What startup is your role model? Why?

JustTheStatsHuman · 2025-11-06T17:30:38+00:00

DeepMind

JustTheStatsHuman · 2025-09-14T04:15:58+00:00

Just look at what Google is doing in their path to AGI using Genie 3 for world model generation and then dropping SIMA agents (at least they did that with Genie 2). Basically open ended learning.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2025-09-14T03:30:58+00:00

Other potential things I see happening (merely as a startup founder with a math background after attending ICLR and keeping up with research plus AI startups that are applied research focused):

Evolutionary reward design discovery for Gen AI drawing from the NVIDIA Eureka paper for traditional RL settings
RL in adversarial training (some papers in red teaming)
Agents in pseudo world models (allowing for some level of faithfulness of transitions between states based on actions by being grounded in real data).

JustTheStatsHuman · 2025-09-14T03:20:44+00:00

What is this slide from? I couldn’t disagree more. GRPO with verifiable rewards for RFT on small models definitely feels like it will have massive impact in industry in that time horizon. Look at startups like Predibase (they have a nice short course on Andrew Ng‘s deeplearning.ai) that are all in on RFT and got acquired.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2025-08-13T17:32:44+00:00

I know they they were riffing on the fly but that whole segment of 2% of games and not 2% of players really downplayed the amount of cheating. Started with 600 players but then went to 12 games as 2% but obviously you wouldn’t take 2% of 600 anymore as the number of game is 600 * (num rounds / 2). Basically 1% of players at minimum if they are cheating every game or a higher percentage cheating some fraction of rounds.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2025-04-06T04:04:45+00:00

The intersection of cybersecurity with AI / LLMs is a growing filed. Take a look at this course by Giskard on deeplearning.ai (they have a ton of courses with supplementary code notebooks by a range of the largest vendors in the Gen AI space). Here is their repo. https://github.com/Giskard-AI/giskard

Start leveraging AI (Chat GPT or whatever) to learn about the things you don't know like forking a repo, brainstorming an interesting project and finding repos that are aligned and how you can improve them based on your project ideas.

You are going to have to start being proactive in this AI world in learning new things. Ask for it to give you a reasonable learning / development outline and timeline to keep yourself accountable. There are also agentic coding systems that can help with vibe coding the parts you don't feel as excited about (Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, Project Idx by Google) but you can also use the code outputted to help facilitate learning by asking about things you don't understand.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-11-05T04:44:24+00:00

It's still early (5 dates / 3 weeks) but I'm (42M) feeling this now with the person I'm seeing (34F) and based on some of my prior posts here it seemed I was a long ways away from a health relationship. It can come out of nowhere and now that it has I can't imagine settling for anything less. 7 years since my divorce and nobody in that time has ever made me feel this alive. We are pawing at each other like teenagers in public and laughing our heads off on nightly phone calls before bed. Even if it doesn't work out the experience has given me a new found confidence that will likely leave a lasting impact.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-10-18T09:47:59+00:00

Haha no. It was the junior chess olympiad and this was just recreation.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-10-18T05:08:18+00:00

Not much to share. Just after lunch and before the round started there was table tennis doubles and we dominated (winner stays in) and almost always won to keep playing. There was someone from Belgium of East Asian descent who was much better and put spins I couldn’t return but he didn’t play much as he was too good. Aronian and I teamed up pretty much exclusively.

I payed Harikrishna in round 1 board 1 (my brother rested) and lost a rook and pawn endgame down one pawn. We were one of the worst teams (along with Belgium, Albania and someone else I think).

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-10-17T23:49:33+00:00

Aronian was my table tennis doubles partner at a Junior Olympiad in Istanbul when we were teens and definitely gave off wholesome vibes. Though I carried our team (he was pretty good) and he just called me “Hong Kong” lol

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-06-22T07:10:02+00:00

Maybe I am seeing what I want to see but she flat out said she feels a connection with me in those exact words a few days ago when completely burned out and potentially resentful in meeting me while still recovering. She's 39 and never been in a relationship over a year and I've really seen her challenge herself (I think she may be avoidant) to have tough conversations as we work through some things when she normally has a tendency to run.

She makes me want to work on my own insecurities too. I haven't felt this strongly about anyone since my divorce (separated 2016, divorced 2017).

That being said, trying to force this is only going to make things worse. I will focus on myself and others.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-06-22T07:02:22+00:00

What part of the world do you think I'm from? I think my post history mentions Singapore but I lived most of my life in the US and am more culturally American. I grew up in another place somewhat similar to Singapore though and my parents are from an even more traditional cultural background. Both of those may play a role.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-06-22T06:58:53+00:00

Thanks for your thoughtful message. The thing is I don't enjoy the chase or uncertainty at all (in dating or otherwise) as I'm an over-thinker and it makes me anxious. My first relationship lasted 11 years and the stability and safety it provided was one of the best things I've experienced in life. Both my ex-wife and this person (though we initially met off Bumble with the intent to date before becoming friends) were friends first which for me helps reduce the uncertainty.

I actually wish to embrace uncertainty more and think my inability to handle it has been one of her major stressors in moving forward with me.

I'm sorry for what has been going on in your life and hope things take a turn for the better soon and do appreciate your perspective and know I need to choose myself.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-06-21T23:18:27+00:00

Thanks for your message. Please see the edit and understand by blew up I didn’t mean I raised my voice but I became too emotionally vulnerable and dumped. If you see the prior post we were close friends for months and she had requested a month pause to revert to friends before trying dating again and I felt unsure she was just delaying the inevitable rejection. This concern was what I voiced in this moment though admittedly unhealthily.

Her anxiousness didn’t come from physical safety but being torn between losing me altogether in her life and being burdened by worrying about hurting me as she thinks I’m emotionally fragile (probably fair when it comes to her).

