

Spotify Car Thing Root

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danieljeffries.substack.com 3y ago

Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

GloriFi: A New Anti-Woke Bank Stumbled

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Kids Yell “Poop” at Alexa, and These Musicians Profit

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www.sfgate.com 3y ago

Bay Area tech startup Sanas wants people to sound whiter

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ming.substack.com 4y ago

Learning all my flaws after a year of doing founder-led sales

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papers.ssrn.com 4y ago

Predictably Bad Investments: Evidence from Venture Capitalists

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www.sensible.so 4y ago

How to use GPT-3 to parse free-text documents

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www.businessinsider.com 4y ago

ID.me's Pandemic Growth Spurt Led to Frantic Hiring and Security Lapses

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apnews.com 4y ago

Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the GIF, has died

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www.osnews.com 4y ago

Is Firefox OK?

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doctorow.medium.com 4y ago

An Open Letter to Pixsy CEO Kain Jones, Who Keeps Sending Me Legal Threats

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www.buzzfeednews.com 4y ago

Meta Wouldn’t Tell Us How It Enforces Its VR Rules, So We Ran a Test to Find Out

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Sensible | Technical Product Marketing Manager | Remote | Full-time | https://www.sensible.so/

Sensible is an API-first document processing platform that streamlines data extraction for developers and product teams.

We're looking for an experienced Product Marketer to join our growing team. As a product marketer, you will lead core product marketing initiatives, build awareness with our target market, and generate inbound leads for our sales team.

This role requires a mix of creative and quantitative thinking. You'll develop a product messaging and positioning framework that resonates with developers and presents our products in ways that increase Sensible’s ACV.

Ultimately, you will drive awareness, product adoption and revenue growth. This position reports to the Head of Marketing.

Sensible is a remote-first company and this role is open to anyone located in North or South America. We provide competitive compensation and meaningful equity.

More info: https://sensiblehq.notion.site/Technical-Product-Marketing-M...

-- If this sounds interesting, please reach out to dru@sensible.so

History of the PDF 3 years ago

It was actually because I didn't want to link to a hubspot url and webflow only supports uploads up to 10mb.

Sensible | Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE |

https://sensible.so/

Sensible connects software to the messy, unstructured data that businesses encounter every day. Our goal is to bring about a world where computers do the work that computers are best at (processing large volumes of data) so that humans can do what humans are best at (critical thinking and empathy).

The first piece of this problem that we're tackling is document parsing. Even as software is eating the world, so many business workflows still rely on two entities sending PDFs to each other. In a single afternoon with Sensible, developers can ship a production-ready API endpoint that turns documents into useful data.

Sensible was founded in 2020 and is backed by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley. https://www.sensible.so/about

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As a senior infrastructure engineer, you’ll work closely with our head of engineering and the engineering team to improve and expand our AWS-based infrastructure, working with technologies like Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, and IAM, to support our production APIs and web app. Outside of AWS we integrate with Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OpenAI. We have a strong testing culture to support our overall reliability, as well as SLAs for our enterprise customers.

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You might be a fit if...

- You have 5+ years of experience building infrastructure and APIs in AWS.

- You’re product-minded and customer-focused.

- You have experience working in organizations compliant with SOC 2 and HIPAA.

- You are an excellent verbal and written communicator, able to build relationships with different kinds of people across different levels of the organization.

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Interested? Reach out to the founder josh@sensible.so and mention HN.

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- Senior Infrastructure Engineer: https://www.notion.so/sensiblehq/Senior-Infrastructure-Engin...

- Customer Success Engineer: https://www.notion.so/sensiblehq/Customer-Success-Engineer-8...

- Product Manager: https://www.notion.so/sensiblehq/Product-Manager-a0dc92f1a9d...

- Account Executive: https://www.notion.so/sensiblehq/Account-Executive-14205252e...

We just closed a lease on a new space where every employee will have their own office. Definitely atypical in Silicon Valley, which meant that buildings with a lot of build out are less desirable. That made it easier to negotiate the price.

My most common use-case is SaaS trials that require a credit card upfront – I set the limit at $1, so I don't have to worry about cancelling my trial before they autocharge me.

Fair warning: I work at Diffbot.

