There was a hypnotic graphic effect on my phone. As the wave phased between modes it appears to be a smooth wave after a threshold (graph sample aliasing?), a cyclic standing envelope like angular frequency, in t. Quite nice.
Just a quick feedback note, under the "free tutorials" section, I scrolled passed the images thinking they were just gifs. Then got to the bottom of the page thinking, "Hmm, It really would have been helpful if he included an example video..." Then scrolled back to the top and through all the content again to see if I missed something. I tried hovering over the "gif" and then realized it was a link to YouTube.
Long story short, I think it would help the reader to have a "play button" or small icon overlayed on the image to indicate that it's a playable video, or (better?) embed the YouTube video directly in that space so the user doesn't have to leave the page.
Hope this helps, but open to feedback if I'm just an outlier. You can try the change in an A/B test, and see if the conversion rate goes up for people who visit the site AND watch an example video.
> The search engine, which brands itself as “more of a discovery engine,” allows users to filter the top million websites on the internet out of their search, resulting in a unique set of results and placing an emphasis on content discovery. This approach to search is also designed to combat the impact that aggressive black and grey hat SEO practices have on mainstream search results.[0]
This sounds like a great idea, and something I would have used if it worked with javascript disabled.
If the owners are around : would you consider adding nojs support? I know it's an edge case request, sorry to be that guy. But then again, "search without top results" is not exactly a concept that will bring you the average web user :)
This may be a dumb question, but is there really a "yup that conspiracy actually happened" book? Not literally a book with that title, but is there some resource that has a list of these?
Last I heard (I work there, but not in hardware) it takes a couple of technicians a few weeks to install the machine onsite, but after that, they're extremely low maintenance. The skill required to use them "locally" is quite the same as using them on the cloud, and we regularly have undergrad co-ops get up to speed using them. No PhDs required.
That said, we're much more focused on cloud sales; under that model, big customers get dedicated resources and everybody gets access to machines just about as fast as we make them.
I’ll admit, it’s quite a feat if the machine can be self-regulated without scientist hand-holding. Is that true? Does that machine self-correct from calibration drift?
I'm not familiar enough with our calibration code to speak to that directly, but we can do calibrations remotely without sending techs out. I'm told that the impressive thing is that our dilution fridges can run for several years uninterrupted.
If I know my history,* the first programmable classical computer was made in 1941; we had the D-Wave One programmable quantum computer in 2011. So... the 50s?
We need a Wiki-ish Chrome plugin that pastes in actual prices on all websites that have "contact sales" pricing. If you are the first to contact sales, you can fill it in for future customers to see without needing to contact sales.
This would also help expose price discrimination, in which companies give favorable pricing to people of a certain race or nationality or industry or location.
I hate it when I contact sales and they ask "may we know more about your application?" and my next thought is always "how about you tell me your price first, and then I'll be happy to share". "may we know your name" -> "why, so you can decide your offer price based on if I'm white or asian or something?". "may we know your location" -> "why, so you can decide your price based on the average income in my area?"
This sounds just like someone calling up McClaren or Ferrari and demanding an MSRP on one of their Formula-1 cars... and screaming RACISM if they don't have an immediate answer.
Systems like this are not just sitting on a shelf with a price tag... there are tons of other considerations going on here: integration, deployment and support contracts... required infrastructure like power, network switches - even cabling can go into the tens of thousands of dollars.
No chrome plugin is going to fix this "contact sales" problem, and assuming some nefarious racist intent only goes to show that the inquiry is a waste of time for the person on the other end of the line.
> and screaming RACISM if they don't have an immediate answer
Oh I can tell you plenty of stories of suppliers giving you lower prices depending on what human language you speak with them. It happens, and people should know that it happens.
> even cabling can go into the tens of thousands of dollars
For those types of products, great, I'd like to know that cabling will be ~$10K-$50K, fixed costs will be $10K, and support contracts will be ~$1-5K/month. I just want an order of magnitude. Is this $100, $1000, or $100,000 that I'm looking at? I want an order of magnitude before a phone call. If such a plugin existed, at least I could see the distributions in pricing among past customers.
It's something like $2k for an hour of processor time, which is a lot of submitted jobs. You can sign up for free, and I think they have credit card transactions, so no, it's a bit more direct than all that.
I wonder if players will be able to use this to prepare for opponents. For example, knowing where to hit and "seeing how they typically react" and then predicting where they'll most likely to return the ball.
If so, this could be expanded to other sports, maybe even team sports, where you can test set plays against the simulated defense.
If so, this could be expanded to other sports, maybe even team sports, where you can test set plays against the simulated defense.
I could see this potentially having some value.
The challenge is that in sports, the opponent you face on a given day isn't "the statistical average of their past performances" - they are facing you with a game plan tailored specifically for them versus you, and their game plan will evolve over the course of the contest depending on what's working and what isn't working.
For example, "Nadal likes to hit the ball to Federer's backhand" is, statistically, true. It's basic tennis strategy. But the on-court reality is more nuanced. Nadal is going to vary that approach on the fly based on his opponent and how well that strategy is working on a given day.
Modeling this for a simulation would have to be similarly nuanced, with the simulation not just replicating Nadal's overall statistical tendencies, but how those tendencies evolve over the course of a match based on various conditions and his success or lack of it.
Of course, some aspects of Nadal's game are more easily modeled than others. If an opponent was training to face Nadal on a clay surface, I could simulate that with a single line of code: "Game Over." =)
Is it just me, or is it a little disingenuous to write the claim "...improve the accuracy of real time ETAs by up to 50% in places like Berlin, Jakarta, São Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, and Washington D.C."
When the actual numbers listed for those cities are:
Berlin - 21%
Jakarta - 22%
São Paulo - 23%
Sydney - 43%
Tokyo - not listed
Washington D.C. - 29%
It gets even more muddled when you consider they mention the following: "While Google Maps’ predictive ETAs have been consistently accurate for over 97% of trips, we worked with the team to minimise the remaining inaccuracies even further - sometimes by more than 50% in cities like Taichung."
Are they essentially saying that they lowered 3% inaccuracy to ~1.5% in Taichung? (And nevermind the fact that 51% is described as "more than 50%"...)
Of course this type of work is fascinating. Getting from 97 to 98.5% accuracy is far far more difficult than getting from 95.5 to 97%. But I don't enjoy the fudging of the perception of results.
It could mean that 97% of the trips had an predictive error of, say, 2 minutes, while the remaining 3% had an error of, say, 10 minutes, and they reduced that error to 5 minutes.
Anyone discover any cool graphs to share?
For example, the simplest one producing something interesting I've found so far is:
Which creates a growing jagged triangular graph when you press "play" for the "t" constant.Naturally, this can be built upon to make weirder and weirder graphs, ex: