Loving all the new apps to show me when I need to get to the airport.
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https://sarama.app
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The current app is being rebuilt as it sucks and the device is under active development.
We've gotten the following to work:
1. Emotion detection with barks
2. Cough detection (Kennel Cough specifically)
3. Identifying a dog from their bark
4. Video analysis of dog behavior
5. Identifying key parts in dog vocalizations (similar to phonemes in people)
6. Some basic intent detection (or what people call translation)
If anyone is good at μpython + TFLite and can help us transferring our models on device that'd be awesome. Currently our set up is super hacky.
Fullstack Hardware Engineer: Build smart collar hardware stack - PCBs, 3D printing, battery-efficient firmware. We have prototypes; need you to own hardware so we focus on distribution. Need: consumer product experience, 3D printing, firmware skills. Mostly C.
Canine Language Specialist: Ground AI models in real dog behavior. Design training protocols, collect data, teach dogs structured communication (buttons/vocals). Need: dog cognition experience, AAC systems, scientific mindset. Company: Decoding dog communication via smart collars using audio/motion/behavior data to understand what dogs are saying.
Apply: Email work samples, subject "{Dog's name} says {something}," explain what interspecies communication means to you.
Company: We’re building smart collars and devices to decode dog communication—using audio, motion, and behavior data. Our goal is to understand what our dogs are trying to say and rethink the worlds of training, healthcare, and companionship as we uncover their language. We've trained models for dog vocalizations and movement patterns, and now we’re integrating behavior and intent.
Role: You’ll work closely with our engineering team to help ground our models in real-world behavior. From structured training sessions to experimental communication techniques (e.g. dog buttons, symbolic vocalization training), your work will directly shape how our devices interpret canine communication. You'll guide the design of training protocols, data collection, and help teach dogs how to speak using structured methods.
You:
+ Experience in dog cognition, vocalization, and training techniques.
+ Familiar with AAC devices or button-based communication systems.
+ Scientific mindset with hands-on experience.
+ Passionate about language and cross-species understanding.
+ Must have a dog (ideally one you’ve trained using vocal cues or buttons)
Apply: Send us an email with a video or write-up of your past work (bonus if it includes your dog using buttons or vocal cues) to hello@sarama.ai with subject: “{Your dog’s name} wants {something they want}.” In the body, tell us what interspecies communication means to you.
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If you refer someone to us, tell them to let us know and we'll send you a gift! (we aren't able to give a cash bonus just yet soon though)
Company: We’re building smart collars and other devices to translate dogs into our language—using audio and motion data. We want to know what our dogs want and are on a mission to rethink the entire healthcare & training industries as we better understand them. We are mostly software people and have built our own models for dogs (soon expanding to my new cats).
Role: Hardware, firmware, and software. Moving fast will be a mix of LLM, research, hacks, and rapidly typing. Build fast, no hand-holding. First product’s a warm-up. After that, it gets real.
You: Full-stack in the real sense (hardware + firmware + software) Fast, independent, opinionated Move fast, care deeply Must have a dog Culture: Obsessed with dogs. We’re building the interface for interspecies communication. Not just “pet people”— we believe dogs are family members fully including legally (we can discuss the changes in law on our call).
Apply: Send us an email with your portfolio (or something similar) with a picture of you and your dog to hello@sarama.ai with subject “{Your dog’s name} likes {something they like}” and in the body include what this tech means to you.
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Sarama | Cultural Savant | Remote | Full Time | Must have a dog | https://www.sarama.ai
Company: We’re building smart collars and other devices to translate dogs into our language—using audio and motion data. We want to know what our dogs want and are on a mission to rethink the entire healthcare & training industries as we better understand them. We are mostly software people and have built our own models for dogs (soon expanding to my new cats).
Role: This isn’t just marketing or vibes. You’ll shape product, brand, and behavior. You know how culture moves before it moves. You understand what dogs mean to us now—and what they could mean next.
You: Fluent in design, language, and social undercurrents Can shape narrative, product positioning, and human-dog interaction Unafraid to challenge Bernays view of the world Must have a dog. You live this. Culture: Obsessed with dogs. We’re building the interface for interspecies communication. Not just “pet people”— we believe dogs are family members fully including legally (we can discuss the changes in law on our call).
Apply: Send us an email with your portfolio (or something similar) with a picture of you and your dog to hello@sarama.ai with subject “{Your dog’s name} likes {something they like}” and in the body include how you see culture adapting.
Source: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/models-compatible-wit...
Sarama is the simplest way to implement multi-modal ML models in mobile apps, we're working with companies from pre-launch to unicorn businesses.
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Email any questions: praful@sarama.ai
Reference:
1. https://www.laika.berlin/en/blog/new-client-barkgpt-ai-dog-b...
1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-record-... 2. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1132951238/what-sound-does-a-...
