Bradley Faskowitz

code slinger at Stripe. tortured Angels fan. jazz pianist. views are my own.

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@LucasR14g Nice flag!

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

Want to (securely) accept payments via the phone/voice using AI?

=> We're looking to a few businesses to try our new "payphone" beta. It's pretty slick. Email or DM me.

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@D1SCHER Similar situation to 2019 draft, where we took Will Wilson in front of Corbin Carroll.

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@stripe Huge!

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

Oh no!!! Mr. Met!!!!

[Clément Miao @clementmiao]

I'm looking to hire a senior MLE for @stripe Capital. Every successful business has a time where more money could accelerate their growth. DM me if you're interested in helping make that possible through the best underwriting.

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

A busy restaurant that can seat you now — the perfect blend of efficiency and efficacy for the spontaneous.

[Bryan Cheong @bryancsk]

It's obviously hyperbole that there are no software engineers over 40, but the more I think about it the more it seems there are a lot fewer of them than seems likely?? Unless everyone leaves this profession at 40 for some reason.

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@PitcherList Not a starter, but Ben Joyce’s splitter/splinker unlocked a new level for him

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

My one brilliant football insight is that players should be coached to deliver the football to the bottom of the goalpost after touchdowns, no matter what. After, they can celebrate however they wish. Gets rid of this non-trivial risk completely.

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

Dropping the ball at the 1 yd line is mass hysteria

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@paulg Beli. Most accurate ratings system, popular among 20-somethings.

Users rate restaurants against others that they’ve been to — their relative, elo-based ratings system is wayyy better than an absolute one.

Also, 1-5 stars lacks sufficient precision.

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

I would like to announce, bravely, that I ALSO have a level of interest in Kevin Durant. His immense skill in basketball has garnered a non-zero interest from me for over a decade.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

REPORT: The Mavericks have a level of interest in Kevin Durant, per @ScoopB.

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@Markgubicza you mentioned that Bibee and Sandoval have good changeups on the broadcast. Kyle Hendricks is from another Mission Viejo school, Capistrano Valley High School, and his is pretty good, too!

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

JUSTIN TUCKER REVENGE GAME

[James Palmer @JamesPalmerTV]

Travis Kelce told Justin Tucker he needed to move because their QB Patrick Mahomes had to warm up. So Kelce kicked his ball away and threw his helmet. 😂

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

A lot of writing “clean code” is abstracting functionality into well-named, well-abstracted functions, keeping the “main” small. This gets you 50% of the way there to some theoretical max (*handwave handwave*)

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

Unsurprisingly, I’ve found that LLMs are more useful when answering questions for more vanilla setups than for more esoteric ones.

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

A new consideration when deciding what programming language to use for a project: what language will yield better LLM responses?

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@_ellisbrown @NYU_Courant @CILVRatNYU @sainingxie @rob_fergus @pathak2206 @CarnegieMellon @roboVisionCMU Congratulations Ellis! Excited to hear what’s next for you :)

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@NBA @bigshin32 @celtics Happy birthday, @bigshin32!

[Bradley Faskowitz @bfaskowitz]

@dmorey @chesscom @sixers Fun playing ya! Took a few iterations but I got you on the third rep :)

Go Sixers!