Aaron Parecki

Instead of whining about defund the police, cops could make all the money they would ever need by just standing near a crosswalk and ticketing every driver that fails to yeild.

Just had an idea for supporting open source projects that your company uses: invite a maintainer to give a paid hour-long talk to your engineers (over Zoom), and pay them over-the-odds for doing so

Zillow’s home buying business lost them $500,000,000, 25% of their stock value, and 25% of their workforce.

How did this happen to a company with so much data on housing prices?

Bad model evaluation.

Here’s the fatal error they made that you must avoid when deploying models🧵

The first 30 seconds starts with the first 10 seconds called the hook. You have 10 seconds to make a first impression, 10 more seconds to communicate some kind of value or interests, and another 10 to give them a reason to watch till they end for a pay off for watching.

Wordle is fundamentally a game about executing an algorithm. If you find yourself regularly scoring five or six, The problem isn’t Wordle - it’s your strategy.

There are plenty of videos out there showing you which first guesses yield high levels of data. I use SALET then CRONY