A few things we observed: 1. Dogs are more communicative once they believe you are correctly responsive to their vocalizations 2. Their barks are more differentiated over time and they start to introduce new types of vocalizations or sequences of vocalizations 3. Dogs don't have a structured vocal language as it starts of slightly differentiated and mostly to get people's attention
This isn't true for other animals (based on our reading of academic papers) and a commonality we've seen in the papers: as animals have more individuals they interact with across their life especially not directly related, their vocalizations are more structured. Within family units they tend to rely more on touch, body language, and some intermittent vocalizations. Though marine mammals are very vocal given they operate within acoustic environments in the ocean and it gets dark around 100m - 200m.
Basically, as number of sustained individuals in a group goes up and the number of non-related individuals increases, vocalizations get more diverse. We see cows, pigs, goats, and other herd animals are also very vocal which is how scientists have been decoding their speech recently similar to prairie dogs.
Much of what I've written here is a super simplification but happy to get deeper into the weeds.
Sarama | Bioacoustics Engineer | REMOTE (anywhere)
We're developing a vocal language between dogs & people using ML to analyze barks to decipher which ones convey meaning. We've spent the last few years understanding how to iterate on interspecies communication. We're looking for someone who deeply understands audio data and a huge plus if you've done work with non-human audio datasets.
Working on a new app design and new features to improve adding barks to our corpus.
praful@sarama.app
We're publicly launching our app with our new design.
praful@sarama.app
We're developing a vocal language between dogs & people using ML to analyze barks to decipher which ones convey meaning. We've spent the last few years understanding how to iterate on interspecies communication. We're looking for someone who deeply understands audio data and a huge plus if you've done work with non-human audio datasets.
Our website is still being developed but we have users actively using our alpha product and are rapidly iterating on our beta release.
praful@sarama.xyz
We basically just talk about orcas and how we can decode their language moving towards bidirectional comm.
Also we verify very similarly to you: https://badge.orangedao.xyz/
I'm developing software to autogenerate lyric music videos with alignment models. Currently we're using Kaldi under the hood and need some help on training new Kaldi models especially with sung english words. Additionally, we have on-going work afterward for multi-lingual and many-language support in the same song. The first project is to develop a relationship and then work on bigger milestones.
Email: praful@aionthebeach.com with subject: "Kaldi Project Freelance Work"
it's been 3 months since that clinic and many people here are still hesitant to get vaccinated
these issues remain because few people understand how deep distrust runs especially in Oakland where people have seen the massive destruction caused by government agencies
Also on the Monday before the FEMA agents were telling me they had less people than vaccines, Tuesday they barely covered the people with vaccines, and Wednesday (when I got it) onwards they had slightly more demand when they asked people to tell their friends.
It's up to governments to enforce rules around their clinics instead of moral crusaders that live across the country with no on-the-ground experience to tweet an internal post to generate outrage.
Here are articles around why there was so few people getting vaccinated in our area and why FEMA requested us ask our friends to show up.
"COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in the United States: A Rapid National Assessment " - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7778842/
"Addressing Justified Vaccine Hesitancy in the Black Community " - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009077/
None of you know any of the internal details but what I can state is that Paul has no idea what he's talking about and later admits to the fact I wasn't lying.
Here's the order of events:
1. I went to a neighborhood clinic in Oakland, CA that's literally next door to my house, I can see the church from my window. Paul lives in NYC which is on the opposite end of the country.
2. I asked them about eligibility and told them I don't clear CA guidelines. They told me it's first come, first served with an ID showing I am 18+.
3. I showed up the next day, waited in line for 4 hours then got jabbed.
4. Posted it in an internal forum for other founders.
5. A few people had issues so raised them which I addressed but YC still took down the post within the day.
6. I appealed but YC still held their decision as final.
Outcome: YC founder came with his aunt, uncle, and mom all over 65 to get jabbed who didn't know about the vaccine site.
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Paul ends up tweeting about it and making a huge deal around something he has no idea about. He gets a bunch of people on Twitter upset about something they don't know about.
Outcome: Internet rage.
React/Javascript Engineer: https://angel.co/comfreight/jobs/375971-react-javascript-eng...
Comfreight is the fastest growing logistics fintech company. We help truckers pay day-to-day expenses through our digital factoring software. To help us accomplish our mission we have the best investors in Silicon Valley led by Initialized Capital.
You’ll be joining a small engineering team focused on the front-end and mobile experience. Our technology is responsible for processing millions of dollars of transactions per month. We have a large project we need to deploy before the end of summer and each of us is responsible for our piece from implementation to user support. You'll be involved with architecture, testing, and deployment as well as communicating the feature to our non-tech staff & helping our customers with support. We like people aspiring to be technical leaders.
We care about: your ability to communicate, your ability to think clearly about hard problems, your ability to prioritize & manage ambiguity, and how deeply you care about the details & your taste.
Tech Stack for UI: ReactJS & React Native Tech Stack for Backend: Python
Contact: praful@comfreight.com