As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her pregnancy.
One Target employee I spoke to provided a hypothetical example. Take a fictional Target shopper named Jenny Ward, who is 23, lives in Atlanta and in March bought cocoa-butter lotion, a purse large enough to double as a diaper bag, zinc and magnesium supplements and a bright blue rug. There’s, say, an 87 percent chance that she’s pregnant and that her delivery date is sometime in late August.
In finding out what her meatloaf is made of (sexism), looks like Set Phasers To LOL became a Cheezburger Channel no longer worthy of being featured in their sidebar.
Eventually I think sites will customize every URL for each user.
TikTok is quite sneaky. Sharing from their mobile app, you get: https://www.tiktok.com/t/[9digitCode]/
Only by opening the URL in a browser will you see: https://www.tiktok.com/@[user]/video/[19numerals]?_t=[alphanumericIdentifier]&_r=1…which can be sanitized.
Here’s how they took it a step further too: YCombinator.
They both take such umbrage with looking remotely hoity-toity that they took the time to go into their phone settings and disable autocapitalization. Course they ain’t got timeforspacin
Just gathering one data point for my own brain. I know really good people who are doing everything right - but you could dock them for not having gone the co-op route. (Wonder if they had, if they could’ve extracted all profits until breaking even on their enormous capital investment, but that’s something I could research.)
I’m used to “eat the rich” ideas but wanted to dig into your comment to understand whether the little guys garner your ire. ‘cause, gosh, the particular little guys in mind are tiny. And wonderful in every way* *(minus the cooperative model, but inclusive of fair wages and excellent management, etc.).
They’re “exploiting” workers by not planning to evenly split profits once, years from now, they’ve hopefully made a return on their enormous capital investment.
I do not know whether the knowledge that they would not have to evenly split profits, but rather could pay a fair wage, was a necessary incentive for them to start their business. But I am curious. This is a copout line of thinking for say the Waltons. But again, it is real for me – I know this very small handful of people, their large investment, their respect for the triple bottom line.
Reflecting now, I’m comfortable judging them based on the obvious good decisions they’ve made. Respect for employees in treatment and pay, respect for customers and the environment - I would not readily accept failings there.
Not joining the 0.015% of small businesses who went the co-op route? Defensible. (Relying on the figure from the earlier commenter, and Statista 2020.)
btw I’ve generally yearned for UBI but now I’ll give more thought to forcing co-op structures and potential unintended consequences :)
Readers, note performance won’t match GPT-4. You can see the leaderboard then compare some of the available GPT4All models side-by-side. They may be sufficient for your needs.
Is this to mean you believe DDG was presenting identical results with each refresh/new search, while my browser failed to properly display what was returned?
Or perhaps something else?
(I’m not an engineer, just doing my best heh - thanks)
World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....
And if you’re not following server news, even if you know the very basics of federation, it’s easy to miss defederations and subsequently never know you’re not seeing content you wanted to see.
Personally, I’m very interested in seeing a true representation of top posts. I’ll need a client that can let me login to multiple instances or a server that’s never the federated from anybody. One risk here is I could recommend Lemmy to someone, they could register on a different instance, and assume I like content I in fact don’t.
Tip: just learned I can see federated and blocked instances at /instances (e.g. sh.itjust.works/instances ).
Thanks for the edit for international readers :) It was hard to figure out what K18 meant with DuckDuckGo or Startpage but Google + reddit had my back.
What does 24K signify? This source has a counterintuitive explanation.
Unlike milkautism, when I looked into them killing animals years ago, it sounded essentially defensible. What do you remember about it?
I might’ve looked it up because they took some family pet off a porch or something. Yikes.
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OK, Newsweek confirms they kill plenty of animals, and includes PETA’s reasoning. They’re not operating a hamburger factory or anything two faced that I can tell.
Lies, deception! (startrek.website)
Vulcan's can't lie (pixelfed.social)
Hot Notifications (lemmy.world)
Don't ever change. (lemmy.world)
Star Trek Technobabble | Elle Cordova (files.catbox.moe)
Elle’s YouTube
Jobs (lemmy.world)
It's a curse (lemmy.world)
Does anyone else resent the links to Reddit?
I keep seeing communities which seem to consist of nothing but a bot that reposts stuff from Reddit....
Your mix tape isn't fire, it's smouldering at best (lemmy.world)
Deadname rule (lemmy.one)
One of my back teeth is aching at the moment (literature.cafe)
Think different (lemmy.ml)
Just like everyone else...
The Names of Thousands of Neo-Nazi Music Fans Just Got Leaked (www.vice.com)
Thousands of purveyors of neo-Nazi tunes just had their day ruined by a crew of enterprising Scandinavian anti-fascists.
There's a difference (startrek.website)
Compendium of human knowledge at my fingertips (lemmy.world)
Bidens America (feddit.de)
What are your favorite regularly updated websites/blogs (that aren’t bloated by social media)?
Are there sites you check on a regular basis? What are your browsing habits?
Have we done this one already? (lemmy.world)
Happy weekend, my fellow Risa degenerates!
Lemmy's active users are up again for the first time since the exodus (lemmy.ml)
from lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts (nitter.net) German
Goodluck rule (lemmy.world)
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I prefer to be the one who writes code (fed.dyne.org)
cross-posted from: fed.dyne.org/post/43780
Let me tell you something about Hew-mons (i.imgflip.com)
soak and jump hump (feddit.de)
Two minutes of DuckDuckGo rearranging & dropping results for the same search; Bing, Startpage, & DDG all unreliable vs. Google :( (files.catbox.moe)
Try it with this search:...
Oh bother, it happened again. (startrek.website)
How did Lemmy World become the default instance?
World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....
What movie(s) did you see in the theater where the crowd applauded at the end?
Street Mime - Last Place Comics (lastplacecomics.com)
Source: Street Mime - Last Place Comics...
autism milk rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
What nice vibes (startrek.website)
Microsoft is Locking Down Search for Public Code on GitHub (news.itsfoss.com)
Enshittification begins again
With US nuclear modernization, we all know what design they should go with (img-9gag-fun.9cache.com)
Here’s some helpful schematics for a thermometer gnome....