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I had a read through this and I couldn't really tell if there was something novel here?

I understand that perturbations and generating new examples from labelled examples is a pretty normal park of the process when you only have a limited number of examples available.

just to offset a bit about scrum being bad: I have used SCRUM over 15 years to run teams and it worked. Most of the problems I am hearing on here are culture problems and no process can fix that. Regarding planning, a day per scrum is normal - sometimes longer, you have to use your judgement to determine when to move from design to implementation. Also, heavy use of spiking stories to learn enough to create the right design is important

not really, depends on the evaporation rate of the pheromone. If you increase the evaporation co-efficient it's more suited to a dynamic environment

I don't think groupon's demise has anything to do with investment in technology or otherwise. More, they sold local businesses on the idea of giving away deals on the basis that deal takers would become repeat customers. Small businesses soon learnt that deal takers never come back.

Althought a small sample size, I learnt this by talking to small businesses who used groupon. All of the them talked about entitled deal takers coming in and upsetting their business.

I implemented this and extended it as part of my undergraduate thesis was back in 1999. I extended into automatically planning carriers channels in 2G mobile phone networks. Always meant to go back and try this out on today's hardware!

ahh sorry about that. I searched but didn't spot this.

they mention some upcoming tooling that might help "To make things easier to debug, we're currently working on a tool for helping webmasters better understand how Google renders their site. We look forward to making it to available for you in the coming days in Webmaster Tools. "