The power of R is in its libraries, which are often maintained by the best statistical researchers in that area.
Recently I discovered the ggplot2 graphing library, which is a huge step forward for constructing graphs of all types in R. It's very well documented and very actively maintained.
If you like this stuff then you'll like this academic article:
March, J. G. 1991, 'Exploration, and exploitation of organizational learning', Organization Science 2(1), 71-87.
As I understand it March argues that new participants are required to learn new ways of doing things (just as the FTA does). March goes further though and argues that some kinds of organizations (often unconsciously) force 'rapid socialization' on new participants, bringing them in line with the groupthink quickly. He argues for a balanced socialization period, in which the organization can actually learn from the novel perspective (although not so long that the organization doesn't get back to exploiting its knowledge).
There's lots of good literature citing this article too.
It does auto re-reading for use in a LaTeX workflow, but it has a pile of other features, most obviously hugely improved PDF annotations and a great full-screen reading/note-taking mode. Persistent pop-ups for checking diagrams or screen-shots while reading text and roll-over pop-ups of link destinations (great for skiming and checking references in Scientific papers).
That's way to simplistic a take on Australian law.
The Australian High(est) Court found an implied right to free speech in the Australian constitution. They ruled that since the constitution sets up a democracy, and free speech on political matters is crucial to a democracy, the Constitution therefore implies a right to free speech. I believe the case is known as Australian Capital Television v Commonwealth.
I love a good implication as much as the next person, but an explicit protection would probably be of greater value, especially since the decision has been watered down by later court decisions, but the parent is still wrong.
18 years. 18 years and finally God and Flintoff look to have combined to take the urn home.
But study England's second innings totals (and the overs they used) and you see that they will need their longest innings yet to ensure the draw without the risk of seeing Langer and Hayden back in the middle (or would they open with Gillie? Not this summer I'm afraid). And if the aussies do get back in with at least a session England's going to want their highest second innings total too!
And if Warne fires... well it's going to be an interesting day, even in the English gloom.
This might not be your problem (looks like LAN saturation) but if you are a big torrentor, are you sure that bittorrent isn't maxing out the uphill bandwidth? You should shape your traffic to give priority to "anything that isn't bittorrent";)
throttled (google it) is a good place to start. Not on windows though...
The situation with emergency services and interference is being approached the wrong way.
These should be the services in which the message of open spectrum should be heard the loudest. Cognitive radios that cooperate to get the message through regardless of the environment of interference that they are in.
Instead the FCC is doing the exact opposite---allocating more "don't interfere here, please" spectrum. Does making it illegal stop it? no, instead it makes the whole system vulnerable to people wanting to disrupt the emergency services. By the time the damage is done the legal process that enforces this is irrelevant.
Think of this in a medical context and it gets scarier---a baddy with the right radio outside the hospital can effectively shut much of the hospital down.
Gradually removing the protection for emergency services would properly motivate the development of cognitive and interference robust radio equipment. A well known phasing out of these 'protected bands' is the right way to do this.
This is true. Largely because there is lots of funding that requires that the employees be US citizens. Lots of defence and security work, but really work in all fields.
If you are an American citizen that speaks Arabic you can get paid quite a lot just to study for a PhD.
A million years ago (1998?) Wired published a whole edition on Push as the Next Big Thing. It was the first time I was really aware of them being totally wrong. Or perhaps just a bit ahead of their time.
While I think this is a neater solution, there is another product that does exactly the same thing, allow you to subscribe to channels and received pushed content via incentive compatible (you get faster speeds if you upload more) swarms.
There is no MacOS classic client for Australian e-tax. At least there wasn't in 2003. I can't currently check because the new application (which is usually a not very much changed same as last year version) is not out yet.
So you are proposing an "intelligence" or "informedness" criteria on who should vote? So much for universal franchise... Who, pray tell, should make this judgement?
It is my experience that compulsory voting, as is done in Australia and some Scandinavian countries, results in a more politically engaged populace.
When I say it is my experience I mean that---people in Australia are more engaged with the political process than they are in the states. I put this down to USians who don't vote ignoring politics in total, while Australians who know they are going to have to show up at the voting booth make at least some effect to know what they are doing when they vote.
Frankly it ain't a complex decision---particularly in the first-past-the-post system in the States.
It is not all about freedom---democracy requires some duties from citizens and voting should be one of those.
James
ps. Before you get all excited about being compelled to vote realize that in effect this means that you have to show up and have your name ticked off on the electoral role. They then give you a ballot which, if you'd like, you may smoke in the booth, or vote with.
