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a lady in the streets, a freak in the Excel spreadsheets | i got some big data so they call me big data scrr scrr | ceo @1st1stconsult

New York, NY
Joined April 2009
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ai has dramatically reduced the cost of expression but def hasn’t yet eliminated the scarcity of original insight. or at least access to it. everything that grows requires a good seed, that’s no different with technology.
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Claude in Chrome not closing a browser tab when it's done is the agentic equivalent of men not putting down the toilet seat.
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This season of Survivor has really made me reflect on what makes the 'New Era' so subpar: people like me. So yes, I do acknowledge the irony of an analysis complaining about there being too many Data Analysts on Survivor.
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Devon Zdatny retweeted
2025: the year of the stimmy ‼️🚨 Last year I predicted we’d see a return to “80s cocaine induced opulence” Americans waking up from years of post pandemic slumber (particularly GenZ) In 2025 people are drinking coffee buckets, white Monster lattes, nicotine energy drink is a reality and the internet is going crazy over adrafinil drinks.
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Excuse me... TWENTY THREE percent of Wikipedia's referral traffic is from LLMs?
How much referral traffic are LLMs actually driving now? I looked at % of traffic coming from AI platforms to top 100 U.S. websites (thanks, @Similarweb!) TL;DR - it's still <5% of referral traffic for most sites, putting it at <1% of total traffic.
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Someone. Please. Help. Over the past month I've been getting ~5 emails a day to my work email from universities encouraging me to apply. I most definitely did not sign up for anything remotely related to this. And I'm fairly confident Harvard wants nothing to do with me.
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I actually don't think I've ever typed the letters MBA before...? I barely went to class when I did my undergrad. I think if you offered me $1M I wouldn't even do one more year of college. Is that dramatic?
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I feel like @AGoldmund has better things to do than declutter my inbox but I'm fairly certain that he is the only person on earth that could make this stop...
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I used gen AI to develop + visualize 10 lifestyle predictions for 2025. In the process of coming up with my own predictions for the year ahead I always seek as much inspo as possible. TBD if I agree with these, but it felt like a fun way to get the juices flowing. Here's the process and result 👇
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#10: The Rise of Micro-Libraries A "take-a-book, leave-a-book" movement overtakes cities as people install adorable personal libraries in their homes and communities.
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My main takeaway from this experience is that ChatGPT is substantially more optimistic about how far we'll be able to progress within one year and that Midjourney loves sticking naked people where they don't belong.
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