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by zukzuk 9y ago
Facebook is going all in on conversion optimization — "increasing ad efficiency" as you put it. They've gotten really good at it, and I think there's a whole lot of room for it to get much better. This is especially true
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by zukzuk 9y ago
... but also a very bad idea in practice, as most devs eventually find out. Using the Redux store in lieu of state spreads code that could otherwise be self-contained all over your codebase. It's a good way to make a huge mess and writ
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by zukzuk 9y ago
Top Hat — a Toronto based post-startup — has successfully gone against just about every point in this article. This article is full of whatever the inverse of survivorship bias is.
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by zukzuk 9y ago
A not-so-subtle way of pointing out that these are all profit-seeking companies? A lot like how people used to write Micro$oft, back when Bill Gates was the nerds' devil. We're all sophisticated financially-aware grown ups now, so
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by zukzuk 9y ago
The pseudo-colonial takeover of Poland that this article alludes to was already unmistakable when I visited some three years ago. The cities — especially the malls and shopping districts — looked much like they do in western Europe, complet
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by zukzuk 9y ago
Came here to say more or less this. A centralized power grid was perhaps unavoidable, but now that decentralization is a possibility, the sooner the better. Nuclear is a good option when compared to big gas or oil plants, but what we really
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by zukzuk 9y ago
I hunted a mosquito in my bathroom last night. It's dead now — a successful hunt — but I did not enjoy it one bit.
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by zukzuk 9y ago
The difference being that with plants, you really don't have much of a choice. You have to eat something. Stalking deer, on the other hand, is definitely optional.
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by zukzuk 9y ago
I'm totally perplexed at how you can appreciate something and still want to kill it.
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by zukzuk 9y ago
This is thorough and overall really well done, but after reading through Part 1, I can't help but trot out Brian Cantwell Smith's "The Limits of Correctness" https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492&#x2
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by zukzuk 10y ago
The distinction between "know how" (aka procedural knowledge) and "know that" (declarative knowledge) is a favourite in cognitive science, but I think it is a bit shallow. I guess the point I'm making here is that &
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by zukzuk 10y ago
One of the more interesting proposals I was faced with as part of my Cog Sci & AI undergrad was that we do indeed have ways of communicating that subjective/experiential knowledge — knowledge which is otherwise ineffable. Art is on