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by emw 14y ago
It would be interesting to see empirical data on William Edwards's hypotheses, e.g. "Questions are getting fewer and fewer quality answers. Moderators and 'close this' clickers are getting increasingly narrow." An analysis like this might
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by emw 14y ago
What support does SoundCloud's new single-page interface have for IE8 and IE9? Does the new interface use the HTML5 History API to enable state/page transitions? If so, what fallback technique was used for non-HTML5 browsers? Do these br
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by emw 14y ago
"Additionally, complete data on ApoE status, education level, ethnicity, dietary habits, and lifestyle choices were not available for all study participants, so none of these can presently be eliminated as contributory to the results obser
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by emw 15y ago
I second the idea that this doesn't sound like machine learning. I wouldn't be surprised if there were no machine learning or data mining algorithms involved in Facebook mapping EXIF-embedded geographic coordinates in digital photographs a
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by emw 15y ago
It would be nice to see measurements on how much less time and memory the more performant techniques take compared to their less performant counterparts in realistic scenarios. Doing so might indicate a better ranking of the tips given. F
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by emw 15y ago
There's a pie chart titled 'Where Your Money Goes' displayed on the donation page ( http://www.archive.org/donate/index.php ). Expense ratios for Internet Archive: Programs: 88% Administration: 10% Fundraising: 2%
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by emw 15y ago
You can view traffic for the last 30 days at http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Hacker_News . I agree that seeing page view counts on a weekly or monthly basis would be interesting. I'll add a feature to http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/
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by emw 15y ago
http://toolserver.org/~emw/wikistats/ is an augmented traffic statistics tool that shows daily Wikipedia page traffic over arbitrary time periods. It also allows users to see traffic for multiple articles in a given time period, or diffe