mathteddybear

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by mathteddybear 1y ago
yeah, we called that data mining, decision systems, and whatnot... mapreduce was as fresh and hot as the Paul Graham's essays book... folks were using Java over python, due to some open source library from around the globe... essentia
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by mathteddybear 1y ago
Yeah, no - quite a chunk of IMO problems are planar and 3d geometry, and you don't really do that at university level (exception: specializing in high school maths didactics)
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by mathteddybear 1y ago
The cheat code is to substitute it with something like rollerblading. But you'll need to practice it ~3x longer each time, and aint' nobody on HN got time for that.
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by mathteddybear 1y ago
It is 'incredibly efficient' because it is incredibly good at predicting clicks, conversions, or even conversion values. Which in turn makes it efficient. Sure, there is something called "auction" there, but Sothesby&#x2
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by mathteddybear 1y ago
Yeah, but this convenience goes well beyond the "one payment button". If you order food directly, you won't have the delivery tracking on the map. Even within the app, if the restaurant provides their own couriers, you lose t
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by mathteddybear 1y ago
Yeah it's kind of a different standard There is a section 2.1.3 "Online platform studies versus lift tests" in the article. For the marketing tools purpose, you can use either (or some mixture of both). There are pros and con
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
It is computer science folk-lore. Pretty sure I read about it in some popular computer magazine in 90's.
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
In my humble experience some time between 2006-8 and 2013. Unless they hid it that well from us interns. It's not the only thing that changed. Good thing, my manager joined Google back in these older years, so, for instance, he could s
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
The values of G1 and G2 are computed by a complex algorithm, however, that algorithm is agnostic of the position of the ad in the auction. Unlike the constant factors (1+a) and (1+b) applied on top of that. Other companies in that auction c
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
No, project Bernanke wasn't about that. At that time, the exchange was a second-price auction, and all parties could submit up to two bids (presumably, the top two bids from their own collection of advertisers). Let's call the Goo
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
You could make it a dating sim. Less drama than in the "Wild Hunt" movie, please. Generally speaking, we have all kind of LARPs in the sword-and-sorcery scene - battle LARPS - no story, just hit the participants belonging to the o
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
When I was in FAANG I picked up Skyrim modding as a hobby, and this year I'm working on monetizing it, in style.
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
can't speak for others, but BCID is this thingy: maybe your team has some petabytes quota in the datacenter, but as a software engineer, you no longer can test your number-crunching data-processing program by running it there, not befo
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
These are product-oriented tech companies, while the contracting pertains to e.g. custom software development. What follows is that these companies have enough revenue to afford FAANG salaries. And FAANG employees in foreign countries have
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
Before I understood recursion, to solve Hanoi towers I looked back at the earlier positions of the output buffer
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
Creating videogames can be nerd sniping, too
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
As someone who moves out of Bay Area back to home country and looks forward to spice up early retirement with small-time gamedev, I find the economics of indie development not that simple. Generative AI notwithstanding, in order to make a g
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
But it's not a thesis of Die Deutschen Wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken nach dem Krieg, it's just a quote, and it does not support that "most of the knowledge lost in the war in todays Poland was actually knowledge of german c
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by mathteddybear 2y ago
Well, if it is any help, the guy who made this forum once published a book with a collection of his essays. Various topics, including how to become a rich person, in what ways graduate studies are helpful in creating software. Might make se
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
Bill Lewis, I presume, called it more or less like that https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0310016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpI8hIgOyko Soon later, "debugging backwards in time" morphed int
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
Try reverse image search for a cartoon from DeviantArt, 99% links in the results redirect you to unrelated pr0n sitez. We're talking that kind of spam
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
They don't need to win IMO, they need to get a gold medal. I got a gold medal at IMO solving 4 out of 6 problems I don't want to speculate, but it's not inconceivable that this will be achieved by AI within the future lifetim
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
An oddly dramatic response to a blog post of someone working on a, what is this flutter, some frontend framework library? Counterpoint - since I left Google, little birds told me good things happened, for example, cranking down on the trave
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
Yes, on Desktop users tend to switch to Google. Google could end up benefiting financially from the court ruling these deals illegal. Until the court does so, Apple sells advertising space on their new iPhones in the form of the default sea
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
USD exchange rates affects the earning statements more than ChatGPT (which has about 1.5% queries of Google search iirc)
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
But that's not what the witness expert claims. He said "squashing". Google used a second price auction, and also it ranked ads in the auction by bid multiplied by click through rate. Squashing is something like ranking ads by
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
This trial is antitrust, not fraud, so Google lawyers will be rebutting it only to the point it helps them. And they will try to keep it sealed anyways. Since it doesn't seem that either party is willing to describe the auction algorit
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
Professor Whinston didn't work at Google, did he? He just makes his opinion based on some emails found in the discovery? For all we know, it is equally plausible that Google at some point launched a new prediction model, and in a traff
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
Too bad the DOJ attorney does not "grill" over that. Instead, quote the Reuters article > Dahlquist asked Juda if they had introduced changes to ad sales in a way that raised the cost-per-click by a consumer that advertisers pa
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by mathteddybear 3y ago
That's an interesting remark, for your profile links to Google Cinema Club, among other things, so I take it you're not based in China yourself. Regarding the article and the auctions, I recall the internship at Google in the noug

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