Mani Mohan

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Interesting feature on Dia - custom skills. You can create your own and run it on the chat window when the website is up. I first tried it on LinkedIn to summarize all the AI slop - but it works on FC too.

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Gemini Diffusion is insane fast. It’s not very robust yet, but this shift to diffusion architecture is exciting - looking forward to API release. I wonder if they will pivot to the diffusion models for the v3 flash. fun test: get your feed from neynar and play with it.

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Throwback to Microsoft Longhorn launch

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Built something useful this week: a morning personalized newsletter for both me and the wife. - provides weather, individual portfolio snapshot - latest news in our individual company/sector - day care lunch menu detection (google drive integration - detects PDF file to parse based on date and finds the lunch menu for that day from the PDF) - ai summary of the day based on calendar (ours + daycare calendar) - whoop data integration (sleep/recovery/strain from previous day) - provides a window for 30 mins workout (based on calendar + toddler duties and all the above data) Runs as a cron job on a local machine, using gemini for all the AI part. the goal was to auto-detect my daughter's lunch menu and send it as email. Just built on top of it. Happy progress.

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Past week caster rewards insights: Avg Neynar score = 0.87, median = 0.95. Full data and plots here - feel free to play with it. https://observablehq.com/d/8295f460e9adebc1

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Update on this: Tried imagen4 using whisk (labs) and the results were drastically better. Well formatted text with proper padding, better color choices, much faster for iterating. It did create duplicate texts and missed some items in the image, but iterating was easier with better speed.

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4o image generation consistently fails on text-heavy infographics: typos, poor padding, bizarre color choices despite exhaustive prompting. Even had GPT review image + regenerate prompts. Anyone tried Imagen 4 for this use case? Looking for alternatives that actually handle typography and layout properly.

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Closing the loop. This is the last 1500 transactions (did NOT slice it from the 10001th acct who signed up). FIDs > 1.09M (Newer accounts): 47 (3.1%) FIDs ≤ 1.09M (Older accounts): 1,453 (96.9%) 0 followers: 30 (2.0%) 1-10 followers: 128 (8.5%) 100-1K followers: 551 (36.7%) 1K-10K followers: 400 (26.7%) 10K+ followers: 41 (2.7%) Average Neynar Score roughly about the same. Github repos updated - for anyone interested.

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Last night, I began analyzing the Farcaster Pro data (basescan API + Neynar to retrieve user information using the wallet address). Found some interesting insights. I will write about a few, and attach the GitHub repos for anyone who wants to analyze them further. This is the data for the first 24h.

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I never knew Google Apps Script existed. I used to check my personal, daycare, and work calendars manually — because AI assistants and Google Home only see the default calendar. I was never getting the full picture of my week. Today, I wrote a simple script that merges everything I care about into my default calendar. Now, Claude can give me a complete weekly view. Not sure if this is something everyone already does 👀 ... But if you’ve been juggling calendars manually like I was — this is probably helpful.

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🚶🥾 beautiful redwoods. The Forest of Nisene Marks.

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alright Claude, let's cook.

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Perplexity Sonar API demo night. Was a fun event and it was surprising to see many folks using sonar. Gonna give it a try and see how it compares.

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Hello humans 👋

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Just listened to @elad on the TKP podcast. A wonderful episode about the state of AI, work culture, leadership etc.. I hope we are able to bring him back to FC. @dwr.eth @ted

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Nice track to run at Campbell community center. 🏃🏃

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How does one find joy in a cycle of loss? Justice should end pain, not fuel pride.

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https://paragraph.com/@mani/la Life update: moved from LA to SF bay area.

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Now you can read what @dwr.eth is posting, while listening to your daily tech briefing. Launch GitInformed, go to briefing, scroll down and play the briefing. Minimize the mini app and continue using your FC client.

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I’m experimenting with various TTS models. Google Cloud Platform’s TTS chirp HD is free for the first million tokens, but the quality is poor, even with a very optimized text. On the other hand, GPT-4o-mini-tts produces exceptional results. It delivers consistent output for the same text. I’m curious about the absence of an official Gemini TTS. Google Cloud Platform’s chirp HD is a couple of years old. While ElevenLabs undoubtedly offers the best TTS, I’m hesitant to subscribe to another service for this specific use case. If you use a TTS model, what are you using currently? Looking for the cheapest option that gives a decent output.

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A Farcaster Mini App by mani

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GitInformed - Farcaster Mini Apps

GitInformed - Farcaster Mini Apps

A Farcaster Mini App by mani

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