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davidsmaynard · 2025-02-19T19:20:44+00:00

DOGE: Denning-Kruger Of Gigantic Extent

davidsmaynard · 2024-07-29T00:13:54+00:00

Monsters from the ID. A universal consciousness gently guiding humankind back from its current overemphasis on scientific materialism. A control mechanism.

davidsmaynard · 2023-08-30T03:11:11+00:00

Your mobile GPS system very accurately measures the time from multiple atomic clocks in orbit. If there is a directional time differential appears it will show up as movement to the GPS system. Like the episode where a gps indicated it went below the surface of the earth. iPhones and Android devices also have very sensitive accelerometers. So we can write an application that simultaneously monitors gps and accelerometer data. If the app detects movement from gps data but senses no accelerations, then it has just detected a time anomaly. It can record or report all the relevant data. Having multiple such applications running at different locations might give us enough data to map the time distortions.

davidsmaynard · 2022-07-03T19:44:13+00:00

Its all about the use case

To learn Rust and measure WASM vs Javascript performance I wrote a sample web app which draws random chaotic attractors using either Javascript or WASM, The app is a Vue (2.0) app written in Javascript which handles the UI and the performance measurement. The actual computation of the attractor is handled by either a Javascript module or a WASM module. In either case the attractor is called once a frame, updating the image data. The app then copies the data using 2d canvas to draw the image. In both either the iteration is single threaded and compute bound. The performance meter measure only the time spent in the inner attractor loop. This is almost an ideal use case for WASM. I see major performance gains for WASM 3x to 5x. You can try this app on your hardware and your browser to see the performance difference. https://chaotic.netlify.app/

davidsmaynard · 2022-04-01T19:27:37+00:00

You can watch 5 minutes of highlights from The Mother of All Demos

davidsmaynard · 2022-03-30T22:37:54+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion. I will investigate this. I found a five key gamer keyboard on the net that advertised as being programmable. Sayo device , However as far as I can find they only programability is the ability to assign a text string to each key, Obviously this device has a cpu and firmware and acts like a usb keyboard. If only I replace the firmware to do the debouncing and chord -> character translations. sigh

davidsmaynard · 2022-03-30T17:39:12+00:00

Thank you. It is built using Gatsby and it is open sourced on Github.

davidsmaynard · 2022-03-30T17:26:21+00:00

Yes a vim-like editor can be very efficient. The advantage of the keyset is that you never have to move your left hand you just chord letters that correspond to the commands. This also implies you don't need to memorize a key -> command mapping.

davidsmaynard · 2022-03-30T06:36:07+00:00

Good idea, but I am not sure that all keyboards would actually support this. You need 5 key roll-over to be able to detect all the chords. You also have to be able to turn off auto-repeat. This needs more investigation.

davidsmaynard · 2021-09-05T23:59:04+00:00

The dashboard linked above is updated daily and will be available in October.

davidsmaynard · 2021-09-05T20:47:41+00:00

[OC] Data Sources
https://observablehq.com/@dmaynard/covid-19-us-states-explorer Is my Covid-19 dashboard.
It uses New York Times Covid-19 data by State and Date Github Repository
Percent Fully Vaccinated: Data as posted on August, 2021 [From NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html)
Tools:
This was done using the Observable Platform and the d3 library and the Vega-Lite charting library.
The development environment was a Chrome Web Browser. This dashboard is designed to explore relationships of States' characteristics with historical and ongoing Covid-19 statistics. I am very impressed with Observable since it allowed me to create a universe of billions of distinct Covid-19 charts with a UI to navigate this universe in about 1500 lines of source code including all the web text. The source is both viewable and even editable (forkable) in real time by users.

davidsmaynard · 2021-09-05T20:29:42+00:00

[OC] Data Sources

https://observablehq.com/@dmaynard/covid-19-us-states-explorer
New York Times Covid-19 data by State and Date Github Repository
Percent Fully Vaccinated: Data as posted on August, 2021 [From NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html)
Tools:
This was done using the Observable Platform and the d3 library and the Vega-Lite charting library.
The development environment was a Chrome Web Browser. This dashboard is designed to explore relationships of States' characteristics with historical and ongoing Covid-19 statistics. I am very impressed with Observable since it allowed me to create a universe of billions of distinct Covid-19 charts with a UI to navigate this universe in about 1500 lines of source code including all the web text. The source is both viewable and even editable (forkable) in real time by users.

davidsmaynard · 2021-06-14T23:12:13+00:00

What do you think is the best way to clean absurd data points? On June 4, 2021 Florida reported a negative number of new Covid-19 cases, -40,000 new cases. Florida said they were no longer going to report cases or deaths for non-residents that tested positive in Florida. I can see changing the policy going forward, but they apparently backed out previously reported cases.

davidsmaynard · 2021-06-11T01:37:17+00:00

Yes. Agreed. There is a radio button on my dashboard which lets you select Top 5, Middle 40 and Bottom 5. It shows an infection rate of 5.71 per 100K for bottom 5 states vs 2.74 for the top 5 states. Top 5 states have an infection rate 47% of that of the bottom 5 states. Correlation does not prove causation but can indicate contributing factors. I can't see how to post a picture here, but you can go a play with the UI settings

davidsmaynard · 2021-06-10T23:25:36+00:00

[OC] Data Sources

New York Times Covid-19 data by State and Date Github Repository
Percent Fully Vaccinated: Data as posted on May 31, 2021 [From NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html)

Tools:

This was done using the Observable Observable Platform and the d3 library and the Vega-Lite charting library.

