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by skronch 3y ago
It's unfortunate for DPReview that this happened after they already lost their best talent (Chris and Jordan over at DPReview TV)
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by skronch 5y ago
Is there a way to specify the % of income that is allocated to cash holdings vs. investments? The modeller seems to assume that I will keep all future income as cash, which seems unrealistic.
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by skronch 6y ago
The people who build FB's ads platform have their performance judged by metrics like revenue, eCPM, and internal relevance scores. Building capabilities to add arbitrary human-defined rules into those optimization functions only makes
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by skronch 6y ago
This is a pretty good resource: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
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by skronch 6y ago
IMO large social media platforms are actually much more capable of running these experiments than academics. (Disclaimer: I work on ads at one of these companies). Platforms can accurately determine who engaged with an ad (basic logging on
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by skronch 6y ago
I remember them being pretty infallible from 1998-2006.
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by skronch 6y ago
The 'skype' name in the network requests is more a remnant of a last minute change from the internal product name (Skype Teams) than a statement of the technologies underpinning the product. The Teams comms/meeting stack was
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by skronch 6y ago
This is akin to saying "I've heard enough of these NHTSA reports every week when car accidents happen. The thing is, I don't care. I just want things like this to never happen again." A 0% error rate is a great aspiratio
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by skronch 7y ago
There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the article, but this isn't one of them imo. It's pretty easy to find a few locations that fit that description, here's one: https://goo.gl/maps/GpJLjQBiL
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by skronch 9y ago
For the cost of construction or the land itself? The post is from November 2016, which could explain inaccuracies in the latter.
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by skronch 9y ago
In December 2011, TripAdvisor was spun off from Expedia in a public offering. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TripAdvisor#cite_note-16 ]
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by skronch 10y ago
Hopefully it will see more adoption than Force Touch on the Macbooks though.
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by skronch 10y ago
Note that these are the top 200 trending apps (not most used or popular iOS apps), so the data set will skew towards newer (and more likely to be written in Swift) apps.
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by skronch 10y ago
linking the actual comic in question (since it wasn't immediately obvious in the article): http://www.kcci.com/news/39341462