I like it very much. That's an appealing way to go beyond the classic 2D graph visualization. I am part of the StackOverflow community and this visualization really shows the sub-communities existing in the website. Sometimes you have a huge skyscraper surrounded by smaller buildings, like the Git related questions (search for user ID 6309). Then you have less specific communities such as the web development (CSS, PHP, Jquery, Javascript,...) one (search for my own ID: 806221) where there are less leaders but a lot of mid-level reputation contributors.
I think this visualization could be nicely completed by community labels. To go on with the city metaphor, you could have a road sign for each cluster of buildings. I can count 10 big community in the StackOverflow metropolitan area. A modularity algorithm would identify these clusters. Then you could get a list of most frequent tags in the users of the cluster to build the road sign.
Am from Normandy too and would have modded you up if I didn't contribute to the topic myself. P'tet ben que les fermiers y zen avaient ren a fout des minitels.
I was born in Western France and I remember that Minitels started to die when modems became more common in France. Many people bought modems to have access to fax functions, as buying a fax machine was damn expensive at that time. In France, modems usually came bundled with minitel emulators, inciting buyers to not buy extra monthly cost for minitel rent to France Telecom.
I remember making my scholarship applications for university on the Minitel for a couple of years until they had a decent Internet website. Everybody gave up on the Minitel already but terminals were still available around campuses just for this purpose. Then they saw less and less students queuing for the few number of terminals and flocking to the computer room, at a time where personal Internet access was not common yet. Web browser usability beats minitels phone-like menus a hundred folds. They then discarded the minitels.
RIP minitel, you were part of my life and I will never forget you.
OK, I've sobered up. Just for information, I was born in the 80's in France and am now a researcher computer science researcher at the other end of the world, in Japan.
Minitel is what drove me into computer science as I would dream of any career that would let me touch a keyboard at that tine. ind you, secretaries were still using typewriters in France at that time. 3515 ULLA was the equivalent of adultfriendfinder at that time and had paper ads all over countryside roads, usually on electrical installations such as transformers.
Minitel might not have been the best of models, but it was in line with the current French policy at that time, which tried to be independent of USA at any cost. We had even our own Micro-computer models made by Thompon (a.k.a Technicolor). Even if unpractical overall, Minitel prepared the French population for the use of the Internet afterwards, making France one of the most active population on the Internet afterwards.
So, R.I.P Minitel, we value what you brought to our nation. You will always have a place in our hearts.
From: http://techland.time.com/2012/04/04/a-little-girl-finds-her-voice-thanks-to-threatened-new-ipad-app/#ixzz1xfwxflS6
Maya smiles and gives me a big hug as soon as I sit on the couch, or as big a hug as a tiny three-year-old girl can manage. Her mother, Dana Nieder, laughs and explains that because Maya has difficulty speaking, she often has to express herself in other ways.
She is as smart and curious as any other girl her age; the problem is that the muscles that control her speech are weak and disorganized, making saying a single word incredibly difficult. Doctors have run multiple tests but all they can determine is that it is probably a genetic condition.
FTFA:
While she already has the app on her iPad, she worries about the fact that Speak for Yourself can’t send out updates and that new iOS updates from Apple could interfere with how the app functions.
It's not about wiping the app, it's about updates.
Pardon my ignorance, bu why exactly should today be a grill day? Is it a US thing? I'm just asking because I never heard of a specific day for grilling. P.S. I live in Japan.
I'm not that old (26) but I remember the first time I went to the Internet through one of these AOL CDs.
http://www.dialupsound.com/
It was working less than 10% of the time.
Disclaimer: I work on finding new ways to use machine translation in intercultural collaboration.
What happens most of the time with slang is as you say, a simple mapping. The most efficient way to deal with slang syntactically incorrect terms is to use a custom dictionary in the machine translator. For example, "U" is translated as "you". To make it more complete, you might want to use a complete translation memory, not taking single words.
To make it short, you just need a custom element in your translation, to adapt to your domain. That's why machine translation such as Google Translate can't work very well since it can't get the context of the content you want to translate.
By clicking on the "See what the computer is thinking" button I think that the AI works with a simple history based algorithm. Assuming that a human player will only remember the immediate previous throws, it takes the last 4 throw pairs and will search what was the subsequent throw among all the human players who played the same sequence. Then it will just pick the move that defeats the human most likely next throw. My explanations might be a bit clumsy, sorry English is not my mother tongue, but click the button and you will understand.
