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This needs a video or something on it to show what it does

Congrats on shipping!

- I almost gave up when 'Wiring up your instructor' took quite a while to load

- The instructor voice wasn't the most compelling

- Seeing the written text took away from the voice. I just read ahead instead.

- On mobile (android, chromium) the audio came out of the top speaker instead of the full speakers and I wasn't able to turn the volume up for down. Not ideal since I've not got my phone to my ear. I expect this is a bug since you engaged the microphone at the same time


Thank you, this is really helpful. Every point is fair and I'll be working through all of them.

I appreciate you taking the time to try it and write this up.


I don't think that's right - the scale is logarithmic. The Marshall Plan is 20 times as expensive


And this is why I hate log scale graphs. Even in the cases where it does have a useful effect, 90%+ of people are still going to interpret it in a linear way and therefore make it massively misleading.


It appears this post has been shadow removed from the front page - I assume somebody considered this "off topic"


can it be reported as on-topic to bring it back?


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Comment in the article gets it pretty spot on.

"Please learn the definition of a word before using it. Something isn’t hypocrisy if it takes time to fix due to the pervasive nature of the problem."


> hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

Zuckerberg: "We do not want to be arbiters of truth ourselves..."

Zuckerberg (paraphrasing): "We'll penalize sites we deem to contain inaccurate information."

To be clear, I think the latter stance is appropriate and reasonable in this case. It's also Facebook's right to police content on its system as it wishes. However, I think that in this and many cases, Zuckerberg is being somewhat disingenuous.

This statement in particular is not a huge example, and the article itself is crying wolf somewhat, but it's a mistake to assume good faith from Facebook at this point.


Zuck 3 (paraphrasing): "We're building tools to help states censor things they don't like, independent of the truth of those things."

Consistent with 1, not really with 2. Agree that 2's not a huge deal in the grand scheme of issues with Facebook but yeah, best not to assume good faith lightly.


I've not heard of Seldon before. I'd love to hear your 'elevator pitch' for it?


Seldon is an open-source predictive machine learning platform that includes a high-performance recommendation engine and data enrichment. It can run multiple algorithms and configurations to optimise KPIs. It will shortly include a pluggable architecture to allow data scientists to deploy their custom algorithms.



http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-professi...

Direct link to the blog that goes in to a few details of how they work out the names.


Foobar is a fairly common term in programming as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar#Usage_in_code


In the article you linked to, there is even a short discussion of the possible connection between "foo bar" and FUBAR. If your comment was meant as a rebuttal, it failed.


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