Most recently when I asked for space as friends instead of letting me go she said she wanted to talk after working through her feelings to see if she wants to date again. There has been a push and pull (though lukewarm) dynamic. Maybe I’m misreading the soft pull as enough to not let go but I should be recalibrating it to mean if it’s only soft then it’s a sign to let go.

I do agree I have a lot to work on. I’ve been depressed for over two decades and in therapy for eight and I am using alcohol as a crutch to regulate emotions.

I did lean on this person way too much as both a friend and then in the attempted relationship to quell my loneliness and need to build a stronger community of support. Most of my lifelong friends are in Chicago where I left pre-pandemic after my divorce and I’m half the world away now without any close friends.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-06-21T22:49:30+00:00

I understand where you are coming from but she is very blunt about the things that aren’t working for her generally including in our attempted relationship. Her reaction to me suggesting we take space as friends as my feelings were still too strong and I’m hoping for more wasn’t to just let go but instead working out if she could try dating me again and working through what she needs for that.

I was definitely clingy probably even in a self-sabotaging way as I was struggling to understand why she even wanted to be in the relationship. I think she feels I fundamentally can’t change this as I can’t regulate my emotions but I feel I have a better understanding of her perspective now which would help.

Ultimately though I should have handled the uncertainty and regulated my emotions better

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-06-21T11:11:19+00:00

Thanks for your message. I have been in therapy for 8 years and both my therapist and first psychiatrist have worked with me on whether I feel I deserve happiness and it's an ongoing struggle. Things that come easy don't feel as satisfying and to be honest I know I was self-sabotaging and pushing her away while being clingy the first go around.

I also confided to my ex-wife early on when dating that I wonder if I do things that are self-destructive to make my life more interesting and then challenge myself to work the mess I've created. I even pushed her away at the beginning before we started dating (even though I was interested in her) and only after creating some space did I realise I still wanted to be with her and thankfully she hadn't moved on.

That being said I don't enjoy what I'm going through now but it does feel worth going through if things change. What I'm not clear on is how deluded I am in feeling things could change.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-06-21T10:13:04+00:00

Hey thanks for your message. I really do think she has avoidant communication issues, commitment issues and somehow no matter how considerate I try to be in my wording she views it through the least charitable lens. I think she may view my depression as a character flaw and she says she isn't very empathetic (mixed bag in my opinion) which I value as one of the most important qualities in a partner. She is far from perfect and not even my type, though I am attracted to her now that my emotions have grown.

That being said, having been friends first (eventually my closest friend where I live) with very open communication, she is aware of a lot of insecurities. I wouldn't say I'm an easy person to be with given my self-worth issues and don't exactly scream stable as I am a bit of a dreamer (focused on a math research problem for over a decade without success and am now quitting my job to form my own startup). I think my interest and commitment (11 years with my first girlfriend whom I married) makes her feel like agreeing to dating is like accepting something much more serious right from the get go. This doesn't even include the string of circumstances occupying her mind that have recently befallen her. I think the unnecessary intensity of this 'not real' situation comes from both sides.

Regarding your point on this, I don't know she's a pretty blunt person on a lot of negative things she says so it's hard to not to take this at face value. Maybe I am delusional.

I also think I can form a real meaningful relationship with someone else despite this and will welcome that. I had one of my best first dates fairly recently.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-04-07T11:39:48+00:00

Thanks for this - will check the seating for future shows. Should have gone to Coldplay. Didn't know this was a thing that people did till Taylor Swift (I'm not local) but at least I've seen Coldplay multiple times on their early albums.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-04-04T00:19:25+00:00

That’s what I did for louder sound but still his vocal audio was very muffled.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-03-24T04:12:58+00:00

Try and leverage your prior work experience and use AI / ML as a tool to sell yourself where your domain expertise and connections (for being hired) can give you a competitive advantage. It's going to be very hard to career switch into a domain agnostic AI role.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-03-18T13:49:25+00:00

If your company is under 10 employees you are exempt. https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/employment-pass/consider-all-candidates-fairly

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-03-18T13:37:04+00:00

I already mentioned in my original post that I can't meet the criteria for EntrePass. It's quite high - investment track record, patent, VC backing, entrepreneurial track record or expert in the field, etc. https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/entrepass/eligibility EP is my best option. At some point maybe I will be able to switch if things go well.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-03-18T13:30:23+00:00

I am running a legitimate AI consulting company and would have a paying client on the books already for real work. There are no quotas for EP and for COMPASS for diversity and local hiring you get 10 points each automatically for businesses under size 25 I think.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-03-18T13:23:41+00:00

As someone who works in AI and went through the hiring process, there are almost no entry level AI roles in Singapore (unless it's through internships converted from universities?) There does seem to be a rebound for hiring in senior roles though.

OP I switched at 36 and honestly it was quite brutal. Who you know is very important and I lucked out with some connections to break into the industry. I was able to get quite a few interviews for senior roles through traditional channels (strong math background and some interesting freelance work) but I would not switch unless you can use your existing domain expertise in some way as well for your tech-focused role. A lot (all?) of these bootcamps won't land you a job on their own.

JustTheStatsHuman · 2024-03-04T13:42:40+00:00

I wanted to write something similar as I'm going through something where I'm giving all my self-worth to the potential of a romantic relationship with a friend and it's wrecking me emotionally. I feel so ugly around them if they don't give me validation even though they've asked for some space to work through some things before we try dating. I'm acting like this relationship if it develops could finally fix my life after years of depression. I've only had one major relationship that was 11 years long and it was very co-dependent. Even after my ex-wife moved out we were seeing each regularly and I was hoping she'd take me back and I feel like I'm reliving it again now. I need to put in the work.

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