A possible strategy to defeat the AI would then to search for these patterns yourself and pick the throw that would defeat the throw that the AI thinks would defeat the human's. The problem is that if most players start acting like that, the history will change and the AI wil outsmart the human player again. As some commenters noticed before, there is no dominant strategy in RPS and playing at random seems to be the best.
It reminds me of the Keynesian beauty contest where players have to pick not the prettiest contestants but the contestants that most people thought were pretty. I think think the next step for this algorithm would be to not only rely on the total history but also to make a model of the human player and compute how many moves he/she can read ahead of the CPU. For example, a "naive" player will always play according to the history (e.g. human scissors, CPU rock). A human player reading 1 throw ahead would play in order to defeat the CPU, based on the history (e.g. human paper). A human player seeing this strategy defeat could decide to play 2 moves ahead (e.g. human scissors). Since reading 3 moves ahead is equivalent to the naive one, the CPU would only have to make 3 categories of players.
I am not an expert in game theory but I think it could work...
I might get bashed for this comment but I think that it is actually a good feature. As a researcher, I often use Wikipedia to get links to more more sources of authority that I can ask the laboratory to order on Amazon. As far as I understand, at the moment, Amazon just links ISBN and book titles back to Amazon so you can buy them. What I did before was copy and pasting the ISBN to Amazon or searching for the book title.
The way they have implemented the shopping-enabled Wikipedia is close to the behaviour of customers looking for books on a specific subject and just spare some copy-paste. If I use wikipedia to get to know how I should spend my book budget, I think this is a very good approach.
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Wrong topic?
I like it very much. That's an appealing way to go beyond the classic 2D graph visualization. I am part of the StackOverflow community and this visualization really shows the sub-communities existing in the website. Sometimes you have a huge skyscraper surrounded by smaller buildings, like the Git related questions (search for user ID 6309). Then you have less specific communities such as the web development (CSS, PHP, Jquery, Javascript,...) one (search for my own ID: 806221) where there are less leaders but a lot of mid-level reputation contributors.
I think this visualization could be nicely completed by community labels. To go on with the city metaphor, you could have a road sign for each cluster of buildings. I can count 10 big community in the StackOverflow metropolitan area. A modularity algorithm would identify these clusters. Then you could get a list of most frequent tags in the users of the cluster to build the road sign.
It's relative soberness. I went to the stage of "I think I'm being tipsy" to the "I swear I'm sober" one.
Geez, I meant "Modems killed minitels". Way to get too drunk.
Am from Normandy too and would have modded you up if I didn't contribute to the topic myself. P'tet ben que les fermiers y zen avaient ren a fout des minitels.
I was born in Western France and I remember that Minitels started to die when modems became more common in France. Many people bought modems to have access to fax functions, as buying a fax machine was damn expensive at that time. In France, modems usually came bundled with minitel emulators, inciting buyers to not buy extra monthly cost for minitel rent to France Telecom. I remember making my scholarship applications for university on the Minitel for a couple of years until they had a decent Internet website. Everybody gave up on the Minitel already but terminals were still available around campuses just for this purpose. Then they saw less and less students queuing for the few number of terminals and flocking to the computer room, at a time where personal Internet access was not common yet. Web browser usability beats minitels phone-like menus a hundred folds. They then discarded the minitels. RIP minitel, you were part of my life and I will never forget you.
OK, I've sobered up. Just for information, I was born in the 80's in France and am now a researcher computer science researcher at the other end of the world, in Japan. Minitel is what drove me into computer science as I would dream of any career that would let me touch a keyboard at that tine. ind you, secretaries were still using typewriters in France at that time. 3515 ULLA was the equivalent of adultfriendfinder at that time and had paper ads all over countryside roads, usually on electrical installations such as transformers. Minitel might not have been the best of models, but it was in line with the current French policy at that time, which tried to be independent of USA at any cost. We had even our own Micro-computer models made by Thompon (a.k.a Technicolor). Even if unpractical overall, Minitel prepared the French population for the use of the Internet afterwards, making France one of the most active population on the Internet afterwards. So, R.I.P Minitel, we value what you brought to our nation. You will always have a place in our hearts.
Nooooooooooo! What will happen of 3515 ULLA? Disclaimer: I'm drunk.
