kuanbutts

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by kuanbutts 3mo ago
Thanks RC! I went back when it was Hacker School! Grateful that period of my life - grew so much!
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by kuanbutts 4mo ago
There's got to be a variant that is a 2x2 matrix of this: Lie to others, lie to yourself (spiral together; either fantastically poor or spectacularly rich) Lie to others, tell yourself the truth (manipulation, morally broke, but materi
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by kuanbutts 5mo ago
Anyone know why some larger cities are not listed? For example, I am noticing that Oakland, CA is missing. This would have been a major city in 1992 when the list was created as well.
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by kuanbutts 4y ago
He acknowledges the risks and discusses in some detail towards the end of the video around the 29:00 mark. He just wanted to share a tool he found interesting that he was tinkering on.
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by kuanbutts 6y ago
Was the whole point of this site to make the cars more visible on the map? B/c they're super hard to see! Would've been so much easier to just use a regular Leaflet slippy map or something and just drop an icon for each car..
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by kuanbutts 6y ago
fwiw I find the others (DC, Chi, BOS) easier to view/pan/explore
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by kuanbutts 6y ago
I was looking at the sourcemap and it appears that they wrote their own tiling library (see Tiles.ts and related files under js/). Is this right? Why not just Leaflet since they're rendering PNG tiles? Or Mapbox? The whole thing f
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by kuanbutts 6y ago
I used to work in N Berkeley and live in Oakland by the lake. A lifestyle where you live and work in the E Bay is simply unparalleled.
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by kuanbutts 7y ago
I was happy to see the Crisp chat tool in the bottom right hand corner - the folks who make that do a great job. I used it "early on" in the product's life, back in 2016, and really appreciated how responsive they were, etc.
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by kuanbutts 7y ago
Yeah and in the car video on https://microsoft.github.io/AirSim/ , they have the car driving on the wrong side of a barricade on a bus only lane. :(
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by kuanbutts 7y ago
Thanks! That's a helpful description.
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by kuanbutts 7y ago
Interesting - would be interested in a comparison between GraphBLAS (which I had not heard of until just now) and, for example, graph-tool's ( https://graph-tool.skewed.de/ ) underlying algorithms (Boost Graph Library).
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by kuanbutts 8y ago
Can we all just acknowledge that the "AI" aspect of this is gimmicky and - ignoring that part - Scribblenauts did this way, way better back in like '09?
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by kuanbutts 8y ago
Quickly scanning comments I do not think anyone else has brought up: administrative bloat. More money is being spent on science, but is more money actually making it through the administrative bloat encumbering most institutions to the actu
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by kuanbutts 8y ago
This is awesome! I fully believe that government procurement needs serious reform, which this article and effort is clearly attempting to address. So, props to David Block-Schachter (the CTO). There are far too many large, bloated consultan
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by kuanbutts 8y ago
Perhaps it could be cross-posted?
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by kuanbutts 8y ago
I imagine it would look similar to the examples from his follow-up post on other cities from around the world, such as Rome or Paris, where distribution becomes fairly even: http://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/city-stre
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by kuanbutts 11y ago
Looks like a bunch of the bloomberg.com designers broke out of their NY offices and took over Jet Brains'... Could this mean 90's gradients are making a comeback? I hope not, for the sake of my eyes.
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by kuanbutts 11y ago
Data related to a single trip will not be kept - data on route segments is product of aggregates, as I understand.
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by kuanbutts 11y ago
Data is - I believe - currently held on Conveyal's (the consultancy spearheading this) db. As I understand it, this has been developed in tandem with some World Bank initiatives and a test version of this is already operational with tr