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  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    jschmidt 17654 wrote:

    Bad motion detection like infrared light reflection that doesn't reflect enough light off of darker skin tones to actuate the device?

    Bingo!  Fix the problem instead of p!ssing and moaning...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    Well, one final observation on this topic before I go begin 'merlot time' with my wife.  While we've gotten way sideways on this whole 'appreciating diversity' thing, and I have...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    My intent here was to point out some failures in data sets, and one of those is in diversity. Some of you note you don't see color or differences...

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    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    Well, for the past couple hours I've been otherwise occupied with my other project, besides this one but I've still been thinking about this discussion of design and implementation.  I'm...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    jschmidt 17654 wrote:

    You should reread your post, but if you don't see it now, you might never see it.

    Some people see what they believe.  Others believe what they see.

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    Some interesting observations related to this discussion:

    https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/12684/how-did-people-make-things-perfectly-straight

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    jschmidt 17654 wrote:

    We probably shouldn't discount Steve's experience. Much of the populations of the world where we need to provide uniformly working solutions is of different colors and shades, though designed...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    Here's another thought on our common approach to creating algorithms.    Error reporting has always been one of my pet peeves because so many times we are told that 'something...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    GeorgeCopeland wrote:

    I have to second what Rick said. We all have two eyes, two ears, and a brain, all of which work similarly. No ethnicity is different enough that we...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Representative Data Challenges

    Well, I'm very disappointed this morning in the slant of this.  Just a couple days ago we had an article that proposed that we probably need to allow more 'failure'...

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    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Allowing Failure

    In one position I held many years ago at a food wholesaler warehouse, the only IT Management position I was dumb enough to take, we were developing the first computer...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Allowing Failure

    Rod at work wrote:

    Good article, Ben. I appreciate it but am not entirely sure I agree. Not on good grounds, just more because I've never worked anywhere that allowed for experimentation. I'm...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Allowing Failure

    GeorgeCopeland wrote:

    Allowing failure: Steve and others use children learning as an analogy for this. That works very well because this is childish. When I am a member of your team,...

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    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Allowing Failure

    Sometimes it seems that we have to ALLOW failure for success to follow.  My wife and I raised four sons after we combined our families.  After they were all out...

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    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • Reply To: Allowing Failure

    Possibly it is not truly failure until you stop looking for a better solution.  You need more 'Ah!s' and 'Oops!'

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

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