I would pay to hear Stephen Hawking speaking with a Morgan Freeman voice though...
From: http://techland.time.com/2012/04/04/a-little-girl-finds-her-voice-thanks-to-threatened-new-ipad-app/#ixzz1xfwxflS6 Maya smiles and gives me a big hug as soon as I sit on the couch, or as big a hug as a tiny three-year-old girl can manage. Her mother, Dana Nieder, laughs and explains that because Maya has difficulty speaking, she often has to express herself in other ways. She is as smart and curious as any other girl her age; the problem is that the muscles that control her speech are weak and disorganized, making saying a single word incredibly difficult. Doctors have run multiple tests but all they can determine is that it is probably a genetic condition.
FTFA: While she already has the app on her iPad, she worries about the fact that Speak for Yourself can’t send out updates and that new iOS updates from Apple could interfere with how the app functions. It's not about wiping the app, it's about updates.
Well no papers in this one yet... That said, it's all the same with PeerJ
They should have seen this coming. How come the H1-Bv6 is not ready yet?
Thank you for the answer. I guess it's the same in Japan in April when cherry trees blossom then :)
Pardon my ignorance, bu why exactly should today be a grill day? Is it a US thing? I'm just asking because I never heard of a specific day for grilling. P.S. I live in Japan.
I'm not that old (26) but I remember the first time I went to the Internet through one of these AOL CDs. http://www.dialupsound.com/ It was working less than 10% of the time.
A summary shouldn't be a cliffhanger IMHO. Why do I have to read TFA to get the result of the study? Could the result be included in TFS?
Disclaimer: I work on finding new ways to use machine translation in intercultural collaboration. What happens most of the time with slang is as you say, a simple mapping. The most efficient way to deal with slang syntactically incorrect terms is to use a custom dictionary in the machine translator. For example, "U" is translated as "you". To make it more complete, you might want to use a complete translation memory, not taking single words. To make it short, you just need a custom element in your translation, to adapt to your domain. That's why machine translation such as Google Translate can't work very well since it can't get the context of the content you want to translate.
He he, it all depends if you're observing it from the front or from the back.
But this one has no teeth!
85.9 miles = 138.24265 km, courtesy of Google :) Had to look it up too.
We know which game they were playing then:
By clicking on the "See what the computer is thinking" button I think that the AI works with a simple history based algorithm. Assuming that a human player will only remember the immediate previous throws, it takes the last 4 throw pairs and will search what was the subsequent throw among all the human players who played the same sequence. Then it will just pick the move that defeats the human most likely next throw. My explanations might be a bit clumsy, sorry English is not my mother tongue, but click the button and you will understand.
A possible strategy to defeat the AI would then to search for these patterns yourself and pick the throw that would defeat the throw that the AI thinks would defeat the human's. The problem is that if most players start acting like that, the history will change and the AI wil outsmart the human player again. As some commenters noticed before, there is no dominant strategy in RPS and playing at random seems to be the best.
It reminds me of the Keynesian beauty contest where players have to pick not the prettiest contestants but the contestants that most people thought were pretty. I think think the next step for this algorithm would be to not only rely on the total history but also to make a model of the human player and compute how many moves he/she can read ahead of the CPU. For example, a "naive" player will always play according to the history (e.g. human scissors, CPU rock). A human player reading 1 throw ahead would play in order to defeat the CPU, based on the history (e.g. human paper). A human player seeing this strategy defeat could decide to play 2 moves ahead (e.g. human scissors). Since reading 3 moves ahead is equivalent to the naive one, the CPU would only have to make 3 categories of players.
I am not an expert in game theory but I think it could work...
I might get bashed for this comment but I think that it is actually a good feature. As a researcher, I often use Wikipedia to get links to more more sources of authority that I can ask the laboratory to order on Amazon. As far as I understand, at the moment, Amazon just links ISBN and book titles back to Amazon so you can buy them. What I did before was copy and pasting the ISBN to Amazon or searching for the book title. The way they have implemented the shopping-enabled Wikipedia is close to the behaviour of customers looking for books on a specific subject and just spare some copy-paste. If I use wikipedia to get to know how I should spend my book budget, I think this is a very good approach.
Have you ever tried to enter kanji on /.?
Just tried to type the date in Kanji. Apparently, /. does not handle double-byte characters.