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Ugh, no choice to speed up the videos to 1.5x.
Try this: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1047257214052794368
javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=1.7}();
Bookmarklet for variable multiplier:
javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=parseFloat(prompt(%22Set%20the%20playback%20rate%22))}();
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I know this is a joke, but you're a magnitude more likely to buy something if you've already bought it once. The whole retargeting industry is built on this, but I agree - it doesn't necessarily make it useful.
Depends on the something. If I buy a carton of milk, I'm pretty likely to buy another before too long. If I buy a new refrigerator, probably not. Besides, the point of advertising is to get you to buy things you otherwise wouldn't. It would be pretty pointless to show me an ad that says "you love eggs, you eat them for breakfast every day, so buy some next time you're at the supermarket", because I was going to do th…
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That's not true, putting a product I've already ordered on my recommended list instead of something i actually want to buy is costing them money in lost sales.
Amazon also doesn't know if this is a single use or consumable item. Some things have significant marginal utility beyond 1, and others can be consumed and need to be reordered. (Charging cables, Amazon echo for multiple rooms, paper goods, etc.)
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That's not true, putting a product I've already ordered on my recommended list instead of something i actually want to buy is costing them money in lost sales.
Amazon also doesn't know if this is a single use or consumable item. Some things have significant marginal utility beyond 1, and others can be consumed and need to be reordered. (Charging cables, Amazon echo for multiple rooms, paper goods, etc.)
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We can agree to disagree on that. The certs are useful if your business requires them for whatever reason but my standard take is any cert that doesn’t require hands on learning, such as RHCSA/RHCE/CKA/CCIE, tend to be a pointless exercise in reading comprehension. I say this as someone with several AWS certs.
What are some certs that you believe are worth investing in (i.e. ones that do require hands-on learning)?
RHCSA/RHCE/CKA/CCIE are the first ones that come to mind.
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That's not true, putting a product I've already ordered on my recommended list instead of something i actually want to buy is costing them money in lost sales.
Amazon also doesn't know if this is a single use or consumable item. Some things have significant marginal utility beyond 1, and others can be consumed and need to be reordered. (Charging cables, Amazon echo for multiple rooms, paper goods, etc.)
Yet I bought a color laser printer and my first two pages of recommendations are for other variations on the same ("Hey, you bought the wired MFP! Perhaps you want the wireless too! And I know it's a HP printer, but maybe I can suggest some Brother toner for you!").
I haven't had a lot of time to look at the offering, but can anybody tell me if these courses have any theory, or are they just for promoting specific AWS ML services without going into the underlying complexity?
There is a "Math for Machine Learning" course.
Ugh, no choice to speed up the videos to 1.5x.
Video Speed Controller: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
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It's worth pointing out that this recommendation behavior is only unintelligent if it has a downside, i.e. reduces Amazon's profits. Companies (and their AIs) only care about your business transactions, not whether you're annoyed. I'm sure Amazon engineering is well aware of the jokes about their recommendation engines. But their recommendation engines are not calibrated to reduce jokes, they are calibrated to increa…
That's not true, putting a product I've already ordered on my recommended list instead of something i actually want to buy is costing them money in lost sales.