Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦

I no longer tweet. Platform software engineer. Economics. Capital markets. Personal finance. ML. Statistics. Soccer. Basketball. Bicycle. Bass. Crypto.

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

if this is my last tweet, let it be about soccer. rooting for (desc order) USA, ENG, BRA, ARG, NED, BEL. don't think the first two realistically have a chance, so hope BRA or ARG wins it all

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

if you are intellectually honest, listen to this @EconTalker episode on Argentina and their money and try to argue that crypto is not a step in the right direction (hint: you will fail) https://t.co/SKdJRviIFT

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

you are not a world-class global tourism city if you don't allow people to pay for your public transportation with their own plastic/contactless issued in their own country, or if you require people to buy your own proprietary plastic and pay with that

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

would you rather be fixing code and systems OR people and teams? former - stay as an IC engineer, latter - move to engineering management

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

why does @eightsleep communicate heart rate changes in percentages rather than absolute delta values like everyone else (afaik) - more precision in actual collected data or trying to look more scientific?

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

finding myself on a trajectory getting closer and closer towards a single issue voter - the single issue being candidate's age

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

theory vs real life. an influential professor co-wrote a (great) book on identifying talent. gets asked on a podcast how to screen for future settlers of Mars (tricky question). his answer? religious Americans. doh

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

some people's inability to understand when to use "reply all" vs "reply" baffles me. I can only imagine what's going on in those people's heads when they hear "metaverse" or "AR/VR"

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

@SamRo It's not cash on the spot. You have to discount a gate agent's promise

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

ever thought about why the news websites measure their articles in minutes rather than words, sentences or paragraphs?

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

got a few posts on my new substack now so might be a good time to mention it here. latest - Can you describe your tech stack in 1-2 sentences? https://t.co/afmsdBPcUv

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

when you, a podcast host, like your guest so much that you don't notice they are answering each question with 3 cliche sentences and you end up talking way too much. immediate "mark as played"

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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Without additional weaponry, this war will become an endless bloodbath, spreading misery, suffering, and destruction. Mariupol, Bucha, Kramatorsk – the list will be continued. Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with Heavy Weapons. #ArmUkraineNow

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

I also grew up in Ukraine. Donated to this effort. Hope you could join me.

[Michael Roytman @mroytman]

I grew up in #Ukraine. The picture below is me outside the apartment complex I grew up in. The one next to it is the same Khrushchev era building. This is a personal appeal from me to you to help out a population in need. This one just happens to be mine.

https://t.co/VKRfEdYJdl

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

for some (not all) things that I don't like or don't understand, I just think to myself "I am not a target audience for this", forget about it and move on; sometimes I wish more people tried this approach more often

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

LeBron James' company produced two excellent docs I saw on Netflix recently - about Neymar and Naomi Osaka. very well done, highly recommend

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

OH: Hi, I am a VC. I made thousands of investments. But I want everybody to introduce me by mentioning 3 or 4 most successful investments I have ever made because this is what validates my credibility and skill

[Dmitriy Samovskiy 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @somic]

crossing a relatively big road at a legal pedestrian crossing with a sign, phone in a pocket. a car is pretty far and honks at me. I continue walking while pointing to a sign. while we both think "what an idiot" about each other, only one party is actually right here (me)