Seeing "Contact Sales" for a terminal application is scary, but whatever, I gave it a try.
And it seems like it requires a constant internet connection?! What the hell is this? Sure, we put all our coding-baskets into GitHub, so you can't collaborate when GitHub/internet isn't working, but you want the same experience for your terminal?
I wonder how did the Linkedin employees organized in order to file the lawsuit? I imagine that, if the wrong person heard about the plan, the organizers would be fired right away.
I ran a similar but smaller network back in high school. I was in Bulgaria but the setup was exactly the same. Me and several other kids wanted to play Starcraft and dial-up was bad. We bought a lot of cable and connected 3 apartment buildings.
Soon our neighbors learned about the network and started asking if they can join. At the peak we had wired about 20 families, this was all supported by me and a friend. The incentive for me was free internet and some side income.
In retrospect I find it amazing that such DIY approach brought us in the top of the internet speed rankings surrounded by the most developed countries in the world.
Maybe project the x/y coordinates onto a unit sphere, then find the center of mass in spherical coordinates, then convert those spherical coordinates to the relevant 2d coordinate system you're using, discarding the radius (but keeping it for the information it provides).
One way would be to search for points on the sphere which have the closest (weighted) average distance to all the points. Or some similar metric like that.
So instead of finding a point in the middle of the Earth, it would find a point that is geographically closest to the US and China.
Author here. I agree with your point but the map is still useful for seeing the directional trend. I took this projection because it is the usual way of plotting the world on a 2d map.
> the map is still useful for seeing the directional trend.
Isn't that also true of the original map, though?
It's not at all clear to me that your visualization is an improvement on the original. The center has moved from Scandinavia to Spain, and I can see why Scandinavia wasn't a great center, but I don't see why Spain is better. Meanwhile, your visualization depends on the projection used, which seems highly nonintuitive.
(If you go from the USA to China by the shortest distance, you go near the north pole. Calling the north pole the average of the two places may seem strange, but calling any other place the average is even stranger.)
I completely agree, as someone who grew up in East Europe and is now in the US. The contrast between my childhood and what I see here is huge. And before someone counters that I come from an uncivilized place let me say what I saw 4 years ago while living in Amsterdam. Kids who were in 3rd or 4th grade would bike to school alone, crossing streets with traffic and so on.
Does anyone know of software that does speech to IPA (or any phonetic representation)?
If such a thing exist then it should be possible to write a program which compares the users pronunciation to the official one and gives tips and exercises on getting closer to the proper way of speaking. I can see some difficulties with differences depending on the speakers native language and the target language.
