Learnings and templates from jumping through the hoops of the US immigration system — Need help jumpstarting your O1/EB1 petition? Let’s chat (15 minutes, 30 minutes) August 2023 updates I’ve created a Discord community for those who pursue an O1/EB1 visa with the hope that collective knowledge will demystify the application process and make it easier for eligible petitioners to gain their visa faster…

Research in speech recognition has made significant progress in the last several years with examples such as Facebook’s wav2letter and recent HuBERT. Interest and funding of NLP research are also at an all-time high with breakthroughs such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 and Microsoft’s ZeRO-Infinity. Yet building real-time transcription apps is cumbersome…

Food for thought for those who aren’t sure if joining On Deck is time/money well-spent A year ago I was at an intersection. I was looking for a co-founder for a venture I was building and it wasn’t an easy task. As I was contemplating whether I should be operating…

An up-to-date guide to running Django commands on AWS EBS using cron jobs — Recently, I was looking to run a script once an hour that also required my Django app context. Though I did find a couple of online guides, they were either outdated or not comprehensive and aligned with the recent changes in AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EBS). EBS allows us to run…

How frontrunners such as OpenAI should leverage a machine-human-hybrid approach to screen for ethical use at scale — Last June OpenAI released the most powerful language model ever created, which became the topic of much discussion among developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs. Its capabilities of zero- and one-shot learning blew people’s minds, with many GPT-3 powered applications going viral on twitter every second day.

Tips and takeaways learned based on more than 100 1:1's — This piece was updated on April 2021 Finding a co-founder is tough — your talented friends amongst your network aren’t available and finding both a Founder/Market Fit and shared values with someone new is hard. Timing is everything. A couple of months ago, I parted ways with my recent co-founder…

Concrete steps and learnings from a 6-months journey looking for my co-founder — You’re going to spend more time with your co-founder than with your spouse. This is why finding the right one is the one activity you CANNOT afford to rush. If you’re truly passionate about founding a company, you have only two options: compromise or keep on looking. The vast majority…