Alastair Hunt

Sports + AI

[Alastair Hunt @cuserower19]

@esandurrani Wow

[Stephen A Smith @stephenasmith]

I completely support this for Spike Lee. No Knicks’ fan deserves this more than him

[Alastair Hunt @cuserower19]

Amazing

[NY Taxi Workers @NYTWA]

That's our member behind the wheel. He was pulled out of the cab and suffered shock and physical injury to his arm, back and head.

The whole city is elated about our hometown team — and that includes drivers who watched the game last night at airport lots while waiting for the next fare, listened on their radios while cruising for the next job, and huddled at hotel lines with the same heart-stopping anxiety that turned into the most beautiful joy.

Pulling the cab driver out of his seat, stomping on and shattering his hood turned our joy into a nightmare.

When you see the yellow, do you not see the person behind the wheel? That's someone's spouse, child, parent or friend — a New Yorker.

He wasn’t out there for a joy ride, he was working to make ends meet and to get his fellow New Yorkers home safely.

Cabbies pay just to go to work. They pay for their cars — whether through loans or leases.

Drivers need safety on the job, both in the quiet moments of ordinary days and in the middle of public celebration.

Shame on anyone who turns these joyful moments into nightmares for fellow New Yorkers.

[Spurs Culture @SpursCulture]

Worst loss in Spurs history

[ESPN @espn]

OmG.

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

How should companies measure ROI of AI?

Here's my working mental model. Tear it apart!

1) Below a certain investment level (determined by ELT or AI steering committee), ROI can be vibes-based through conversations with users. Goal here is to remove friction & empower people to play with the technology however they find helpful. It just has to lead to a high enough fidelity gut feeling to determine if a higher investment experiment is worth running.

2) Above a certain investment level, ROI has to be as high fidelity as possible. Every AI initiative is run like an experiment with friction minimized as much as possible. There’s a certain investment limit to experiments and investments can be revisited once experiments are complete. Here's how an experiment would be run & how (soft vs. hard) ROI would be calculated.

- Hypothesis: If recruiters use AI to screen resumes, then the time-to-hire will decrease and the interview-to-offer conversion rate will remain equal or improve.
- Independent Variable: The screening method used (AI-powered software versus traditional human resume review).
- Dependent Variables: Time spent screening (minutes per resume), candidate diversity metrics, and the hiring manager's satisfaction score of shortlisted candidates.
- Controlled Variables: The same job description, the same pool of raw applicant resumes, and the same evaluation criteria (rubric).

To ensure a fair test, you must use a randomized control design:
- Control Group: Group A consists of experienced human recruiters who screen 200 incoming resumes using your traditional manual process.
- Experimental Group: Group B uses the AI screening tool to parse and rank the exact same 200 resumes.

Experiment steps:
1) Time Tracking: Log the total hours Group A spends reading resumes versus the time it takes to configure and run Group B's AI tool.
2) Blinded Interview Review: Pass the top 10 candidates selected by the human process and the top 10 selected by the AI process to a hiring manager. Do not tell the manager which candidate came from which screening method.
3) Quality Metric: Have the hiring manager score each candidate's qualifications on a scale of 1–10 based on the interview.
4) Replication: Repeat this exact process across three different job openings (e.g., Sales, Engineering, and Marketing) to ensure the AI's effectiveness isn't limited to just one type of role.

Results & ROI:
Experiment proved successful if 2 conditions are met:
- Condition 1: Time Saved > 0
- Condition 2: AI Average Quality Score ≥ Human Average Quality Score

If not successful, run new experiment (i.e. how can we tweak the AI to deliver as high of an average quality score)
If successful, measure ROI.

In this example ROI would look like:

ROI % = (Annual Savings - Annual AI Cost / Annual AI cost) * 100
So if the company has 50 job roles per year, 9.5 hours are saved and the screening software costs $10,000, the ROI would be:

(475 hours saved * $58/hr - $10,000 AI tool/ $10,000 AI tool) * 100 = 174% ROI

And that ROI is realized (goes from soft savings to hard savings) either by slowing down the hiring of recruiters, firing recruiters, or revenue realized by getting new hires into seat faster.

What do you think? Right/wrong approach?

[Alastair Hunt @cuserower19]

Likewise!

[Nicholas 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @nickymastro25]

If there are any Spurs fans in NYC, let me sit down with you, talk ball with you, and buy you a beer. I wanna show you that not all of us Knicks fans are crazy degenerates. Given everything that’s happened last night, it’s the least I can do to show respect. Much respect to y’all

[Alex B. @KnicksCentral]

Ban ALL Knicks outdoor watch parties in Manhattan for the remainder of this series

Can’t have these dumb ass Knick fans or agitators ruin the fun of a potential parade bc they are too stupid to realize this is a game and not a gang war

[Alastair Hunt @cuserower19]

@jacksettleman Tbh your brother has been killing it with his content

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Being a Knick fan doesn’t mean being disrespectful to Spurs fans in any way…we get caught up during the games but we gotta show respect to our fellow humans…

[Murray Hill Guy @MurrayHillGuy1]

I shouldn’t have to say this but after seeing multiple videos…

“Knicks fans” in NYC (these are fake fans)…. Wtf is wrong with you beating the shit out of helpless strangers just because they are wearing a spurs jersey?

It got so violent out there last night for no reason. We need to class up.

You are ruining what has been a beautiful week for the city.

These people should be ashamed of themselves and locked up!

[KnicksMuse @KnicksMuse]

6-men on the floor for the Spurs.

No technical.

[Alastair Hunt @cuserower19]

@jacksettleman @Kazeem Leon is getting back to his ways

[Alastair Hunt @cuserower19]

😂

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

[SleeperKnicks @SleeperKnicks]

Just want to take a few moments to thank @KarlTowns.

Losing your mom was not easy.
Getting traded from a place you called home was not easy.
Dealing with the scrutiny of what becoming a Knick means was not easy.
Sacrificing your offensive scoring role for the sake of the team was not easy.

Making the Finals was not easy.

But you helped us get there. And because of that, I whole heartedly thank you.

Let’s go get 4 more.

[Charles Mason @CharlesMas0n]

These were my Knicks

This is a long fucking time coming

[Alastair Hunt @cuserower19]

The Knicks beat the hottest team in the east going into the playoffs then the two teams that knocked off the favorites to win the conference 🤷

Yeah I think the Knicks are just good

[THE GARDEN IS ROCKING @MSG_Rocking]

James Dolan you magnificent bastard, please do another watch party at Radio City.

And at MSG.

And Yankee Stadium.

And Citi Field.

F*ck it, even Prudential Center and the Meadowlands.

Fill every damn venue for the Finals. Knicks fans deserve to celebrate together like this.

[Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm]

NEW YORK!!!!!!!