jamesbkel

I'm curious to see what options he chose for the interior such as the stitching and leather.

Obviously it's anecdotal, but I've also had a few bad Alitalia experiences and plan not to ever fly with them again.

Not sure if I would really use it aside from a novelty, but I may need to buy this simply to support such a great/fun idea.

Do you have any audio examples? The only examples I could see were actual code. (I'm on my phone so I'll double-check later in case I missed an obvious link on the ChucK site).

Also, about 5min in is a great example of how to correctly "break the rules".

Not a tutorial, but I found the R Graph gallery helpful. When I first got started I typically just poked around for something interesting, downloaded the source and started tweaking parameters and/or loading in new data sets. It can be daunting to create graphs from scratch in R without experience - I found these provided some good training wheels.

http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/

Have some similar memories myself. Definitely learned a lot from being a little too enthusiastic about modifying files/settings on the family computer.

What stands out for me is the period when I was still just a kid, albeit the "neighborhood computer kid". I'd inevitably get a call every few weeks from someone who lived nearby or was a friend of my parents. I'd go over, almost always figure out the problem and then they would ask "How did you know to do that?". I'd explain what happened best I could, but I'd be thinking to myself, "How did I know to do that? Well, I didn't until now."

Also, it was pretty cool at 11 years old to discover that I could make money just by working on my own to help other people folks fix problems and didn't necessarily need a "real" job.

Don't really see the big deal. Also wouldn't be surprised if as the release of the Fire approaches they released a slightly more nuanced version of that page. Something along the lines of, "Which Kindle is for you?".

While there is obviously some overlap, I don't really see E-ink and LCD devices as competing for the same space and/or substitutes for one another.

I can't speak authoritatively since I've never made Haggis, but I was under the impression it's illegal to import Haggis (or specifically, the sheep-part constituents). I thought domestic production and sale are OK.

[edit: Also wanted to add this. One of the coolest food experiences I've had was when visiting a friend in rural Sicily. Apparently the traditional method of making ricotta is largely illegal due to sanitary reasons (pasteurization, not simply doing it in the shed behind your house, etc). However one morning we got up around 4am and met some friends of his Dad. Spent a few hours learning how they made traditional ricotta and got to eat some fresh from the pot before they took the rest to sell to the locals. When it's boiling-hot and fresh from the pot, it's a totally different (and better) cheese than anything I've ever seen in the store.]

Waiting until iOS 5 (including the cloud features announced earlier this year) is ready?

Agreed. Took the words off my keyboard.

Barring a shareware style demo, I rarely make a leap of faith into a new software product. However, stellar reviews and/or at least a video example can make up for that. Maybe one exception would be updates to products I currently use.

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I have a Kindle 3. It's fantastic for fiction/nonfiction/Instapaper. Technical papers are my one major gripe. It's essentially hit or miss, but mostly miss.

I've found that most technical PDF papers are non-trivial to convert to Kindle. It would be one thing if they were scaled down to a format that only required vertical scrolling, but as it stands unless the author/publisher makes an effort, most technical PDFs require horizontal and vertical scrolling. Certainly possible, but hardly convenient.

I've never really had any issues with stress, so I can't speak to that. However, somewhat related, I found daily exercise (more intense on some days, but at least something every day) did a lot to improve my sleep. In turn that made me much more effective when awake.

Well, it sounds like it starts sometime in 2013, not necessarily Jan 01. Also, it sounds from the article like Dreamworks will be slowly rolling out past titles, so it could be even longer.

I doubt that either touch or a kinect-style will become primary interfaces. However, I think as the tech develops further and the price drops it will become ubiquitous as a feature.

I'm intrigued by this, but seriously, how does one manage that much hair?

Completely agree. I was in a very similar to the woman in the article. I started at a Boston Medical/Life-science research LLC as a statistical programmer. The intention was to bring me on as the head of stats/quant work since they had been farming it for the past few years. After 2 months they decided they didn't actually have enough work to justify paying me (can't blame them for that, it reached a point where I literally was walking up to fellow employees asking if there was anything I could do to pitch in since I had NOTHING to do and I also don't consider "killing time on facebook/youtube etc." acceptable when I'm on their dollar).

Point being, I did not sign their boilerplate non-compete. They were actually fine with that as long I signed a confidentiality agreement... and that's only fair.

Well, as the the article mentions, most of the "Gen X as slackers" phenomena occurred a good 15-20 years ago.

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>"They long ago shed that image, Hewlett says"

>particularly when the actual numbers are unimportant.

That's more or less my philosophy on pie charts. I find them helpful to use at the outset of a presentation to help provide some context for what's to follow (for example, the relative sales of Divisions A, B & C).

That said, I have no sympathy for anyone who uses side-by-side pie charts in order to make comparisons.

When I follow this link from the US I see: €2,136.05 – €2,216.00 (roughly $3000).

Based on the other posts, maybe you misread € for $?

Decent points, but it's from 2009. Also, using 3D pie charts in an article about proper design... maybe not the most effective technique.

My flight travel has lessened considerably over the past 2-3 years, but until then I'd witnessed that to be standard practice.

Well, most libertarian government structures call for precisely that. A police to enforce the law, a court system to provide fair rule and a small military intended for defense.

[edit: Should add that although there are certainly disputes to how to fund said services, to the best of my knowledge it's largely agreed that some court system is required.]

Thanks, I enjoyed that. I suppose the one issue with the dialogue is that as the mugger increases the payoff, it would only make sense to decrease the likelihood that he delivers on the promise.

Put differently, the expected value would be P(Keeps promise|Amount of promise)*(Amount of promise). However, both of the multiplicands in that are inversely proportional.

What you describe is typically how I use R. It certainly has it limits performance wise, but it is hard to beat as a "stat toolbox". Even in cases where it wasn't up to performance needs, I've found it useful for investigating which methods to use prior to implementing a full-blown solution.

For example, I used the free R package "earth" to confirm that something like MARS(Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines) is a good approach to a particular analysis. For my client that initial test justified paying Salford Systems for their great, but expensive, CART/MARS software.

true, but hopefully that will be under better circumstances.

For anyone interested in some further reading: http://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/documents/research/Schwei...

I included this technique in some work I did about a year ago, spoke a few times with the authors. Granted, this is geared towards operations that offer multiple services/varying levels of service as part of a "portfolio". Think telecom and finance. It addresses CLV, but includes a regular reassessment of value based on a customers pattern of behavior.

tldr; Instead of being service/no service it looks at a customer's propensity to change service (upgrade or downgrade), this includes downgrading to the point of termination.

Since they also make the data available as a public snapshot on AWS it would seem more practical to just look at the data that way instead of downloading.

He didn't explain how and to what extent, but in the second video he does say that they managed to "solve" that problem.

First of all, definitely second the recommendation for "Visualizing Data"... recently had to track down my copy from someone who borrowed it.

Also, while I agree that most "infographics" are generally useless and belong on USA Today (where I will never have to see them), there are some uses. I find a captivating "infographic" can be a good introduction when presenting information, sort of as an overview. A clever and small "infographic" can get people interested and help provide some context for the hard data coming up. I have a similar rule with pie charts: I only use them at the very beginning of presenting a topic in order to provide some context and ease the audience in. Once I'm past the first few slides and I avoid them like the plague.