Adam Laiacano

Software Engineer, NVIDIA · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adam Laiacano is an engineer who previously worked in data engineering and data science at Tumblr. He currently works as a software engineer at NVIDIA.

5statements → 3claims → 2claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 1.2/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Adam argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Tumblr hosted approximately 150 million blogs as of November 2013
“There's about a hundred and fifty million of them that we host now.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:43 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

274 words/min while actually speaking · 34.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Adam Laiacano: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,204 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Adam Laiacano said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Tumblr's email algorithm prioritized original content creators over rebloggers
“We want to give a little bit of bonus points to content creators, so if I post something and Hillary reblogs it from me, And these are both candidates to go into your email. Mine will show up instead of hers, because I came up with it.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:47 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Tumblr recommended blogs using social graph and post content
“At Tumblr, we try to recommend blogs to people. We use things like the Social Graph. Some of the content of your posts, things like that, to find blogs that you might like.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 1:07 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Tumblr hosted approximately 150 million blogs as of November 2013
“There's about a hundred and fifty million of them that we host now.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:43 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tumblr's explicit post categorization yielded perfectly accurate content classification data
“If it's text, if it's a photo, whatever, so we can use this later on, and there's no predictions, there's no, oh, there's a photo in this thing, but we don't know if it's the main content of the post it's free, like, hundred percent accuracy prediction all the…”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 12:04 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Partly supported
Video, audio, and photos were Tumblr's most popular post types
“So on Tumblr you can post seven different types of content. Video, audio, photos are by far the most popular links, things like that.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:25 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Dec 5, 2013 18m
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