Nick Swekosky

Senior PM @LumenTechCo. Exploring data and deep learning

[John Potter 🌐🩸 e/acc @jjohnpotter]

What’s life like outside of the megaregions

I feel like I’ve lived a lot of places but turns out never outside of a megaregion

[Exec Sum @exec_sum]

BREAKING: Nvidia and PulteGroup are partnering with startup Span to install mini data centers on the walls of new homes

Each unit packs 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, 4 AMD EPYC CPUs, and 3TB of RAM - and taps unused home electrical capacity to run AI inference workloads

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Also don’t remember. But it’s been living rent free in my head ever since. Puts a very important truth that you intuit when building companies in a very accessible form.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.

Tough one.

Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

chinese models are ~8 months behind and are falling further behind

[Hampton Prescott @HamptonPrezcott]

A relic of a bygone era. Re-read Den of Thieves recently, and what struck me is that most of the guys running the merger departments at these major investment banks were in their late 30s/early 40s. People that age today are generally stalling out at the VP level.

[𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 @achester99]

Most NBA games with exactly _ assists:
0: Mark West 827
1: Robert Parish 543
2: Dirk Nowitzki 391
3: Karl Malone 362
4: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 276
5: Scottie Pippen 240
6: LeBron James 264
7: LeBron 272
8: LeBron 241
9: LeBron 200
10: Chris Paul 164
11: John Stockton 150

[Auren Hoffman @auren]

1/ Data businesses are generally misunderstood. DaaS has different metrics than SaaS.

While there has been a lot written about SaaS businesses (how they operate, what metrics to watch, etc.), there has been surprisingly little written about data businesses.

[Nick Swekosky @NickSwekosky]

@yrechtman So glad I don’t have to guard him

[Nick Swekosky @NickSwekosky]

This is true

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you skip some or all of college to start a startup, it's on you to develop your mind the way college would have. And that's not something that happens by default in most startups.

[Phil Jackson @PhilJackson11]

@TheNBABase 15 years I’ve been asking the NBA rules committee to widen the court apron. Corner shot b-comes 23.9”

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

According to Reporters Without Borders, Israel accounted for almost half of the world's journalist deaths this year. It says Israel has now been the deadliest country for journalists for three consecutive years.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts, per NYT.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, and the Trump family’s deals are expanding.

[Nick Swekosky @NickSwekosky]

This leads to people listening to games on the radio instead of streaming

[Eric Pratt @ByEricPratt]

My dad is 75 and lives in Iowa. He got the MLB Extra Innings package to watch the Tigers again this year - something he plans his whole day around.

Tonight, Detroit (664 miles from his house) hosted Milwaukee (360 miles from his house). Couldn't watch. Blacked out. (1/2)

[Nick Swekosky @NickSwekosky]

@signulll Stack Overflow

[Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @stavridisj]

Shame on us. I think of the brave Afghans that stood alongside us against the Taliban, especially those I worked with personally during my four years in command of the NATO mission there. It is incomprehensible to me that we would not bring them here to the United States, fulfilling the most fundamental obligations of trust and honor. https://t.co/An3nK0aadT

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds.

Not a guess. Not a theory.

A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it.

Samsung TVs: every minute.
LG TVs: every 15 seconds.

Even when you're just using it as a monitor.

Here's how to turn it off for every brand:

[Nick Swekosky @NickSwekosky]

As a paid subscriber based in North Atlanta, I'm looking forward to trying the listing tool when it's available

[Nick Gerli @nickgerli1]

Seller taking a $25,000 loss on this house.

They bought at pandemic peak and tried to rent it out.

But the rental market turned south, rents getting cut, property taxes up.

And now the owner has been trying to sell for nearly a year, and has cut from $310k original purchase to $285k today.

It's a pretty nice house, actually.

But in a market with big downside risk. (south of Atlanta, crashed 60% in the last downturn).

What would you offer? Reventure's listing tool says $235,000 is the fair price.

[NASA @NASA]

As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline