designs that haven't yet had a chance to be viewed by anybody,
There are no such designs in this model, owing to the fact that 10% of all visitors are shown a design at random, unweighted by previous measurements.
Seriously, the algorithm presented in TFA anticipates and addresses your objection perfectly. You'd do well to check it out; AC's summary up there was good but incomplete.
Bandwidth contention on the host's fiberchannel card (in most cases) is between traffic that's addressed to different physical disks in the SAN, meaning the different guests don't have to sit around waiting for each other's disk seeks to complete, the way they would if they had concurrent access to 2 virtual disk images on one physical disk. If you were just talking about 2 guests accessing 2 physical disks on one SATA card, I guess that's different.
The host's kernel can help a bit with disk caching and I/O scheduling/reordering to minimize the amount of disk thrash, but that's still a far cry from SAN performance.
If the physical host has a lot of VM's using a lot of LUN's on the SAN, then there may still be contention for bandwidth on the fiberchannel card. Luckily this does not come with the massive overhead that is associated with contention for bandwidth on a local disk drive, but it's still a potential bottleneck to be wary of.
More people will inevitably vote it down (unless it is indeed the best option), because it's getting more exposure.
Unless you're saying that display frequency will actually affect click-through rate. Are you suggesting that, for instance, a design which only gets shown 300 times and gets 100 positive responses, if it were shown 3000 times instead it should be expected to get more than 1000 positive responses? This seems unlikely if successive tests are causally independent (and given that successive tests are most likely completely different site users, at different computers, who have never met each other, that seems a fair assumption.)
if I decide to add something to my cart, I'm confident I'll find the button even if it's 1.2% less optimized.
That's very well and good for you, but marketing and layout-optimization people are more interested in the question of whether one site or the other makes you more likely to decide to add something to your cart, and not whether you'll succeed once you've decided to do so.
The "new" method has the problem of immediately favoring the first design to get a positive response.
No it doesn't. The designs are ranked according to what percentage of responses have been positive so far, not by the total number of positive responses. The first design to get a positive response will get shown more, and thus it will get more positive responses, and more negative responses.
I'm not much of a programmer, so the Linux kernel is all-but-worthless to me too.
Oh, wait, nevermind. I run the Linux kernel because a bunch of people who are way better programmers than me packaged it up into an idiot-proof finished product for end-users because the open source license permitted them to do so.
Be patient; the people who can give you the nice polished audio files you're hoping for, have just been given the tools they need to do that. And given the chance, they probably will.
I hope a 'libertarian' isn't anyone who thinks the basic principle of the 4th amendment is a good idea, or else I'm in some pretty terrible company. There's a balance to be struck between collective and individual rights, and I think that balance lies somewhere north of breaking into innocent people's computers.
What I want to know is how people deal with the cognitive dissonance of their (presumed) conviction that they're doing good, in the context of the methods that they're employing? Isn't there ever a moment of "Holy shit, my quest to make the world a better, more natural place is now manifest in me doing things like shooting nuns and throwing acid in infants' faces. I think I'd better go back to my hometown and spend a few weeks crying hysterically in the shower."
Perhaps this can partially be explained by analogy to the phenomenon of "white flight" which happened after the movement to desegregation.
In general it seems that in-group solidarity starts to form wherever people are artificially or systemically separated into groups, and can persist long after the artificial separation ceases.
Why don't you see the very existence of "traditionally male professions" in the first place, to be an example of such infantilisation, an attempt by society to mold people's choices and preferences to conform to precedent? Isn't that just what a tradition is?
If you have 10 applicants for 2 posts, 8 from one group and 2 from another
then the statistical significance of your hiring pool is pretty much nonexistent.
Assume instead that you have 10n applicants for 2n posts, 8n from one group and 2 from the other group. Then as n increases, the odds that in a quota-free system you would actually emerge with the 2n most qualified applicants very quickly approaches zero, unless you have some absurdly idealized, hiring system which perfectly excludes personality biases, pheromones, good/bad days on the parts of the clients. Furthermore, the expected difference in skill levels between the selected candidates at the top of their respective 8n and 2n sized bell-curves, also approaches zero. If that were not the case, then one of the constraints already postulated ("If you assume that there is no intrinsic difference in abilities between the two sets") could not be true.
