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Comment · 7 years ago
Ask anyone if their vote was counted. The only honest answer is, "I'm not sure." That is concerning.
Seems like a good kind of work to spread, thanks for sharing.
Comment · 7 years ago
And then, Figure 4, 15 deployments are counted before instillation while no additional mileage is counted for the before instillation group. [pg.16] Could the NHTSA group really have done that? It give us an incredible rate of 15/0 deployments/mi without autosteer which violates some very important law of arithmetic, statistics and common sense.
I'm going to hold my breath until we see the data these claims are based on.
Comment · 7 years ago
The plot thickens there in Figure 3 where they suggest mistreatment of deployments/miles that occur between `Prev Mileage before Autosteer Install Reported` and `Next Mileage after Autosteer Install Reported` "result in estimates of the true exposure that are statistically biased downward – resulting in crash rates that are somewhat too large." [pg.13]
Comment · 7 years ago
This bit about before autosteer install airbag deployment counts coming from vehicles with 0 miles of before autosteer install distance is certainly odd, if true. "That is, simply because the data are missing for the Previous Mileage before Autosteer Install and the “Next Mileage after Autosteer Install,” NHTSA’s method of calculation assumes that all of the exposure mileage must belong to the “after Autosteer” category. The three airbag deployments without any exposure mileage in the “before Autosteer” category show this is not the case. " [pg.11-12]
Comment · 7 years ago
Remind me what the ROC curve looks like for `can` again.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, no, maybe, I don't know
Can you repeat the question?
Comment · 8 years ago
alright, can we get the next study to show pigs are more intelligent than humans? shouldn't be too hard.
Comment · 8 years ago
Why hexagons?
* Neighbor traversal
simplicity of neighbors; triangles 3 classes of neighbors, squares 2 classes of neighbors, hexagons only one class of neighbor!
* Subdivisions
Squares obviously do this pretty well but by alternating cw, cww rotations and allowing not quite perfect coverage they get to shard with different resolutions/hex sizes.
* Distortion
"most important" Basically the use case here is visualizations that maintain basic unit appearance. They even pick the location of their vertices to be over water minimizing land distortions.
source: https://youtu.be/ay2uwtRO3QE?t=11m53s
p.s. as `contravariant` said you can't tessellate a sphere with hexagons so they project onto a icosohedron with pentagons at each of the twelve vertices (positioned over water) https://youtu.be/ay2uwtRO3QE?t=23m00s
Comment · 8 years ago
@ariwilson you work at google. since we're on the topic of truth and the actions of your corporate sponsor.
but again i get it, you got some stock and you gotta protect that bottom line.
"We might as well change Hacker News from an article based format to a [corporate sponsor] based format if everyone is just going to . . . [support their company in] every discussion."
Comment · 8 years ago
'codelord:working on ml @google' haha. using accrued inertia/loyalty to bully/force `mit ocw` and `blender` to adopt more convenient terms for the company is, at minimum, a dick move.
but i get it, you got some stock and you gotta protect that bottom line.
Comment · 8 years ago
There are a lot of good reasons why monopolies should be regulated.