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S8 E14: Beyond Static DORA Dashboards: Deploying Real-Time Git Metadata Parsing and Policy-as-Code Engines with Dan Lines of LinearB Jul 18, 2023

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Dan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now lives in Upstate New York. He has always been into the creation of things, being the kid in high school burning and selling CD's, building computers on the side, or creating an early sports streaming platform, before streaming was a thing.

Before Dan founded his current company with his co-founder Ori, he was an engineering leader, with 100 engineers reporting to him. During that journey, he catalogued all of the pains he felt as a VP of Engineering. Post acquisition of his prior company, he decided to build a system to solve those pains.

This is the creation story of LinearB.

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Beyond Bots - Ilia Zintchenko, Ntropy Jul 14, 2023

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Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.

Guest: Ilia Zintchenko, CTO & Co-founder of Ntropy

Questions:

We talked with Nare about Ntropy and LLM's. But let's dig in more.... what is your LLM stack? How did you choose it, what were the considerations?
What are the system costs in doing this?
How do you optimize on reliability - what sort of lever are you pulling to ensure reliability?'
How are you thinking about predictive vs generative learning?
You guys have been using small and large LM's since the beginning - why is this significant?
What data sources have you been using, and are there some that are better than others?'
Have you had to scrub these data sources in any way to prep them for your LM?
What is the major benefit that Ntropy is providing by using LLM?
What would you go back and change if you could?

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S8 Bonus: The Webcam Eye-Tracker: Engineering an Objective, AI-Driven 'Lab Test' for ADHD Medication with Dr. Einat Sitbon, Co-Founder & CTO of iFocus Health Jul 13, 2023

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Einat Sitbon has always been intrigued by nature, and all of its parts. She studied biology in school, all the way through getting her PhD in Computational Biology. This field also introduced her to computation in general, and programming. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 kids, and loves to hike. Her and her family share a love of fiction and fantasy books, and made mention her love of NK Jemision and JRR Tolkien.

Einat's and her sister are very close, and at one point, her sister mentioned that her son was ADHD. They found it difficult to understand how there wasn't a tool to help measure the concentration of a person with this diagnosis. They both started digging into how to solve this problem.

This is the creation story of iFocus Health.

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S8 Bonus: Bypassing the Fragmented Panel Trap: Architecting Real-Time, Verified Expert Networks for B2B Product Research with Sharekh Shaikh of CleverX Jul 12, 2023

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Sharekh Shaikh has an interesting background, having grown up (almost) on a farm in India, within a small town. He spent most of his time with animals and pets, more than people, and followed his father around as he travelled for work. He is big into motorbikes and reading philosophy, specifically stoics, and tends to read the older books over newer podcast or material. He's also trying to learn piano, but admits he's struggling in that arena.

When Sharekh was working for Gartner, he faced a problem around fraud, using online services for research. When he thought more about this, he decided he wanted to build a platform fueling market research... built on transparency and trust.

This is the creation story of CleverX.

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S8 E13: An Indie Hacker Blueprint: Engineering Secure AI-to-SQL Pipelines for Non-Technical Teams with Colleen Schnettler, Creator of HelloQuery Jul 11, 2023

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Colleen Schnettler was a stay at home Mom for many years, taking care of her 3 children. When she was looking to return to work, she was looking for remote - and it seemed that programming was the best avenue. She taught herself rails development, with the goal of starting her own company. Outside of tech, she spends time with her family outdoors, and claims she is a meat and potatoes kinda gal, with some bark thins for desert.

Recently, Colleen and her co-founder did a pivot of their previous offering, which was a package to solve reporting problems by embed them into your application. They are now focused on a SaaS tool, to provide this functionality for you.

This is the creation story of HelloQuery.

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S8 Bonus: The Bio-Code Revolution: Architecting Closed-Loop AI Engines and DBTL Automation for Synthetic Biology with Dr. Eduardo Abeliuk, Co-Founder & CEO of TeselaGen Jul 10, 2023

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Eduardo Abeliuk is originally from Santiago, Chile, where he spent the first few decades of his life. From early days, he had a deep curiosity to understand the world around him, which led him to study physics and electrical engineering. Post school, he joined an MIT startup, prior to obtaining his PhD from Stanford. Outside of tech, he likes to read books about longetivit, and listen to the Lex Friedman podcast. He also walks for at least an hour a day, and enjoys hiking, biking and time with family and friends.

Together with some colleagues from Stanford, Eduardo felt the pains of planning research projects. This process contained several processes that could have been automated through software. So, they decided to set out and build an enterprise solution for R&D projects.

This is the creation story of Teselegen.

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Beyond Bots - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy Jul 07, 2023

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Today we are kicking off a special and new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.

Guest: Naré Vardanyan, CEO & Co-founder of Ntropy

Questions:

Tell me what a large language model is. Is there any difference between this and deep learning models?
What is the difference between language models and LLM's?
What sort of data sets were your models pre-trained on? How long does that take?
How does the cost of training these models factor into your offering?
Can you talk about latency as a key factor in this process?
You've told me Ntropy has been doing this since the beginning, but give me a little more - how does this fit into Ntropy's approach?
What is in the future for Ntropy in this space, specifically as it relates to LLM's and financial services?

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S8 Bonus: The Bootstrapped Privacy Rebellion: Engineering Cookie-Less Web Analytics Without Tracking Users with Adriaan van Rossum, Founder of Simple Analytics Jul 06, 2023

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Adriaan van Rossum is a tech guy even at home. He likes to tinker with home automation, like turning on the lights - which his girlfriend doesn't like the home automation experiments at times. Outside of tech, he does kite surfing, and travels around the world. He really enjoyed Thailand, specifically the food there, as he is a vegetarian.

For several years, Adriaan was a freelancer. Each time he built an application for his clients, he did the usual song and dance with Google Analytics - he copy and pasted the script. This didn't feel right, and his girlfriend prompted him to build his own... so he did.

This is the creation story of Simple Analytics.

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S8 E12: The $16B Escheatment Engine: Automating Financial Dormancy and Compliance Rails with Stephanie Mertz, Co-Founder of Eisen Jul 05, 2023

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Stephanie Mertz is into software development because she likes to create something from nothing - IE the blank canvas nature of coding. Outside of tech, she loves to garden, grow her own vegetables, and build things out of wood. She also has as beehive, which she claimed was a fantastic way to observe the natural creative process - and decompress from a screen.

Stephanie and her co-founder were drawn to solving problems for the behind the scenes processes - aka the boring business stuff. When digging into these problems, they kept running into the fact that no one really had a solid escheatment process... and eventually, they decided to tackle it.

This is the creation story of Eisen.

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S8 Bonus: The RealReal CTO's Playbook: Engineering Rust-Powered GraphQL Federation at the Network Edge with Fredrik Björk, Founder & CEO of Grafbase Jun 30, 2023

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Fredrik Björk is originally from Sweden, but has spent many years in San Francisco. He got started coding in BASIC on his Commodore 64 (while also playing video games, of course). Post graduating from RIT, he has been involved in many startups, like Avatars United and The Real Real. Outside of tech, he is a Dad of two kids and likes to run - specifically marathons. Beyond that, he likes wind surfing and wing foil.

Fredrik noticed that the patterns of development has changed towards outsourcing over building everything in house over the past decade. Fast forward to 2021, great services exist to empower developers to ship faster. Fredrik wanted to build a service like this for the API layer, and below.

This is the creation story of Grafbase.

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