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Tip Jar Economy

Simple Sharing Page A clean, simple landing page with an embedded HTML5 audio player (and audio cards for Twitter and Facebook). Embeddable Audio Player Paste this code to embed an HTML5 audio player with controls. Download URL Useful if you want to create a direct download link, embed in your own player, post from another […]

Building Postcards for “Airbnb” Scale

Formatted Translations We take the listing of each booking request and fetch the city and country from the listing service and check to see if that destination was in our curated set of formatted destinations loaded into our i18n service. We then take the best fitting artwork and embed the localized destination text on it […]

Improve Your Next Experiment by Learning Better Proxy Metrics From Past Experiments

We are excited to share our work on how to learn good proxy metrics from historical experiments at KDD 2024. This work addresses a fundamental question for technology companies and academic researchers alike: how do we establish that a treatment that improves short-term (statistically sensitive) outcomes also improves long-term (statistically insensitive) outcomes? Or, faced with […]

There Never Was a Rug

Simple Sharing Page A clean, simple landing page with an embedded HTML5 audio player (and audio cards for Twitter and Facebook). Embeddable Audio Player Paste this code to embed an HTML5 audio player with controls. Download URL Useful if you want to create a direct download link, embed in your own player, post from another […]

Rewriting Strangler Fig

Two decades ago, I posted that I found that the strangler fig plant was an interesting metaphor for the gradual replacement of a legacy system. I didn’t refer to the metaphor since, but meanwhile it grew a life of its own. Other people increasingly referred to the strangler fig approach to modernization, and traffic to […]