Probably this is the article you saw https://link.medium.com/bf81IpGM8yb

Hehe, I had the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33812666

I’m really into this gps game: https://wandrer.earth (I’m not the creator, just a fan)

It encourages you to walk/run/bike all the roads in a town/city/county and it tracks the percentage.

It’s a fun and creative way to go see parts of your area you wouldn’t otherwise. I’ve used it to walk 97% of the miles in Berkeley and seen so many funky little areas. I also really enjoy how much it has increased my walking over the last few years.

Maybe you could consider complementing your walks with some open street map surveying:

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/

Interesting! I do contribute to OSM due to my exploration but I didn’t know about this. Thanks for the reference.

My favorite line in this wonderful paper is:

The database is just filled with garbage that is unusable for this project: Fonts that are completely illegible, fonts that are missing most of their characters, fonts with millions of control points, Comic Sans MS, fonts where every glyph is a drawing of a train, fonts where everything is fine except that just the lowercase r has a width of MAX INT, and so on.

07:48 “Comic Sands; so called because the letters look like little droppings of sand, or something. And they are kind of aesthetic. We could consider this an improvement.”

The themed time-intervals suggestion is not unreasonable, but this article is completely devoid of any evidence to suggest its success besides... checks notes Elon Musk running several companies.

I bet they’re not laughing now.

This is sorta true, but not quite. Leland McInnes and John Healy (the creators of UMAP), do in-fact have an amazing paper on HDBSCAN, but it's not inventing it. In their paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.07321.pdf, they introduce AHDBSCAN which is a great extension of HDBSCAN to dramatically improve it's performance.

Their work is great but just wanted to save people a google in case they were interested.

Never heard of AHDBSCAN, thank you for sharing!

Like others this returned total nonsense. Not even one remotely close. (I’m a white dude with publicly visible photos online ICYAI).

It’s stupid and irresponsible that they have made this publicly available. Hopefully the fact that it’s terrible will tank it.

It seems this person is not doing due diligence and some of this is factually incorrect. I’ve been seeing corrections but I don’t recommend trusting this.

We're getting 1+ submission every minute and doing our best to cross reference everything. Email me at hello@candor.co with the specific entries that are incorrect and we'll fix them right away.

My future programming language implements this and GO for better debugging, but the downside is the debugger is named “cotton eyed joe”.

Support ticket #39482: "The programming language is nice, but if it hadn't been for that piece of shit debugger, I'd have been married a long time ago..."

see you at the alter

Well done! XD