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Comment · 3 years ago
The robot needs a speaker so it can yell "Parkour!" during each jump
Comment · 3 years ago
The reverse is true as well. I traveled in India with a friend from China who used their Chinese sim card in India, and their data was censored through the firewall. Really annoying to be outside China and not able to use Google maps.
Comment · 3 years ago
Railscasts taught me so much when I was first learning web development right out of university. I used to watch Railscasts episodes religiously when they came out. I don't know if I would have grown as much as a developer without being exposed to the whole ecosystem of tools and techniques that Railscasts presented - I'd often discover libraries existed that solved problems I would never have known to seek out otherwise. Thank you for the time and effort over the years producing the episodes @rbates! Looking forward to hearing the full story in the next installments!
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for pointing this out! I update the post to note that this is a Multi-Armed Bandit problem, and linked to this comment in the updates section.
Comment · 5 years ago
I updated the post to note Thompson Sampling and added a note about using only recent data as a potential improvement and linked to this comment. Thanks for this note!
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for pointing this out! I updated the post to note that this only works well if the conversion rate stays constant, and linked to this comment.

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