Susan Pinker presents a lot of evidence for such other reasons (and complains about the widespread "infantilisation" of women which assumes that women are not fit to make their own career choices), although it's possible that there might be bias and prejudice as well.
Just to be clear, what exactly do you think bias and prejudice are? It sounds to me like you just described an example of bias and prejudice in those parentheses right there.
Their design and build quality also exceeds that of most (even high-end) PC manufacturers. Little things like the "Maglock" power supply connector which solves the cable strain problem, and the fact that the USB ports are just far enough apart that the chunkier cable ends don't crowd each other out.
I would love to hear about some PC manufacturer who has put together a streamlined aluminum-bodied, solid-feeling notebook which has design features as well-thought-out as a MBP. If it exists, I'll go buy one this month. As it stands, everything out there that I know of is either encrusted with flimsy ABS plastic, and/or ugly as hell (I guess gamers think all that chrome-grille and glowing-red-interior stuff looks really slick but it makes me feel like a damn 15-year-old), and/or overpowered and undercooled.
Y'know, I have never observed someone who is alleged to be offended by "politically incorrect" things, actually use that phrase.I've only ever heard the term "politically correct" used pejoratively by people to talk about how much they disagree with this ideology which they are certain exists. Somewhere.
Well if you want to spend a lot of money on a well-supported enterprise solution, there's still Solaris. And it's not like there's any shortage of commercially-supported Linux enterprise OSes too.
I understand that it's more important to some people to be able to have someone to scream at from outside the company who is contractually obligated to fix your stuff when it breaks. Microsoft offers that, but a million other companies do too.
I think it more often comes down to the simple fact that Microsoft stuff has more mindshare, and thus an easier learning curve for a greater number of employees. It's the standard because it's the standard because it's the standard.
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Then on what grounds can you claim that the phrase "the true nothing" has a referent?
It's creators all the way down!
I lol'd.
this is an excellent breakdown.
designs that haven't yet had a chance to be viewed by anybody,
There are no such designs in this model, owing to the fact that 10% of all visitors are shown a design at random, unweighted by previous measurements.
Seriously, the algorithm presented in TFA anticipates and addresses your objection perfectly. You'd do well to check it out; AC's summary up there was good but incomplete.
Bandwidth contention on the host's fiberchannel card (in most cases) is between traffic that's addressed to different physical disks in the SAN, meaning the different guests don't have to sit around waiting for each other's disk seeks to complete, the way they would if they had concurrent access to 2 virtual disk images on one physical disk. If you were just talking about 2 guests accessing 2 physical disks on one SATA card, I guess that's different.
The host's kernel can help a bit with disk caching and I/O scheduling/reordering to minimize the amount of disk thrash, but that's still a far cry from SAN performance.
Ah, I see. You're one of those few people whose every decision is the logical, incontrovertible result of sober factual considerations.
"Psychology" is merely the study of what forces mold the choices of everyone's mind but yours.
'cause if you knock it offline by accident, your easiest tool with which to bring it back online is gone?
Kind of like how it's a bad idea to mess with a host's eth0 settings if you're currently logged in via ssh through eth0.
Very likely, and this does mitigate things.
If the physical host has a lot of VM's using a lot of LUN's on the SAN, then there may still be contention for bandwidth on the fiberchannel card. Luckily this does not come with the massive overhead that is associated with contention for bandwidth on a local disk drive, but it's still a potential bottleneck to be wary of.
More people will inevitably vote it down (unless it is indeed the best option), because it's getting more exposure.
Unless you're saying that display frequency will actually affect click-through rate. Are you suggesting that, for instance, a design which only gets shown 300 times and gets 100 positive responses, if it were shown 3000 times instead it should be expected to get more than 1000 positive responses? This seems unlikely if successive tests are causally independent (and given that successive tests are most likely completely different site users, at different computers, who have never met each other, that seems a fair assumption.)
if I decide to add something to my cart, I'm confident I'll find the button even if it's 1.2% less optimized.
That's very well and good for you, but marketing and layout-optimization people are more interested in the question of whether one site or the other makes you more likely to decide to add something to your cart, and not whether you'll succeed once you've decided to do so.
The "new" method has the problem of immediately favoring the first design to get a positive response.
No it doesn't. The designs are ranked according to what percentage of responses have been positive so far, not by the total number of positive responses. The first design to get a positive response will get shown more, and thus it will get more positive responses, and more negative responses.
