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What does this even mean? Is it really possible to build models where the conversion label itself is not deterministic due to ATT and has to be predicted by another probabilistic model?
A good article. > This level of investment simply isn’t viable for a company like Snap or Twitter or any of the other also-rans in digital advertising (even beyond the fact that Snap relies on cloud providers instead of its own data centers) Let's change the industry to autos: "Funbag Autos has a massive investment in aluminum companies. This level of investment simply isn’t viable for a company like Tesla ... (even…
> In other words: "vertical integration is good." It can also weigh you down and keep you from advancing your technology. Counterexample: Apple.
In any case, it's never a simple answer: vertical integration has advantages and disadvantages.
I quiet quite Facebook about a year ago. This wasn't intentional or purposeful, the platform was just no longer serving content that I found interesting. My browers is still logged in though and I see ads by Facebook while browsing other sites. Am I still considered a DAU? If so, is Facebook the new DoubleClick?
No.
Seeing VR and AR as any kind of substitute for analog interactions shows the culture/lifestyle divide in plain english.
I enjoy entertainment, but the 21st century has so many options that do not require any flavor of fiction.
I agree with the authors capitalistic view that if facebook disappeared, there would be another to replace it (if there was a market there).
With the ratio of illiteracy, i can't say that much of social media was anything except a time suck of filtering inferior and/or obsolete gibberish.
I worked on my golf swing instead. And by chance, it has stayed 100% analog, without adding any technology to it.
I'm a technology native too and was introduced to golf about 8 years after technology.
A good article. > This level of investment simply isn’t viable for a company like Snap or Twitter or any of the other also-rans in digital advertising (even beyond the fact that Snap relies on cloud providers instead of its own data centers) Let's change the industry to autos: "Funbag Autos has a massive investment in aluminum companies. This level of investment simply isn’t viable for a company like Tesla ... (even…
> In other words: "vertical integration is good." It can also weigh you down and keep you from advancing your technology. Counterexample: Apple.
Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. But the real story is simply Human Nature at work. Everyone ( or at least a sufficient amount of people with Power ) hates Facebook. And they need a good story to shit on it.
I quiet quite Facebook about a year ago. This wasn't intentional or purposeful, the platform was just no longer serving content that I found interesting. My browers is still logged in though and I see ads by Facebook while browsing other sites. Am I still considered a DAU? If so, is Facebook the new DoubleClick?
> Am I still considered a DAU? No.
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He doesn’t defend the metaverse spending. He argues it’s not that much comparably but a) that’s kinda subjective. Is 10 out of 40 billion a lot? and b) that’s no defense really.
>The problem with this line of reasoning is that Meta’s capital expenditures are directly focused on both of the two main reasons for alarm: TikTok and ATT. That is because the answer to both challenges is more AI, and building up AI capacity requires a lot of capital investment. >In the long run, though, this investment should pay off. First, there are the benefits to better targeting and better recommendations I ju…
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According to the article, this is a myth. > Myth 5: Meta’s Spending is a Waste Any rebuttal to the arguments he makes?
He doesn’t defend the metaverse spending. He argues it’s not that much comparably but a) that’s kinda subjective. Is 10 out of 40 billion a lot? and b) that’s no defense really.
Even if they don't sell a lot of headsets, they will probably have more experience than anyone else on what works and doesn't, and how that relates to the experiences they need to create. Of course this depends on VR actually mattering, which I doubt. Perhaps some of that will apply to AR, though when that goes mainstream is another big question.
* Normally the adjective "heroic" would be appropriate to describe the level of effort, but somehow I can't use that word when talking about a company, much less one like FB.