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by p0pcult 4y ago
They should all quit, demonstrate who actually holds the power.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
No, earnings have been going down because Apple fucked Meta with Apple's policy change on asking for consent to be tracked. Meta has even stated as much in various earnings calls since this happened. This has severely hurt Meta's
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by p0pcult 4y ago
"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful. So the people that can make the company more successful a
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Advertising is a virus that will filter through its hosts until the host is killed.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I still have 3. They have everything I want in a watch: vibrating alarm, long battery life, calendar functionality. I also use an app that stores my 2FA tokens/passcodes, so that if i ever lose or am away from my phone, i still have
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by p0pcult 4y ago
People online called you entitled because you were complaining about how hard life is on 200k.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Entilement is making your own decision and then whining about its consequences.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
This comment reeks of entitlement. I can barely get by on a salary in the top 5%
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Woof. I once got a gift card to a meal kit subscription service, that forced me to sign up for a (cancelable) subscription to use the gift card, which wasn't even high enough value to get a single delivery. I think this hits 3 of the
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by p0pcult 4y ago
For a watch that you can no longer buy from OEM or get OEM support from, it's a lot, no?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
You are conflating the statistical meaning of bias with a social meaning of bias. A statistically unbiased model would be (for example) in which it has the same false positive rate at identifying humans from image data, for varying races, o
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by p0pcult 4y ago
You failed to show evidence that the media is claiming that white people disproportionately commit hate crime.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
You're right; GP is just trying to make an unwarranted political point.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
In fact, the article cites the kind of bias that warrants eliminating. One example is the misidentification of people with dark skin by facial recognition technology, as this has led to the arrest or incarceration of innocent people. Not,
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I think with this response, you reveal more about yourself and your worldview, than any general truth about others.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
NFTs to the rescue.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I definitely appreciated it, though that probably didn't come through in my comment. Thanks for sharing!
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by p0pcult 4y ago
No, you misquote me. I said that is is impossible to observe incrementality. It is rather trivial to estimate incrementality, statistically, but all statistical models produce estimates. Not observations. How do you get the data if you
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Replying here, because I cant reply to your comment several levels down. I can see how you would have that perspective as a third-party analyst of conversion. It's actually easy to do if you are the exchange/sell-side provider of
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by p0pcult 4y ago
You just need the data on who does (and by extension, doesn't) see the ad, as well as the shopping behavior of those same people. Both of which can be had by someone who isn't supplying the ad space or the exchange.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Incrementality, as defined in my original post, is the sales that would have not occurred, had the ad not occurred. It is impossible to actually observe what would have happened, had there been no advertisement, because there in fact was
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Yes, and the fact that "incrementality" is inherently unobservable.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
<edit> I should point out that we were measuring brick & mortar sales, not clickthroughs. So no cross site tracking involved. Maybe that's the easiest way to clear things up for you? </edit> If you look at a dist
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by p0pcult 4y ago
For the economist in you: There's a book on this topic that explicitly draws the parallels to the housing market meltdown, "Subprime Attention Crisis." There is also a professor at Columbia, Kinshuk Jerath, who has written e
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by p0pcult 4y ago
That's fair, and reasonable. However, to a data scientist, this looks like an anecdote and not data.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
There's a lot more collusion going on here as well. I work in the ad measurement/ad tech industry; it is rife with misaligned incentives. Ad measurement companies have no incentive to accurately report the incremental sales (i.e.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I use a Pi-hole for all my adblocking needs. https://pi-hole.net/ $15 solution. I'm sure HN readers can tackle this.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Which policy was on point? Borrowing to fund tax cuts for the rich?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Go visit Chadron, Nebraska sometime. On foot. You'll see the error in your generalization.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Funny that you chose pendulums: https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/artificial-intelligenc ...

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