Seems to me that the HR flacks are not doing their job properly if they associate a search cloud with the work history of a prospective hire. If I do a search for a person and "autocomplete" gives me unusual results, I don't immediately stop typing and have a spaz-- I take an extra second to finish the search. I can't even see how this could be considered a form of libel or slander, as in the "Santorum" situation (which I find to be hilarious, and not slander at all BTW). This guy's beef is with the HR departments, not the company that makes tools used by the lazy HR drones.
Google is working exactly as it should-- associating popular searches with similar words. Let's say my name is Killroy, Bob-- does the judge really think that upon typing in "Kill" and upon seeing the following results: "killer elite, kill the irishman, kill bill, killer whale" the reasonable choice is to stop typing assume the applicant is a killer whale? Absurd.
On a related note, I made a JAVA applet that uses autocomplete to generate "food" for little animated "animals": AutoComplete Hive Mind Cannibals. I LIKE autocomplete, it is a weird profile of what people search for and what associations they make.
Hate to be on-topic, but what the hell: Article on Tor.com with some images from some of his other concept art. I always get a kick out of seeing hand-painted 70s-80s concept art. Cognitive dissonance-- "old fashioned" sci-fi imagery.
Check out the book "How to Lie with Maps"
It's pretty fun. That said, most of the most interesting visualization work I've seen tends to be roll-your-own using Processing/JAVA, etc. I haven't heard of any of this software before... and no mention of R?
Don't assume too much in terms of playing nice with straight-up JAVA. I've been building a lot of interactive video projects (kinect interface with JSON queries to databases holding IP addresses, for mapping animations on spheres) and I've been using the Eclipse rather than the Proceesing IDE. There's a lot of weird shortcuts that the Processing IDE does to make it easy for n00bs (that's why I got into it;) but once you start doing stuff with openGL, threading, or (most importantly for the OP) using fonts and UI elements, things get really convoluted. And the debugger blows.
Not to say you shouldn't do it-- but while the Processing learning curve is pretty easy, it gets quite steep when you want to incorporate more high-level functionality.
That said, there's a lot of libraries that will address most stuff you'll need in terms of UI elements-- controlP5 is one that deals with text fields, text boxes, etc, for instance.
Used up my mod points for some trifling nonsense the other day, wish I'd saved them for your post. There's some countries that ban advertising to children (citation needed), would be nice if the US could pass similar laws as well.
The key is to build using one of these printers that outputs resin or plastic, then take to a caster (or even a high-end jewelry studio) and have them (re)cast the output in your metal of choice. Make a mold around the output, burn it out in the kiln, and presto!
Pure-Cap is more about hype than anything else... you can even pick it up in most big-city delis (Bay Cities in Santa Monica, CA carries it). A drop on the end of a toothpick is about all most people need.
It is a skin irritant, and I wouldn't want it in my eyes, but it's not highly corrosive or anything. On the other hand, It does melt the rubber cap on the eye dropper after a few months.
Wish I had mod points left, so I could mod you "dimwit". What, exactly, does canvas "fix"?
Go ahead and build me a game or an app that is more complicated than minesweeper or a tip calculator that can run seamlessly on multiple browsers. Or tell a client that their product slideshow will have nice transitions sometimes, in some browsers, maybe. But don't use it on IE6, or firefox. But IE9 will work, after service pack XX.
Do some actual production work once in a while, with a client that isn't your mom, before posting your bullshit. Devs don't set standards-- the clients do. And like it or not, they've been conditioned to want the experience that Flash has made standard.
I already beat you to it-- get a commercial (or better yet, freeware) screencap software like CamStudio or SnapzPro, set the rezolution to 1080 on the YouTube toolbar, and record it playing. Then do all your cropping, resizing, exporting in your video editing software of choice.
Not everyone is from the U.S-- so jokes about dangerous neighborhoods in the US fall flat.
In short, Compton ( a neighborhood in Los Angeles) is often associated with high levels of street crime-- in particular car-jacking/stealing. Hence, the "soyuz-jacking" reference.
Not to be a climate-change denier or whatever, but is that really what that is? Citation? I had assumed it was more likely some kind of magnetic halo, or something like the northern lights, or light pollution bouncing off the atmosphere. I'm not a climatologist, obvs. Anyone here know what that "halo" is?
I live in L.A, so my experience of pollution is that it's brown, not a pretty green/yellow color.
Ok, I hate to feed the trolls, but.... random racist garbage tends not to be something programmed for in most chatbot scripts (judging from my limited experience from watching some back-and-forth on YouTube).
Can we assume that any entity spouting racist claptrap is, in fact, a (poorly socialized and not very intelligent) human?
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VerumSerum is a right-wing mouthpiece. Doesn't necessarily mean the stats are wrong/misleading...
I'm just sayin'.
Seems to me that the HR flacks are not doing their job properly if they associate a search cloud with the work history of a prospective hire. If I do a search for a person and "autocomplete" gives me unusual results, I don't immediately stop typing and have a spaz-- I take an extra second to finish the search. I can't even see how this could be considered a form of libel or slander, as in the "Santorum" situation (which I find to be hilarious, and not slander at all BTW). This guy's beef is with the HR departments, not the company that makes tools used by the lazy HR drones.
