Jeff

Houston, TX

chil.rice.edu/jzemla

Age: 28

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comment How can i shuffle an array in JavaScript?
@Blender I never said it was an outrageous change. But the fact is, this guy's shuffle code can sort a million floats in about 75ms. I think for the large majority of situations, that qualifies as decent.
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awarded Guru
May
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comment Google+ Auto Enhance photo album
FYI google+ will automatically auto-enhance new photos, but i have lots of old ones
May
16
asked Google+ Auto Enhance photo album
May
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comment Lexical Decision (Web-)App
nice, thanks for the contribution!
May
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comment Are there any free databases of audio-visual emotional stimuli (English)?
duplicate? or are you specifically looking for stimuli that are audio AND visual, rather than audio OR visual?
May
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comment How can i shuffle an array in JavaScript?
@Blender i read over your update, and your answer is clearly better, i make no qualms about it. this isn't even my answer, it's from google. it doesn't deserve all the upvotes it has, but i think downvoting an answer that answers the question and works but isn't optimal is pretty harsh. if that's the criteria for downvoting, the vast majority of answers on SO should be downvoted. i'm not accusing you, i'm just speaking generally.
May
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comment How can i shuffle an array in JavaScript?
@Blender if you simply take out parseInt, the code wont work. j will be a float, and o[j] will be undefined. Am I misinterpreting you? Your answer is great too-- you use Math.floor() instead which admittedly is probably a better choice
May
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comment Analyzing control questions data for a survey
agreed, this should definitely be a first step before "correcting" the "problem"
May
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asked Send song to Android phone from Spotify
May
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comment How to use Mechanical Turk for longer studies (i.e., 30 minutes+)?
There are no real restrictions on what you can do for an mturk study; all experiment code can be hosted and run on your own servers.
May
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comment Analyzing control questions data for a survey
As for the issue of satisficing, I'm simply answering the OP's question. He is concerned about it, and other researchers have voiced concerns as well. I never claimed that it was a widespread problem, but it appears to be a problem in at least some circumstances.
May
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comment Analyzing control questions data for a survey
@GaëlLaurans I am not suggesting the use of Cronbach's alpha here. I mentioned it because it seems like that's the solution OP was trying to employ, but as I said in my post it is inappropriate here. As for the Facebook example-- don't take it too literally. I'm promoting the general idea behind an IMC, and not advocating for a specific implementation. There are probably more effective examples.
May
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comment PHP Form not executing
@Steve in general, you can use the apache log to debug PHP errors. it should tell you the filename and line number of your error.
May
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revised Difference between Instinct and Intuition
edited body
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awarded Popular Question
May
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comment Badge proposal: "famous answer"
@MarioDeSchaepmeester 1) how do you know they found the answer useful? maybe they just came for the question 2) there is a method for non-registered to vote. they can mark an answer as "helpful". AFAIK, this information isn't used for anything at all, yet.
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awarded Nice Answer
May
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on What is the threshold where actions are perceived as "instant"?
May
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comment What is the maximum number of objects an average human being can recognize at once?
also remember that if you can subitize 4 items, counting to 5-6 will only tack on about 250-500ms, a very short amount of time. so i think it's difficult to establish whether you're counting or subitizing without using more controlled chronometry
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