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Using a BCI with LLM for enabling ALS patients to speak again with family(thevccorner.substack.com)
61 points by vasco_ 2y ago|23 comments
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by vasco_ 2y ago
Halo, developed by Unbabel, combines a non invasive BCI with an LLM to enable ALS patients to regain the ability to talk with loved ones. The search for a CEO is on.
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Unbabel (YC W14) Is Hiring Alliances, Marketing and CS for our SF Office
1 points by vasco_ 8y ago
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The need for speed – optimizing Dockerfiles at Unbabel(medium.com)
1 points by vasco_ 9y ago|0 comments
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Unbabel (YC W14) is hiring in our Lisbon office(unbabel.workable.com)
1 points by vasco_ 10y ago
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Unbabel (YC W14) is hiring a dev-ops engineer(unbabel.workable.com)
1 points by vasco_ 10y ago
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Unbabel (YC W14) hiring front end dev to create world's best editing interface(unbabel.workable.com)
1 points by vasco_ 10y ago
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Unbabel (YC W14) is hiring a full-stack web developer in Lisbon(unbabel.workable.com)
1 points by vasco_ 10y ago
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Artificial intelligence and language(techcrunch.com)
13 points by vasco_ 11y ago|0 comments
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Unbabel (YC W14) AI Puts Google Translate to Shame(geektime.com)
20 points by vasco_ 11y ago|0 comments
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by vasco_ 11y ago
Hi, this is Vasco, I am Unbabel's CEO. We have a margin, of course, that depends on several factors.
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Translation Startup Unbabel (YC W14) Unveils New Smartcheck Technology(techcrunch.com)
24 points by vasco_ 11y ago|2 comments
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by vasco_ 12y ago
Thanks, it certainly did help beyond YC. The YC network is fantastic and I have to say the in general the YC brand open many doors. Both with customers, investors and recruiting. I don't know if you are also doing a startup, but if so,
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by vasco_ 12y ago
In our batch there were at least three teams with founders that had kids. I think that what you mean that is that doing a startup in general is biased against people with kids/families. I agree, but that is mostly because living on a s
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by vasco_ 12y ago
Doing a startup when you have kids is (almost) always harder. YC actually makes it easier. Since you are more likely to get funding, you can actually pay yourself at least enough that you don't have to worry if you will be able to make
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by vasco_ 12y ago
I disagree. I have 4 kids, I have been married for 15 and my co-founder had a 3 months old when we did YC. And we are from Portugal, so we were away from our families when we went through YC. It was hard and it required sacrifice, but it wa
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by vasco_ 12y ago
Having lived in Pittsburgh for 10 years, I can say that I miss a lot about that City. I miss the seasons, the people and the landscape, and in Pittsburgh, there are a lot of great technology companies. Nothing compared to SF, of course, but
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Mark Zuckerberg Chinese Interview Translated to English(medium.com)
8 points by vasco_ 12y ago|1 comments
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by vasco_ 12y ago
Vasco Pedro, CEO and Co-founder of Unbabel. I feel that while it is very important to have honest discussions regarding employee expectations, in this particular case Andreas is being particularly disingenuous and stating facts that are pla
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by vasco_ 12y ago
The claims are most certainly not true. Regarding the code and team we have an mazing team and our code is pretty good, especially since going through YCombinator we have grown at a tremendous rate which sometimes forces us to cut some corn
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by vasco_ 12y ago
For the record I am a co-founder and CEO of Unbabel. I feel that I should respond to these allegations. 1 - The contract we had with Andreas was full time employee contract. The first three months were "at will" which means that e
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Unbabel (YC W14) is looking for a junior developer in Portugal(careers.stackoverflow.com)
1 points by vasco_ 12y ago
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Unbabel (YC W14) is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer for its Portugal Office(unbabel.com)
1 points by vasco_ 12y ago
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by vasco_ 12y ago
Yes, there are companies in the batch that decide to remain in stealth a bit longer. Until they are ready to shine.
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Unbabel (YC W14) Launches A Human-Edited Machine Translation Service(techcrunch.com)
45 points by vasco_ 12y ago|12 comments
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by vasco_ 13y ago
hmm.. interesting, what do you mean?
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Show HN: Translate your content directly from Google Drive with the Unbabel API(blog.unbabel.com)
12 points by vasco_ 13y ago|7 comments
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by vasco_ 13y ago
Gengo is catering to the professional translator. Each job is done by one person, with the possibility of review (costs extra). Unbabel is crowd translation, this means that multiple people work on the translation. Regarding QA, only the to
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by vasco_ 13y ago
Thanks! We hope so too :)
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by vasco_ 13y ago
Certainly. Right now you can use the order form and get your blog translated, but soon we will have more seamless integrations. Ideas welcomed.

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