Essentially that's what Diffbot (https://www.diffbot.com/) does, except we don't the render pages as an image nor do OCR.

Diffbot renders the page in a headless browser, and uses computer vision to automatically identify the key page attributes and extract normalized data for specific page types (Articles, Products, Discussions, Profiles, Images, and Videos).

This approach enables us to work in any language and on sites that we've never come across before automatically with better than human level accuracy.

Disclaimer: I work at Diffbot

Major differences I can see (OP feel free to correct if I'm wrong):

Link.fish

* doesn't provide a web crawler

* relies heavily on microdata, schema.org, RDFa, etc

* relies on manual parsers for sites that don't have microdata embedded

* doesn't full-render pages by default (Diffbot renders every page, so it can use computer vision to automatically extract the data)

* doesn't support proxies

* doesn't support entity tagging

Probably plenty more, but that's what jumps out to me at first blush.

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Since I see other people have mentioned price as a concern, we're always willing to help out bootstrapped startups. Just shoot me an email: dru@diffbot.com

Clozemaster looks pretty cool.

A couple notes:

  "the post-Duolingo learn language in context app"
This was really hard for me to understand. When I skimmed this, my first assumption was that this was a direct replacement for Duolingo, when it's actually complementary.

It would probably be better to split up the long list of languages on to 2 different pages. 1. Language you want to learn, and 2. From which language. An alternative would be to have a separate section for each language to learn on the page with space in between.

Font Awesome 5 10 years ago

Any ETA on when backers will get private repo access? Super excited for this!

Diffbot (http://www.diffbot.com) | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE, VISA

We're an AI startup that applies machine learning, computer vision, and NLP techniques to the problem of understanding webpages. Our APIs convert billions of webpages automatically into structured data for the likes of DuckDuckGo, Salesforce, Hubspot, Amazon, Bing, eBay, Adobe and others.

We recently announced our profitability(!!) and raised a $10M Series A by Tencent Ventures and Felicis Ventures.

Looking for ML/CV/NLP specialists, data fusion / knowledge graph, and/or web-scale crawling experts with a track record of building intelligent systems that perform at human-level accuracy rates.

AI Researcher: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/ai-researc...

Data Operations Product Manager: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/data-opera...

Search Engineer: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/search-eng...

Technical Account Exec: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/diffbot/jobs/technical-...

If you have any questions, feel free to email me directly: dru@diffbot.com

Hi Max,

All of our automatic APIs aren't meant to be used on directories or listings pages (for that, we provide a crawler which gathers those links and then feeds them into our automatic APIs). The discussion API is intended to be used on discussion pages, for instance: http://www.diffbot.com/testdrive/?api=discussion&url=https%3...

If you wanted just a list of submissions and score, you could use our custom API toolkit(similar to Kimono): http://www.diffbot.com/products/custom/

Dru from Diffbot here.

Sorry to hear about the issues you ran into when trying out Diffbot! If you have some examples, I'd like to take a look into whether we can improve.

In cases where our automatic extraction using computer vision isn't 100% accurate, we offer a visual interface for actually overriding our default extraction. This input is then used as additional training data for the ML models.

Mozenda et al. are great if you only need data from a couple of sites and you don't mind spending time manually specifying and maintaining CSS selectors for each website and page layout you need data from.

Our crawling, and proxy support, is fairly robust thanks to our hiring the creator of Gigablast [https://gigaom.com/2013/09/10/diffbot-brings-big-time-search...].

If you'd like to give Diffbot another go or you have some examples where the extraction could be improved, please let me know!

Diffbot • http://www.diffbot.com/ • Palo Alto, CA • REMOTE • VISA

We're an AI startup that applies deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing techniques to the problem of understanding webpages. Our APIs convert billions of webpages automatically into structured data for the likes of DuckDuckGo, Bing, Digg, Instapaper, eBay, Adobe and others.

We use very few 3rd party frameworks and strive to develop our own performant machine learning techniques.

Looking for published ML/CV/NLP specialists, data fusion / knowledge graph, and/or web-scale crawling experts with a track record of building intelligent systems that perform at human-level accuracy rates. If interested, send us a note at jobs@diffbot.com (due to limited HR bandwidth, naked resumes will be discarded).

If you have any questions, feel free to email me directly: dru@diffbot.com