avalore · HackerTrans

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

A friend of mine dropped out of university and went to live the "ski-bum" lifestyle in France. His mum wasn't happy with this and eventually took to writing letters to him addressed "Joe and his stupid friends, Chamonix". They all arrived without issues.

This was in the early 90's. I wonder how effective this would be now with more automated systems in use.

avalore

5 tahun yang laludiscuss

Sold a small SaaS product 2 years ago, which was marketed as an "AI" product.

Extract from the "model":

                $yearsBetween = $comparisonItems->created_at->diffInYears(Carbon::now());
                if ($yearsBetween <=1) {
                    $multiplier = 1.08;
                } else if ($yearsBetween <= 2) {
                    $multiplier = 1.12;
                } else if ($yearsBetween <= 3) {
                    $multiplier = 1.15;
                } else if ($yearsBetween <= 4) {
                    $multiplier = 1.22;
                } else if ($yearsBetween <= 5) {
                    $multiplier = 1.37;
                } else {
                    $multiplier = 1.41;
                }

Those multipliers were just from a bit of human-playing-around-with-the-data.

The thing is, customers were happy with the result and, as far as I know, still are. Internally it was always called the random number generator.

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