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by gugagore 8y ago
You know, I considered saying that the "roughly" buys me a factor of two in log space. I didn't want to be that person, but I'm glad you were ;).
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by gugagore 8y ago
but what about a rough order of magnitude? There is definitely some qualifiers you can put on "order of magnitude" to make it include 3.
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by gugagore 8y ago
this reply is way too late, but yeah, I get that you don't care. I don't care either. But if the developer stored that information in a commit, and there is a cheap (computationally and cognitively) way to keep that information, t
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by gugagore 8y ago
Thanks for bringing more precision to the conversation (really). What would you like to call the factor? 3? Call me a weasel, but I was hoping "roughly speaking an order of magnitude" would go down to 3. I suspected it was comfort
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by gugagore 8y ago
The cruising airspeed of an airplane is faster than its landing speed. I don't know if that alone is enough to rip the engine off the wing, but it's something that it sounds like you did not consider in making your point. [EDIT re
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by gugagore 8y ago
I'm also a big fan of not deleting data. I don't like squashing commits, for example. But I also want to be able to see high-level intent. If instead of "squashing", it were "grouping", I'd be happy. I cou
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by gugagore 8y ago
I don't think "traffic is chaotic" is the issue with driverless cars. We'd be satisfied with a car that solved everything except for global (i.e. non-local) traffic flow issues. That said, a dynamical system may exhibit
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by gugagore 8y ago
Not the poster you're replying to, but it's just that you said "that's not how it works", and then suggested that the only way to get F is through data, even if it means generating synthetic data. So that's wro
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by gugagore 8y ago
I agree with this sentiment. However, if it's true that people learn from people they love, then it might be hard to learn from a comment that is calling what someone says "bullshit" and calling them a "pendejo".
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by gugagore 8y ago
Though famously (I believe) it was HP calculators that were known for reverse-Polish notation.
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by gugagore 8y ago
Does that mean that the converters implement the protocol themselves? I expected them to be roughly FTDI USB UART chips, tied to the MIDI baudrate.
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by gugagore 8y ago
That's a good question. I suppose it may be possible to use GPS data to estimate the phone's absolute heading. I just took a quick look at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Detect
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by gugagore 8y ago
I think when something is very uncertain (because it's hard and/or the engineer is inexperienced), it's not possible to develop a mental model that lets you plan a course of action. However, taking a slightly directed, non-de
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by gugagore 8y ago
I don't believe you replied to the spirit of the parent comment, since having red lips, and having messy bowel movements are not human behaviors, but are symptoms. I bet what the parent has in mind is, for example, behaviors such as st
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by gugagore 8y ago
I hope it's not too off-topic, but I feel this sort of thing has happened before with developing GUI programs in Visual Basic, drawing to the screen with turtle graphics, (or instead whatever routines BASIC tended to have). Curious if
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by gugagore 8y ago
Lagrange multiplers are used in equality-constrained optimization. The KKT conditions generalize to inequalities.
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by gugagore 8y ago
The comment I was replying to implied that checking with the inertial measurement system was an alternative to checking against GPS. I still think I'll be surprised if accelerometers provide useful velocity information over timescales
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by gugagore 8y ago
I already mentioned that acceleration measurements can be integrated to get velocity. I asked a question about the reliability of the velocity information available to an IMU, and your reply did not address that.
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by gugagore 8y ago
Do aircraft inertial measurement systems ever provide linear velocity information that isn't trash? I had assumed not (except for special cases where you can do e.g. a zero-velocity update) An inertial measurement system cannot measure
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by gugagore 8y ago
To be clear, "turn-by-turn navigation" was an example of a query that happens on a fairly static graph: the road network. If the driver misses the turn, that just triggers another query on a static graph. I was not talking about n
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by gugagore 8y ago
What is the iterative method for determining the area of intersection ?
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by gugagore 8y ago
Do you see another way to do whatever research you want to do, while not being in academia? Or do you mean, just don't do research on your own?
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by gugagore 8y ago
This is not quite right. A* and Contraction hierarchies (and other graph pre-processing techniques) make the same assumptions on what data is available at planning time. The difference is whether you expect to make multiple shortest-path qu
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by gugagore 8y ago
I have heard that languages like javascript are weakly typed because of the effort they go through to evaluate an expression instead of throwing a type error. >> "5" - 3 < 2 It doesn't fit your example of a type er
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by gugagore 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaving_(disk_storage) for the curious
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by gugagore 8y ago
Yeah, they have only one motor, and a whole transmission system which the joysticks engage. The 8-bit guy has a video, I believe.
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by gugagore 8y ago
How is that nonsense? Is it not cumbersome to do long division with Roman numerals if your only tool indeed is a pen and paper? Or perhaps you are saying it nonsense to start the discussion with the implicit assumption that the availabl
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by gugagore 8y ago
That would be fair if all you cared about was calculation. Comparing our numbers with Roman numerals is fair, I believe you're saying, if all you care about is representation. They both require practice to read and write. But we care a
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by gugagore 8y ago
I'm not sure what your position is. What would be a fair comparison?
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by gugagore 8y ago
I agree that it's a sort of weak argument, and I'm a bit surprised by it. Usually the claim isn't that Roman numerals are hard to read and write, it's that they're hard to calculate with. And I think that's a s

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