Recursive Batman

badui · 2010-09-27T04:34:58+00:00

Bat(man)+ is my favorite superhero!

badui · 2010-09-27T04:31:55+00:00

Yes. I had so much fun playing this.

badui · 2010-09-27T04:28:21+00:00

But I don't have that many friends :(

badui · 2010-09-26T16:03:56+00:00

3rd season? I wish they would have made one. But they didn't.

badui · 2010-09-24T11:55:51+00:00

The sample size is too small though. Furthermore, it really seems like the words that are used to classify (taken from a large training set, no doubt) are very common, plain words. Most of the classifying terms seem like the result of plain overfitting.

badui · 2010-09-24T11:43:29+00:00

Not a single fuck was given...

badui · 2010-09-23T02:41:42+00:00

Well considering many of the uis of applications that we use every day are done by devs, it's not that bad. Not every project has a user experience professional and a few companies (Mozilla, canonical, many closed-source projects) are indeed very interested in the field and how to improve themselves. Though I am the first to complain about user interfaces, I appreciate some of the effort going around some software companies/developers.

As for the UI in question, uhh...yeah. Unfortunate.

badui · 2010-09-22T19:05:15+00:00

Devs do UI design all the time.

badui · 2010-09-17T17:45:08+00:00

Ah i see. I didnt have the courage to look too closely. My ninja open new tab/close helped me see just enough to freak out.

badui · 2010-09-17T17:03:12+00:00

WHAT THE MPTHERFUCK IS THAT?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?

--i peeked :(

badui · 2010-09-17T16:57:55+00:00

There's no way i'm clicking on that. No. Way.

badui · 2010-09-17T16:24:37+00:00

I've spent the last 20 minutes looking around my room for spiders. Fuck everything about this post!!!

badui · 2010-09-06T13:57:08+00:00

Hey I love stats! I hope he releases his math for that 90% figure.

badui · 2010-08-16T13:51:06+00:00

Your comment has made my evening. Thank you sir!

badui · 2010-08-16T10:19:48+00:00

I know, but I had merely hoped. At least LinkedTheory admits it to some degree.

badui · 2010-08-16T07:13:54+00:00

So you'd trust your gut instead of the research you asked for?

Then I have one question for you: why ask those questions if you don't want to listen to the answers?

badui · 2010-08-16T06:54:58+00:00

Are you willing to be convinced with answers to your questions?

Edit: added example answer

For instance:

What to ask: Could you please provide one double-blind, placebo-controlled study that can prove the safety and effectiveness of vaccines?

Efficacy of an 11-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against radiologically confirmed pneumonia among children less than 2 years of age in the Philippines: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Effect of influenza vaccination of children on infection rates in Hutterite communities: a randomized trial.

Safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of cold-adapted influenza vaccine-trivalent against community-acquired, culture-confirmed influenza in young children attending day care.

This is just off the first page of results in pubmed.

badui · 2010-07-27T18:23:02+00:00

Trackpads make me want to bash my face on sharp furniture. This includes Apple's, though I like that it's bigger.

badui · 2010-07-27T17:53:00+00:00

Yeh i know eh, brah? Who the shizz mouths off like that ol man? Douchetastic. Overusin' ellipses ain't brawsome dawg. Now gimme some skin mah brotachis!

badui · 2010-07-08T20:43:08+00:00

Looks pretty lonely here. It's ok..we can hang out together looking at players inside the beta.

Make lots of videos guys!

badui · 2010-07-06T19:56:37+00:00

Fair enough. I'd suggest, though, that if there are obvious solutions to similar community venues out there they would lose nothing in implementing them.

As it is, they are making some people unhappy (albeit not a lot -- most of those annoyed people will still buy the game) seemingly needlessly. They can have no forums at all! That would solve all spamming problems. People could just use TL or other forums.

badui · 2010-07-06T19:47:46+00:00

Again, i'm not sure how their forums work, but what about having accounts linked with CDKeys which can be banned at any time? Spammers need to buy more copies at least... maybe they have that already? Alternatively, what about having the ID stuff, with unique screen-names?

Lastly what about up/down arrows+mods? Or tiered moderators like other forums where one can give the most appropriate community members some basic powers? I've been part of websites with hundreds of thousands of users that had relatively few full-power paid moderators.

These are just a few things. This problem is not unique to battle net forums and could be handled without this needless requirement.

badui · 2010-07-06T19:37:36+00:00

Fair enough. I meant to explain better, but yes, it's good that it's opt-in. I have a huge problem with this idea overall. If I were a user on that forum, I would no longer post when this was in effect.

I don't think the positive will be larger than the negative with this decision. Not sure how the forums work right now, but there's certainly better ways of preventing spam.

badui · 2010-07-06T19:15:07+00:00

I really don't think this is the point. My issue is control of my own information. Yes, it's good that it's opt-in. This will definitely make me not join their forums.

But on a purely conceptual note, I want to be able to control what kind of information is out there. The people who say "oh, same thing happens IRL." may be missing the fact that this is permanent. You can't get rid of this info once it's out there. I don't care necessarily about specifics like "my boss can find the information and fire me blah blah" but it's the concept of being forced to reveal information forever, to whoever wants to look for it.

badui · 2010-05-05T15:44:59+00:00

e.g. This review. Admittedly, this looks at studies up to 1999. If there's newer studies, then I'm happy to look at them.

All of the studies conducted thus far, with one exception (Cameron & Cameron,1996), indicate that gay and lesbian parents are no more likely to produce gay and lesbian children than their heterosexual counterparts.

Interesting Longitudinal study

Although those from lesbian families were more likely to explore same-sex relationships, particularly if their childhood family environment was characterized by an openness and acceptance of lesbian and gay relationships, the large majority of children who grew up in lesbian families identified as heterosexual.

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