Notices by Randy Au 🙃 (randy_au@recsys.social)

This week on Counting Stuff, guest post from Michał Chorowski about naive "time to ~" metrics and the various flaws/biases they can have, and how survival analysis can tackle the questions. @data

https://www.counting-stuff.com/why-you-are-probably-measuring-time-wrong-why-do-we-need-to-use-survival-analysis-more/

@hrefna it's only decentralized if it's from the GNU region of belgium, otherwise it's just sparkling IPCs

This biweekly paid subscriber post is about how there's actually a startup attempting to use LLM AIs to do user research....the bots are coming for my job! ?

https://counting.substack.com/p/the-ai-is-coming-for-my-ux-job

@mario one it's likely a loanword, the problem is whether it originated from Japanese (toshokan) or one of the dialects of Chinese (tushuguan)

It often depends on WHEN the word was loaned in, and who the major geopolitical power of the region was... some jp words sound like mandarin, or cantonese, depending on which dynasty was dominant then. Then chinese loaned in things like 電話 from jp during the imperial era, etc

Somewhere there's a billionaire looking at a dashboard going "RECORD ACTIVITY RIGHT NOW! IT'S WORKING!"