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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I'm skeptical of the ability of regulators and traditional car designers to really think about the user experience and its implications on safety. For example, many cars have confusing controls and distracting displays already. Have yo
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Probably, but this misses the point. On a differential basis, it may save more lives on the whole.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Part 1 of 7 (linked above) is 10 minutes long and worth watching. It is NSFW only because of the intro clip from Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. The series of videos contains an introduction by kruger97 (his Youtube name; I don't
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I was wondering about this. Any suggestions on papers or code that detail that technique?
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Re: "rather odd blank spots on a closely zoomed-in view"... > The locations of the dots do not represent actual addresses. The most detailed geographic identifier in Census Bureau data is the census block. Individual dots are r
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
In theory, I think so: > Each of the 308 million dots are smaller than a pixel on your computer screen at most zoom levels. Therefore, the "smudges" you see at the national and regional levels are actually aggregations of many
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Does this graph accurately indicate overall population density across the map? Or does over-plotting hide the city population densities?
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Great! I wanted to say that the "add random" button tends to shoot particles light-years away, never to be seen again. Is that what you were intending?
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Great! I tried it out; when I combined a galaxy with a field , many particles went flying from the center at a high rate of speed. Why is that?
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Ok, to move this forward, let's move past the who has read what part, which doesn't seem to be helping. Anyhow, my point is relatively subtle, I think, and getting lost in communication somehow. I get what the article is saying, b
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
It would be nice to arbitrarily choose a specific particle to be the center of the system (the frame of reference).
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
@Jemaclus I'm not sure why you assumed that I did not read the article. Maybe you disagreed with my conclusion and assumed I had not read the article? To your question, I would ask: Where, exactly, does the author "address this&qu
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
@jerf Why did you assume I did not read the article? I read it, and I find the writing to be unclear. Maybe "you'd expect" means what you think; maybe not. Independent of my or your opinion, (or precisely because reasonable p
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
This article starts off with a common mistake. It is ok to create the 3 categories: > If I suspect that A→B, and I collect data and establish beyond doubt that A&B correlates r=0.7, how much evidence do I have that A→B? > you can
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Harvard Business Review on bundling vs unbundling: http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-b... > What’s becoming clear as time passes, though, is that this is not a one-way process. Yes, dig
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
I am furious because you misspelled "mecanics". JK. Well said.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Haha. To run with that, how about "Selvage Markdown": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selvage > The selvages keep the fabric from unraveling or fraying.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Hmmm. Easy (in the short-term) is not the driving criteria here, is it? C++ added features to C. Common Markdown's main purpose is not to add features to Markdown; rather, its purpose is to standardize it: > We propose a standard, u
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
In the light of recent events, I have some name idea suggestions: * Showdown Markdown * Mutiny Markdown * Post Markdown
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Community Markdown would imply some kind of community governance, which does not seem to be the case. Common Markdown seems to be the creation of self-selected, let's-do-something kind of people. I'm fine with that. So, "Muti
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Good commentary, but renaming it entirely seems a bit strong to me. It is, or intends to be, a better spec'ced version of Markdown.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
> I want to have basic control over my iPhone while it sits in my pocket or bag. This is huge to me. Squeezing my hand into my pocket (1), pulling out my phone (2), turning it on (3). Three steps just to check the time or notification. S
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Here is a thread titled "Standard Markdown Formal Grammar": http://talk.standardmarkdown.com/t/standard-markdown-formal-...
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
So, to summarize, we have a new standard with the name "Standard" in it without a formal grammar definition. Oops. Unit tests are not enough.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
So fun. For kicks, I just spent more than a few minutes trying to find a semi-steady equilibrium where, say 80% to 90% of cars are temporally stalled without pushing the system into total gridlock. Just now, I got it down to only one car mo
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Somehow, even though I've been following the 2.0 pre-releases fairly closely, I didn't catch the news about dotted version vectors: > In Riak 2.0 and later, vector clocks can still be used for conflict resolution, but there is
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
This is a convenient but flawed argument that assumes an equilibrium. Hacking is often (mostly?) about vulnerabilities that change over time.
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
From http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192 > Taking the above into account, the actual expected benefit ends up at around 10% heap reduction. Note that this number is a calculated average based on a wide range of applica
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by dj-wonk 12y ago
Thanks for sharing it. I think it is a good start; it gives people something to react and build upon.
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Dimensionality reduction can be a goal in and of itself, but many of the same techniques (i.e. feature selection) are useful precursors for classification, clustering, and regression. It would be nice to capture that on the diagram. More ar

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