vash_stampy

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by vash_stampy 15y ago
I think a more generalized solution will still work with this problem. When there's no center (ie beach extends infinitely), the hot dog vendors would choose to be close together for the simple fact that any distance between the two they sh
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by vash_stampy 15y ago
To me, the stance that this professor is taking is absurd. He's not helping anyone but himself giving up on efforts to prevent cheating. I really thought he would have made a compelling argument to resolve this, but it seems more like he's
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by vash_stampy 15y ago
If your biggest incentive you offer is to disrupt the business another product, you must not have a very good product.
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by vash_stampy 16y ago
Sigh....Two things: 1) Performing this sting and it working or failing wouldn't prove if they did it in the past...The cat's out of the bag. Bing or Google could have easily changed their systems. (and I'm sure the way the two incorporat
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by vash_stampy 16y ago
Inadvertently like the Bing toolbar. It has been shown to log every pageview like Bing toolbar. Whether they filter out the pageviews when a user goes to Bing no one knows besides Google. (ie: The article below shows they definetly do not
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by vash_stampy 16y ago
From the article: "Meanwhile, I’m on my third day of waiting to hear back from Google about just what exactly it does with its own toolbar. Now that the company has fired off accusations against Bing about data collection, Google loses the
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by vash_stampy 16y ago
Round and round the speculation wheel goes! Where it stops, no one knows!
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by vash_stampy 16y ago
I like your stock market insider information analogy because it illustrates the flaw in Google's experiment very well. And very few people seem to realize it. I need to modify it slightly though to make it more analogous. Suppose your fin
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by vash_stampy 16y ago
Incorrect, once again to come to that conclusion you would need to test on a site that WASN'T Google as well.
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by vash_stampy 16y ago
Read google's "Bing Sting" experiment on Google's blog. Their test had no control variable (ie: running the same test on another website that wasn't Google). If they had done their expirement on another site and Bing results didn't change