Hi all,
First post to the list, very new to pd, hello to all. I have a few questions:
- Is pdpedia a serious project? It seems like there was a lot of
activity some time ago, but the people there got burned out and now is a target for spammers (particularly the "myobject" and "help patch" pages). I have done some updating of it but if noone else is doing anything to it then maybe I should be looking for other pd resources.
- I had a look at pd-tutorial.com and tried to do their exercise on
random number generation such that no two sequential numbers are equal: http://pd-tutorial.com/english/ch02s02.html#id411951 I came up with the attached file, which I feel is better than the original solution. What do you think? Are there advantages to the original which I haven't considered?
- Someone mentioned on the list a [pack 0 0 0 0 0] idiom for building
large trees of maths in order to avoid weaving many [t b f] objects to cold inlets. How does this idiom work?
TIA,
Philip
Philip Potter wrote:
Hi all,
First post to the list, very new to pd, hello to all. I have a few questions:
- Is pdpedia a serious project? It seems like there was a lot of
activity some time ago, but the people there got burned out and now is a target for spammers (particularly the "myobject" and "help patch" pages). I have done some updating of it but if noone else is doing anything to it then maybe I should be looking for other pd resources.
hi philip, afaik, pdpedia is poorly maintained at the moment. I think there will be a better solution in the future to get rid of spam and optimize searching and contributions. for now, your observation of burnout seems correct. marius.
On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:46 PM, marius schebella wrote:
Philip Potter wrote:
Hi all, First post to the list, very new to pd, hello to all. I have a few
questions:
- Is pdpedia a serious project? It seems like there was a lot of
activity some time ago, but the people there got burned out and now
is a target for spammers (particularly the "myobject" and "help patch" pages). I have done some updating of it but if noone else is doing anything to it then maybe I should be looking for other pd resources.hi philip, afaik, pdpedia is poorly maintained at the moment. I think there
will be a better solution in the future to get rid of spam and
optimize searching and contributions. for now, your observation of
burnout seems correct. marius.
I think pdpedia has a lot of potential, but it needs someone to take
ownership of it. Its really open to anyone who wants to take it on.
It is useful now for searching based on keywords. I use it to find
objects based on key words.
.hc
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
Hallo!
afaik, pdpedia is poorly maintained at the moment. I think there will be a better solution in the future to get rid of spam and optimize searching and contributions. for now, your observation of burnout seems correct. marius.
I think pdpedia has a lot of potential, but it needs someone to take ownership of it. Its really open to anyone who wants to take it on. It is useful now for searching based on keywords. I use it to find objects based on key words.
Silly question: but why don't you just use captchas did get rid of all these massive spam attacks ? (However, I don't know if this is difficult to install on this system - otherwise maybe have to use user accounts ...)
LG Georg
2009/3/31 Georg Holzmann grh@mur.at:
Hallo!
afaik, pdpedia is poorly maintained at the moment. I think there will be a better solution in the future to get rid of spam and optimize searching and contributions. for now, your observation of burnout seems correct. marius.
I think pdpedia has a lot of potential, but it needs someone to take ownership of it. Its really open to anyone who wants to take it on. It is useful now for searching based on keywords. I use it to find objects based on key words.
I quite agree, and I have written for some articles to make them more useful (FIR~, multiplex~, and tabwrite) but I feel lonely doing so. I'm the only user to have made any changes to pdpedia content in the last 30 days; there has been some spamfighting by Hans and lots of spam from anonymous IPs but if noone else is updating the actual content I don't see why I am doing it.
Silly question: but why don't you just use captchas did get rid of all these massive spam attacks ? (However, I don't know if this is difficult to install on this system - otherwise maybe have to use user accounts ...)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist is something that could be considered. It prevents any edit to a page which inserts a URL matching a list of regexes.
Philip
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Philip Potter wrote:
- Someone mentioned on the list a [pack 0 0 0 0 0] idiom for building
large trees of maths in order to avoid weaving many [t b f] objects to cold inlets. How does this idiom work?
It doesn't eliminate the [t b f], it makes them more manageable.
it's just a bunch of [inlets] connected to a [pack 0 0 0 0 0] then to an [unpack 0 0 0 0 0]. This causes recomputation of the complete tree of maths every time something is sent to the hot inlet of the abstraction, but it doesn't fix anything arising from crossing wires in ways that would usually cause a delay: for example if you use [t f f] with crossed wires to an object, instead of using [swap], this causes a delay (intentional or not) due to order of operations.
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