Query Network gets a name

Buried in a job-hunt update, a milestone for the diary’s oldest research thread: the foveated-vision idea, “quería hacer una IA que mirara como unos ojos”, parked in seed 53-1 because it wouldn’t pay rent, now has a name, Query Network ▸ 17:30, and a one-sentence thesis fit for a pitch: an AI that doesn’t read every pixel of an image or every frame of a video, but recognizes things through partial observations, inspired by the human eye’s saccades ▸ 17:44.

The occasion: while trawling LinkedIn for venture roles, a Shenzhen contest for disruptive-technology startups surfaced, and Gemini’s ruling was pragmatic, it’s not a job, but nothing stops you applying ▸ 17:02. So the application machinery spins up: the idea elaborated early this year gets a pitch deck (Julia, half done, building it entirely on Canva mobile while her laptop waits for a charger) and an action plan, what the money would actually fund ▸ 18:20.

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Note what the fundraising pipeline from entry 71-2 has become in practice: Picky pitched to EWOR, the self pitched to Singapore, and now the research pitched to Shenzhen, each shelved asset matched to whichever window happens to open, each deck reusable for the next window. The interesting problem that “wasn’t going to make money for now” didn’t die in the drawer. It waited there for a door, and the palace, as today’s aphorism has it, turns out to have a thousand…