tinymollusk

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by tinymollusk 9y ago
> every time you trick someone it ekes away at their trust and happiness using your platform. But this occurs over many such interactions so it won't show up in your metrics until much later Is there any way to prove when this is ab
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I wonder if a proxy device with some smarts regarding data transmission patterns (learned from when a device is newly added to the network) could provide some security. Get a new device, plug it in to a locked-down network that passes all p
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Do you know if it's easy to start using pyenv with existing projects, or should I wait until my next de novo project?
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Given how bad the modern human is at understanding probability, I see no reason to think the ancients were better.
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
What if closed systems are just that much different than open systems that it's not generalizable? Closed systems don't have Black Swan possibilities. Black swans are sometimes super-linear, jolting results in directions and scal
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
This applies to everything in life. Just because an expert tells you it'll work, doesn't mean it will. Balance the possible negative effects against the possible gains, and once you have learned how it affects yourself, make you
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Good catch, thank you! I've got to update the copy tomorrow, will make a pass through this as well.
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I can help you increase your visit-to-signup conversion rate for free, if you're interested. Just soft launched my own service (www.leadnexus.co), where I will split test your signup forms to find more effective options. Your volume
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
It gives a high-risk group the ability to notify their friends and family and practice what to do in event of a heart attack. My mom frequently stays with me, but outside of "call 911" I don't really know what to do in teh e
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Is something like mod_php what you'd consider a CGI application? I always think of CGIs from before the day when webservers made it easy to integrate a runtime. For me, CGIs were usually binary executables that the webserver handed da
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I remember CGI; curious if you're able to elaborate how you see the analogy.
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
If you're interested, I just finished a conversion tool designed to help sites get more signups. Won't know until we try, but I'm pretty sure I could increase your signups by 30-50%. I'm soft launching this week and wil
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Isn't smoking cigarettes protective against Parkinson's?
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
How did you acquire the visitors? Did they indicate interest with a search or click to get to your site?
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I agree that it feels fairly obvious, but if it were such a strong impact on crime rates, wouldn't that be obvious in the data?
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I use multi-armed bandit algorithms to optimize things. It acts as a self-healing algorithm to minimize opportunity cost / "loss" as it searches the space.
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Broken Windows Theory is at best, hotly contested. The wikipedia article linked above covers the debate (which has been around since the theory was published in 1982, without much resolution in whether the evidence supports the theory).
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Extrapolating previous trends of energy consumption. Historically, technological advances have greatly increased the energy consumption per human. At an accelerating pace (exponential energy consumption growth). According to Geoffrey West
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Very good points. Seems like this leaves us with "trust benchmarks that probably aren't generalizable to your use-case" or "run your own expensive benchmarks before you have the scale to have the data to simulate the sc
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
True, but that is because every major database is good enough for 99% of people even when run on the cheapest linode available ;).
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
But the larger issue -- that they have direct financial incentive to unconsciously bias the results -- still exists. This isn't anything against Arango's team, I'm sure they're lovely people, but even physics experiment
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Because the two agents in this game both benefit by inflating titles, without direct perceivable cost. The CTO/lead gets a better title to inflate their ego and (possibly) future earnings. The company gives the employee something the e
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
The risk you run here is internally over-emphasizing events that happened more recently as more important. That could make them more relevant to your recent experience but not necessarily something of more value than the problems you were
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
You find it ludicrous because you haven't experienced it or seen it with your own eyes?
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
As one of the recent newcomers, should I feel defensive when I read something like this? I understand there are people with much more knowledge. Isn't this true of everyone, in every field? The message I've gotten is "try t
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
^ This is one person's opinion that reflects their own experience. I am a 35 year old who has done development, and may do it again in the future. I have kept my skillset updated by taking several AI courses during a sabbatical. If yo
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
That proves Slack doesn't work in the same sense that it proves frictionless professional interaction doesn't work. As in, it proves nothing except it's an ineffective product for what humans use it for. Same as we'd sa
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
They have those features, and (possibly) those intentions. If I use a chainsaw to slice my morning butter, is that the chainsaw's fault? (I haven't seen Slack identify itself as a document store; I have seen almost every company e
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
This will come across as harsh, but that isn't my intention. My intent is to explore ideas, so I apologize in advance. Are your friends aware that scientific breakthroughs have not typically come with rewards to the observer/iden
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
You Are Not So Smart && The Halo Effect.

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