phrixus

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by phrixus 8y ago
I love that they make their traffic numbers available. I have been using ddg and graphing/predicting the next days traffic since March here: https://qunc.co/ddg . Definitely a different trajectory since late summer.
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by phrixus 8y ago
I don't want to hijack or anything, but just want to also link to a project I did that also looked at these ads and lets you browse/categorize them interactively: https://qunc.co/russia_facebook_project/
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by phrixus 8y ago
If the only concern is about unbound potential losses, You can cap your risk by buying far out of the money calls
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by phrixus 8y ago
Some stats about the data set: There were 3,419 ads. They had approximately 40 million impressions. Approximately 3.7 million clicks. And, surprisingly to me, cost only around 117,000 USD in total
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Show HN: Interactively View, Categorize, and Tabulate the Russian Facebook Ads(qunc.co)
3 points by phrixus 8y ago|1 comments
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by phrixus 9y ago
I remember 10 years ago Nuance used legal threats to eliminate competition in this field, to the extent that greatly discouraged any startup speech recognition companies. Google was able to get around it, just because they became heavier..
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by phrixus 9y ago
Haha, or famously, David Brooks' high-school educated friend who is confused by sandwiches https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruinin...
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by phrixus 10y ago
Michael Maurer's IRC Poker Database is a little old (2001) but here is a link http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/irc_poker_database.html
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by phrixus 11y ago
This is my thought as well. So you fit a curve to a sorted list of each employees sick time. Does this give you any additional insight? So it follows a log function. Does that mean anything? If you do a histogram and fit a function you get
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by phrixus 12y ago
to the OP, it seems you cofounded Vivisimo: What were your experiences after being acquired by IBM?
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IBM Watson Group buys AlchemyAPI(techcrunch.com)
2 points by phrixus 12y ago|0 comments
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by phrixus 12y ago
Nicholas Nassim Taleb calls this solving problems 'via negativa'
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by phrixus 12y ago
+1 for Thrown by Kerry Howley
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by phrixus 12y ago
Wow, the extensive comment section is eye-opening to me, in how little consensus there exists about the validity of models, line-fitting, and prediction.
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by phrixus 12y ago
Thanks for posting this, I plan to try it out.
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by phrixus 12y ago
There are several of these image classifiers now that someone should run an accuracy/speed/price comparison between AlchemyAPI: http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemyvision/ UToronto Rekogn