Timeline for robotics list by rozzin, page 231
-
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2011 20:50:17 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@drysdam: actually, `3 quartiles of random samples' sounds like part of a recipe for !math stew.... -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2011 20:42:16 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@drysdam, actually finding the top quartile is an O(n²) operation; removing `probably-the-bottom 3 quartiles' and taking max(that) is O(n). -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2011 20:35:23 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@drysdam, ¾Ν items randomly selected from a pool of N total items. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2011 19:32:21 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
!Math question: is `a random item from the top quartile' reasonably approximated by `the top item from 3 quartiles of random samples'? -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2011 17:48:07 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Wait—no, it's not #GJay's fault..., it's #XML's: I mistakenly stripped those stanzas when pruning data for `nonexistant' files. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 22-Apr-2011 00:13:36 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Doesn't 360's summary for March 11 read like `Jewish-sounding name leaves Hollywood—what does it mean for muslims?'? http://ur1.ca/3xg40 -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2011 23:55:58 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@eff, heard that on the radio. They said "Even Senator Franken"—sounded like they stopped short of "… and we know what a douchebag HE is!" ☺ -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2011 18:00:31 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
This sounds like an interesting #book: http://www.nhpr.org/rollicking-critique-absolute-religious-fervor -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2011 15:08:13 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@laurelrusswurm, copyright, trademark, patent, and trade-secret—at least; and each can stifle even *by itself*, let alone in tag-team form. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2011 12:10:23 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@laurelrusswurm, what would writing be like if `literary devices' could be patented? w/ terms half as long as `writing' itself had existed? -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2011 12:01:33 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@laurelrusswurm, any single one of the 3 (or more?) remaining domains of `IP' restriction can be enough to kill !free #software projects. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2011 09:37:59 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Oh, hell—now I find that #GJay failed to store records in its `DB' for any files with names containing "&". #Fucking-XML. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 21-Apr-2011 09:30:13 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@drysdam, consider using a free-standing #dead tag: then you can track your collection—like @x11r5 tacks everything that he's #killed…. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2011 22:51:17 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@laurelrusswurm, "Tideland is a 2005 film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam…" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideland_(film) -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2011 20:31:53 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@laurelrusswurm, have you seen `Tideland'? -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2011 14:39:07 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
#DavidSedaris, I'm sorry but I'm kicking you out to make room for #WesleyWillis. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Apr-2011 11:28:10 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Using 7-dimensional !photography to place actors into video-segments w/ arbitrary camera-position & lighting: http://ur1.ca/3wd9o -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2011 22:19:23 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
!q "I figured you'd be awake—you have a baby...." -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 15-Apr-2011 00:59:57 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@laurelrusswurm, that would be why @rms came up with the whole !copyleft !hack. 25 years in, !FOSS provides copious empirical efficacy-data. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 14-Apr-2011 22:44:18 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@lukeshu, there's a hyperlink to the relevant point in the source-file, in the built-in documentation for each function (Help→Describe...) ☺