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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Facebook lied about their video engagement numbers for a long time while telling others measuring it that their methodologies were flawed.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Any idea what the visualization package is here that is creating those charts?
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> Also, why a limit of 8 colors and 12 icons? Why not an arbitrary number of colors and user definable icons? This commonly called the paradox of choice. Satisfaction is often higher when choosing from a limited set of good options than
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> I assume none of the existing platforms you use take money, hold the pot, and disburse to the winner? To be fair, there's a good reason for that! [0] But its not clear that's what's happening. Usually with grey area star
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> Bruley said detectives learned about the potential value of the practice and how to write the warrant applications at an August training seminar held by ZetX, an Arizona-based company that teaches police about cellphone investigations,
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
MBA-type here, the way I have seen data science described in large organizations is much more like an analyst with a more robust set of tools than excel for deriving information/wisdom from data. Using the tools that other "data s
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
I too was frustrated with this article. What is a narrative memo? Is there an outline? Examples?
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Still worrisome. You're assuming that there is a wide distribution of confidence levels in every search. Its very possible with grainy footage that no result is above a reasonable threshold, but the results will still show an ordered l
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Can chrome or Firefox do an "exit but save all my tabs"? I find myself force closing Chrome because I can use the recover tabs when I come back.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
I wonder if the $20 payment was so that Facebook could plausibly claim they _were_ distributing internal apps to employees? I'm sure "employees" is defined loosely enough in the agreement to include "contractors", a
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Blocking tracking pixels is fairly common I think for privacy conscious folk. In the email marketing world, not being able to distinguish recipients that are intentionally blocking tracking with recipients who are not interacting is a known
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> The score includes about 80 variables including how long they spent on the school’s website, whether they opened emails and at what point in high school they started looking on the website (the earlier the better). So a student who (wi
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> Most companies never get paid acquisition channels to work... Is this true? Or is it one of those truisms where there are exceptions but you shouldn't assume you'll be one of them.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
If there was a rule that functions could only return named variables (vs expressions that evaluate to a value that is returned) it would get closer to "this function accepts paramName1 and paramName2 and returns sumOfParams".
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> Community Actions could unite neighbors to request change from their local and national elected officials and government agencies. But it could also provide vocal interest groups a bully pulpit from which to pressure politicians and bu
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Fun fact: a lot of ETFs and index funds generate revenue on the backend by lending out the stocks they hold and charging a bit of interest to the borrower.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
As a developer, no. As a consumer, yes.
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I'm kind of conflicted about that. A strongly explanatory variable is valuable to have in order to control for its effects. Voluntarily removing it reduces the usefulness of the derived statistics and in this case I guess seems to make
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
I think if Google Maps was an optional download and said "when you use Google Maps we are tracking where you are so we can show you things and know what kind of traffic is around", and when Google Maps was off or uninstalled they
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> Most ploughmen can’t imagine not ploughing. Why would they stop doing something they had always done? ... As a ploughman once said to me: “The plough’s been here for far too long for it not to be right.” If the no-till movement is corr
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
You have a very optimistic outlook on the response of the academic community to findings which refute long-help beliefs.
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> user IDs which by definition are all changeable, since they are essentially aesthetic symbolic pointers towards primary keys and bundles of identity Citation needed? A fingerprint can absolutely be used to generate a hash that function
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Nah. The irony is that while staying private, being combative with governments and relying on independent contractors to operate their business allowed them to reach this size, it also prevents them from having any leverage to ask for a bai
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
I took two notes from this that I can use in my day job doing this kind of thing: 1) Don't use approaches that are black-box in nature if they will negatively impact people who have a say in its adoption. Stay simple or create tools th
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Yeah but why? Is there more traffic at those times? Does it conflict with other activities that the parents plan to do?
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
> By the time you've excluded all the possible activities that someone could find isolating, you've got a pretty boring work environment. Or you could list the attributes that you expect people to have during the hiring process
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Its not the presense of the thing or the ability to decline, its the impact on those not taking part. If colleagues consuming alcohol exclude non-drinkers by their intentional or unintentional actions or make them feel like less of a team m
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by philipodonnell 8y ago
Its not the thing, its the impact on the "normal" 9-5 worker. Its great that the company did that on the weekend, but they clearly didn't think it was good during the normal work week, which was my point.
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We already single out certain social things as just not a good idea in the workplace/events even though its common socially: public displays of affection, having lots of kids around, single-sex activities... Its isolating/disrupti
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> I don't even see why it's considered a hack. It seems straightforward, but the alternative would have been to establish a network of local photographers with contracts and agreed rates, scheduling software, performance manage

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