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Dienstag, 28. Mai 2002
David Ness identifies several potential problems with graph visualizations:
- Necessary Reduction of Dimensionality
- Lack of (obvious?) Concept Closeness Metric
- Unclear Value/Danger of Metaphor-based Inferences
- Decreasing Utility of Maps in general
There Ain't No Streets Mid-Ocean Diskussion: comments-2002-05-23
Of course, if we limit ourselves to certain classes of "concepts" (does this also imply a reduction in dimensionality?), concept closeness metrics are indeed attainable (Collaborative Filtering data — amzn-vista, "Connectedness" of People, Organizations and Artifacts — much of my VanillaSpace). Generic concept visualization indeed is hard and its value rather questionable (even to me).
The problem of Reduction of Dimensionality can, while not be removed from mapping activities completely, be alleviated by introducing more dimensions of expression into the display (color-, size-coding etc. in addition to position "coding").
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| funzel 8214 days AGO Zu dem Power Text von Graham: Den fand ich ganz gut, und ueber ein solches kalkuel zur berechnung der komplexitaet bin ich auch schon ein paarmal gestossen, da mir LOC immer etwas sinnlos vorkommt. Die Implementierung war mir dann aber zu aufwendig. Eventuell finde ich aber jemanden, der sowas in Java implementiert (der Autor von Smartcode (ein tools zum Testen, wie gut Java code geschrieben ist) sourceforge.net/projects/smartcode/)
Dagegen zu einem alten Graham Artikel ueber Power of Lisp: " > Can anyone name another company with 3 programmers and > a bunch of people answering the phone that created $50 > million worth of value?
21 employees. Sold to Yahoo for $49 million ($2.3 million per head). Yahoo later bought eGroups (python users) for $432 million (about $3 million per head, iirc). Microsoft bought Cooper & Peters (smalltalk, java) for about $20 million ($10 million per head). Verisign bought Thawte (python) for $575 million ($11 million per head). And so on.
> I can't
Where were you hiding during the dot-com era? ;-) " lambda.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$3404
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| andi 8214 days AGO that makes me cry!! will code html for food .... |
| chris 8214 days AGO Hätte doch ein Python-Startup gründen sollen ... ;-) |
| David Ness 8214 days AGO I still owe Alex_S and Chris some comments that I will get to later on, but can't resist mentioning here that _some_ of the deals mentioned in Funzel's quote from lambda should be taken, as we say, with a grain of salt.
I saw details on a lot of deals for one of our companies during the crazy `boom' days of the internet, and a lot of the $20 m offers turnd out to be worth more like $500K when we looked at them closely.`Letter' Stock was a common part of such offers. Some of my academic friends who were quite rich when ICGE, for example, was $212/share are not so happy now that it is 28 cents/share, and $20m of such stock at the peak is worth less than $30K today |
| funzel 8213 days AGO @David: Well, you're certainly right. But the point was, that Yahoo bought Grahams company for $2.3 per head. Graham claimed, there are no other examples, but as the writer pointed out, there are indeed others.
The numbers shouldn't be taken as real money, but for comparing value of companies (or percepted value at that time). And then a lisp company is not more valuable than a python company, which prooves Graham wrong. |
| funzel 8213 days AGO I couldn't resist, after earl posting the REBOL version:
def foo(i) lambda [describe |n| n +i here] end
In Ruby.
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| David Ness 8213 days AGO @Funzel I take your point. I guess my only demur is that with any `valuation' argument, `the devil is in the details' and what one person might claim is a $20m `deal' might look more like $500k to anotherso---without specific details---the `gross' numbers are really meaningless. Thus rendering any point about valuation quite moot. |
| funzel 8213 days AGO @David: You are right. The comparison only makes sense, when we assume that the mix of money and shares was nearly equal. (And I think, the people bought by MS and given some shares are more happy now than someone who was bought with yahoo shares) |
| earl 8213 days AGO re funzel: i'd agree that Ruby is a nice language, but the code you posted above nowhere matches the functionality of neither the REBOL nor the Lisp bits :)
the rebol function for example would be used as follows:
----- >> foo: func [ 'n ] [ func [ i ] [ set n i + get n ] ] >> x: 5 == 5 >> bar: foo x >> bar 2 == 7 >> x == 7 >> bar 3 == 10 >> x == 10 ----- that's what accumulators are good for ;) |
| chris 8213 days AGO Aja, das Ruby-Beispiel kam mir schon etwas komisch vor ;-) Für { und } sind bitte \{ und \} zu schreiben. |
| stephan schmidt 8213 days AGO @earl, chris: Oh, ich war wohl mental blockiert, weil warum kein objekt nehmen wenn man einen state speichern will ? Ich habe da nur so druecber gelesen und das + ueberlesen.
> def foo(n) lambda [describe |i| n+= i here] end nil > bar = foo 3 # > bar.call 2 5 > bar.call 10 15
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