neophocion
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Comment · 4 years ago
* and bandits/RL
Comment · 4 years ago
Omg what a work of art!
Only comment is that it seems quite heavily focused on graphical models, more bayesian/nn concepts would be great to see in this!
Comment · 4 years ago
Can someone explain why Uniqlo's future rivals will be the likes of Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon rather than Zara?
Comment · 5 years ago
Just checked here from London, Survey Monkey's "Team Premier" prices are $75|£75|€75 per user per month [1]. I don't think the reason behind the price differences is whether they are VAT inclusive/exclusive?
[1] https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/pricing/?ut_source=homepage&u...
Comment · 5 years ago
Yay, thanks!
Comment · 5 years ago
Kyle Poyar [1] has a great article [2] on why usage-based (i.e. having that monthly payment change with usage) is more optimal (and arguably more fair).
In some deeper sense though, I commiserate with your point on technology being alienating through its strive to over-optimize everything. Except, I think much of this friction will inevitably have to be solved by further application of technology itself -- it's always a double edged sword..
In our case, as Abel explained, one of the things we're trying to solve are very apparent international mispricings.
Growing up in post-communist E Europe in the 90s I remember buying pirated games from street vendors. An unawareness of international pricing can easily price out many a potential client! :)
[1]: https://twitter.com/poyark [2]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/29/subscription-based-pricing...
Comment · 5 years ago
Chris these are some fascinating points. If you don't mind, we would love to connect with you. My email is: [email protected]
Comment · 5 years ago
Just listened to this whilst eating dinner. I like his early point about how many data science projects fail because they fail to establish a clear value link. His points about pricing are similar to what we do but his are in a different context (insurance) and we're hoping to become much more of a turnkey solution.
Comment · 6 years ago
tl;dr: Large companies suffer from excess management. As companies grow they add layers of middle management to grapple with the complexities of organizing lots of people. Too often this leads to endless alignment meetings and convoluted decision making. Instead of recommending yet another reorg, the hypothesis here is that companies suffer organizationally because they have a communication problem. Middle Out is a tool that allows employees to see what everyone else is up to and to decide on direction together.
Comment · 6 years ago
tl;dr: Large companies suffer from excess management. As companies grow they add layers of middle management to grapple with the complexities of organizing lots of people. Too often this leads to endless alignment meetings and convoluted decision making. Instead of recommending yet another reorg, the hypothesis here is that companies suffer organizationally because they have a communication problem. Middle Out is a tool that allows employees to see what everyone else is up to and to decide on direction together.