...releasing open source mal ware code isn't especially helpful either.
Open sourcing it is fine (assuming he's allowed to do so - I know I'd be in trouble if I open sourced the code I'm paid to write) - Even then there's the Wikileaks option if GPL (or whatever) isn't practical. But, both as a courtesy, an aggressive encouragement to improve, and an effort to minimize damage, it should be politely delivered to Skype first. Skype should also be made aware of your intentions, in say 3-6 months, of sharing it with the world.
It'd be easy enough to prevent those from working, regardless of the type of sensor.
My town's small enough that we don't even have parking meters, but I think you're underestimating the complexity of fooling a "Is there a car here?" sensor. I'm just speculating on the sensors and taking advantage of your cavalier "regardless of the type of sensor" bait. For stop lights, the standard technique is to wrap a few coils of wire under the pavement and watch for changes in inductance. If there's a car over the loop, it acts similar to an iron core in a standard inductor. So, if that's the kind of sensor in place, to fool it you'd either have to break into the loop (feel like grinding asphalt?) or put a huge chunk of metal on the spot as a place-holder at the instant one car leaves and remove most of it when another car drives in. Good luck with that. Seems like less trouble to just put up with the crappy parking policy or use public transit.
I'm not arguing that anyone has an expectation of privacy for people simply viewing the front of their house, but if you live on the 5th floor of a building with a Best Buy on the ground level please accept that there will be more people who can conveniently view the first floor of your building than the front of my town-house. Probably more people just walking past not to mention things like the Google van. Hell, still shots or videos might wind up on commercials. If that wasn't obvious when you moved in and you're (for some reason) paranoid about surveillance on the retail establishment downstairs, maybe you'll think through things more when you next move.
At a minimum it doesn't publicize violations. And, when violating them publicly, it announces the fact rather than getting caught with its pants down. Play fair. The US does give a shit about appearing to honor international treaties.
The only problem is that, at least in my experience, when I'm sitting down reading and spontaneously start pounding my lap with a hammer everyone looks at me like I've lost my mind. Anyone else have this problem?
That's the case at my house. I don't have a cell, but if my wife wants to use hers the first step is to plug the thing in to charge. For trips, I'm sure to plug the charger into the cigarette lighter 'cuz I know it's going to be dead. I'm sure I'm not alone here...
I said that I was a serial comma fanatic, not a spelling fanatic. Never made it more than 30 pages into Atlas Shrugged, despite having a copy on the bookshelf. Maybe I should.
Q: What other hypocracies would he bring to office? A: Whichever ones helped him/her further his/her agenda and ensure re-election or continued powerful influence in politics.
... along with E-mail and trolling Slashdot, and what I write in the latter two are not personal or representative of my meatspace self.
Hallelujah. I'm the same way. When I go home to 1313 Mockingbird Lane and shoot up (with the smack that I buy from my buddy Lance and his wife Jody) and get high with my girlfriend (Trixie, who I rent from the corner Central and Missouri here in Springfield, IL), I'll jump on the Internet but completely anonymously and provide no personal information whatsoever. I don't even log into Slashdot normally, it's just that I sometimes forget and have Firefox v3.0.2 remember all of my passwords, Springfield National Bank account details, and tax return information and forget to block it. (How do you block cookies again? Oh well, I'm sure that the privacy-protection-software pop-up I just clicked on will take care of it.) Moral of the story - If you say nothing about yourself and hide in the shadows like I do, nobody will know anything.
Fuck the internet.
Yeah, what's it ever done for anyone? Personally, I prefer the days when I could call Amazon up on the phone and have them read me a list of everything on the fucking planet until they got to the $15 item I was after.
Seriously though. Set your own level of paranoia. Some people want to be invisible - That's getting tough, but it's possible. Some people don't give a crap who knows what - That's actually probably pretty safe. There are huge masses of people out there putting everything out for public view. Hide in the masses. Then, presumably like most of slashdot, there are people like me who lie somewhere in the middle. I'm in New Mexico. I'm a guy in my early 30's. I'm married with kids. All that's true, and I'm comfortable associating it with the name gnick. Meh. There are so many leaks in the system that leaking a few details is far less scary than the info about you that's most likely being leaked elsewhere. And identity theft is a PITA to fix, but it's unlikely to hit you. We all know somebody who's been bent over a barrel and seriously inconvenienced by it, but even if you're a complete idiot your chances at immunity (or at least minimal pain) are pretty good.
A metric ass-load is an approximate, but complicated unit. It is simultaneously denser, less voluminous, and more attractive than a standard Imperial ass-load.