I'm not much of a programmer, so the Linux kernel is all-but-worthless to me too.
Oh, wait, nevermind. I run the Linux kernel because a bunch of people who are way better programmers than me packaged it up into an idiot-proof finished product for end-users because the open source license permitted them to do so.
Be patient; the people who can give you the nice polished audio files you're hoping for, have just been given the tools they need to do that. And given the chance, they probably will.
I am not a libertarian, you insensitive clod.
I hope a 'libertarian' isn't anyone who thinks the basic principle of the 4th amendment is a good idea, or else I'm in some pretty terrible company. There's a balance to be struck between collective and individual rights, and I think that balance lies somewhere north of breaking into innocent people's computers.
What I want to know is how people deal with the cognitive dissonance of their (presumed) conviction that they're doing good, in the context of the methods that they're employing? Isn't there ever a moment of "Holy shit, my quest to make the world a better, more natural place is now manifest in me doing things like shooting nuns and throwing acid in infants' faces. I think I'd better go back to my hometown and spend a few weeks crying hysterically in the shower."
Should the details of the latest stealth aircraft technology be publicly disclosed so voters can make informed decisions?
If the latest stealth aircraft is designed to break into civilians' homes and hide there, then, um, yes. Yes they should.
Perhaps this can partially be explained by analogy to the phenomenon of "white flight" which happened after the movement to desegregation.
In general it seems that in-group solidarity starts to form wherever people are artificially or systemically separated into groups, and can persist long after the artificial separation ceases.
Why don't you see the very existence of "traditionally male professions" in the first place, to be an example of such infantilisation, an attempt by society to mold people's choices and preferences to conform to precedent? Isn't that just what a tradition is?
Er, that should read "8n from one group and 2n from the other group". And instead of "clients" I should've said "applicants". Anyhow.
If you have 10 applicants for 2 posts, 8 from one group and 2 from another
then the statistical significance of your hiring pool is pretty much nonexistent.
Assume instead that you have 10n applicants for 2n posts, 8n from one group and 2 from the other group. Then as n increases, the odds that in a quota-free system you would actually emerge with the 2n most qualified applicants very quickly approaches zero, unless you have some absurdly idealized, hiring system which perfectly excludes personality biases, pheromones, good/bad days on the parts of the clients. Furthermore, the expected difference in skill levels between the selected candidates at the top of their respective 8n and 2n sized bell-curves, also approaches zero. If that were not the case, then one of the constraints already postulated ("If you assume that there is no intrinsic difference in abilities between the two sets") could not be true.
So I'm afraid that your logic only shows that quotas will be measurably harmful in frictionless, spherical job markets.
Just to be clear, what exactly do you think bias and prejudice are? It sounds to me like you just described an example of bias and prejudice in those parentheses right there.
Their design and build quality also exceeds that of most (even high-end) PC manufacturers. Little things like the "Maglock" power supply connector which solves the cable strain problem, and the fact that the USB ports are just far enough apart that the chunkier cable ends don't crowd each other out.
I would love to hear about some PC manufacturer who has put together a streamlined aluminum-bodied, solid-feeling notebook which has design features as well-thought-out as a MBP. If it exists, I'll go buy one this month. As it stands, everything out there that I know of is either encrusted with flimsy ABS plastic, and/or ugly as hell (I guess gamers think all that chrome-grille and glowing-red-interior stuff looks really slick but it makes me feel like a damn 15-year-old), and/or overpowered and undercooled.
Y'know, I have never observed someone who is alleged to be offended by "politically incorrect" things, actually use that phrase.I've only ever heard the term "politically correct" used pejoratively by people to talk about how much they disagree with this ideology which they are certain exists. Somewhere.
That they did serve the public interest was a secondary effect
For certain (highly specific) values of "public".
Well if you want to spend a lot of money on a well-supported enterprise solution, there's still Solaris. And it's not like there's any shortage of commercially-supported Linux enterprise OSes too.
I understand that it's more important to some people to be able to have someone to scream at from outside the company who is contractually obligated to fix your stuff when it breaks. Microsoft offers that, but a million other companies do too.
I think it more often comes down to the simple fact that Microsoft stuff has more mindshare, and thus an easier learning curve for a greater number of employees. It's the standard because it's the standard because it's the standard.