Weboost Effectiveness by Location

Scroll to the right to see effectiveness in colors. Green – better after boosting, Red – worse after boosting.

Test device: weBoost Drive Reach Overland.

Link to the Google Sheet for a better view

In summary,

  1. Upload speeds usually increase, not necessarily for download. Stability usually increases but won’t affect user experience for video streaming.
  2. You can never rely on it to hope it will work at the location you are heading.
  3. When there’s really no signal, there’s nothing you can do.
  4. When you just left somewhere that has one bar and enter no signal zone, boosting usually help.
  5. Boosting sometimes make it worse for some reason, you need to test it.

For any feedback, or if you’d like to contribute. Please leave a comment or email to el@tll.tl

Estimation of Displayed Items by User Behavior – An Application of the German Tank Problem in Tech Platforms

Imagine when you are shopping on Amazon, a list of 50 items is displayed after a search. You scroll down, click an item, continue scrolling, and click on a few more. How does an analyst know if an item has been displayed on the screen to calculate the click rate (clicked/displayed)? How do they know if you saw only 15, or 20, or all 50 items? Is there a scientific way to estimate the furthest point you scrolled base on your clicks, and therefore how many items were actually displayed? It turns out this is “The German Tank Problem”.

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Cognitive Minimalist

In this post, I wanted to quickly introduce an idea that I haven’t seen anywhere else. It may be obvious to some people, although this is an simple idea some might still be benefited from it.

Most of the minimalists dedicate to reduce the number of objects they own, or some similar metrics such as the amount of money spent or the space of their apartment is – physical entities. However, I’m proposing idea of “cognitive minimalist” which is to reduce the amount needed for cognition. In other words, mental cost, psychological effort, or cognitive resource etc.

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