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Cookies and privacy, interleaving experiments, clean dial-ups, and test metricsPhoto by NASA on UnsplashA/B testing is one of the most critical steps in Machine Learning production: we only want to roll out a new ML model if it can be proven to be better in production. In Part I of this series we covered how to set up an A/B experiment with a population split, how to interpret the test results with statistical significance, and what kind of errors are to be expected. In this Part II we’ll go deeper into some practical…

Chinese regulators have been looking to clean up the country's popular livestreaming industry. This includes rules around what online influencers can and can't say and the topics that are off limits.Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesOnline influencers in China must now have a qualification to talk about certain topics such as law and medicine, regulators said Tuesday.For content that requires a "higher professional level," livestreamers must hold a corresponding qualification to talk about those subjects, China's…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The premise is simple, and it seems like common sense: If Republicans and Democrats could come together for good faith dialogue, the conversations would reduce tensions and ease the corrosive polarization that threatens U.S. democracy. …

From the Feynmann Technique to the Leitner System, this guide has a study technique to help everyone learn data science.Photo by Eric Masur on UnsplashData science remains one of the most sought after, yet most difficult to enter and master fields even into the second decade of the 2000s.What you hear about college dropouts learning to code in three months and then making $100,000 as an entry-level salary at a FAANG company does not apply to jobs in data science.Instead, anyone aspiring to become a data scientist seems to…

“A small percentage of traffic” will soon see the initial testing of Google Chrome Topics API go live on July 1. The new feature will enable users to enable interest-based advertising without having to track the site a user visits. Interest-based advertising. According to recent developer documentation, “IBA can help advertisers to reach potential customers and help fund websites that cannot otherwise easily monetize visits to their site purely via contextual advertising. IBA can also supplement contextual information for…

If you ever get the need to meet new people online and communicate with them, but you’d prefer to talk to them, rather than chat or video chat, this app can help you. Stereo is a social audio app whose basic goal is to help you meet new people, and talk to them in order to discuss various topics.Stereo is a social audio app whose mission is to “keep the conversation going”The company says that its mission is to “keep the conversation going”. This app will help you conduct spontaneous conversations with random people. It…