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I lead Strategic Finance Foundations at @OpenAI, and I use Codex for everything.
It all started with gaining leverage on our hardest monthly finance process ~6 months ago. Now I’m sharing 180 days of lessons on designing better work with AI — for any knowledge worker.
The idea behind the series is simple: learn how to design the work. Break the problem into steps, give the right context, and know where human judgment matters.
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗽 #𝟭 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄.
bloomberg.com/news… Looks like Uber is going after Scale AI's business
Ryan Kopa retweeted
Big news: my paper "Identity effects in social media" with @LevMuchnik @madhavkumar2005 & @sinanaral was published in @NatureHumBehav
It's an 89-week experiment with a novel intervention: on 5% of comments the viewer could not see the author's username.
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
Ryan Kopa retweeted
Me listening to Odd Lots, hearing about how there’s a global shortage of something and there’s nothing we can do about it
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Our newest post by @EngLife101 takes us through the evolution of streaming pipelines in Lyft's marketplace 👀 eng.lyft.com/evolution-of-st…
Ryan Kopa retweeted
New blog out today: @DuaneJRich and @SameerSManek explain Lyft's Causal Forecasting System, where they answer the question: How do you build a large model which can be used for planning?
eng.lyft.com/causal-forecast…
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Happy #LovingDay, Madam Vice President! A love like yours and @SecondGentleman is an inspiration to all. Thank you for your amazing example! Can’t wait until this is officially nationally recognized 😉
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia, which unanimously ruled that bans on interracial marriage are unconstitutional. The @SecondGentleman and I want to wish you all a happy #LovingDay.
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ICYMI I wrote my first newsletter over the weekend. notes.causal.engineering/arc…
Still getting the hang of longer form writing, and the newsletter format. I've especially enjoyed the thoughtful responses I've gotten over email. Thanks for subscribing and reading!
Ryan Kopa retweeted
Time for my favourite game: let's figure out which team actually owns the thing that needs changing.
When @nytimes uses the meme song of your name. First word I think I got instantly
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This is a fun blog post -- so much local structure pops out from ride request pickups and destination data. Great work @ajwchin et al!
eng.lyft.com/lyft-and-urban-…
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Wow… this obituary. (In yesterdays NYT. Yes I read the tiny obituaries. That means I get to see amazing stories like this. It’s like micro-nonfiction.)
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Very excited to share some early discussion of how we're using Bayesian Optimization to tune Lyft's marketplace using time-randomized experiments. Much more on the methodology to come!
eng.lyft.com/parameter-explo…
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At Lyft we have a special implementation of gradient boosted trees for dealing with spatial data called GeoBoost. Here's how it works!
eng.lyft.com/how-and-why-to-…


