You're neither proactive enough nor do you bother with enough precision. I plan on writing that article, but I'm holding off a little for 3294198 to be posted. You see, my fireworks are poised to fire when I'm 65.8% done writing it. Posting it will just be a formality.
...after the rovers and the problems with keeping their solar panels cleared of dust...
If the panel isn't moving around, dust shouldn't be much of a problem on the moon. Although I've never visited, I understand that dust storms there are pretty infrequent.
That said, the long nights could be a real issue unless you're shipping a metric ass-load of batteries. Nuclear seems pretty reasonable.
But with all that He3, fusion should be just fine. Surely we'll have the kinks ironed out if we give ourselves 5-10 years, right? Or at least we can promise that we will so that we can secure funding?
People don't remember what Paris is famous for? I remember hearing about her pretty clearly - My reaction was, "There's a leaked sex tape of who? What, you mean like the hotel chain?" And then the pathetic part, "Interesting - I'll have to check it out."
To this day I can't figure out why she's maintained any level of fame. Some bad acting in bad movies, worthless reality TV, and a media frenzy over rich-bitch-goes-to-jail.
The Wachowski brothers at least did something memorable - It's a pity that there were no sequels.
I particularly enjoy the rendition from the American version of "The Office": "She cut off her nose to spider face". I'm not sure if that's the same episode that they referenced "Cupid's sparrow". Very romantic bird.
********, * ***** you're ********. The ********** between a ********* and a ******** is **** **** ********** than that. [Some content redacted due to FOIA exemptions]
I could easily resist the marshmallow. I see it going like this:
"OK, gnick, we're going to place this beer right here in front of you. Your job is to..." "I'm sorry - I wasn't listening. This beer is empty, can I have another?" *BURP*
What we really need as a deterrent is open education for the kids about porn. When they hit 6th grade (or whatever age they teach birds-and-bees over there), have an afternoon dedicated to Pornography Education. Explain what it is and show it to them (of course with a parents consent). Bring out a computer and a big screen and throw up lemonparty, goatse, 2girls1cup, the BME pain olympics, and whatever is on the front page of efukt that day. Explain that they've just seen the best that pornography has to offer and that the government is trying to protect them from that.
(Also, maybe check the guys for pitched tents afterword. If anybody's sporting wood, they're obviously a threat to a healthy society and need some time in 're-education camp'.)
Taking pride in doing the work is great. That's what keeps them coming back and doing good work. That's not the problem - You neglected this (very important) piece of that post:
...the new pack of cyber nerds is defending it's territory.
That's really bad. You want to dig a well for orphans? Great! Want to brag about how you donated your time to help them? Cool. But if you get so excited about being the honored 'orphan-well-digger' that you deny others the opportunity to pitch in, and you've got the clout due to your good history to maintain your charity-monopoly, that's bad for everyone.
How would you ignore outliers in your NN? The NN makes the categorizations after looking at all the data, so how can you know what the outliers are until the NN has already considered and incorporated them?
Assuming you want to go with the 'ignoring outliers' option, ignoring them is pretty easy: 1) Train your NN. 2) Calculate the distance from each data point to the centroid of its associated class. 3) Decide on a threshold beyond which a point is called an outlier. 4) Dump those points and re-calculate the centroid for that class. (Or alternatively completely re-train your NN w/o those points).
Ignoring outliers is functionally very similar to your 'apply a default non-class' suggestion.
But, once you've run your data through and decided that 4 categories are sufficient, most designers (including myself) will restrict the NN to those categories. And somebody with really weird behavior will get lumped in and will slightly skew the existing category. The guy who runs into a crowd and dies over and over again may be described as a Runner, but he'll be an outlier in the runner class and his behavior will tweak the definition of a Runner.
Your options are to ignore outliers like him to avoid polluting your class, add a new class for people with that kind of behavior if there are enough of them to justify it, or (most likely) just accept that outliers skew tight groups and lump him in as a Runner - If the group is tight enough and he's rare enough, it won't matter.
Ideally, however, your architecture will be flexible enough that you can weigh how good a fit each player is to each group and adjust accordingly. I.e. adjust every obstacle according to a best-fit weighting rather than just delivering 4 different options on each level. Not having played the game or reading TFA, I can't speculate on that front.
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...releasing open source mal ware code isn't especially helpful either.
Open sourcing it is fine (assuming he's allowed to do so - I know I'd be in trouble if I open sourced the code I'm paid to write) - Even then there's the Wikileaks option if GPL (or whatever) isn't practical. But, both as a courtesy, an aggressive encouragement to improve, and an effort to minimize damage, it should be politely delivered to Skype first. Skype should also be made aware of your intentions, in say 3-6 months, of sharing it with the world.
