We are not thinking big enough.
Should have been a helmet at this point
John Dagdelen
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John Dagdelen
@jmdagdelen
Founder of Fluid. Prev. language models for science, PhD in Materials Science + ML from UC Berkeley
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2017
- Replying to @thechosenbergMore interestingly, they bought it for $5000 from a photographer who said he had the rights and had it on his Flickr. Turns out he never got a valid release form.
- Last summer I did an internship at Google Brain. As someone that came to do machine learning from a non-CS background, I found the experience extremely illuminating as a developing researcher. Here’s some of the top things I learned:
- This is Project Beyondex, My mod for the Bigscreen Beyond + Valve Index audio strap. super light and comfortable high-resolution incredible off-ear soundscape Should I productionize this into a kit anyone can use to make their own?
- 3D rendering is getting extremely good. This simit and tea are not real. Credit: reddit.com/r/blender/comm…
- Here's a teaser of the spatial prod. app we're developing at @fdotinc 🫡 This is me in the app, coding in VSCode and chatting in Discord. * Runs locally (no laptop required!) * Infinite screens anywhere * Ready to use today on Meta Quest Reply for early access!
00:00 - I tried working on my dissertation for an hour in oculus home. Here's what my setup looks like and some feedback I have for @ID_AA_Carmack, @boztank, and @Jason_Rubin.
00:00 - I spent the last 6 weeks creating the ultimate VR gaming headset. It combines the legendary off-ear audio of the Valve Index with the world’s lightest high-resolution HMD, the Bigscreen Beyond. Now I’m making it into a kit that anyone can install on their Beyond. Thanks to
- Replying to @jmdagdelen5. Finally, my experience showed me that the “lone genius researcher” is a anti-pattern. Teams of smart, helpful people with shared vision can achieve unbelievable things very quickly.
- Want to super-charge your LLM AI agents with the power of knowledge?!? Announcing HyperDB: a blazing-fast semantic search vector database for use with LLM Agents. github.com/jdagdelen/hype… Retweet this and I'll give you early access via DM. Now accepting SAFEs at a $35M cap.
- Anyone want to make a headset? You can buy micro-OLED pancake lens assemblies now.
- Just raised a $1M seed round. Thought it would be fun to take it out as cash for a picture.
