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Joe Reisinger

AI Researcher, Adobe · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joe Reisinger is a computer scientist who co-founded Premise Data and later founded Facet, an AI-powered image editing platform acquired by Adobe. Holding a PhD in computer science from UT Austin and background at Google Research, his work focuses on machine learning, mechanical creativity, and generative AI tools.

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3 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved. 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 Joe 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
The Reserve Bank of India changed interest rates over soaring onion prices
“The RBI actually went and changed interest rates because onion prices did this.”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 19:03 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
The Bureau of Labor Statistics spends $250M annually collecting price data
“Two hundred fifty million dollars a year, it takes the BLS to collect this data”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 13:13 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

306 words/min while actually speaking · 59.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Joe Reisinger: 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: 5,700 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 Joe Reisinger said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Foreign governments fabricate economic stats to guide macroeconomic policy
“You get countries that just straight up, you know, lie about economic stats, right? They make they make macroeconomic decisions based on complete fabrications about the price of goods in their countries, right?”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 9:26 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Small, carefully structured data samples outperform large, sloppy data sets
“You're better off with small, carefully constructed, structured sample, rather than a large, sloppy sample.”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 14:14 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
The Reserve Bank of India changed interest rates over soaring onion prices
“The RBI actually went and changed interest rates because onion prices did this.”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 19:03 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
University of London researchers link food price spikes to civil unrest
“There's some researchers at the University of London kind of did this really cool study on the incidents of violence and then the correlation between that and, like, food price spikes, and they found, like, you know, pretty significant correlation there, espec…”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 10:50 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Contradicted
The Bureau of Labor Statistics spends $250M annually collecting price data
“Two hundred fifty million dollars a year, it takes the BLS to collect this data”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 13:13 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Indian onion prices spiked 300 percent over a two-month period
“Onions in India have gone up, like, 300% in the last Couple of months.”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 18:47 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Premise opted for MySQL over NoSQL for its database infrastructure
“We use MySQL, for example. We're not a big NoSQL shop.”
Joe Reisinger Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 24:50 Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Joe Reisinger, Premise // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Jan 16, 2014 23m
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