Daniel Piers

I make computers do things. Proud dad of 3 kids. Early engineer ➡️ Internal Auditor #2 @ Uber.

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

2 year old’s review: “hockey is so fun” (cc @KrakenIceplex @SeattleKraken)

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

I think it bears repeating that BART installed tall gates to enter the subway and they're gaining $10m in revenue a year plus the need for maintenance is down by

*95.7%*

Passengers who were unwilling to pay a few bucks were causing 96% of the public cleanliness problems!

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

Anthropic faced a classic trolley problem - either let their models accidentally kill one innocent person or let their competitors’ models accidentally kill ten.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Three years in the era of AI. Three years.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

“10 million dogs go missing every year, help us find 365 of them by soft launching the total surveillance state”

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Can Genie 3 run Doom?

"Doom, but the walls are made entirely out of screens also running Doom, featuring the marine from Doom but also his head is a screen running Doom"

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

millennial gamers are the best prepared generation for agentic work, they've been training for 25 years

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

Disney: 1.7m people canceled Hulu/Disney+

Xbox: hold my beer

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

rent free

[nathan fielder @nathanfielder]

I was going to call this dumb, but former NTSB board member John Goglia just texted me and told me to reply with this instead:

The issue raised in The Rehearsal is whether the authority gradient affects copilots' willingness to assert themselves at critical junctures and captains' willingness to hear copilots in those moments.

Neither the question nor the answer dealt with this well-recognized cockpit issue. Nor the NTSB's analysis of the issue of what was lacking in current training and its recommendation of role-playing to ameliorate this situation.

[Seattle Kraken @SeattleKraken]

It’s officially Fan Appreciation Week, pres. by @Amazon, and our first order of business is getting YOU ready for next season! ✅

Follow the #SeaKraken and hit that repost button for your chance to win a pair of tickets to 2025-26 opening night and two home jerseys!

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

20% ON THE EU, 34% ON CHINA, 46% ON VIETNAM, 24% ON JAPAN, 49% ON CAMBODIA, 25% ON SOUTH KOREA, 36% ON THAILAND, 47% ON MADAGASCAR, 38% ON GUYANA

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

@SeattleKrakenPR Just want to thank Dr @SEAbuoy for treating me. It’s highly effective

[Scott Gorlick @sgorlick]

On New Year's Eve, millions of people open their Uber app to request a ride.

But in the early years of Uber, this wasn't just another night— this was our Super Bowl.

500+ cities. 24 hours. Record demand.

Here's how it all went down...

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

Records of teams that scored 30 or less points in every game this year:

3-12
2-13
3-12
15-1

guess which one is the Chiefs

[spor @sporadica]

me at the dinner table tonight, explaining o3 and test-time compute scaling to my family:

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

sus

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

I tried googling “health insurance CEO murderer” but it just kept showing me rich old white dudes

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

Has anyone seen this man?

Because I haven’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Daniel Piers @danielpiers]

dear alphas,

[Isaiah Granet @zaygranet]

What surviving the great SF Tsunami taught me about B2B sales 🧵