placidpanda

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by placidpanda 1mo ago
Moving into the "physical world" helped me immensely. * A paper calendar (ideally the kind with boxes for each day) * Prompts inside the boxes if relevant, like for pill 1, pill 2, pill 3 * Dedicated physical space, with the assoc
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by placidpanda 2y ago
Hadn't heard of PostHog before stumbling on this post. Just wanted to mention that "hybrid product analyst/product manager" caught my eye, and your other material on product management is great!
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by placidpanda 2y ago
People have been putting their business into spreadsheets and then tweaking one number for so long they've lost the plot completely. It's like if you sold cheeseburgers and thought "what if we charged the same price, and didn
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by placidpanda 2y ago
I can see the misunderstanding, but I was not actually describing parimutuel betting (horseracing). In parimutuel betting the odds continue to change up until the race even once you've placed your bet ensuring that the payout is always
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by placidpanda 2y ago
Sportsbooks make money by taking bets on both sides of a game and offering odds that work in their favor. For example, even on an "even money" bet, you might have to bet $105 to win $100. The more one-sided a game seems, the bigge
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by placidpanda 2y ago
I'm confused about the using the greyscale map tiles to estimate ping. You don't want to have the users ping the servers themselves because those pings could be inaccurate or noisy, so you use historical average data for users in
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by placidpanda 3y ago
Anecdote: eye exercises and subsequent vision therapy (went to an ophthalmologist out of pocket) were very beneficial for me (someone with mild myopia and no other diagnosed conditions), I'm thankful I did it, and would recommend to ev
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by placidpanda 4y ago
When doing this in the past, I settled on an sqlite database with one table that stores the compressed html (gzip or lzma) along with other columns (id/date/url/domain/status/etc.) Also made it easy to alert on when
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by placidpanda 4y ago
I'm a product manager. His post doesn't seem unreasonable. Product managers are often hired to be a cat's paw for an unsustainable and/or ineffective way of getting technical work done. This is what many businesses want
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by placidpanda 4y ago
The main reason that I think I make good decisions in the absence of data, is because of how much I've relied on whatever data is available to inform my decisions and learn going forward. This is a huge advantage to multivariate testin
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by placidpanda 4y ago
I don't think it's actually risk aversion or not. The risk is not precisely and exactly quantified. The uncertainty isn't precisely quantified. This isn't an experiment where someone is asked "Would you like to have
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by placidpanda 4y ago
I am also team bayes for all the reasons you stated, but do want to argue a couple counterpoints: * While you don't have to have a fixed sample size up front, you can still "cheat" in a bayesian analysis if you peek constantl
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by placidpanda 4y ago
Right you are, but in defense of the author, understanding this concept while looking through readouts done by past colleagues has also made me feel depressed at times.
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by placidpanda 4y ago
In my work experience so far, when it comes to A/B testing what I've observed is that: * The better the tooling in general increases the proportion of people doing it _wrong_, because when it was harder, this selected better for p
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by placidpanda 4y ago
> What I don't understand is why power would be so relevant. Doing the A/B test itself has a cost greater than just building the feature and releasing it (supporting two variants in production), and beyond that you also need to
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by placidpanda 5y ago
This is really cool. I don't understand something about the architecture though -- you mention it relies on Postgres FDW. When you install Steampipe are you installing Postgres locally and using that, or are you using a remote postgres
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by placidpanda 5y ago
Since there were a lot of people clamoring for more updates, subscription licensing, etc. I just wanted to add some volume to the opposing viewpoint. I registered my copy of sublime text maybe 8 years ago. Before that I had used Notepad++ f