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MayanAstronaut

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MayanAstronaut··on Show HN: Instagloss – Save time with variable summarization
Good catch, fixing it right now.
MayanAstronaut··on Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book
Much like search engines combat black hat SEO, amazon and reviews systems can do the same.

It would not be to hard too for amazon. Use reviews that are a 'Verified Purchase' and highly 'helpful' reviews as a training/test set. Then machine learn a weighting to every review based on the (product, reviewer, other reviews, etc features...)

The outcome could actually hinder tactics like this for products that game the system much like how link farms hurt sites they were propping up when Google figured out how to stop sites from gaming a search engine.

MayanAstronaut··on Sans Bullshit Sans
True. The mapping should be in github so people could add all case variations within reason.

I'd personally add (unicorn pivot|Unicorn pivot)--> "Stinking just made BS" on to it.

MayanAstronaut··on Macro-Benchmark with Django, Flask and AsyncIO
Not a good comparison.

At least gevent monkey patch all the flask and django for a async comparison.

Can you make a fourth comparison with this line added "from gevent import monkey; monkey.patch_all()" before the apps are init?

Thanks.

MayanAstronaut··on Free Tax Software Is Bad
That's like saying it was not the Confederacy's fault for trying to stop the Thirteenth Amendment because it ruined their 'business model' too.

If a business pays money to make anyone's life harder then they are bad.

MayanAstronaut··on Text Understanding from Scratch Using Temporal Convolutional Networks
True, it comparisons do a lot better with more features.

This paper looks to just show the major winning aspect of using CovNets as they do not need many features as the deep net learns its own representations of the training data. It more to show CovNets work on more then just vision.

But architeching the pooling layers IS adding complex to the simple input feature set. Therefore the comparison should be of only state of the art ML.

MayanAstronaut··on The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
Very true, every stat has issues.

Take payroll of population that this CEO thinks is a better metric. It totally ignores demographics of a aging population.

Baby-boomers are retiring, how a metric based CEO ignores this shows were the real bias is.

MayanAstronaut··on Sandstorm – An open source platform for personal servers
Looks great but memory usage is ambiguous. What if I load a data structure to over the 1gb allocation?

If I need to load a 1.2gb dictionary the whole thing topple?

MayanAstronaut··on Predominantly
Then whats the point of the voting system?
MayanAstronaut··on Show HN: An app that improves your vocabulary and feeds poor children
Also, many of the reviews are from users without any history.

Apps are already shady, add to this a promise to donate money and you get a down right scam feel from this.

MayanAstronaut··on Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America
Any name and shame sites do not last due to the overload of fake reviews and opinions. The only way is to verify that they stayed there, like what airbnb does or other hoteling and hosteling site do.
MayanAstronaut··on I Can’t Afford a Bachelor’s Degree, So I’m Making My Own
Agreed, it is almost as if he needs a BA in English Lit
MayanAstronaut··on Dear Googles: Stop asking
This is true of all partner+ or close to partner level management due to that they are there for the long haul. They do not have metrics only ideology. In the long haul, brand collapse will be seen; see MS where it has trickled from the bottom to the top, hence the exiting CEO and exec shedding.

But who is implementing and setting all the short term 'features', lower mgmt and ICs. The issue is that ideology is not enough for measuring success in mega corps, data has to used. The translation form ideology to metrics is where they fail.

MayanAstronaut··on Dear Googles: Stop asking
I have no idea why people talk about huge corporations like they have hive mind and are in total unity?

Google is now a mega-corp, comprised of thousands competing for finite success outcomes (raises & promos). It is also data driven hence they look at metrics that are considered success like registers over abandonments. Brand tarnish is a long term outcome, therefore it can not be seen in typical a/b testing cycles. Hence it is ignored, or even gamed upon for short term metric gain. This is true for all corps that equate success with short cycle data driven metrics.

MayanAstronaut··on Intuit Acquires Techstars Startup GoodApril Before Demo Day
Just open source the code. They can not buy all the clones.
MayanAstronaut··on Unlikely Recommendations for Startups and Entrepreneurs
And he works for a SEO company! This is a sales pitch to use his tools.

Unfortunately, the above tips will not work if you are bootstrapped too.

MayanAstronaut··on Fixing Hacker News: A mathematical approach
1. Google is not transparent with its ranking algo. We would need to be.

2. It actually is very cleaning divided, bots & humans. Bad humans have no real power due to point 3.

3. Google has a click traffic amount that is so high that it can only be taken advantage of by bots. Hackernews is tiny in comparison and any algo can be manipulated with just a few bad actors.

MayanAstronaut··on Why I Turned Down $160,000
How did this guy get a 160k base then?
MayanAstronaut··on Dear Mark Zuckerberg
Totally agree with you. It's a game, FB used hard tactics, now he is using public sentiment. It is just an money game in the end. Blog posts like this just hurt both companies perceptions.