Zachary Escalante

All things data science + ai

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@ChrisJBakke Monetization doesn’t improve seeker experience?!! 😱

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@jarvis_best @redsteeze And facts fall out of coconut trees 🌴

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@davereaboi We’re all underestimating the price of a podcasts mic making people sound like experts

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@jarvis_best @MsMelChen Negroni tester/reviewer

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AI won't kill junior tech jobs. It will create the. Here's why.

https://t.co/1L5Jw9IL3C

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@pegobry_en Liquor licenses till 4am have largely disappeared. Most bars have them up, no longer a just a cultural shift.

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@realjenx @tuuu28283 Worst burger I’ve ever had was Whataburger. No hyperbole, I was expecting great. Just had In’n Out and was reminded of the consistent, high quality at incredible prices. No comparison.

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Teddy and Taft were great friends

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

Marco and JD are close friends. They will not run against each other. I know there’s an effort to draft Marco so it’s not JD. But it’s going to be one of the two. People are deluding themselves right now.

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@realjenx @ingelramdecoucy This would make a lot of sense, considering who makes it lol

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@realjenx @ingelramdecoucy Ambrosia still makes an appearance at my family’s thanksgiving table

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@Andrewnsnyder We also discuss Wisconsin old fashioneds, a lot of Kierkegaard and more Silmarillion than you’ll care to know.

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@LaJollaPirate @jarvis_best Omg rarely has a pun hit so hard

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You’ve never been to the heaven that is Wisconsin and it shows @jarvis_best

[Joey @CalebGoatQB1]

Chicago really is the gate to heaven

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@WesleyLHuff And here I did devotions in my worn out NKJV 🤦‍♂️

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@JTLonsdale @nonnag Building agents at scale right now and it requires more swe/data/pms. Should be a boom for tech talent at properly run organizations.

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@resisfertile Agreed! I’m single/40/childless, however as the oldest of a homeschool family of 8 kids, I’ve seen it can be done. Just requires a lot more flexibility, discipline and being ok w/ a 10-minute burpee workout.

[Zachary Escalante @ZachEscalan]

Every summer since COVID I’ve done a multi-day trek through a new part of the Alps/Pyrenees. After, I spend a week exploring a new part of the Mediterranean. My hobbies are scuba, boxing, traveling to new countries and doing pretty much whatever I want in NYC.

There comes a moment when chasing “new” experiences feels a little like trying to order shots at the bar when the lights go on. You had fun, but it’s time to go home. Unpredictably gives way to a desire for “rootedness”.

My situation in life allows me to have these experiences, and because of this I can definitively say if that’s what you live for - it’s a distant second to building something of meaning and value .

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

I think most people should have kids. Not just so you don’t die alone, but because the process is fulfilling, joyful in a way nothing else is, and continues your bloodline. But if not, endless travel is hedonic nihilism and empty. At least make art or build a company or something

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The real biological clock no one talks about is how much of your child’s life they’ll spend knowing your parents.

[Xoxo @chicfryrice]

I get it…everyone wants to be financially stable before they have kids. Why is it always about the parents tho? My Dad had me when he was 47 and passed 5 years ago. I feel woefully young to lose a father to normal aging processes. I would have much rather grown up in a financially unstable household than lose a prominent figure in my life in my 30s. No offense but I find it selfish for parents to do this 🤷‍♀️

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💯 I have that life and make the most of it, but each “new experience” starts to resemble the one prior.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

A more serious reply to those DINKs who flex about all their adventures travelling the world:

You’re chasing new experiences, great. But you’ll run out of novelty. There are only so many places to go and things to see, and you’ll soon enough notice the sameness of hotels and resorts and instagram selfie spots. It will get old. You can only see things for the first time once.

The cheat code of having kids is that you get to see everything anew through their eyes. Sharing their experience of learning about the world for the first time just resets the hedonic treadmill you’ve worn out,

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@fugazeyfugazi @herschel0063574 Underrated tweet 👆