seregine

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   by seregine 18y ago

   His "avoid sets" principle reminds me of the argument that Lisp is counterintuitive because people don't think in lists.
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   by seregine 18y ago

   We only require you to sign up when you're submitting a personal shopping request (i.e., engaging people to do work on your behalf). Looking at other people's requests and reports is entirely free to unregistered users. Thanks for expressin
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   by seregine 18y ago

   Yeah, that's clearly subpar. We'll have to do something about it soon, but it's not quite our top priority yet (report quality and site navigation are).
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   by seregine 18y ago

   True. The older a report, the more likely we are to have 'misfire' recommendations. We still have some, but they're getting much less frequent.
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   by seregine 18y ago

   Thanks, glad you like it. Dull colors, and you're not the first to say that. Hmmm.
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   by seregine 18y ago

   If I had a working AI, I'd be sitting pretty.
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   by seregine 18y ago

   Thanks! Now all we've got to do is execute.
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   by seregine 18y ago

   If you know businesses interested in licensing a version of ClayValet, please send them my way.
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   by seregine 18y ago

   Thanks for the suggestion. You know, we've gone back and forth on offering a variety of more structured forms. In this case, it probably does make sense.
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    by seregine 18y ago

    We're showing some affiliate links (when the recommended merchant happens to be an affiliate), but we're concerned about possible misperceptions of bias.
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    by seregine 18y ago

    We show ads to users who aren't signed in. We're experimenting with affiliates, but we're careful to put in affiliate tags after recommendations are generated. If ads and affiliates become a serious concern for our users, we'll ditch them.
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    by seregine 18y ago

    We plan to charge for a premium version of this service (underway).
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    by seregine 18y ago

    We break up this work into smaller tasks, and use Mechanical Turk for some of the tasks.
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    by seregine 19y ago

    I rarely get pissed off at other people; for me that's usually a sign that I'm insecure about something and unwilling to admit it. But I do get tired and unmotivated now and then. When I catch myself procrastinating, I just say "OK, I'm goi
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    by seregine 19y ago

    If you get into Mechanical Turk and have questions about it, shoot me an email. I worked on it at Amazon, and I'm using it in my current project.
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    by seregine 19y ago

    Registration is not extremely minimal, I just went through it. It took about 5 steps, two of which were email confirmation. Once I did complete registration, I was not logged in - why not? Instead you showed me a "2. Player Information" s
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    by seregine 19y ago

    Monday Starts on Saturday (by the Strugatskii brothers) A programmer on a road trip through Siberia picks up two hitchhikers, who recruit him for the ideal job: to take over the computation center at the research institute of enchantment an