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Would the snapshot contain the same info ( beyound any doubt ) that an actual user would see if they opened LinkedIn/Facebook/Service from Canada on an IPhone at a saturday morning (for example)? If not, the snapshot is useles for some usecases and we are back to scraping.


I used to put buttons in the menu ( or even side panels ), but nowdays I draw a big button and attach a apps script function to it. Looks more bad ass.


I solved this problem in a similar way some time ago. It was impractical to assign numbers to snapshots but each snapshot had a date assigned to it. So I computed the number of days since Unix epoch for each snapshot = n. Then the largest power of 2 which divides n. m = n &(~(n-1)) I think. Then I computed the date after which I wanted to delete a snapshot n +f*m. The factor f contros the density. I chose f = 2.

Every day there is exactly one date for which a snapshot needs to be deleted and it can be computed directly. If there is no snapshot for this date nothing needs to be done.


>After you make a neural network the first thing that occurs to you is that it’s useless without tons of data.

What about self-learning chess engines? All they take as input are the rules of chess. And the output (the games they play) can sometimes be described as peaces of art. My point is that it should be possible for AI to create art without tons of (input) data. Even if it is not what we experience at the moment.


Chess is a very large but finite system. It's also a game largely based on memorization. Both things are handled extremely by computers. I consider terms like "self-learning" to be disingenuous or at best an exaggeration. At the moment it is not possible for a machine to make art because it has no consciousness. By definition art can only be made by a human mostly because we have agency.


>Me choosing to shop somewhere else is not even a rounding error in Walmarts profits.

So you are saying you can make a measurable difference. It's not a super hero story where you save the world on your own.


>Or you can choose to resend the same email to audience who haven't opened the first time.

I know there used to be tricks to find out whether an email was opened. But my impression was that Gmail and others prevent this nowdays?


some people like me will see the "stolen content" banner on the original website. And attackers can trivially remove it as soon as they get aware of it.


afaik there is no alternative to BigQuery on AWS? All alternatives are less managed and require more administration. But I never looked too closely.


Snowflake. It does not work internally the same way as BigQuery but is substantially equivalent in user-visible functionality.


What about the rule that the king is not allowed to castle if one of the squares moved over by the king is under attack? If you allow the king to be placed in check then you surely would also allow the king to step over squares attacked by opponents peaces? But this would change the game in the sense that it will not be equivalent to chess any more.


>(did the user come back and ask the same question? did they click the top result and leave or did they have to come back and click through many more?).

What stops me from writing a bot to simulate that behaviour for my website (or websites of my competitors) ?


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