This reads as bizarre to me. I know nothing about the mechanics of Pinochet's rule but I fail to see how compulsory voting could do anything like this.
Unless you are reading compulsory voting as "compelled to vote for one candidate" that is...
Compulsory voting doesn't mean that... it simply means that every citizen must show up on voting day---and collect a ballot paper. You can smoke them in the booth if you'd like...
What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." do you not understand?
What part of "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" do you not understand? (being the first part of the second amendment)
Your selective quotation is just embarrassing. You have the right to bear arms, but only as part of a "well regulated militia".
Come to think of it the Second Amendment isn't even grammatical.
How often did US fighters and Soviet MiGs actually engage in 'hot combat'? Where there any incidents in which US fighers shot down MiGs, or the other way round?
You might want to check out R - the open source version of S. I'm just exploring it at the moment and it seems to have fairly sophisticated capabilities.
The syntax is somewhat tricky to learn but if you are a coder you shouldn't have much difficulty.
There's an aqua and an X11 version (through fink): http://www.r-project.org
There is a pdf on doing graphic and plots available through their "Contributed" part of the website.
Obviously it is illegal not to register (or change your address) and it gets randomly cross-checked against other government records, including drivers licences and tax.
Due to the HFS filesystem not being case-sensitive if you install libwww-perl (which you will probably do when upgrading to 5.8) then it puts HEAD (a tool for manipulating http headers) in/usr/bin which stomps all over the familiar head.
Applications are actually folders disgusied as double-clickable application icons.
So you can store anything you would like within the (hidden) folder hierarchy that is the.app on OS X (think that this was present in NextStep as well)
If you wanna see inside the folder, right-click (or cmd-click) and choose view contents. I'm sure that view contents is also in the menus as is usual for context menu items (nice to have but not neccessary).
MS breaks the design metaphor by hiding SN away in other areas for their attempt at copy protection.
TransACT (Australian Capital Territory) has a somewhat similar system - although theirs runs on fibre and gives access to Cable TV as well as internet and intranet solutions.
Much slower though.
http://www.transact.com.au
'tech' info:
http://www.transact.com.au/default_Graph.asp?sec ti onName=AboutTransACT&pageName=techinfo.asp
The human edited dmoz is very close to this. They give feeds to other directory packagers. Google packages the dmoz feed.
They add value because dmoz is in alphabetical order not popularity or usefulness. Google restructures the order of the sites listed according to their page rank algorithm.
I'd like to see a directory where you can customise the ontology (the structure of the categories). ie I drag a folder to another part of the tree and it fills up with different data which relates to that topic as it relates to the new category it is sitting under.
To be more clear. Consider the topic "Interest Rates". Within the sphere of mainstream economics this should produce data on monetary policy and statistics. Within the sphere of consumer borrowing this should produce mostly comparative information on rates accessible to consumers. This is normally done by having two separate folders, one under each hierachy. But what if you get a site which is relevant to both. Do you duplicate or confine it to one? The hierarchy should be flexible metadata not a once and forever decision.
And to go further one can then collaboratively filter ontologies. To use the most basic form (recommendations) "People who put ice cream under the category of "industry" also put milk under the category of supplier. People that think of capitalism as an "oppressive system" also think of "basketball shoes" under the category of Human rights.
Eloquence - do you think it would be possible to build a 'proof-of-concept' of a collaboratively filtered (well recommender-system) Google through a proxy server that routes one's Google searches.
My itch is, rather than send an email when I find a page a friend might like, to have a way to 'flag' that page so that the next time my friend is searching on Google (and the flagged page would have shown up in the results anyway) it is high-lighted as having been recommended by me.
I think that this could be built on a proxy server - has anyone tried this yet?
Cheers
James
... who has been away from info-anarchy too long:)
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The after picture on the spapeimaging page appears to be a totally different 'zoom' than the before pic. Even though they both say 1 meter.
Slashdot Mirror
The power of R is in its libraries, which are often maintained by the best statistical researchers in that area.
Recently I discovered the ggplot2 graphing library, which is a huge step forward for constructing graphs of all types in R. It's very well documented and very actively maintained.
http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/
If you like this stuff then you'll like this academic article:
March, J. G. 1991, 'Exploration, and exploitation of organizational learning', Organization Science 2(1), 71-87.
As I understand it March argues that new participants are required to learn new ways of doing things (just as the FTA does). March goes further though and argues that some kinds of organizations (often unconsciously) force 'rapid socialization' on new participants, bringing them in line with the groupthink quickly. He argues for a balanced socialization period, in which the organization can actually learn from the novel perspective (although not so long that the organization doesn't get back to exploiting its knowledge).
