
Prophet and Zillow's $10 Billion Mistake [Hilary Parker, Roger Peng]
The Swyx Mixtape
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Zillo Data Scientist
Zillo lost ten billion dollars in market value, about forty % of their stock market value at the time. Some people blame it on profit, which is a python library that was being used. So now you have a bit of context as to zillo and the whole bying situation. It's just someone wiuth, like a handle that's confusing. A data scientist who clearly works in forecasting, tweeded out like a pretty m i don't know what to call it. He dug up some jobless tin for a zilo data scientist that i think was in the lixestimet group,. Anyway, he dug up a job lesting where the only technical package
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