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Calvin French-Owen
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Calvin French-Owen
@calvinfo
- For anyone else wondering: "what is going on with the stock market?" I pulled some data and did some rudimentary analysis. The last time the S&P 500 hit the current price was around February, 2019. What's going on? Is our outlook no worse than a year ago?
- As they say, some personal news– I just left @OpenAI after launching Codex. Extremely grateful to everyone there who I got the chance to work with and learn from. Still figuring out what's next, but there's a lot left to build out there.
- So... we have some news...Together, @twilio and @segment have an incredible opportunity to build the customer engagement platform of the future. I'm so proud of everything the Segment team has built and incredibly excited for what’s yet to come! segment.com/blog/segment-a…
- Replying to @calvinfoTL;DR: investors will continue to look for places to put their money. Index prices may not have changed drastically, but the individual stock prices have. These heavily favor companies with an online business model.
- Hey Twitter, today I'm launching a new product called Matrices. Matrices makes it easy to explore, visualize, and share large datasets. This 75s video will give you a sense of how it works...
- As they say... some personal news...
- Replying to @calvinfoTo sum up my understanding... - many sectors of the economy *are* down, as are most companies. - the current pandemic has pushed more $ to business which operate online - the market cap of the S&P500 hasn't changed dramatically, but the distribution of that money has
- I've been experimenting with GPT-3 and wow! I haven't seen a technology this magical in a long time Yes, the model is shockingly good. More interestingly, it opens up programming to anyone who can write. Writing tools will become the new thinking tools.
- Replying to @calvinfo
- We created some data visualizations based upon @segment customer behavior. Key learnings: - companies adopt new tools more frequently than ever - evaluating vendors with fake/demo data is a thing of the past - new hires and regulations catalyze change