There's lots of good literature citing this article too.
@PDFPen and Preview re-opening, perhaps you should check out Skim.app:
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
It does auto re-reading for use in a LaTeX workflow, but it has a pile of other features, most obviously hugely improved PDF annotations and a great full-screen reading/note-taking mode. Persistent pop-ups for checking diagrams or screen-shots while reading text and roll-over pop-ups of link destinations (great for skiming and checking references in Scientific papers).
Chuck West and Roy Schmidt (2006) Dual Monitor Productivity Study in Proceedings of IFIP 8.2 OASIS Workshop, Milwaukee, WI. p 83 http://www.ifipwg82.org/OASIS2006_Proceedings-LR.p df
That's just an abstract, but they may have published the full article by now, check Google. Or email the first author, Chuck West: west@bradley.edu
That's way to simplistic a take on Australian law.
The Australian High(est) Court found an implied right to free speech in the Australian constitution. They ruled that since the constitution sets up a democracy, and free speech on political matters is crucial to a democracy, the Constitution therefore implies a right to free speech. I believe the case is known as Australian Capital Television v Commonwealth.
I love a good implication as much as the next person, but an explicit protection would probably be of greater value, especially since the decision has been watered down by later court decisions, but the parent is still wrong.
18 years. 18 years and finally God and Flintoff look to have combined to take the urn home.
... well it's going to be an interesting day, even in the English gloom.
But study England's second innings totals (and the overs they used) and you see that they will need their longest innings yet to ensure the draw without the risk of seeing Langer and Hayden back in the middle (or would they open with Gillie? Not this summer I'm afraid). And if the aussies do get back in with at least a session England's going to want their highest second innings total too!
And if Warne fires
This might not be your problem (looks like LAN saturation) but if you are a big torrentor, are you sure that bittorrent isn't maxing out the uphill bandwidth? You should shape your traffic to give priority to "anything that isn't bittorrent" ;)
...
throttled (google it) is a good place to start. Not on windows though
The situation with emergency services and interference is being approached the wrong way.
These should be the services in which the message of open spectrum should be heard the loudest. Cognitive radios that cooperate to get the message through regardless of the environment of interference that they are in.
Instead the FCC is doing the exact opposite---allocating more "don't interfere here, please" spectrum. Does making it illegal stop it? no, instead it makes the whole system vulnerable to people wanting to disrupt the emergency services. By the time the damage is done the legal process that enforces this is irrelevant.
Think of this in a medical context and it gets scarier---a baddy with the right radio outside the hospital can effectively shut much of the hospital down.
Gradually removing the protection for emergency services would properly motivate the development of cognitive and interference robust radio equipment. A well known phasing out of these 'protected bands' is the right way to do this.
This is true. Largely because there is lots of funding that requires that the employees be US citizens. Lots of defence and security work, but really work in all fields.
If you are an American citizen that speaks Arabic you can get paid quite a lot just to study for a PhD.
A million years ago (1998?) Wired published a whole edition on Push as the Next Big Thing. It was the first time I was really aware of them being totally wrong. Or perhaps just a bit ahead of their time.
While I think this is a neater solution, there is another product that does exactly the same thing, allow you to subscribe to channels and received pushed content via incentive compatible (you get faster speeds if you upload more) swarms.
It's called kast.
There is no MacOS classic client for Australian e-tax. At least there wasn't in 2003. I can't currently check because the new application (which is usually a not very much changed same as last year version) is not out yet.
What are you talking about?
So you are proposing an "intelligence" or "informedness" criteria on who should vote? So much for universal franchise ... Who, pray tell, should make this judgement?
It is my experience that compulsory voting, as is done in Australia and some Scandinavian countries, results in a more politically engaged populace.
When I say it is my experience I mean that---people in Australia are more engaged with the political process than they are in the states. I put this down to USians who don't vote ignoring politics in total, while Australians who know they are going to have to show up at the voting booth make at least some effect to know what they are doing when they vote.
Frankly it ain't a complex decision---particularly in the first-past-the-post system in the States.
It is not all about freedom---democracy requires some duties from citizens and voting should be one of those.
James
ps. Before you get all excited about being compelled to vote realize that in effect this means that you have to show up and have your name ticked off on the electoral role. They then give you a ballot which, if you'd like, you may smoke in the booth, or vote with.
This reads as bizarre to me. I know nothing about the mechanics of Pinochet's rule but I fail to see how compulsory voting could do anything like this.
