Tiffani Ashley Bell

Multipotentialite. Philanthropist. You might’ve been at @HowardU @StanfordGSB or YC with me. Army brat. KURTOSIS 🏳️‍🌈🏁

[Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffani]

My TED talk crossed 500,000 views the other day after going up a little over a week ago.

Best part so far, though, is people writing me talking about things they’re doing after having seen it.

Check it out if you haven’t seen it

https://t.co/ENxyclKCs0

[RM Sotheby's @rmsothebys]

Built for Clark Gable and restyled to his own sketches by Bohman & Schwartz, this Duesenberg Model JN was a truly bespoke expression of “The King of Hollywood.”

Gable and Carole Lombard used the car extensively, and it became inseparable from their life together. Meticulously restored for Sam and Emily Mann, it later earned Best of Show at Amelia Island and Meadowbrook.

Offered from The Sam and Emily Mann Collection at Monterey. Estimate: $5,750,000 to $8,000,000 USD. Register to bid at https://t.co/rbE7vVcMI7 #RMMonterey

#RMSothebys #Duesenberg #ClarkGable

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

🚨 FLOCK ERROR = GUNS DRAWN

Police shut down I-94, boxed in a silver SUV, and held two people at gun point after Flock cameras flagged the car as “connected to a homicide.”

Except it wasn’t.

The alert was outdated.
Authorities forgot to remove it.

Trust the algorithm.™

[Gregory Blotnick @gregoryblotnick]

baupost letters 1995-2001 https://t.co/6wyTwihJyD

[James Morrow @pwafork]

I’ve always loved this photo. Blazers. Khakis. Boat shoes. Running boards. Chrome. Machine guns. The past is another country.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

People always ask me where the tan suit came from. I think it’s time the truth finally came out.

Tune in to the series finale of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness on @HBOMax.

[Mishra Dev @DarrKaMahaulHai]

A good view at emerging theory on deep learning

https://t.co/zzyonLAv5A

[Pizza @number_pizza111]

Just found what I am 100% confident is the best used book store in the US. Four stories of narrow corridors with no AC. Aisle lights are kept off to save money. I ended up spending $71.50 here.

[Joe Flaherty @josephflaherty]

Middle-aged suburban moms are stealth, early tech adopters.

They just care more about cutting cloth than conspicuous computation.

E.g., this lady's sewing room has a spatially registered AR system projecting vector patterns onto fabric, plus a CNC sewing machine.

L33T.

[Antonio Lupetti @antoniolupetti]

"Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for Computer Science and Machine Learning" is an incredibly broad free mathematical book that covers a huge range of topics, including groups, rings and fields, linear algebra, matrices and linear maps, determinants, eigenvalues and spectral theory, affine and projective geometry, topology and metric spaces, normed spaces, differential calculus, convexity, optimization, duality, and much more.

Its scope is so wide that it is difficult to summarize. This is not really a book I would suggest reading from beginning to end. I would rather keep it as a kind of mathematical "bible" to consult whenever you need a clear reference on one of the many topics it covers, especially in computer science and machine learning.

At more than 2,000 pages, it is perhaps one of the most complete and clearest mathematical resources I have found so far, and definitely one worth keeping as a reference. The complete book is freely available here:

https://t.co/ykCMrlmGCg

[Math Cafe @Riazi_Cafe_en]

Fundamentals of Probability by Prof. Yury Polyanskiy

Lecture notes: https://t.co/Ikpu8QDx2C

[sophia of hangover @aethelfleds]

I was so obsessed with this show as a child that my father would threaten to go to Tokyo and burn down the iron chef studio if I didn't behave

[Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffani]

First of all, the opening camera work and narration on this piece is tremendous 😂

Second, this is adorable. I, too, want a pet that has a pet 🥹

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

A golden retriever suffering from seizures seemingly lost her spunk — until one day her owners brought home a miracle cure — a duck named Louie. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A Wall Street Journal analysis published Wednesday found that U.S. life insurers hold $40 billion in bonds graded by Egan-Jones Ratings, a small firm the WSJ found grades bonds one to three notches higher than peer agencies. Egan-Jones is facing an SEC probe and a lawsuit from former employees who say they were pressured to inflate grades. Bermuda's regulator dropped the firm from its approved list in January. The largest holders include TIAA, Mass Mutual, and insurance companies controlled by Dodgers owner Mark Walter, whose debt is tied to a $16 billion federal fraud investigation.

My Take
Anyone who saw The Big Short will recognize what is happening here. Rating agencies get paid by the bond issuers whose debt they grade, insurance companies use those grades to determine how much money they set aside in reserves, and inflated grades mean insurance companies are undercapitalized against the bonds they hold. Moody's and S&P ran this playbook with mortgage bonds and everyone still remembers how that ended. Egan-Jones is doing the same thing with private credit right now, and most Americans have annuity money or pension money that touches this debt without their knowledge.

Federal investigators are already tracing $16 billion in loans that moved through third parties before reaching the books of insurance companies Mark Walter controls, and Egan-Jones graded most of that debt. If investigators confirm the loans were mislabeled to hide his affiliation, the reserves shrink, and the policyholders who paid premiums for decades learn that Mark Walter's TV broadcasting company was sitting behind their retirement all along. The SEC has known about this pattern since 2023 and Egan-Jones keeps rating deals. Regulators typically move only after an insurance company collapses.

Hedgie🤗

[Black Archie Character @ppppp1245688]

You should still talk to users and hopefully not with this contempt. The trick isn't to take everything at face value, it's to learn the language they use, the feelings they emote, the daily problems running their days. You shouldn't seek answers. You should be seeking context.

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

There seems to be a growing acknowledgement around the word that Keynes was right when he proposed at Bretton Woods a global trading regime that limited persistent trade imbalances and restricted global financial flows.

In her new Foreign Affairs piece, Lori Wallach proposes a similar restructuring of the global trading regime, arguing that because our current trading system rewards countries that improve their manufacturing competitiveness by suppressing wage growth relative to productivity growth (and by ignoring environmental costs), it's no surprise that income inequality has risen across most countries over the past four decades.

Like a growing number of analysts, she argues that countries should be free to choose their own growth models, but they should not be able to externalize the associated costs via their trade and capital accounts.
@WallachLori
https://t.co/x2hpDfioOJ via @ForeignAffairs

[Eddy Elfenbein @EddyElfenbein]

Sixty-five years ago, this was the kind of house someone in the construction industry could afford with a stay at home wife and child. (Note attached garage!) This is what we've lost.

[Le Bernardin @LeBernardinNY]

Learn how to make our pistachio ice cream with Executive Pastry Chef Orlando Soto

[Sincere N. Jones @Hakstar4Prez]

Nautilus

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The Amtrak lounge at Penn Station is absolutely stunning.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Lake Mead, the all-important Colorado River reservoir that supplies water to some 20 million people in the Southwest and West, just hit its lowest level in history during an extreme drought that scientists say is worsened by climate change. https://t.co/NPZF6F8tWd