Eliezer and I will both attend this bay area OB meetup: Saturday January 24, 7-11pm 874 San Juan Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Lotsa parking nearby on San Junipero. Feel free to bring drinks/snacks, or not.
a problem with that is that the algorithm would place a high value on putting the focal point in a location where people would not want to attend anymore since this would subtract quite a bit of total travel time. So the algorithm would probably choose a location that the OB writers won't attend since when they don't attend hardly anyone else wants to.
> shouldn't everyone who wants to definitely attend be charted on a map and then a focal point that minimizes the sum travel time of all participants found? :p
That sounds like a premise for a National Lampoon spoof. A bunch of rationalists need to decide where to get together, and end up meeting in the middle of a garbage dump after applying that algorithm. :-)
shouldn't everyone who wants to definitely attend be charted on a map and then a focal point that minimizes the sum travel time of all participants found? :p
I'd be happy to host but my apt only holds maybe 10 people comfortably.
Well, I just looked up the transit schedule and this would be over a two-hour commute each way. Sorry, not worth it, unless I can join Matt in finding a ride from SF. Any chance we could hold the next one of these a little further north?
a problem with that is that the algorithm would place a high value on putting the focal point in a location where people would not want to attend anymore since this would subtract quite a bit of total travel time. So the algorithm would probably choose a location that the OB writers won't attend since when they don't attend hardly anyone else wants to.
Nazgulnarzil, whether or not someone wants to attend may depend on the location, so it would have to be an iterative algorithm.
since the earth is a curved surface we should meet underground somewhere.
> shouldn't everyone who wants to definitely attend be charted on a map and then a focal point that minimizes the sum travel time of all participants found? :p
That sounds like a premise for a National Lampoon spoof. A bunch of rationalists need to decide where to get together, and end up meeting in the middle of a garbage dump after applying that algorithm. :-)
shouldn't everyone who wants to definitely attend be charted on a map and then a focal point that minimizes the sum travel time of all participants found? :p
I'd be happy to host but my apt only holds maybe 10 people comfortably.
Well, I just looked up the transit schedule and this would be over a two-hour commute each way. Sorry, not worth it, unless I can join Matt in finding a ride from SF. Any chance we could hold the next one of these a little further north?
Count me in. I recently moved to the Bay Area from Minnesota.
Who still needs a ride from the Caltrain Station?
I live near the other coast, so I won't be going. Have fun, everyone, and watch out for vampires!
Anyone driving from SF who wouldn't mind a passenger?
Oh wait, sorry it's much later in the day...
Nevermind...
There is a Stanford career fair that day - so that's a bad day to pick for interested Stanford folks.
I gotta find a job, so I can't attempt.
I too would be interested in transport from the caltrain stop.
I'm going to try to make this one. If anyone with transportation can meet me at a Caltrain stop, it would be much appreciated.