It'd be easy enough to prevent those from working, regardless of the type of sensor.
My town's small enough that we don't even have parking meters, but I think you're underestimating the complexity of fooling a "Is there a car here?" sensor. I'm just speculating on the sensors and taking advantage of your cavalier "regardless of the type of sensor" bait. For stop lights, the standard technique is to wrap a few coils of wire under the pavement and watch for changes in inductance. If there's a car over the loop, it acts similar to an iron core in a standard inductor. So, if that's the kind of sensor in place, to fool it you'd either have to break into the loop (feel like grinding asphalt?) or put a huge chunk of metal on the spot as a place-holder at the instant one car leaves and remove most of it when another car drives in. Good luck with that. Seems like less trouble to just put up with the crappy parking policy or use public transit.
I'm not arguing that anyone has an expectation of privacy for people simply viewing the front of their house, but if you live on the 5th floor of a building with a Best Buy on the ground level please accept that there will be more people who can conveniently view the first floor of your building than the front of my town-house. Probably more people just walking past not to mention things like the Google van. Hell, still shots or videos might wind up on commercials. If that wasn't obvious when you moved in and you're (for some reason) paranoid about surveillance on the retail establishment downstairs, maybe you'll think through things more when you next move.
At a minimum it doesn't publicize violations. And, when violating them publicly, it announces the fact rather than getting caught with its pants down. Play fair. The US does give a shit about appearing to honor international treaties.
The only problem is that, at least in my experience, when I'm sitting down reading and spontaneously start pounding my lap with a hammer everyone looks at me like I've lost my mind. Anyone else have this problem?
pr0n? For that kind of $$$, I'm expecting them to suppress my pr0n addiction w/ hookers and blow.
That's the case at my house. I don't have a cell, but if my wife wants to use hers the first step is to plug the thing in to charge. For trips, I'm sure to plug the charger into the cigarette lighter 'cuz I know it's going to be dead. I'm sure I'm not alone here...
I said that I was a serial comma fanatic, not a spelling fanatic. Never made it more than 30 pages into Atlas Shrugged, despite having a copy on the bookshelf. Maybe I should.
Here's (kind of) a reference for the quote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma#Resolving_ambiguity
I'm a serial comma fanatic:
To my parents, Anne Rand and God.
You still make it pretty easy.
You are male, between 30-50, live in either Montana, New Hampshire, or Arizona, and own (at a minimum) one rifle and 2 hand-guns.
Am I getting close?
Q: What other hypocracies would he bring to office?
A: Whichever ones helped him/her further his/her agenda and ensure re-election or continued powerful influence in politics.
That was too easy - Toss me another.
... along with E-mail and trolling Slashdot, and what I write in the latter two are not personal or representative of my meatspace self.
Hallelujah. I'm the same way. When I go home to 1313 Mockingbird Lane and shoot up (with the smack that I buy from my buddy Lance and his wife Jody) and get high with my girlfriend (Trixie, who I rent from the corner Central and Missouri here in Springfield, IL), I'll jump on the Internet but completely anonymously and provide no personal information whatsoever. I don't even log into Slashdot normally, it's just that I sometimes forget and have Firefox v3.0.2 remember all of my passwords, Springfield National Bank account details, and tax return information and forget to block it. (How do you block cookies again? Oh well, I'm sure that the privacy-protection-software pop-up I just clicked on will take care of it.) Moral of the story - If you say nothing about yourself and hide in the shadows like I do, nobody will know anything.
Fuck the internet.
Yeah, what's it ever done for anyone? Personally, I prefer the days when I could call Amazon up on the phone and have them read me a list of everything on the fucking planet until they got to the $15 item I was after.
Seriously though. Set your own level of paranoia. Some people want to be invisible - That's getting tough, but it's possible. Some people don't give a crap who knows what - That's actually probably pretty safe. There are huge masses of people out there putting everything out for public view. Hide in the masses. Then, presumably like most of slashdot, there are people like me who lie somewhere in the middle. I'm in New Mexico. I'm a guy in my early 30's. I'm married with kids. All that's true, and I'm comfortable associating it with the name gnick. Meh. There are so many leaks in the system that leaking a few details is far less scary than the info about you that's most likely being leaked elsewhere. And identity theft is a PITA to fix, but it's unlikely to hit you. We all know somebody who's been bent over a barrel and seriously inconvenienced by it, but even if you're a complete idiot your chances at immunity (or at least minimal pain) are pretty good.
