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by dfrankow 12y ago
Using Bayesian methods to learn about our experimental effects is very interesting to me. For example http://www.evanmiller.org/bayesian-ab-testing.html , which may be the type of bandit you refer to. In the best case, it m
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by dfrankow 12y ago
I work at Pinterest, and have some involvement in how we learn from experiments. In each experiment, we assign users randomly based on a hash of experiment name and userid. So, we assume (and have tested) that the groups of one experiment
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by dfrankow 14y ago
Aaaaand .. does it work?
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by dfrankow 14y ago
I hate selling things on craigslist. When I tried to sell a comforter, I had to correspond via email with 9 different people before someone would actually come and pick up the damn thing. They kept dropping out silently. When I would pin
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by dfrankow 14y ago
We are all looking for connection, and many don't find it, don't even know how to find it. Much of the technology in our modern world (television, web sites like Facebook, mobile phones) make this problem worse. That is, there is an econo
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by dfrankow 14y ago
Wow, incredibly true, but sobering.
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by dfrankow 14y ago
I have this problem, I only want to be emailed upon failure. However, the crontab of the account is shared by several different jobs run by different people, and I don't have control over that. Perhaps I could set the email in the crontab
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by dfrankow 15y ago
Huh? Section 5 is "EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION".
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by dfrankow 15y ago
How much more expensive is a clustered software solution (e.g., Hadoop FS) than this RAID box?
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The Conversationalist(startribune.com)
1 points by dfrankow 15y ago|0 comments
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Unix sort but keep header line(unix.stackexchange.com)
2 points by dfrankow 15y ago|0 comments
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by dfrankow 15y ago
More detail?
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by dfrankow 15y ago
They only recommend by genre or shelf, not globally. I don't like.
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by dfrankow 15y ago
"Zoom out" (to get the big picture and connect ideas). "Have different experiences from others" (to make different connections). "Give something back to the world" (because it's a great feeling).
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by dfrankow 15y ago
The headline seems misleading, and tilted towards iphone. "cheap" and "pessimist" both have negative connotation. And "cheap" is actually worded "prefer saving their money", which doesn't seem as bad. What about Android: "18% more likely to
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by dfrankow 15y ago
For people who don't have admin on their own machines (i.e. many large organizations), that would suck.
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by dfrankow 15y ago
Could this be implemented by a third party (e.g., Google) with a browser plugin? In fact, e.g. http://www.siteadvisor.com/
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by dfrankow 15y ago
The most often mentioned is Django. We picked Tornado (tornadoweb.org) because it is lightweight and fast, especially on cold start, which is an app engine issue for low-traffic apps. It's even faster than webapp (!) because webapp loads th
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by dfrankow 15y ago
Whatever language you choose, consider trying a few problems from http://projecteuler.net . The problems are small enough that you can feel the reward of getting the right answer. I used Python. As an experienced programmer with math bac
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by dfrankow 15y ago
Thought you'd be curious to guess where the biggest BarCamp in North America took place yesterday. At least I've heard it's the biggest. 1200 registrations, maybe ~1000 in attendance. Direct link to sessions: http://sessions.minnestar.or
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The biggest BarCamp in North America(minnestar.org)
2 points by dfrankow 15y ago|1 comments
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by dfrankow 16y ago
You picked out the best part of the article: the clips are fun. I also liked the quantized version of random notes on a keyboard. However, as a musician, this sort of article makes me uncomfortable. He says: "In this post, we will be disc
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by dfrankow 16y ago
Princetonian has stories: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/01/07/27306/ Memorial site: http://1000memories.com/billzeller
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Predictions of the year 2000 from Ladies Home Journal(futurepredictions.com)
1 points by dfrankow 16y ago|0 comments
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by dfrankow 16y ago
Seattle seems like a good place to start up, though I haven't lived there.
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Yahoo stock outperforms Google for 2010(theatlantic.com)
1 points by dfrankow 16y ago|2 comments
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by dfrankow 16y ago
I've been researching this a little. Google Checkout and Paypal have exactly the same terms: http://checkout.google.com/sell/ (click on "Costs and fees") https://merchant.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&... Monthly Sales Thr
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Bay area entrepreneur owns the first Nissan all-electric car(gizmag.com)
1 points by dfrankow 16y ago|0 comments
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by dfrankow 16y ago
Commenters so far are talking about oil as a fuel. Petroleum is spread throughout our lives. Agriculture is driven by it (fertilizers). We use it to make plastics. Moving our economy from oil looks to be a major undertaking. Read this boo
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Over 5 million pieces of direct mail 'to be sent to dead'(dma.org.uk)
1 points by dfrankow 16y ago|0 comments

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