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by mwexler 16y ago
From 2006... have things changed since then? I hope so, but I don't think so...
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by mwexler 16y ago
The MS site ( http://exp-platform.com/ ) has more of Kohavi's papers on how MS uses experimentation across their systems. Worth a perusal if you want more depth than this overview document.
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by mwexler 16y ago
If one has multiple copies of a book, say 5 or more, they can take up less shelf space cover-out than side by side, depending on thickness... which allows you stock a larger, diverse inventory while still having copies in stock for the popu
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by mwexler 16y ago
I was all set to give this post props for it's helpful infographic til I too saw the cheezy ad plug. Even worse, it's not "powered by" or "brought to you by"... it's "This infographic was created by". Disappointing. Though this shouldn't
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by mwexler 16y ago
http://code.google.com/p/olap4cloud/wiki/UserGuide mentions their comparison to Hive... I wonder just how tuned their Hive is to take so much longer than this layer, even without the pre-aggregation. Would row order storage make that muc
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by mwexler 16y ago
This turns out to be a fake joke photo, but the fact that it's fake is pretty well hidden in most reports. http://www.businessrevieweurope.eu/tags/harrods-christmas-li... plants it way at the bottom. Seems like the opposite of what a "
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by mwexler 16y ago
It's not just enough to have or even "use" data. They carefully chose metrics that matter. In their business model, for example, they saw that photo sharing was a primary driver of longevity and of driving additional usage down the socia
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Web bug reveals browsing history(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mwexler 16y ago|1 comments
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Clever Win Mobile TV Ad(winrumors.com)
1 points by mwexler 16y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 16y ago
Absolutely agree with the poor build quality. The velcro tie is particularly poorly sewn on. However, in the US, they were carried by Totes which had a lifetime warranty. I've swapped mine twice now, but I don't know if they still are di
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by mwexler 16y ago
So, in effect, I'm shilling an advertiser's link which has no relevance to my tweet or really to anything else I might be saying or doing at that moment. Fraid I'll pass; I guess I still believe that I should be tweeting and posting thing
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by mwexler 16y ago
Am I only one who was surprised to see not one reference to any research or proof of his claim? That is, anything that shows a situation where people in, say, equal debt situations, 1/2 were given snowball, half given pay big ones first, t
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by mwexler 16y ago
Some great ideas, but still missing smart deduping. This is a real pain when having master feeds and aggregators that might also include those feeds: you may see the same story on the same site multiple times as each aggregation displays i
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Measure Impact of Ads without A/B Test (PDF from Google Research)(research.google.com)
1 points by mwexler 16y ago|0 comments
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A Brief History of Windows Programming Revolutions(drdobbs.com)
3 points by mwexler 16y ago|1 comments
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by mwexler 16y ago
I didn't want to laugh at these last 2 comments... but it slipped out anyway. Nicely done.
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by mwexler 16y ago
Piwik is nice; another open source tool worth looking at is Open Web Analytics, http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ . Both have their advantages and are both under active development.
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Startup guy becomes CTO of Yahoo(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mwexler 16y ago|0 comments
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Scalability, Availability & Stability Patterns(slideshare.net)
2 points by mwexler 16y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 16y ago
This reads like the guy just discovered the phrase "object oriented". I know he's a smarty, but come on, haven't we had the idea of data as objects for years now? Is it that the iphone is the first device to make it usable by restricting
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The Incumbent's Curse(mondaynote.com)
2 points by mwexler 16y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 16y ago
And saving them to cassettes...
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Tips, Tricks And Pointers When Setting Up Your First Hadoop Cluster(allthingshadoop.com)
9 points by mwexler 17y ago|0 comments
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by mwexler 17y ago
I am always curious when reading these articles: How much are about unique optimizations for this specific language vs. general programming tricks. For example, his use of the classic "calling a function on every iteration vs. calling it j
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Microsoft stealth launches 'historic' programming language: F#(theregister.co.uk)
85 points by mwexler 17y ago|31 comments
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by mwexler 17y ago
It appears to now load fine. Unclear why it occurred before, but is now off the NIS list.
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by mwexler 17y ago
FYI, Norton Internet Security blocked this page on my Windows Vista box: "Suspicious Web Page Blocked You attempted to access: http://atbrox.com/2010/02/12/mapreduce-hadoop-algorithms-in- academic-papers-updated/ For your
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by mwexler 17y ago
I'm hoping for the next big breakthrough... getting rid of all those white lines I'm not using, as my scripts are short. Perhaps they can lock the window to 5 lines or so, and then expand as I type. And, to be honest, I don't use all thos
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by mwexler 17y ago
http://www.metablake.com/m/home.html is the home of Blake Shaw who did this analysis; good papers on how to analyze spatiotemporal data... like this taxicab data.
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How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists(journalism.nyu.edu)
1 points by mwexler 17y ago|0 comments

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