Forrest Dougan 🌳📈

Data Science x Economics in Auto-- ex @Zillow - be like the 🦛s - views my own

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

@alex_gable This is gonna save me a lot of copy+paste “respond to me like I have no idea what you’re talking about”

[Mario Ismailanji @MarioIsmailanji]

During Smoot-Hawley, goods imports were 2-3% of GDP.

Today they are 11% of GDP.

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

@MorePerfectUS This goes to show that Wendy's execs fundamentally don't understand their product.

So much MBA brain removed from Main Street they've missed the whole point of fast food. They sell *consistency* in food AND price. Even a *chance* this isnt true and poof goes it all.

[Techni-Calli @Iwillleavenow]

Alright, I guess it's time to start a fight, so I'm let's talk about how AI developers seem to fundamentally not understand how humans function.

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

@dieworkwear From MO- the location is priced in.

[OPENLANE News @OPENLANEnews]

Today, OPENLANE announced an agreement to purchase Manheim Canada. The acquisition will advance the company's digital strategy and growth through expanded inventory, data and customer base. Read more in the release: https://t.co/Q11qhZWaV3

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

The irony is that crypto has been around for SO LONG and there is ZERO PRODUCT-MARKET FIT for anything useful

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Show me one fucking crypto "system" that is better than what we currently have

Coinbase (and crypto) are a cancer we need to excise

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

@NewsLambert A lot of economists need to go outside and touch grass.

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

engineers who not-so-secretly wish they were open source all-stars instead of contributing to a business's bottom line will spend weeks abstracting something and packaging it up instead of just copy+pasting some boilerplate and spending 2 minutes tweaking it.

[Buyback Capital @Larryjamieson_]

“I got that dog in me”

The dog:

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

"There's plenty of demand, just not at these prices" is, on repeat, the dumbest statement I hear across a variety of industries.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

This is fantastic, on how LLMs are still best understood as really good predictive text rather than thinking machines.

GPT does well at solving specific problems that are common in its training data, but take the exact same complexity of problem and swap one number, and it fails

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

@GuyDealership Prices should stay high *assuming the same demand*. We're seeing demand dissipate while supply stays the same or even increases slightly, on top of normal seasonality.

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

@GuyDealership Based on legislation passed and upcoming alone it’s gotta be nearing 30%.

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

Everyone talking about AI and all these big swings. I’m just saying look at this tortilla chip and tell me where to hold it for best salsa scooping.

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

@dieworkwear I've been arguing for adult @Garanimals for years. Plz make this happen Derek.

[Forrest Dougan 🌳📈 @forrestdougan]

https://t.co/oh0jTwFJ02

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

The safest job you can get in tech:

Operations

Don’t believe me? Look at the 2023 Martech chart

These sickos won’t stop making software. Can’t even see the logos anymore. And generative AI is going to make this worse, not better