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Peek and conclude experiments adaptively without inflating the false-positive ratePhoto by Kristi Evans from PexelsDo you estimate the effect size and calculate the sample size before running your A/B test? Do you check the p-value only once when you conclude the A/B test? When the p-value is 5.1% (0.1% higher than the threshold 5%) and the pre-calculated sample size has been reached, instead of running the experiment longer, do you stop the experiment and conclude that the product feature is not improving business? If…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Higher education institutions in Nigeria need to train academics to spot fraudulent journals, researchers say. The researchers, members of the…

Twitter said on Wednesday that it would tackle the spread of damaging conspiracy theories linking mobile phone technology with the coronavirus with a prompt to direct people searching for 5G to British government-verified information.The theory, which has spread on social media, has resulted in attacks on mobile telecoms masts and abuse directed at engineers in Britain. Scientists, phone companies, and the government have said it is completely untrue.Twitter said the search prompt would inform users that the government…

https://madcavestudios.com/By Ani Bundel How does one write a novel? For those who geek out over nerd properties, the thought of writing a book has passed through our minds at least once. But how does one start? Where does one go? And maybe the most important part: How do you not get screwed? The Winner Twins, Brittany and Brianna, who have been international-bestselling and award-winning novelists and comic book writers for half their young lives, have created one of SDCC’s most useful weekend panels, explaining how…

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released, addressing several long-standing issues with bots and cheating exploits that were highlighted during the community’s recent #SaveTF2 campaign. The latest Team Fortress 2 patch was released yesterday (June 21) and although it doesn’t bring any new content, it does deliver fixes for several major issues fans identified during the recent #SaveTF2 campaign. This includes an exploit that was allowing bot accounts to change their username to mirror other players on a server,…

Nvidia's latest GeForce graphics driver release dealt a blow to casual cryptominers with RTX 30 series GPUs Tuesday. The new Nvidia GeForce Game Ready 512.95 driver enabled DLSS and Ray tracing in Hitman 3 (opens in new tab) and did a hit on Ethereum mining hash rates. VideoCardz spotted a video with proof of what will be disappointing news for some (Portuguese video, embedded at bottom of article), showing graphics cards reduced, again, to approximately half of their potential Ethereum (ETH) mining performance.Tom's…

Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update focused on the cryptocurrency crash, the baby formula shortage and the Roe Vs. Wade memo leak on the show’s Selena Gomez-hosted episode. “Is it me or does every story sound like the opening voiceover in a Mad Max movie?,” co-anchor Colin Jost said of the week’s headlines. “The year is 2022. A virus rages across the planet. Digital money has collapsed. Infants have nothing to eat. Women are forced to breed. Men are ready to die for gasoline. And we suffer under the leadership of the…

Editor's Note: A fiction spanning over years, Gun Island, written by Amitav Ghosh follows the journey of Deen Dutta, a dealer of rare books, whose quiet world is turned upside down as a strange turn of events makes him embark on a journey from India to Los Angeles, via Venice. Weaving old folklores with modern-day adventures, Ghosh again tries to draw readers attention towards climate change, as he did in his previous book, The Great Derangement and many others. Gun Island has some remarkable women characters too and with…