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by thelittlenag 7y ago
I think that w3w is over optimized and suffers from a large number of failure modes that interact poorly with a typical human's memory. For example, it is really easy to mis-remember and accidentally pluralize or re-order words. Our me
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
Yes! The geohashphrase will be free to use and open source. Right now we're working on an implementation and docs and once we have that we'll release all that under a permissive license. Right now the problem is that we don't
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
I don't think you could easily do that with 3 words. They already have a dictionary 40000 deep and then end up repeating words, just to get to get enough combinations. With the GeohashPhrase we intentionally telescope exactly like you&
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
(disclosure: i work for qalocate.com) I think that OLC and W3W have many flaws. If you want to read a critique OLC I suggest you read this: https://www.qalocate.com/whats-wrong-with-open-location-code... At QA Locate we&#x2
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
(disclosure: i work for qalocate.com) At QA Locate we've been working on a solution to this that we call GeohashPhrase. It encodes a geohash as a sentence. There are some light docs you can reference here: https://www.qaloca
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What's Wrong with Open Location Code?(qalocate.com)
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
A five word phrase is roughly a 5m x 5m region, so 1m wouldn't be enough to move into the next block. But in general yes, locations that are "close by" will share the same set of words. The mapping itself is extremely simple.
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
Doing this saves you about two bits worth of information while usually greatly increasing complexity. To see why consider how geohashes work. As you add letters you telescope in to a more precise region. The land/water distinction is l
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
Alternative to DNS you say? Like a Location Name System!?! Well, we're building it! I cannot supply much info right now other than the whitepaper at https://www.qalocate.com/resources/ but I'm really hopeful
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
Unfortunately we're conflated addresses with coordinates, but fundamentally addresses are not geo-coordinates. Addresses are really just an ancient (500+ years!) short-hand for giving a person a set of rough directions to a "place
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
Yet another alternative is GeohashPhrase ( https://www.qalocate.com/resources/ ) which is a simple and direct mapping of word tuples to geohashes. The word tuples are intentionally structured so they can form a phrase. T
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
HAHAHAHA! Having not met Joe I don't actually know, but I presume that is a legit picture.
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
What would future proofing even look like? For me I think we need to move away from thinking first/primarily in terms of coordinates. Yes, I know that sounds silly but hear me out. Say someone is going out to meet a friend at a restaur
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by thelittlenag 7y ago
These kinds of issues are what we've solved at QALocate. There are a number of different issues here, which I think are only partly explored through the article. Let's take as given that you need to direct a person some place. In
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by thelittlenag 8y ago
You should check out our LNS system. You find the docs at http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/whitepapers
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by thelittlenag 8y ago
Our startup offers a geohash phrase that is hierarchical in nature. You can find the docs at: qalocate.bamsaas.com/whitepapers
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by thelittlenag 8y ago
You should check out what we're working on at qalocate.bamsaas.com/whitepapers/. Even an improvement on W3W is still going to be rather limited and only address part of the problem. We're trying to provide solutions for
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by thelittlenag 8y ago
The startup I'm working with offers a much better solution. We call it a geohash phrase. Instead of three random words, where plurals and order matter, instead we map geohashs to 5-word tuples that easily form a phrase. Moreover, the w
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by thelittlenag 8y ago
I'm involved with a startup that I believe has a wonderful solution to this and other related problems. Our website: http://qalocate.com/ Our platform: http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/wp-content/upload
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by thelittlenag 8y ago
This is a general problem with solutions in the space. Part of the niceness of say geohashes is that they telescope down. The startup I'm involved with has developed what we call a geohash phrase. The core idea is to map English (or wh
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by thelittlenag 8y ago
The startup I'm involved with has a solution that solves this problem. Edit: Sorry about the terseness. I decided about half-way through to write a top-level comment that delved more deeply. In short, our solution is this: http:/
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by thelittlenag 9y ago
Absolutely, this was one of the better courses I've taken. My only wish would be to have the course expand and include models from says physics or chemistry, just so that students could get a feel for how both quantitative and qualitat
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by thelittlenag 9y ago
That is true, but the price structures are different. Stock prices, and other equities, are already priced with everyone knowing that you have permanent ownership. Software isn't priced that way. If it were then I would expect prices t
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by thelittlenag 10y ago
I know this question is mostly about resources in dead tree format, but don't forget there are sometimes local events and meetup groups that can help you learn Scala (and other languages too!). For example... If you live in Dallas&#x2F
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by thelittlenag 10y ago
Economics as a discipline can certainly be positive and scientific. Developing a model to predict the elasticity of demand, collecting the data, testing the model, and independently replicating the results is certainly science, with all the
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by thelittlenag 10y ago
Logical positivism is a school of philosophy. It certainly impacted the view of what constituted scientific analysis in the realm of economics. I'm more talking about the development of economics as a science, rather than a branch of p
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by thelittlenag 10y ago
This is actually one of the first things that my econ classes covered: normative vs positive statements. Proper and correct economic analysis explicitly concerns itself with positive statements. These are statements that are factual and&#x2