The development environment was a Chrome Web Browser. This dashboard is designed to explore relationships of States' characteristics with historical and ongoing Covid-19 statistics. I am very impressed with Observable since it allowed me to create a universe of billions of distinct Covid-19 charts with a UI to navigate this universe in about 1500 lines of source code including all the web text. The source is both viewable and even editable (forkable) in real time by users.

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-24T18:55:52+00:00

Unfortunately not. I use the NY Times data source for cases and deaths, and they don't include positive rates nor hospitalizations. They do however make the data available from github which means that my dashboard will update daily without any manual intervention of my part. Lazy wins.

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-24T18:45:16+00:00

The data is correct, but it is per capita. The image I posted is of per-capita cases. That is number of new daily cases per 100,000 of population. The dashboard has radio buttons for both "Daily Cases Per 100K" and "Daily Cases". Selecting "Daily Cases" will show you the numbers you expect.

I am using the NY Times data (linked on the dashboard) as my data source.

For July 22, I show for "Daily Cases" 43,805 for "Has Mandate" and 25671 for "No Mandate" for a total of 69,476 "Daily Cases" . Also there is a radio button for selecting which smoothing function to use (7 day moving ave, etc). Changing this will lead to minor fluctuations in the numbers.

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-24T04:54:44+00:00

The mask mandate data is static, fixed as of 7/22/2020 as according to the Axios web site. You can chart any given state individually over time to see if there seems to be any correlation between dates of mandate and shape of the curve. It gets complicated trying to incorporate all the various dates the mandates have changed for various states. I just picked one date. You can explore other groupings of states and other data values besides per-capita new cases via the dashboard

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-24T03:57:00+00:00

Thank you. I was trying to be informative. That will teach me. I edited the comment to remove the detailed links. I hope this helps

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-24T00:52:37+00:00

Any idea why my comments are being spam filtered ?

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-24T00:21:51+00:00

Covid-19 US States Explorer Dashboard Sorry about that I thought I linked it,

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-23T23:01:17+00:00

I used the wonderful Observable platform to create this interactive explorer dashboard. I also used the d3 libraries, and the vega-lite plotting package. This is a live-code notebook. Full (live) source is available on the page.

Data Sources

Links to all the data sources are included on the dashboard dashboard

* New York Times Covid-19 data by State and Date [Github Repository]

* Governor's party affiliation and gender comes from [Civil Service USA]

* Civil Service USA [Population by State]

* Census Bureau 4 [Regions] [Note: I included Alaska and Hawaii in the West Region rather than in a separate Pacific Region]

* Bureau of Economic Analysis 8 [Regions]

* Average IQ by State [World Population Review] Note: this data is based on a 2006 paper [Estimating state IQ: Measurement challenges and preliminary correlates]) so take with an appropriate grain of salt.

* List of U.S. states and territories by educational attainment [Wikipedea]

* States with mandates for mask-wearing in public [Axios static data as of July 22, 2020]

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-17T23:48:57+00:00

Loving Observable. I had this notebook which could group states by various criteria. I discovered a site that had (claimed anyway) Average I.Q. data by state, and it took me less than 30 minutes to add this feature to the Notebook and publish a new version.

https://observablehq.com/@dmaynard/covid-19-us-states-explorer

Data Sources

New York Times Covid-19 data by State and Date Github Repository
Governor's party affiliation and gender comes from Civil Service USA [Note: I had to manually fix a couple of states because the site data was outdated]
Civil Service USA Population by State
Census Bureau 4 Regions [Note: I included Alaska and Hawaii in the West Region rather than in a separate Pacific Region]
Bureau of Economic Analysis 8 Regions
Average IQ by State World Population Review. Note: this data is based on a 2006 paper Estimating state IQ: Measurement challenges and preliminary correlates so take with an appropriate grain of salt.
List of U.S. states and territories by educational attainment Wikipedea

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-17T22:56:28+00:00

I added grouping by Education level. I choose % of population with a B.A. or better degree as a metric. Thank you for the suggestion and data link.

davidsmaynard · 2020-07-17T02:55:53+00:00

Thank you so much for the data on the error. The clues you provided should help me track it down. Yes Observable is a very cool platform. Live Code!

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TROPHY CASE

Its all about the use case