rgavuliak

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by rgavuliak 1y ago
If anyone knew how to spot unicorns, the industry would be very different.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
If no-one cared about opinions you would be fine with having just one newspaper that writes down the bare facts. The whole appeal of people paying for media is because they value the opinions on top of the facts that should ideally come fro
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
Because Czechia has lived through communism so its propaganda is aimed at a concrete period in history, same with nazism. Also - law needs to be concrete enough to be enforceable.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
Oh the ones that do everything to avoid paying taxes in Europe?
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
> Publishers have just decided to put all their eggs in one basket Isn't that just the ecosystem provided by the Big Tech ad platforms? Publishers at some point very much wanted to sell ads directly as the CPMs were 10x of what they
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
I too worked for a start up that was a combo of services and tech, it too died because the founders got too greedy and tried to spin off a product out of it. Covid had an impact on the business, but I also believe things could have gone bet
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
Wouldn't it then absolve me of my personal responsibility to reprimand the person?It's not me choosing to hold people responsible, it's just something that happens (or doesn't, depending on what was determined)
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
My point was that your preferences don't make for a good business model when it comes to micropayments. What I am telling you that based on online readership patterns, people that read 25 and more articles per month don't make up
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
Let's look at the economics, back when I was working in the paywall industry you had roughly 10% of users reading more than 5 articles on an average medium. Let's say that you could get 2 % of these people to pay you $10 per month
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
> And nearly the entirety of retail sales Not really? Retail is mostly driven by normal transactions. > Aside from logistics, the problem with micro-transactions for news that I can see is that it would encourage only the more sensati
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
It is essential, but the ones I mention are something that is very hard to do without. While there are alternatives they're not widespread and require significant shift in operating style to roll out. Newspaper content is not a necessi
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
You are wrong. There have been multiple attempts at micro-transactions - and they all failed. One of the biggest was Blendle - https://www.pugpig.com/2023/08/18/why-micropayment-champion-... Why? why do most
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
This reminds me of a talk named - Modern Data Science in Go. That line of thinking went nowhere and many arguments in that talk were misleading.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
I don't think the no moat approach makes sense. In a world where more an more content and interaction is done with and via LLMs, the data of your users chatting with your LLM is a super valuable dataset.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
Exactly and wait for 2 weeks to get the correct rights.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
Maybe it's the fact that we've seen VCs and a16 specifically push for highly overhyped things that didn't really come true like WeWork, Crypto? If we go beyond a16, the last decade has shown us VCs pushing for insane valuatio
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
I live in Central-Eastern Europe and every time a recruiter tried to get me to move to the UK, the salary was at best on par with what I made over here. Granted, up until recently I've worked remotely for US and other EU countries.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
UK has pretty bad tech salaries especially for companies located in London and adjusting for living costs.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
Since Grok is too left leaning despite all of Musk's efforts, he needs to get in some more training data that has an alt-right conspiracy bias.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
For the team that worked on a feature for month it's the whole world at the time of release. Being mindful that is not the end-users whole world, but just a tiny insignificant fraction is something easily lost in denial.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
In my first job we've used Hetzner for Data Science work. The we lost servers twice in a year back then.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
I think it's more of a case for legal and HR being conservative and super defensive. Not sure if you've ever handled a contract with an internal lawyer, but in my experience they often go for crazy suggestions that the other side
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
There's also studies on load times impacting conversion rates (which mostly matters at scale i.e. Amazon). At the same time - quantifying this is not straightforward and companies mostly ignore committing resources to such activities.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
I agree fully, most users care about making their lives easier, not about development purity. If you can't do both, the puritanistic approach loses.
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by rgavuliak 1y ago
I had a slightly better experience on my PhD in Central-Eastern Europe. My supervisor - a politician with little academic results mostly cared about the formal part of my results. I used the PhD to get into a new field (statistics) just in
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by rgavuliak 2y ago
How does this reply make sense?
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by rgavuliak 2y ago
Usually I try to tie the clusters to some kind of a bottom line metric. It's not always possible though. To be honest I am not a big fan of segmentation as is, since it results in a set of subjective decisions when both deciding number
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by rgavuliak 2y ago
Elbow method was never working well in practice. In my over a decade of experience I am yet to see a significant separation in the chart.
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by rgavuliak 2y ago
As a person who works with data and has done both consulting and product building in Data Science and lack of domain knowledge is what makes or breaks the end result. Too often do technical people think they know better and then build medio
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by rgavuliak 2y ago
Why would you think that? Cell phone ping data is stored for a good amount of time and generated by a 3rd party that has no involvement in the case. Of course the phone can be given to someone else, but it has advantages over suspect genera

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