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Sentry’s David Cramer on bootstrapping a unicorn

CIO Business Intelligence

Sentry was started as an open source project by David Cramer in 2008 to provide monitoring services for application developers. Tyson: You’re coming up to two years since you added Sentry’s ability to monitor for performance which has some pretty fine-grained metrics in terms of identifying where bottlenecks are located in code.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Nevertheless, A/B testing has challenges and blind spots, such as: the difficulty of identifying suitable metrics that give "works well" a measurable meaning. This is essentially the same as finding a truly useful objective to optimize. accounting for effects "orthogonal" to the randomization used in experimentation.

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Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die, There Is No Try!

Occam's Razor

So it was with absolute delight that I wrote a detailed post about the release of Advanced Segmentation feature in Google Analytics in Oct 2008: Google Analytics Releases Advanced Segmentation: Now Be A Ninja! Acquisition also includes search engine optimization (SEO), because it is an activity on which you spend time and money.

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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

Domino Data Lab

You can home in on an optimal value by specifying, say, 32 dimensions and varying this value by powers of 2. If we were using CBOW, then a window size of 5 (for a total of 10 context words) could be near the optimal value. This is a hyperparameter that can be varied and evaluated extrinsically or intrinsically. Example 11.9