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Musings on technology and life by Avik Sengupta. From the department of problems you did not think you had. As you probably know, real numbers are usually represented in computer languages as IEEE floating point numbers, and called floats or doubles depending on precision. Floating point numbers are stored as combination of an. The 2’s power). A double typically takes 64 bits of memory, and consists of 1 bit of sign, 11 bits of exponent, and 52 bits of significand. Read ( show (d) ) = d. The trouble with...
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Amazon recommendations | Mats Stafseng Einarsen
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October 30th, 2011 0 comments. It’s almost 10 years old, but this is an excellent article from Greg Linden. Brent Smith and Jeremy York on how Amazon.com does product recommendations: Amazon.com Recommendations –. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. You may use these. A href= title= abbr title= acronym title= b blockquote cite= cite code del datetime= em i q cite= strike strong. You are currently reading Amazon recommendations.
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July, 2012 | Mats Stafseng Einarsen
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A Tripline map: Morocco, Spain, Portugal. July 2nd, 2012 1 comment. Tripline let’s you create trips on maps. I just have to test how it works to embed their maps, so this blog has a little map tripline of the trip I did of Morocco, Spain and Portugal with @angelarhodes in April/May. Check it out – it’s a cool little thing to play with. Angela’s blogpost: Morocco – Assault on the Senses. You are currently viewing the archives for July, 2012. At Mats Stafseng Einarsen. The Perpetual Travels of Angela Rhodes.
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A Tripline map: Morocco, Spain, Portugal | Mats Stafseng Einarsen
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A Tripline map: Morocco, Spain, Portugal. July 2nd, 2012 1 comment. Tripline let’s you create trips on maps. I just have to test how it works to embed their maps, so this blog has a little map tripline of the trip I did of Morocco, Spain and Portugal with @angelarhodes in April/May. Check it out – it’s a cool little thing to play with. Angela’s blogpost: Morocco – Assault on the Senses. A Tripline map: Morocco, Spain, Portugal. February 20, 2013 at 2:47 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You may use these.
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October, 2011 | Mats Stafseng Einarsen
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October 30th, 2011 0 comments. It’s almost 10 years old, but this is an excellent article from Greg Linden. Brent Smith and Jeremy York on how Amazon.com does product recommendations: Amazon.com Recommendations –. You are currently viewing the archives for October, 2011. At Mats Stafseng Einarsen. The Perpetual Travels of Angela Rhodes. Tim Harford, Undercover Economist. Computer Languages, Systems and Structures. Computer Speech and Language. Computers in Human Behavior. Edsger W. Dijkstra archive.
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June, 2012 | Mats Stafseng Einarsen
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Is your A/B testing effort just chasing statistical ghosts? June 17th, 2012 10 comments. It’s not that easy. Because it actually matters, and matters a lot if you care about your A/B experiments, and not the least about what you. From them. Evan Miller has written a thorough article on the subject in How Not To Run An A/B Test. Here’s how the simulation works:. It runs 1.000 experiments, each with 200.000 fake participants divided randomly into two experiment variants. You can download the script. Keep i...
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Mats Stafseng Einarsen - Part 2
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Useful lists of cognitive biases. June 5th, 2011 0 comments. I just want to share these very cool lists of cognitive biases. It’s so useful to just have an overview of these on hand – and obviously I’m not the only one thinking so, as there are several useful collections out there:. 50 Scientifically proven ways to be persuasive. A Visual Study Guide To Cognitive Biases. 8211; They’re beautiful. Stephen Anderson’s Mental Notes cards: Get Mental Notes. It’s printed and in a leather box! Of my talk from YA...
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Can you detect user emotion with only mouse movements? | Mats Stafseng Einarsen
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Can you detect user emotion with only mouse movements? June 7th, 2011 0 comments. Trying to learn more about how emotion affects ecommerce, I came across the book “eMotion: Estimation of User’s Emotional State by Mouse Motions” by Wolfgang Maehr. But… how is this not available to me in a handy javascript library? I am just dreaming of reading off the emotional state of website visitors per page. Or per blog post for that matter…. Full research paper with numbers here: eMotion. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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3 hugely useful concepts for development team management | Mats Stafseng Einarsen
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3 hugely useful concepts for development team management. August 18th, 2013 1 comment. If you want to achieve anything bigger than yourself, you need others to play along. Even if people management isn’t your calling, knowing how to lead people is a hugely useful skill for anyone who wants to achieve something. Having tried, failed and succeeded in leading development teams in various ways, I want to share these three concepts that has been very useful. 8220;From Good To Great”. August 24, 2013 at 3:39 am.
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What makes a superstar developer? | Mats Stafseng Einarsen
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What makes a superstar developer? June 22nd, 2011 0 comments. A funny discussion is going on at HBR Blogs: Management-type blogger Bill Taylor suggests our culture wrongly celebrates the super-stars, and claims great people are overrated. On the cost of well-functioning teams ( via Igor Sutton. But, to illustrate his example he uses software engineers as an example. Cue outpouring of frustration – Bill’s getting hammered in the comment section. So what’s the problem? In contrast, in the world of “e...