...
... it simply means that every citizen must show up on voting day---and collect a ballot paper. You can smoke them in the booth if you'd like ...
Unless you are reading compulsory voting as "compelled to vote for one candidate" that is
Compulsory voting doesn't mean that
Care to recall a little more about Pinchet?
What part of "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" do you not understand? (being the first part of the second amendment)
Your selective quotation is just embarrassing. You have the right to bear arms, but only as part of a "well regulated militia".
Come to think of it the Second Amendment isn't even grammatical.
How often did US fighters and Soviet MiGs actually engage in 'hot combat'? Where there any incidents in which US fighers shot down MiGs, or the other way round?
You might want to check out R - the open source version of S. I'm just exploring it at the moment and it seems to have fairly sophisticated capabilities.
The syntax is somewhat tricky to learn but if you are a coder you shouldn't have much difficulty.
There's an aqua and an X11 version (through fink):
http://www.r-project.org
There is a pdf on doing graphic and plots available through their "Contributed" part of the website.
Obviously it is illegal not to register (or change your address) and it gets randomly cross-checked against other government records, including drivers licences and tax.
... hope it is worth it for you :)
Good luck hiding
There is one wierdness.
/usr/bin which stomps all over the familiar head.
Due to the HFS filesystem not being case-sensitive if you install libwww-perl (which you will probably do when upgrading to 5.8) then it puts HEAD (a tool for manipulating http headers) in
One to watch out for.
Applications are actually folders disgusied as double-clickable application icons.
.app on OS X (think that this was present in NextStep as well)
So you can store anything you would like within the (hidden) folder hierarchy that is the
If you wanna see inside the folder, right-click (or cmd-click) and choose view contents. I'm sure that view contents is also in the menus as is usual for context menu items (nice to have but not neccessary).
MS breaks the design metaphor by hiding SN away in other areas for their attempt at copy protection.
Cheers
James
This GPL code remaps on OS X for Emacs style control key.
n tr ol.html
It may be useful for those using Linux on PPC - haven't looked and wouldn't know.
But they have overcome the difficulties of the toggle adb caps-lock key issue.
http://homepage.mac.com/patricklee/CommandAndCo
Also google for uControl
James
TransACT (Australian Capital Territory) has a somewhat similar system - although theirs runs on fibre and gives access to Cable TV as well as internet and intranet solutions.
c ti onName=AboutTransACT&pageName=techinfo.asp
Much slower though.
http://www.transact.com.au
'tech' info:
http://www.transact.com.au/default_Graph.asp?se
Cheers
James
The human edited dmoz is very close to this. They give feeds to other directory packagers. Google packages the dmoz feed.
They add value because dmoz is in alphabetical order not popularity or usefulness. Google restructures the order of the sites listed according to their page rank algorithm.
I'd like to see a directory where you can customise the ontology (the structure of the categories). ie I drag a folder to another part of the tree and it fills up with different data which relates to that topic as it relates to the new category it is sitting under.
To be more clear. Consider the topic "Interest Rates". Within the sphere of mainstream economics this should produce data on monetary policy and statistics. Within the sphere of consumer borrowing this should produce mostly comparative information on rates accessible to consumers. This is normally done by having two separate folders, one under each hierachy. But what if you get a site which is relevant to both. Do you duplicate or confine it to one? The hierarchy should be flexible metadata not a once and forever decision.
And to go further one can then collaboratively filter ontologies. To use the most basic form (recommendations) "People who put ice cream under the category of "industry" also put milk under the category of supplier. People that think of capitalism as an "oppressive system" also think of "basketball shoes" under the category of Human rights.
Hmmm. There's something here.
Ah trust ... an excellent idea.
:)
Eloquence - do you think it would be possible to build a 'proof-of-concept' of a collaboratively filtered (well recommender-system) Google through a proxy server that routes one's Google searches.
My itch is, rather than send an email when I find a page a friend might like, to have a way to 'flag' that page so that the next time my friend is searching on Google (and the flagged page would have shown up in the results anyway) it is high-lighted as having been recommended by me.
I think that this could be built on a proxy server - has anyone tried this yet?
Cheers
James
... who has been away from info-anarchy too long
The after picture on the spapeimaging page appears to be a totally different 'zoom' than the before pic. Even though they both say 1 meter.
What gives?
James
Has anyone heard the air traffic logs from around the time of the crash?
They are available live on
http://www.atlascomm.net/faaflyer/live.html
Maybe they have recorded logs.
James