A metric ass-load is an approximate, but complicated unit. It is simultaneously denser, less voluminous, and more attractive than a standard Imperial ass-load.
You're neither proactive enough nor do you bother with enough precision. I plan on writing that article, but I'm holding off a little for 3294198 to be posted. You see, my fireworks are poised to fire when I'm 65.8% done writing it. Posting it will just be a formality.
...after the rovers and the problems with keeping their solar panels cleared of dust...
If the panel isn't moving around, dust shouldn't be much of a problem on the moon. Although I've never visited, I understand that dust storms there are pretty infrequent.
That said, the long nights could be a real issue unless you're shipping a metric ass-load of batteries. Nuclear seems pretty reasonable.
But with all that He3, fusion should be just fine. Surely we'll have the kinks ironed out if we give ourselves 5-10 years, right? Or at least we can promise that we will so that we can secure funding?
People don't remember what Paris is famous for? I remember hearing about her pretty clearly - My reaction was, "There's a leaked sex tape of who? What, you mean like the hotel chain?" And then the pathetic part, "Interesting - I'll have to check it out."
To this day I can't figure out why she's maintained any level of fame. Some bad acting in bad movies, worthless reality TV, and a media frenzy over rich-bitch-goes-to-jail.
The Wachowski brothers at least did something memorable - It's a pity that there were no sequels.
I particularly enjoy the rendition from the American version of "The Office": "She cut off her nose to spider face". I'm not sure if that's the same episode that they referenced "Cupid's sparrow". Very romantic bird.
That begs the question, "Whom can spot the sig playfully fishing for grammar Nazis?"
For all intensive porpoises, its not iamhigh.
********, * ***** you're ********. The ********** between a ********* and a ******** is **** **** ********** than that.
[Some content redacted due to FOIA exemptions]
I could easily resist the marshmallow. I see it going like this:
"OK, gnick, we're going to place this beer right here in front of you. Your job is to..."
"I'm sorry - I wasn't listening. This beer is empty, can I have another?" *BURP*
Behind this door are the dam generators..."
All that's Behind the Green Door are a bunch of green damn generators?!? The movies have seriously mislead me...
What we really need as a deterrent is open education for the kids about porn. When they hit 6th grade (or whatever age they teach birds-and-bees over there), have an afternoon dedicated to Pornography Education. Explain what it is and show it to them (of course with a parents consent). Bring out a computer and a big screen and throw up lemonparty, goatse, 2girls1cup, the BME pain olympics, and whatever is on the front page of efukt that day. Explain that they've just seen the best that pornography has to offer and that the government is trying to protect them from that.
(Also, maybe check the guys for pitched tents afterword. If anybody's sporting wood, they're obviously a threat to a healthy society and need some time in 're-education camp'.)
Taking pride in doing the work is great. That's what keeps them coming back and doing good work. That's not the problem - You neglected this (very important) piece of that post:
...the new pack of cyber nerds is defending it's territory.
That's really bad. You want to dig a well for orphans? Great! Want to brag about how you donated your time to help them? Cool. But if you get so excited about being the honored 'orphan-well-digger' that you deny others the opportunity to pitch in, and you've got the clout due to your good history to maintain your charity-monopoly, that's bad for everyone.
How would you ignore outliers in your NN? The NN makes the categorizations after looking at all the data, so how can you know what the outliers are until the NN has already considered and incorporated them?
Assuming you want to go with the 'ignoring outliers' option, ignoring them is pretty easy:
1) Train your NN.
2) Calculate the distance from each data point to the centroid of its associated class.
3) Decide on a threshold beyond which a point is called an outlier.
4) Dump those points and re-calculate the centroid for that class. (Or alternatively completely re-train your NN w/o those points).
Ignoring outliers is functionally very similar to your 'apply a default non-class' suggestion.
But, once you've run your data through and decided that 4 categories are sufficient, most designers (including myself) will restrict the NN to those categories. And somebody with really weird behavior will get lumped in and will slightly skew the existing category. The guy who runs into a crowd and dies over and over again may be described as a Runner, but he'll be an outlier in the runner class and his behavior will tweak the definition of a Runner.
Your options are to ignore outliers like him to avoid polluting your class, add a new class for people with that kind of behavior if there are enough of them to justify it, or (most likely) just accept that outliers skew tight groups and lump him in as a Runner - If the group is tight enough and he's rare enough, it won't matter.
Ideally, however, your architecture will be flexible enough that you can weigh how good a fit each player is to each group and adjust accordingly. I.e. adjust every obstacle according to a best-fit weighting rather than just delivering 4 different options on each level. Not having played the game or reading TFA, I can't speculate on that front.