karljtaylor

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by karljtaylor 7mo ago
teams enterprise customer here, we got knocked out too. the most irritating thing here? OpenCode is necessary given how incredibly buggy Claude Code is. I know Boris is a "hot shot" but the whole individual contributor developers
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by karljtaylor 7mo ago
this builds on earlier research, previously released (with reproducibility steps) available here: https://blog.karljtaylor.com/blog/2026-02-28-xai-search-api-...
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A factual warning for other media buyers(blog.karljtaylor.com)
1 points by karljtaylor 7mo ago|1 comments
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by karljtaylor 7mo ago
continues research I began here: https://blog.karljtaylor.com/blog/2026-02-28-xai-search-api-...
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Show HN: API checks show three suppression strategies on X(blog.karljtaylor.com)
1 points by karljtaylor 7mo ago|0 comments
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by karljtaylor 4y ago
this was a weird take then, and it's still a weird take now. I'll admit, I'm glad we've moved past the open letter era, but as somebody that got hired to write a lot of them, I think the part the writer of this particula
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by karljtaylor 4y ago
they're going be spending significantly more than 200mn with the new revenue share program...
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by karljtaylor 6y ago
they do, it just usually gets re-written to hell in about 30 very anxious email rounds
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I've Read More Than 83 Audiobooks This Year, Here's What I've Learned(blog.karljtaylor.com)
1 points by karljtaylor 6y ago|1 comments
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by karljtaylor 6y ago
For example, one of the things we covered in my ethics class was Kant's categorical imperative. The categorical imperative falls over instantly if you apply even the most basic logic to it, but no mention of this was made in any of th
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by karljtaylor 7y ago
yes, yes it is.
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by karljtaylor 7y ago
Vice has one of the worst privacy policies in the entirety of media, so it's kind of a curious thing to see them complaining about. They don't mention they phone Criteo and AdNexus on every page load, and I'm pretty confident
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by karljtaylor 7y ago
when companies decided it was too hard to run data driven marketing programs?
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by karljtaylor 7y ago
agreed, it goes a lot further back than ww2 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114045...
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by karljtaylor 7y ago
Can't quite tell where you're planning on running this, but it sounds like you're letting someone else manage the media buy for you, and you should for sure be running it yourself at this size. (The reason for this is that yo
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
yup! happy to.
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
I could be wrong, but I've always suspected the only impact of ads like http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/anti-smoking-tv-ads-bi... are the padding they provide to the bottom line of the WPP shops.
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
Facebook and Google (and nearly every other social ads platform that evolved along the same playbook) avoid the 'personal'by aggregating users above certain thresholds. It's fairly precise, and often the only times I can spot
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
I'm not going to argue with you, just go check Cartoon Network's media kit.
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
targeting based on current page creates a marketplace where only those who are capable of paying an absurd CPC show up, if your stated goal is as above, it really isn't what you want. Google had to do a lot of work on this front, and r
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
features are candidates, policies are selling points.
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
it's against the rules in the US, and TV is a particularly big offender here, it's very rarely enforced.
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
There's a handful of reasons that happens, but one of the biggest is that those ads are placed by a variety of different providers. More often than not when a large buyer goes to place a buy (think on the order of P&G promoting a n
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
except the digital, you're complaining about is also non-individual, and it's anonymized at a much higher threshold. radio points are demographics based buys, TV is demographics based...niche mags etc., same story.
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
I'm not sure where you stumbled into this idea, but advertising hasn't worked this way since well before the golden age of positioning...which predates the Mad Men era.
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by karljtaylor 8y ago
Might be a little biased, but I did find this two-part series helpful. https://www.dataquest.io/course/exploratory-data-visualizati...
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by karljtaylor 9y ago
I think it's lamar that frequently runs spots that say something like "if you see it/it works!"
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by karljtaylor 9y ago
usually, reactions like this are indicative of being more, not less susceptible to advertising. case in point: LiveCD is a branded capitalization.
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by karljtaylor 9y ago
WPP != agencies plenty of model innovations are out there, but P&G ain't that kind of brand.
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by karljtaylor 9y ago
I prefer this solution as well, as I think it biases towards action, but I think it also creates a little bit of burden around communicating subtasking about projects back out at the medium level.

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