Severin Hacker @severinhacker
@duolingo co-founder and CTO. 🇨🇭 New York, NY Joined March 2009-
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In 2018, we had just over 100 employees, and were looking to recruit more tech talent. I came up with this idea for a billboard, which we put up along one of the main highways in San Francisco. Now, we have a world-class marketing team that handles these types of campaigns (they…
I'm looking for an Engineering Director to join us in our PGH or NYC office: boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/… boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/…
In both skiing/snowboarding and football (soccer) the American (vs European) skill bell curve is one std to the left but the self confidence distribution is the same.
Q4 2023 @duolingo financial results are in! We had another amazing quarter: - 26.9M daily active users (+65% YoY) - Revenue of $151.0M (+45% YoY) - $35.2M of Adjusted EBITDA (23.3% margin) Read more in my shareholder letter: investors.duolingo.com/static-files/0…
UPDATE: Utilizing learnings from the previous 4 years of flight testing, our Midnight aircraft recently finished phase 1 of its flight test program in ~3 months. This is significantly faster than @ArcherAviation's full-scale prototype aircraft, Maker, and is an example of how our…
Everyone wants the “Duolingo social playbook” but no one is willing to threaten to kill their users
Everyone wants the “Duolingo social playbook” but no one is willing to threaten to kill their users
Duolingo @duolingo
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159K Followers 123 Following CEO & co-founder of @duolingo. Invented reCAPTCHA. MacArthur Fellow. Former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. Proud Guatemalan. @LvA_Foundation.François Chollet @fchollet
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9K Followers 1K Following Director, Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom. Views are my own, especially on #grilling, #BBQ, or the #Hoyas! Author, "The Fractured Schoolhouse"It's time to start the European version of e/acc: 🇪🇺 eu/acc "Innovate, don't regulate" As a counter to the now rampant degrowth anti-tech anti-capitalist mind virus that's taken over most Europeans in 2024
The most concerning part about this is that most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has now become Europeans are literally blue-pilled and are mostly concerned with climate change, immigration and the Ukraine war Nobody in Europe is thinking why increasingly everything…
The biggest mistake Democrats have made is supporting @POTUS Biden for a second term. By supporting Biden, they have given him false confidence that he can win the race. As a result, he did not step aside and allow better and younger candidates to emerge. Now as polls…
This story went viral because it plays into popular German stereotypes about them being diligent sticklers for rules, but upon critical evaluation of reality on the ground Germany has been embroiled in a shocking number rule-bending, third world-level scandals such as Dieselgate,…
1/ HOW GERMANS GET HYPNOTIZED BY RULES A tendency of Germans and especially their bureaucrats is a fixation with enforcing rules to the exclusion of common sense and (in certain eras) basic humanity. Wait for the 2 stingers at the end of this insane tale. swr.de/swraktuell/bad…
As long as AI systems are trained to reproduce human-generated data (e.g. text) and have no search/planning/reasoning capability, performance will saturate below or around human level. Furthermore, the amount of trials needed to reach that level will be far larger than the…
Interesting how in all these domains AI is asymptoting at roughly human performance - where's the AI zooming past us to superintelligence that Kurzweil etc. predicted/feared?
The more inflated the language in your startup's pitch, the less convincing it seems. If you're a seed stage company, don't tell me you're transforming global this or poised to dominate that. Tell me you noticed something that might turn out to be an overlooked opportunity.
“Dune 2” is not just a film; it’s a cinematic marvel. You owe it to yourself to see it on an IMAX screen, preferably in 70 mm, to fully appreciate the magnitude of its visual spectacle. As it was endlessly sold out in New York, I took advantage of a brief trip to Miami to see it.…
If you’re so independent please do a TikTok explaining what happened at the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
Our response to the TikTok Ban Bill in the US: tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/…
We’ve tried Google’s famous “20% time” experiment to encourage innovation at @duolingo. It’s a cool idea, but it didn’t work. So here’s what we’ve tried instead: 🧵(1/6)
The more I use Llama 3 the more I think that Zuck may have just killed OpenAI and all other large proprietary AI vendors. The gap between latest GPT4 and Llama 70b is virtually non existent. Even if OpenAI releases GPT5 now, 400b Llama 3 is still training and will most likely be…
Germany, a rich country with poor people visualized. Germans prefer to rent instead of buying property, prefer savings accounts with negative real interests over equities and spend more than others on insurances due to the famous German angst. That’s the result.
Peter Thiel: Meaning is found in doing things that are important, that otherwise wouldn't get done. Do the work that only you can do.
Being good (in either sense) will bring you what seems like good luck, but isn't as random as it seems. People will talk about you behind your back, just as they do if you're bad, but instead of secretly harming you, they'll secretly help you.
@jordanhill11 Google has a free version - last I checked it would not integrate with Zoom, so was a non-starter for us. But, I supposed I could kill my Zoom and Calendly subscriptions in one shot and just use Google Appointments and Meet.
"Do it scared" was a lifesaver
does anyone have any useful sentences that will change my life immediately upon being read?
Do I wish I lived in a low-tax state? No. Fuck no. I’d rather live in states with abundant social services, voting rights, women’s rights, labor rights, environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights, plentiful public spaces, longer lifespans with a higher quality of life, diverse…
I’m 3 for 3 on heath goals this year. Jan: reduce caffeine. Did cold turkey for one month to feel the effect. From 3 coffees / day to decaf only. It was tough! Plan was not to stop forever and I’m now on 1 tea per day + decaf coffee ☕️ Feb: cross training. First time in my life…
@Jasielinvests You don't seem to grasp the distinction between having a limited vocabulary and choosing to write simply. From the midwit peak, all you see is lowlands surrounding you.