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Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated with movies. I loved the characters and the excitement—but most of all the stories. I wanted to be an actor. And I believed that I’d get to do the things that Indiana Jones did and go on exciting adventures. I even dreamed up ideas for movies […]
Jio Down Jio users started reporting possible problems in their network. Jio Down in India News Today: Days after the social media platforms witnessed a mega outage, Jio users reported a technical glitch as they claimed that the network was down and that they were facing issues with their Internet connections and mobile networks. As […]
X, formely known as Twitter, Down News: User reports indicate problems at X People wondered why X was not working. X, Twitter, Down News Today: A few days after Meta apps Facebook and Instagram witnessed a mega outage, X web started showing troubles as several users reported it was working in India which could be because of […]
This article is the first in a series of posts I’m writing about running various SaaS products and websites for the last 8 years. I’ll be sharing some of the issues I’ve dealt with, lessons I’ve learned, mistakes I’ve made, and maybe a few things that went right. Let me know what you think! Back […]
Intro topic: Jogging Metrics News/Links: Unholy LLM https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13B The reverse red herring https://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herring The “ens–tification” of TikTok https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ Response letter to Godot is not the new Unity https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/ https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21 Book of the Show Patrick: Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin https://amzn.to/48qlg9A Jason: The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates https://amzn.to/3LChBff Patreon […]
Introduction Personalization is vital to connect our unique marketplace to the right buyer at the right time. Etsy has recently introduced a novel, general approach to personalizing ML models based on encoding and learning from short-term (one-hour) sequences of user actions through a reusable three-component deep learning module, the adSformer Diversifiable Personalization Module (ADPM). We […]
Mastodon is a free, open-source social networking service that is decentralized and distributed. It was created in 2016 as an alternative to centralized social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. One of the key features of Mastodon is the use of the WebFinger protocol, which allows users to discover and access information […]
As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or native application. Yet while there continues to be no shortage of marketing hype around personalization platforms, we still have very few standardized approaches for implementing personalized […]
When it comes to testing your user experiences, there are plenty of methods you can use that will get you the information you need. From interviews to assistive technology testing, these methods offer a more streamlined and beneficial process capable of revealing the insights you need to revolutionize your UX. But how can you know […]
Take a look at your app. Notice the collection of buttons, text, images, and other controls you can see and interact with that make up your app’s user interface. When one of your customers navigates your app with Voice Control, Switch Control, VoiceOver, or any other assistive technology, this isn’t the interface they’re using. Instead, […]