Nicholas Sadd

Software Engineer - Former Bucknell Baseball Player - Tinkerer

[Bucknell Athletics @Bucknell_Bison]

We are thinking about @Bucknell_BB head coach Scott Heather during the Buckys as he earns the Coach of the Year Award for leading Bucknell Baseball to a regular season title! #rayBucknell

[Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh]

Tragically I am continuing to find that the most effective guardrail against slop is extremely talented engineers doing very thoughtful, human code review

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@GoogleColab has honestly been a nightmare trying to train anything on top of a YOLO model lately. It constantly crashes, timeouts, and has zero consistency. I've been spending way too much time debugging the env.

Where are you all training your @ultralytics yolo models?

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@drivelinekyle @GiuseppePaps Totally agree and if you go down the rabbit hole far enough you might get some unique insights.

[Robert Stock @RobertStock6]

Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first-year analytics intern. You just got finished reading some Sabermetric historian—Bill James, probably. You’re gonna be convinced of that ’til next month when you get to the latest Pitching+ update, and then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how SIERA is the only "true" measure of skill because it accounts for the complexity of the batted ball profile to CSW rates.

You have no thoughts of your own. You’re just looking at a movement plot and trying to sound smart. You’re gonna realize in a couple of years that you spent all that time calculating "Expected FIP" based on a "Skill-Interactive" ghost, when you could’ve just looked at the K/BB ratio and seen the whole picture.

The sad thing is, in about five years, you’re gonna realize you’re not that bright. You’re gonna be talkin’ about Skenes’ "Expected ERA" while the real experts are just looking at a box score and realizing that if a guy doesn't walk people and he misses bats, he's gonna be fine.

You dropped $100,000 on a Data Science degree to learn how to run a regression on a pitcher's "luck," when you could’ve gotten the same predictive value for five cents in late charges by looking at a K/BB leader board at the public library.

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@RobertStock6 @MaxSportsStudio This is interesting. That first graph makes me think FBs get called strikes more often. Are these all pitches or pitches that are outside the zone?

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

This is absolutely shameful. Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Absolutely reprehensible.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

If you don’t respect our trans peers, unfollow me and stop interacting with my community.

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@aarondfrancis Do you recommend either of those blockhouse books?

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

I don't think ICE should detain US citizens for days on end with no hearings, no contact with family or attorneys, and no explanations.

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@jpalioto @elder_plinius Going to give this a try

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@theo @levelsio I can feel the pain in this tweet.

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@0xhooved @__tinygrad__ Super cool

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@azajm1974 @drivelinekyle Once you get comfortable with R, don’t let switching languages scare you. It’s so much easier to learn a second programming language if you deeply understand one.

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@saml_dev Is it TRMNL? @ryanckulp lives in GA.

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@JackSchad @drivelinekyle And Spanish

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Nicholas Sadd @NicholasSadd]

@drivelinekyle That’s a good idea if you don’t need a lot of fancy frontend stuff. Interactive graphs might be a good exception. Idk

These components make you use React and tailwind for styling so it probably will not be a good fit. But I’ve found it a lot more practical than generic LLMs.