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January 2 - February 20, 2022
The first chunk, chapters 1 to 4, breaks down the fundamentals of technology:
The second chunk, chapters 5 through 8, gives you a tour of the tech world’s major components:
The third chunk, chapters 9 to 12, builds off the first two and dives deep into trends, analysis, and predictions: business strategy, emerging markets, t...
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Neel from the public and nonprofit sectors, Adi from the startup space, and Parth from the business and marketing side.
Neel Mehta is a Product Manager at Google.
Aditya Agashe is a Product Manager at Microsoft.
Parth Detroja is a Product Manager at Facebook.
productalliance.com/resources,
The most basic form of SEO is getting more pages to link to your page.
First, it looks at all the songs you’ve listened to and liked enough to add to your library or playlists.
Second, it looks at all the playlists that other people have made, with the assumption that every playlist has some thematic connection;
“collaborative filtering,”
The second method that Spotify uses to make your playlist is your “taste profile.”
A simplified explanation of Facebook’s news feed algorithm.
The first kind of API, which we’ll call “feature APIs,” lets one app ask another specialized app to solve a particular problem,
The second type of API, which we’ll call “data APIs,” lets one app ask another app to hand over some interesting information,
“hardware APIs,” lets developers access features of the device itself.
They all use APIs,
APIs are a core part of pretty much every app out there.
A/B testing shows at least two variations of the same feature (A and B) and compares relevant metrics to decide which variation to push to all users.
A/B testing is very important: according to Upworthy, the difference between a decent headline and a perfected one is 1,000 vs. 1,000,000 views.
p < 0.05 (i.e. there’s a less than 5% chance that the difference was just random), they can assume the change was meaningful, or “statistically significant.”
“chicken-and-egg problem.”[130] Developers wouldn’t build apps for the BlackBerry platform if it didn’t have any users, and users wouldn’t buy BlackBerries unless there were enough apps.
