Vladi Iancu

He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again? Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.

Looking for a powerful, inspiring read? Here’s a good one: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Beautiful quote found from 1920

“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

That would mean the current people in charge actually care about details such as something being legal or not

AI has real risks & we should have smart & evolving policy to manage them. By focusing the public's mind on very low probability/"high" consequence extinction events from super-intelligent AI, it slides acceptable windows of what bad things humans can do with AI right now (eg discrimination/disinfo)

Very nice!

Why don’t all social media apps have a built in “translate this text in my preferred language” option?

Unfortunately, yes

But it’s not enough.

The downfall of America looks amazing

Most of what I read is kind of like SEO: If you show up in the results then you will get picked up.

Anybody has good data or sources about what it actually takes for LLMs to show your website in the answers?

New thoughts published. This time it's about: Starting a health journey. Read more here:

Are we really?

I wonder what happened to Anonymous group.

"Ever feel like your days are too short? Our 'Offline Sunday' revealed how much time we waste on devices. One day, no internet = longer, more meaningful day. 🕰️ Details here: vladiiancu.com/post/experim...

New thoughts published. This time it's about: Experiment - Offline Sundays. Read more here:

Do you like this sort of activities? I enjoy them too much I think sometimes

In web analytics, my purchase of the Kobo ebook will show up as “direct”.

But did the website convince me? Or did the variation of one of the A/B experiments convince me?

No.

Bluesky did through the feed I have. Especially @mtamblyn.bsky.social

The second one, yes.

If you play one game this year, it should be Expedition 33

Just like hello world tutorials for programming, the change a color on a button tutorials for CRO leave many on a stray path

When too much work prevents you from doing other things | Vladi Iancu The journey of a life

New thoughts published. This time it's about: When too much work prevents you from doing other things. Read more here:

Behind every happy, healthy toddler is at least one stressed out, anxious and tired parent

When can we hear some impressions about it?

Read an email from Oracle cloud where they basically said they transition from docker to podman on their Resource Manager.

Interesting to say the least since I had hiccups with podman support in Azure

Is the question tool related or format/topics etc related?

From the outside, it might seem like that fresh parent is, you know, having a blast. They have no work to do, no schedule, etc.

When, in fact, they have one of the hardest jobs out there. Much respect for those that actually put in the effort.

Time-off, vacation, PTO etc various names that mean, mostly, the same.

In Romanian, the word is "concediu".

The problem is that the same word is also used when a person gives birth to a child and then takes care of that child.

Why is it a concern? Because it is extremely misleading!

ABTestingIntuitionBusters.pdf

Does this mean we should stop? Of course not! We need to keep going, keep trying and improving. This is the way.

Interested in the statistics? Read more from this resource: drive.google.com/file/d/1oK2H...

Most of your experiments will fail. That’s what you could tell intuitively.

Well, if you are working in CRO and/or doing any sort of A/B testing properly, you will know that only around 10% of your experiments are actually significant and provide an uplift worthy of declaring them winning.