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by aaronjg 14y ago
That approach was discussed by Anscombe, and I wrote up a summary in the Custora Blog. However just because an approach is frequentist or 'ad-hoc' does not necessarily mean that there is anything wrong with it. The bayesian approach requir
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by aaronjg 14y ago
I have a problem when companies start claiming personalization to this extreme level. How can they claim that they know that an individual "Gets bored and checks email at 4pm." They are able to look at their customers and see when they open
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by aaronjg 14y ago
I am mostly critical of claims like '20 lines of code that will beat A/B Testing Every Time.' Multi armed bandits are also not as useful for inference as the frequentist methods that Ben presents in his posts.
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by aaronjg 14y ago
That seems to be a pretty sound approach, compared to some of the stuff about multiarmed bandits that shows up here some times. And I certainly expect Noel Welsh to chime in as well. There are two schools of thought about the approaches to
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by aaronjg 14y ago
I've spent a lot of time working with pipelining software, first for my last job doing bioinformatics research, and now for handling analytics workflows at Custora. We ultimately decided to write our own (which we are considering open sour
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by aaronjg 14y ago
This is an interesting example of why randomization in experiments is important. If you allow users to self select into the experiment and control group, and then naively look at the results, the results might come up opposite from what is
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Oracle to Buy Eloqua in $810 Million Deal(online.wsj.com)
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Oracle Acquires Eloqua: A Do-Over For The Era Of Digital Disruption(forbes.com)
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Billionaires spawn more sons than daughters(plosone.org)
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Cluster Analysis For Retail Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation(blog.custora.com)
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T-Mobile Finally Gets the Apple iPhone(wired.com)
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by aaronjg 14y ago
The question of Best Buy settling has come up. Most settlements involve a clause that prohibits either party from disclosing the terms of the settlement. Since the primary objective of First Round taking on the law suit was to 'teach big bu
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by aaronjg 14y ago
For sources of the numbers, click on the link in the lower left of the page, and a methodologies window will appear.
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Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()(stackoverflow.com)
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Randall Munroe Responds to Gelman's Criticism of XKCD(andrewgelman.com)
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by aaronjg 14y ago
Or spell the header text correctly "We will be launching soon Sartup Paradise ! The place to be for remote workers"
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AMD Licenses 64-bit Processor Design From ARM(hothardware.com)
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Acquisition Metrics Beyond Customer Lifetime Value(influitive.com)
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by aaronjg 14y ago
We use Perfect Audience at Custora, and are really happy with it. Couldn't be easier to set up ad retargeting. And they have excellent service and support. Congrats guys!
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PennApps 2012 Hackathon Sells Out Faster Than Bieber’s North American Tour(tessrinearson.com)
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by aaronjg 14y ago
That's a really interesting approach. Basically mining a couple of key features from the data set, and plugging it into a supervised learning algorithm. The really cool thing is the simplicity of the features used, just daily activity and d
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by aaronjg 14y ago
Brooklyn, NY Full Time Custora (YC W11) is a customer analytics tool that helps retailers earn more from happier customers. To be a little more specific, we can point to a single retail customer and paint a meaningful portrait with his data
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There is no computing project that is worth your life.(lwn.net)
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Peet's Coffee & Tea sold for nearly $1 billion(latimes.com)
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A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story?(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
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by aaronjg 14y ago
Brooklyn, NY Full Time Custora (YC W11) is a customer analytics tool that helps retailers earn more from happier customers. To be a little more specific, we can point to a single retail customer and paint a meaningful portrait with his data
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by aaronjg 14y ago
Good point. I helped run the contest, and want add a bit more background. Robert's answer was in many ways an educated guess. He took some of the numbers, looked at other projects and put it together to get a good guess. However his motivat
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Commits from Last Night(commitlogsfromlastnight.com)
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Bot with boyish personality wins biggest Turing test(newscientist.com)
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Working with big companies: Tips for startup founders(mattturck.com)
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