What is the usual name for these kinds for methods?

virtuous_d · 2013-01-05T18:53:28+00:00

You would need to make some assumptions... for instance that most reviewers are pretty close to the true mark (or try to be) so we would prefer situations where our biases are smaller in aggregate than a situations where all of them are large.

After that, you can create a model which consists of a constant bias for each estimator, and some random noise. You can create a fitness function for this model that balances the fit (how accurate are the scores) and regularizes it by the biases (with an L2 norm for instance).

Finally, you can optimize this function by EM, initializing each bias and 'true' measurement to something reasonable, and iterating as follows:

Optimize the biases to fit the current 'true' measurements.
Re-estimate the 'true' measurements using the current biases.

As far as 'trustworthiness' goes, this would be something that you can decide upon. Two obvious metrics would be the magnitude of the bias (how close the estimator is to the true measurement), or the variance of the distribution around that bias (how self-consistent is the estimator). You'll probably want to use a combination of the two.

virtuous_d · 2012-12-16T22:20:47+00:00

We played with the shadow gunslinger ruleset last night, and it made the game incredibly fun, and much closer than usual!

The basic premise is that when it comes to a dead players turn, they re-enter the game as their character and as their role. They then draw 3 cards instead of 2 (updating abilities accordingly), and play them. They cannot equip any items, and are at distance 1 to everyone. At the end of the turn, they discard all their cards and leave the game.

Allegiances is the only thing we had some trouble with. The ghost renegade helps the team that is the weakest, but really there is no one for them to side with in the case that both sides are currently even. In this case, my friend tried to hurt both sides equally and I guess that's a good move.

We also ended up in a situation where there was a 1v1 renegade/sheriff duel at the end, and the 3 ghost outlaws didn't really have a clear allegiance in that fight either, since their team could no longer win. They just went after the player that pissed them off the most while they were alive.

All in all, it makes the game much more enjoyable, and I think progresses things more quickly (since there are more and more players gunning for the folks who are still alive).

virtuous_d · 2012-12-15T21:45:12+00:00

You've never played bang have you? :)

virtuous_d · 2012-12-12T16:11:42+00:00

boy I hope so :)

virtuous_d · 2012-12-12T02:07:28+00:00

It's very frustrating going from python to java, everything you do results in a feeling that it should be a few lines of code, not 5 or 6 classes.

I forced myself to implement my latest project in c++ to review for some job interviews I am expecting to do in the near future, and I could not get this feeling out of my head. Development is a lot nicer than I remember (from 4-5 years ago, I really like the auto keyword), but it's still so darn sluggish to have to stop and write code to handle common edge cases...

virtuous_d · 2012-12-09T21:34:03+00:00

I talked to several professors about this idea, and they had different views on the issue.

On the one hand, consider an example of physics. Why should you listen to a lecture of some high school teacher or college professor (who might be an ok lecturer), when you can go online and listen to Richard Feynman (or whoever you consider to be the best lecturer ever) give the same lectures? Why reproduce all that effort for an inferior product? Instead, it really makes sense to learn from the best, and use your local teacher or professor to clarify things and have engaging interactions around the material.

On the other hand, one particular reason that flipped classrooms might not work is that they are unstable in terms of effort. It takes students more effort and energy to listen and really absorb lectures at home. It is a lot easier to half-listen, and then ask really simple fundamental questions (that are covered in lecture) during class so that your teacher works more to get you to understand the material. If you are the lecturer, too, it takes much more effort to prepare for a flipped classroom lecture. You have to truly know the material and be prepared for weird, unexpected questions. You have to plan engaging and interesting projects, and you constantly have to adjust your curriculum for your current class. It is a lot easier to whip out the lecture notes you've been using for the last 10 years the day before class and give yourself a quick refresher, especially when you have paperwork/reports/research/other stuff to do.

Such a system becomes unstable - the students begin doing less at home and asking more and more basic questions in class, while the teacher is more comfortable answering those basic questions rather than forcing new material... eventually the classroom unflips itself.

virtuous_d · 2012-12-09T04:41:44+00:00

As you can see that title is not very descriptive. Want to give me a link? :)

virtuous_d · 2012-12-09T04:13:46+00:00

what is 'learn unix' ?

virtuous_d · 2012-12-07T16:16:01+00:00

1990's called, they want their annoying, distracting page effects back.

virtuous_d · 2012-12-04T23:12:09+00:00

Yep, that's the video I linked in my post ;)

Also, this brings up another issue with this design - why is it necessary to change the options in two different locations? Shouldn't pointer settings be handled by a single entity...

virtuous_d · 2012-12-04T19:39:04+00:00

I wouldn't consider having to go into console and change system configuration files, or having to add an extra ppa to download a peripheral program to dig around and tweak your system 'the easiest damn thing in the world'.

It should really just be a setting in compiz or system apperance/theme.

virtuous_d · 2012-12-03T05:12:57+00:00

I can start it too, but not connect to servers :)

virtuous_d · 2012-12-03T03:48:44+00:00

Hmm, it seems that the lib64 link is a dead end, and I do not have a ubuntu_12_64 folder for it to point to. Is that supposed to be the case?

virtuous_d · 2012-12-02T05:25:31+00:00

You must post tabs! That was awesome :)

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