Google is working exactly as it should-- associating popular searches with similar words. Let's say my name is Killroy, Bob-- does the judge really think that upon typing in "Kill" and upon seeing the following results: "killer elite, kill the irishman, kill bill, killer whale" the reasonable choice is to stop typing assume the applicant is a killer whale? Absurd.
On a related note, I made a JAVA applet that uses autocomplete to generate "food" for little animated "animals": AutoComplete Hive Mind Cannibals. I LIKE autocomplete, it is a weird profile of what people search for and what associations they make.
mod parent +insightful, please. Articulate and succinct.
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Hate to be on-topic, but what the hell:
Article on Tor.com with some images from some of his other concept art. I always get a kick out of seeing hand-painted 70s-80s concept art. Cognitive dissonance-- "old fashioned" sci-fi imagery.
Check out the book "How to Lie with Maps"
It's pretty fun. That said, most of the most interesting visualization work I've seen tends to be roll-your-own using Processing/JAVA, etc. I haven't heard of any of this software before... and no mention of R?
Don't assume too much in terms of playing nice with straight-up JAVA. I've been building a lot of interactive video projects (kinect interface with JSON queries to databases holding IP addresses, for mapping animations on spheres) and I've been using the Eclipse rather than the Proceesing IDE. There's a lot of weird shortcuts that the Processing IDE does to make it easy for n00bs (that's why I got into it ;) but once you start doing stuff with openGL, threading, or (most importantly for the OP) using fonts and UI elements, things get really convoluted. And the debugger blows.
Not to say you shouldn't do it-- but while the Processing learning curve is pretty easy, it gets quite steep when you want to incorporate more high-level functionality.
That said, there's a lot of libraries that will address most stuff you'll need in terms of UI elements-- controlP5 is one that deals with text fields, text boxes, etc, for instance.
I suspect we are witnessing a MichaelKristopeit bot-chat.... is it still trolling if one bot is trolling another?
Used up my mod points for some trifling nonsense the other day, wish I'd saved them for your post. There's some countries that ban advertising to children (citation needed), would be nice if the US could pass similar laws as well.
Mod parent +1 sexychildren!
MOD PARENT +1 AWESOME!
I checked out the site-- looks pretty cool, I may go ahead and sign up if I can get that time off!
You have the awesomest sig EVAR!
Go ahead and mark me - 1 offtopic mods, I don't care anymore...
The key is to build using one of these printers that outputs resin or plastic, then take to a caster (or even a high-end jewelry studio) and have them (re)cast the output in your metal of choice. Make a mold around the output, burn it out in the kiln, and presto!
+1 Awesome! I'm going to implement that functionality in every UI for every system I build for now on.
I won't vote for him again. For some reason I thought "Governor Moonbeam" was a different fella than this "Governor E-Cavity Search".
Pure-Cap is more about hype than anything else... you can even pick it up in most big-city delis (Bay Cities in Santa Monica, CA carries it). A drop on the end of a toothpick is about all most people need.
It is a skin irritant, and I wouldn't want it in my eyes, but it's not highly corrosive or anything. On the other hand, It does melt the rubber cap on the eye dropper after a few months.
Wish I had mod points left, so I could mod you "dimwit". What, exactly, does canvas "fix"?
Go ahead and build me a game or an app that is more complicated than minesweeper or a tip calculator that can run seamlessly on multiple browsers. Or tell a client that their product slideshow will have nice transitions sometimes, in some browsers, maybe. But don't use it on IE6, or firefox. But IE9 will work, after service pack XX.
Do some actual production work once in a while, with a client that isn't your mom, before posting your bullshit. Devs don't set standards-- the clients do. And like it or not, they've been conditioned to want the experience that Flash has made standard.
I, for one, welcome our Laughing-Man overlords.
Ummm.... "normal, standard HTML5"? There's nothing standard about HTML 5.
Mod parent as flamebait, please. Or mod me as troll, see if I care.
I already beat you to it-- get a commercial (or better yet, freeware) screencap software like CamStudio or SnapzPro, set the rezolution to 1080 on the YouTube toolbar, and record it playing. Then do all your cropping, resizing, exporting in your video editing software of choice.
It took me five minutes.
Not everyone is from the U.S-- so jokes about dangerous neighborhoods in the US fall flat.
In short, Compton ( a neighborhood in Los Angeles) is often associated with high levels of street crime-- in particular car-jacking/stealing. Hence, the "soyuz-jacking" reference.
Not to be a climate-change denier or whatever, but is that really what that is? Citation? I had assumed it was more likely some kind of magnetic halo, or something like the northern lights, or light pollution bouncing off the atmosphere. I'm not a climatologist, obvs. Anyone here know what that "halo" is?
I live in L.A, so my experience of pollution is that it's brown, not a pretty green/yellow color.
Hulu would be doing better on Xbox if there were no ads.
Nice try, troll.
Ok, I hate to feed the trolls, but.... random racist garbage tends not to be something programmed for in most chatbot scripts (judging from my limited experience from watching some back-and-forth on YouTube).
Can we assume that any entity spouting racist claptrap is, in fact, a (poorly socialized and not very intelligent) human?