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My guess was almost correct. The issue was indeed that they use "views with >3 secs" in some metrics and use "all views" in other metrics. Do one of the other, don't mix them up.

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/facebook-gave-ad-agenc...

> UPDATE: Facebook authored a blog post today to futher explain the metric-based miscue. David Fischer, vp of advertising and global operations, wrote: "About a month ago, we found an error in the way we calculate one of the video metrics on our dashboard – average duration of video viewed. The metric should have reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by the total number of people who played the video. But it didn't – it reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by only the number of 'views' of a video (that is, when the video was watched for three or more seconds). And so the miscalculation overstated this metric. While this is only one of the many metrics marketers look at, we take any mistake seriously."

For some reason I just assumed that all the more "serious research" was done in California and completely forgot about DeepMind.

Why do you say that? What they recommend rarely is what I end up watching, but it's usually ballpark correct. So much of what motivates your daily YouTube viewings is externally, so there's only such much you can do. They are aware of this,

> Historical user behavior on YouTube is inherently difficult to predict due to sparsity and a variety of unobservable external factors.

This is super interesting. How would I go about working with these guys, considering that they're in Palo Alto and I'm in London? I understand there's a bunch of hops you have to jump through in terms of visas, but I've never really looked into it.

Does any one know how Palantir started? I.e. from what I can remember it seemed to come out of nowhere. How did they manage to get such huge contracts from the start?

I noticed that too. Also, "leader".

My suspicion (based on nothing) is that they averaged viewing over viewings with length >3 seconds, but _counted_ all views.

I.e. suppose your ad was displayed 5 times for 0.1 seconds and 5 times for 5 seconds. They would report this as "10 views, with average viewing time of 5 seconds".

That was exactly the point I was trying to make when I responded to someone saying "well, with E2E encryption you don't have to trust them". Yes you do.

Well, he said he will accept what the board says. If the board doesn't tell him to return his bonus, they should get sued by the shareholders.

Link please? From reading, it sounded like Elizabeth Warren spanked him.

And how can you not love Elizabeth Warren? <3

Doesn't it? I think it straight up answers your question.

They've had them in Google News for ages. I've been using them for a while, work great (I'm on Android). So well in fact even though I am on the 0.1% of the population that's consciously aware of their tactics, they have already trained me to subconsciously prefer clicking on websites that have their AMP logo, compared to the rest, because I subconsciously know they load much faster.

And so Google edges a bit closer towards complete and through world domination.

You still have to trust that the encryption is indeed E2E as they claim, no?

I mean, whatsapp claims it has E2E encryption, but I've never checked...

Oh man, even funnier than the idea itself is over the top claim that they're going to "reinvent wine". Thanks for sharing.

So... 0.2% of the fires? That's not a great argument.

They even took the motto.

Pageflow - Interactive Storytelling

Maybe he believes that he can use the same money more effectively for causes that he cares more about.

My point is that there's nothing inconsistent in being charitable whilst trying to minimise the amount of tax you pay.

Dude what's your problem? I can't comment on the pictures? Look at the thread, plenty of people are commenting.

No, it's not full of engagement, I'm definitely not saying I have a nice life, at all. But I don't think about food, no. Very very uninteresting. And I can understand someone whose mentality is "you have to eat, might as well make it tasty". But some people it seems have nothing else in their life. And it's not just their food, it's also making sure that you know about their food. It can't be my imagination that people do this. You just need to look at instagram to see it's full of pictures that people take of their food. Ok, so maybe it's not specific to London, maybe it's just my bitterness.

Have you ever been in Vienna? I'm asking because I absolutely love Vienna, and I was recently in Budapest, and it looks like Vienna but poor and decaying. It was a bit sad actually. I was wondering if anyone else has the same impression.

It's fine, I don't care about any of "fantastic arts, music, literary, theatre scenes, both contemporary and classical". I'm quite good at entertaining myself, I guess.

> My girlfriend wants to go back but that's just because "London is the best place in the world"

Exactly. My flatmate says this shit as well. He's someone who commutes 1.5hrs times two each day, and "London is the best place in the world". He doesn't do anything else with his life, because between a 9-5 and 3 hours of tube, the only thing you have energy for is watching tv.

I have come to the conclusion that people who say "London is the best place in the world" are small minded people disguising as worldly. My flatmate for example never lived anywhere else, but he knows London is "the best".

I know that some of these can be sorted by having an obscene amount of money... which I don't.

- insane rent. i'm living in a single bedroom

- poor quality of houses. i can hear the steps of my flatmates outside my rooms

- crowded: neighbourhood in london are either shit, or if they're not they're so crowded you can't do anything. you go to a coffee shop and every seat is taken or if it's not you have to seat between two guys. on the street you can barely walk, bump into people all the time, etc

- travel time: this just sucks my soul away. there is no casual meeting someone, meeting someone is always a taxing excursion.

- Here's one that I've never seen mentioned: is it just me, or is there an abnormally high amount of poserism in London? It's fucking posers everywhere, trying to show you how they know THE BEST place to eat THE BEST food and drink THE BEST wine. Who gives a shit? Is your life so uninteresting that you spend it thinking about food?

sigh. After brexit I've started learning german, so maybe I'll try Berlin next.

If Bezos stance is based on billions of dollars that Amazon lost in AWS fees then I'm even MORE disappointed.

And in any case, if it's true that AWS lost billions, that's the US government's fault, not Snowden.

Bullshit, London hasn't been a good place to live in at least 20 years. You just hung around because you were used to it. London as good things (lots of money, lots of entrepreneurial people), but being "nice to live" isn't one of them.

I do think the UK is very short-termist.

Guys, we all know that Bezos is a micromanaging maniac. Because of this, he must have known (and approved) the stance that the Washington Post was taking on Snowden, right? What do you think?

I must say that I'm disappointed with Bezos...

(Separate point, I've recently been discovering that The Intercept is an outstanding paper. They have some real investigative journalism)

If anything, it's the young who don't know that. The old have been young, the young have never been old.

I understand that the author understands that "that demand" is tourists. What I meant is that you can't measure the amount of demand (tourists) by looking at the amount of supply (restaurants), which the author does.