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Personal Hype Quotient for:

Michael Shook

On a scale of 0-10, your ranking is
Level 3: Stupidly unaware of my social climbing and hyping possibilities..

How we did it:

We took your follower count which is 49,
along with your last 422 tweets:
Where you hyped in 4 of them,
you re-tweeted in 0 of them
and you self-linked in 0 of them.

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We munged all these together in our secret algorithm to come up with a level 3 score.

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• http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=pid+kalman&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=7d15299a959dbb33

Roll Rate

File: In sw/airborne/fw_h_ctl.c we define the roll rate loop:

float cmd = throttle_dep_pgain * ( err + h_ctl_roll_rate_igain * roll_rate_sum_err / H_CTL_ROLL_RATE_SUM_NB_SAMPLES + h_ctl_roll_rate_dgain * d_err);

Note that the roll Pgain is variable with throttle and multiplies through the entire equation affecting the I and D terms as well for ease of tuning.

• Rational Irrationality - The real reason that capitalism is so crash prone by John Cassidy - The New Yorker - October 6, 2009
• Steven Strogatz on sync - TED Talk - See also Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks.

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An I thought the Fiddler name was a metaphor for the bow going back an forth like HTTP messages.

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The Sesame Street Presentation Rule

After being on both the giving and receiving end of plenty of presentations, I now realize there's one golden rule which applies to all of them:

Entertain your audience.

Every slide of your presentation should serve this fundamental vision statement. Is it entertaining? I don't mean each slide has to contain a wacky joke of some kind. Every slide should provoke a reaction from the audience -- be it controversial, unexpected, amusing, or a meditative Zen koan. Prod your audience. Do this not only to keep them awake, but to engage their brains. Deliver a series of short, sharp shocks that jolt your audience into a heightened state of engagement.

Once your audience has engaged with your presentation, that's when you trick them into learning. The very best presentations entertain and educate-- the common portmanteau is edutainment. The archetypal example of edutainment is Sesame Street.

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