Newsletter #277 AI Developer Trends, Moneyballing Sports, Homelessness in Vermont
Announcements
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Thinking of watching The New World by Terrence Malick
Weekly Shoutout
Super thankful for all of the folks back in the Bay Area who I’m going to dearly miss until I come back to SF in January!
Food for Thought
“our developers shipped 79% of the auto-generated code reviews without any additional changes….We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work (yes, that number is crazy but, real).” — Andy Jassy CEO of Amazon
Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+
~2019 is when Rust overtook JavaScript as the most frequently referenced language on Hacker News
Arizona State over Berkley really surprised me, but shoutout to my alma mater Western Governors University being at the forefront of the AI revolution in higher education!!!
This graph is wild on so many levels….”hardware levels” ahahha
Crowd Pleasers
If I cared about sports, I’d def like Basketball
First, see if you can spot the pattern
Yep: 3-pointers are about to become more frequents than 2-pointers, which is a radical departure from the standard way we think about basketball
Arguably this is part of a broader impact data science has had on sports I.E. by helping athletes and coaches identify optimal strategies, the entire game becomes predictable as everyone converges towards a uniform equilibrium
Mind-Benders
Grateful to have a home, a family who loves me, and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with
California of course leads the country….but….
However, when you look at it per-capita, Vermont is actually doing much worse than California
