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   Great Looking Tables in R: gt (v0.2)(blog.rstudio.com)

   2 points by mwexler 6y ago|0 comments
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   by mwexler 7y ago

   I continue to love my Roku and some of the oddball niche channels. But their ad serving is really immature. From seeing the same ad 3 times in a row to Overt aggressive insertions to sometimes freezing on an external ad feed to the rampan
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   by mwexler 7y ago

   For those wondering: From the site: " Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) is a data structure that simplifies distributed data storage systems and multi-user applications. In many systems, copies of some data need to be stored o
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   by mwexler 7y ago

   Big fan. Great and simple tool.
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   by mwexler 7y ago

   "But... Moore's Law, more hardware!" he plaintively cries out...
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   by mwexler 7y ago

   Hey, just like when you want to get to all the information in the footer like Contact Us, but the moment it appears, it gets scrolled away. I feel like a cat chasing a laser pointer.
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   by mwexler 7y ago

   Love the blinking!
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   by mwexler 7y ago

   If you enjoy this work, you may also enjoy reading other work Peter Fader has done (in cooperation with Hardie in some cases, as in parent post). https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/faderp/#research
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   by mwexler 7y ago

   Surprised not to see the license clearly on the site, but it's under MIT License: https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs/blob/master/LIC...
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    Oh. Not a TV like I expected from the title. :-)
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    This is philosophically interesting, but little of this really is about _running_ a good experiment. Perhaps it's about choosing which ones to run? Kohavi's book will probably provide much more value than this kind of abstract po
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    For a while, Time.gov was one of the poster children for Lazlo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLaszlo ), one of the more interesting cross platform toolsets back in the day (akin to Haxe nowadays). You can see the L
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    So, we often hear that "it's so easy to detect these scam listings" in ebay, amazon, air bnb, here, etc. (same for false reviews, etc.) But if it were so easy, why do companies not work harder to block them out? (I know,
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    And let's not forget Hershey's disaster which they blamed on SAP and their implementation partners, mentioned here with 14 other ERP failures (yes, SAP is predominant, but there are other offenders as well...; article Oct 2019) h
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    Depends on the level of sophistication of the analyst, and if nulls have a meaning or value to the result. Also, at a certain point, knowing that nulls are present gives you yet another measure of dq: not knowing if they are present and hid
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    Null values are so important in representing data. But they cause so much confusion in a) unexpected behaviors in queries and b) inconsistent handling across various engines... I sometimes wish <whisper> that they hadn't been in
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    For everyone wondering what this is: Via https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/1.1.0/gug/preface.html What is Guacamole? Guacamole is an HTML5 web application that provides access to desktop environments using rem
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    And none of these offer the ease of setup, ease of analysis, or ease of recognizing what actions to take that GA offers for $0 license and no hosting fees. These on the list are all admirable (esp. Snowplow) but all assume savvy users to b
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    Here is some history and background about why Shopify did this and the success they saw early on. https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/dev-degree... Disclosure: recent hire at Shopify, not through thi
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    Finicity is actually the old Intuit screen scraping tech. It's been around almost as long as Yodlee. Not to impugn legacy tech or anything, but I suspect there's some cleanup to do there.
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    In many cases, if the APIs are available _and support all the necessary features_, Plaid will work with the bank to use the APIs. Banks have chosen to withhold some info from the APIs that are available on the site, which prevents a full s
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    There is improvement, but it's gone from somewhat unusable to just abysmal, at least in my environment. YMMV, of course.
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    Love the idea of these, after multiple botched attempts to deliver over the last decade. But refresh rate was always the killer for most applications. While I don't expect it to be a gaming monitor, any news on whether the refresh ra
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    I appreciate all the upgrades, but I keep finding that Firefox is abysmal for battery life, even the versions that supposedly have focused on this issue. Have folks found ways to reduce it's power consumption on OSX?
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    This wasn't terrible. Daniel Suarez spend many years as NPR's (National Public Radio in the US) science guy, and so his tech wasn't completely made up.
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    https://www.wolf359.fm/ for those who haven't yet heard this podcast audio drama. Tone changes a bit from early episodes 1-8 or so as the story picks up, but all of it is pretty impressive.
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    The Invention of “Ethical AI”:How Big Tech Manipulates Academe, Avoids Regs(theintercept.com)

    9 points by mwexler 7y ago|0 comments
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    For iOS, I've been using Go Map!! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/go-map/id592990211 Not as nice as StreetComplete but adequate to add some additional data where needed while on the go.
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    Groan. But I still smiled.
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    by mwexler 7y ago

    Simple, given the Emacs defn of "simple" :-)